Chapter VII: MEDICAL
Astronomical Man Pendulum Chart
Pietro Zampa also gives us the next design which is an astronomical man such as one might see on an astrologer’s chart. It was with this that I carried out my first, and apparently successful, experiment in Italy. Before commencing, care should be taken to orientate the diagram on the North-South line. The operator should hold the right hand of the person to be tested but if the person is unavailable then a suitable sample should be used. If an article such as a cigarette case, notebook, etc., is used it should have been recently handled by the person and nobody else. A letter, for example, is of little use as it has been handled by a number of people in the Post Office. Apply the pendulum in the usual manner; if the person is healthy it will not leave the centre disc but if, however, there is something wrong it will oscillate across the diagram “drawing” a little more in one direction than the other, thereby indicating the part of the body that is unhealthy.
Dr. Brochenin uses a diagram closely resembling a compass card, divided into five degree sectors. This somewhat elaborate chart deals with some 400 ailments to which the human body is prone. Each five degree sector indicates a disease or a group of diseases, varying from one to as many as a dozen. The group is determined by the pendulum swinging across the diagram, as in the previous example, and the precise disease is determined by the number of gyrations made by the pendulum while over the sample. These appear to vary from II to 80 gyrations, with some exceptions which are as high as 300. There are now several varieties of these charts, all continental. Copies can be obtained through the publishers of this book. They are, of course, in French or German.
I have previously suggested that neither trees, plants, nor human beings flourish over a subterranean stream due to the injurious rays or emanations issuing from the ground. This phenomenon appears to be accepted by the scientific world. W. H. Trinder in “Dowsing” mentions several cases of people suffering from nerves, sleeplessness and rheumatism due to underground streams. In all cases the sufferers were spending a large part of every twenty-four hours over the water, which was undoubtedly affecting their health as the bad effects disappeared directly steps were taken to avoid sleeping over the stream. Perhaps this has something to do with the “claw of the dragon” feared by the Chinese I mentioned in my opening paragraph. Apparently ths injurious rays have great power of penetration and can traverse a house from foundations to attics. There is no known protection from these rays, the only remedy being to move the bed or office table to another position and the only reliable method of locating such streams is by means of the pendulum or divining rod.
In 1941 while quartered in a Nissen Hut Camp, being the C.O. I had a half hut to myself, I became a very sick man. The Medical Officer admitted he didn’t know what was the matter with me and wanted to send me to hospital. Instead I took a fortnight’s leave which I spent with friends, who lived nearby, where I quickly recovered. When I returned to duty the M.O. suggested that I should change the position of my bed as he said that the hut I was occupying was over a stream and couldn’t be healthy. At the time I knew nothing about Radiesthesia and thought no more about it, but I moved my bed and kept quite fit thereafter. One repeatedly hears people say that a certain locality or house disagrees with them and that while there they are never really fit and so on. Knowing what I now know I often wonder whether it might not be a case of the house having an underground stream beneath it rather than the climatic conditions of the locality.
Radiesthesia should be of the greatest assistance to Veterinary Surgeons, as an animal cannot answer questions or render any help by explaining symptoms in the same way that humans can. There seems little doubt that it is used extensively in France. Hector Mellin tells us of Dr. Martin, one of the pioneers of Radiesthetic Diagnosis in Veterinary Medicine, who, before a jury of three veterinary surgeons, tested forty cows and found thirty-nine of them to be tubercular.
As we spend about one-third of our lives in bed I feel that it is worthy of a little consideration. There seems to be little doubt that we have our own polarity and that if our bed is correctly oriented we derive the greatest benefit from our hours of sleep. Pietro Zampa tells us that for years he woke up feeling tired, notwithstanding a full night’s sleep, but not necessarily rest, and that it was not until he put his bed in a North-South line that he awoke fully refreshed. Until quite recently I did a lot of travelling and my experience was that I slept better in a strange bed with the same orientation as my own than I did in one that was on a different line. I find that my polarity is South-West/North-East.
I feel that I may have left the impression that all the data we have has come from French priests, scientists and doctors, which is in reality far from the case, although they may have been the pioneers of this science, and been responsible for nearly all the books on the subject. Very considerable progress has been made both in this country and in America during the past ten years or so. I have just read a reprint of a paper read to the British Society of Dowsers by Major C. L. Cooper-Hunt, M.A., on “An Approach to Radionic Therapy” which, although somewhat above my head, I have found most interesting. The most recent developments in radiesthesia are the Radionic Diagnostic Instruments, which require the assistance of someone endowed with “well-developed extrasensory perception”, which is, in plain English, a good radiesthetist, as well as “samples” from the patient such as a blood spot, lock of hair, specimen of handwriting, etc. A full and thorough diagnosis, or analysis, takes from three to four hours’ close concentration, in which time a selection of physical treatment has been made, by finding out a combination of drugs and herbal remedies suited to the discovered condition of the patient. So we see that Radiesthesia has been brought to the scientific instrument stage, although the basic principles are the same as those used in the comparatively “rough and ready” methods described earlier.