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submitted
by Bill Ellis
The
following article was extracted from The Divining Hand: The 500-Year-Old
Mystery of Dowsing, by Christober Bird
 "Dowsing
can best be explained as to search with the aid of a hand-held instrument
such as a forked stick or a pendular bob on the end of a string - for
anything: Subterranean water flowing in a narrow underground fissure,
a pool of oil or a vein of mineral ore, a buried sewer pipe or electrical
cable, an airplane downed in a mountain wilderness, a disabled ship helplessly
adrift in a gale, a lost wallet or dog, a missing person, a buried treasure
or to help someone with a physical problem.
When
first introduced to this method of location that has long defied and continues
to defy rational explanation, most people react with a knee-jerk response
of rank disbelief.
The actual words 'dowsing rod' first appeared in print in a seventeenth
century essay written by John Locke, who referred to the ability to 'divine,'
or discover, mines of gold and silver.
Many people are familiar with the sight of someone walking over some plot
of ground holding the dowsing rod and the object than bending or twisting
downward.
One of the first medical dowsers was Abbe Alexis Bouly, a Catholic priest,
living in a little French seaside village on the English Channel. He became
so well known as a water dowser that, after finding commercially important
supplies for French manufacturers, he was contracted to do likewise by
other industrialists in Belgium, Portugal, Poland and Romania.
At the end of World War I, Bouly was summoned to the city of Reims to
be examined on his alleged ability to locate unexploded shells buried
in the ground and to state whether they were of German, Austrian, or French
manufacture prior to their unearthing. He was so impressive that he was
recommended to the Ministry of War in Paris.
Bouly eventually founded the Society of Friends of Radiesthesia, a new
word he coined for dowsing, an amalgam of a Latin root for 'radiation'
and a Greek root for 'perception.' Looking for new worlds to conquer,
he finally hit on what he called 'the world of microbial vibrations.'
"I was bold enough to tackle it," he wrote, "but to start
with I had to learn about microbes, to study their nature and their influence
on the human body."
Eventually Bouly carried out experiments in the hospitals of Boulogne-Sur-Mer,
Berck-Plage, Lille, and the Belgium City of Liege. Put to repeated tests,
Bouly was able, simply by manipulating a pendulum, to identify cultures
of microbes in test tubes just as easily as if he were observing them
through a microscope.
In 1950, at the age of eighty-five, in recognition of his accomplishments,
the Abbe was made a Chevalier de La Legion d'Honneur, the highest decoration
his nation could bestow on him. In his acceptance speech the newly knighted
priest declared, "This Cross of the Legion of Honor is awarded in
my person to all practitioners of dowsing. For my part, the award represents
the crowning of a life I have tried to dedicated to the service of God
and the good of humanity."
A second medical dowsing pioneer was Father Jean-Louis Bourdoux, who spent
sixteen years as a missionary in the jungles of Brazil's Matto Grosso.
During one of his missions, he was struck down with a nearly fatal case
of galloping consumption and later by a six-week long fever. Both times
he was brought back to health with saps from local plants prescribed by
his Brazilian Indian parishioners.
Bourdoux launched into a study of the medicinal properties of Brazilian
plants. Following extended talks with doctors and patients, Bourdoux decided
to write a book that might help his fellow missionaries care for the sick
in outbacks around the world. The main question he pondered was "How
can missionaries be taught which plants in a particular region would act
as specific remedy for specific ailments."
In the midst of his writing, Bourdoux met Father Alexis Mermet who had
learned to dowse for water from his grandfather and father in Savoy, France.
Mermet came to the conclusion that if what lay hidden in the earth and
in inanimate objects could be studied with a pendulum, then why couldn't
the same pendulum detect hidden conditions in animals and human beings?
Mermet wrote a classic book on the subject entitled How I Proceed in the
Discovery of Near or Distant Water, Metals, Hidden Objects and Illnesses.
Mermet claimed that he invented the method of 'pendulum diagnosis.'
After years of study and practice, and another visit to the South American
jungles, Bourdoux published his Practical Notions of Radiesthesia for
Missionaries, the preface of which read in part: "If you have the
patience to read these pages you shall see how, thanks to the new science
called 'radiesthesia,' you will be able, without any medical training
and hardly any funds, to succor both believers and pagans. Perhaps you
will be amazed at some of the things I have set down and be tempted to
say: "That's impossible." But are we not living in a time of
marvelous discoveries each more disconcerting than the next?"
Father Jean Jurion, a Catholic priest, born in 1901, spent the first half
of his working life as a teacher and administrator in Catholic colleges
in the French capital. He was introduced to the dowsing art in 1930 by
a fellow priest in the countryside near his home who used a pierced coin
on the end of a string, to find lost objects and missing persons. For
some time Father Jurion looked on the practice only as an amusement until,
one afternoon, his sister lost her gold ring while packing apples into
baskets between layers of hay.
Entering the shed where the packing was taking place Jurion, driven more
by curiosity than purpose, held his own string-suspended nickel-plated
gold coin over several baskets that, filled and covered, were ready for
shipment to market and was surprised to see the coin rotate over one of
them in the clockwise direction he had established as indicating a positive
answer. He opened the basket, removed the top protective layer of hay,
then re-dowsed for the exact position of the lost ring. The pendulum became
violently active over one specific apple. When he gingerly lifted it from
its resting place, there was the ring lying on the apple beneath.
It was only after World War II that Father Jurion began seriously to consider
the use of dowsing in medicine. He was inspired by the aforementioned
men. He began a survey of all the literature on dowsing but he was met
only with a welter of contradictory opinions that, unsupported by experimental
proof, had simply to be taken for granted. Numerous precautions filled
the pages of dowsing guides: "...one should never dowse unless one
was facing north or while wearing rubber-soled shoes." "...one
should remove metallic objects from one's clothing." The list was
endless.
After liberating himself from what he called a conglomeration of 'self-imposed
servitude,' Jurion found he could dowse anywhere, any time, under any
conditions. When he began his own first attempts at diagnosis, he obtained
excellent results confirmed by doctors. His greatest surprise came with
the realization that his most spectacular achievements were related to
cases which he thought practically impossible to solve because doctors
had given up on them.
A particularly difficult case was a 49-year-old Belgian man. X-rays had
confirmed two inoperable cancerous tumors in his brain. He had been given
40 cobalt radiation treatments accompanied by x-rays. Nothing had stopped
the spread of cancer which was blocking his throat. He could barely swallow,
had lost all hearing and lay in a coma in an oxygen tent. Through the
pendulum diagnosis, and use of homeopathic remedies pushed down his throat,
after one year, medical doctors found the man cancer-free. Jurion wrote,
"...this diagnosis and treatment, which medical specialists could
not believe would be effective, amply justifies the existence of the radiesthesia
practitioner, who may not be a doctor, but may be a patient's last chance.
...it is our duty to take even the seemingly most intractable cases."
Jurion was harassed for years and was in court six times, as a result
of complaints by the Order of Physicians. "Since they treated me
like an outlaw, I have written the book, Journal of an Outlaw, because
I care for the sick without a medical degree, and they classify me with
embezzlers, con men, and murderers."
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