Page 139The disturbance phenomenon may account for ‘cold’ spots in houses, which
as many people are aware do not always relate to draughts. The positive
or ‘friendly’ side of this gives rise to the idea of ‘good’ places, and dowsing
shows that many ancient buildings, such as churches and temples, were built
on positively-charged zones, as if the builders were aware of safe, enhancing
radiation present in the locality.
Modern evaluation of the hazards of Earth radiation began with experiments in
1929 by the German baron, Gustav Freiherr won Pohl. He was an expert dowser
and dowsed a town called Vilsbiburg. He used an arbitrary scale of 0 to 16 and
reckoned anything at 9 or over was potentially a cancer hazard. He marked all
the zones of this dangerous radiation he could find, then went to the town hall to
check the records for everyone who had died of cancer in the town, and found,
remarkably, that every single person who had died of cancer, without exception,
had been living over one of the radiation lines.
Some doctors were astounded by this discovery; others remained skeptical and
asked von Pohl to repeat the experiment in another town. He did and the results
were exactly the same.
Dr Hager, in Stettin, president of the local Medical Scientific Association, tried
it the other way around. He took the records of over 5,300 cancer victims and
dowsed their homes. He found that in every single case there were dangerous
radiation sport. Even more startlingly, some buildings turned out to be extremely
dangerous: five houses had resulted in over 120 cancer deaths.
Another German physician, Manfred Curry, also a dowser, took along impartial
witnesses to his experiments and showed that he was able, by dowsing a
person’s sleeping place, to say with accuracy which part of his or her body
was affected. His predictions were right every time, to the astonishment of the
onlookers. One bed which he said was ‘dangerous in the pelvic area’ had seen
two successive women with cancer of the uterus.
The modern-day leading exponent of dowsing is Kathe Bachler, an Austrian
teacher. She became interested in how Earth radiation might be affecting the
health of her pupils and causing behavioural and study problems. She wrote a
book called Earth Radiation: The Startling Discoveries of a Dowser, which became
a bestseller in Austria and Germany and started a health revolution.
Kathe came to saty with me for a week back in the 1980s and I learned so much
from this woman, it was amazing. She taught me how to dowse and insisted that
anyone can do it.