Earth Stress

So far, this book has looked primarily at electricity and the effects it can have on us. This second part now deals with what David calls the 'shadowy world of earth energies'.
Nowadays, there is a tendency for people to talk of 'energies', 'fields', 'ley lines', 'telluric energy', 'subtle energies' and so on. Very often these names are interchangeable. But there is little agreement about what the words mean. Usually an electromagnetic quality which can be sensed intuitively is acknowledged. No wonder that traditional science, which can only accept the existence of something they can 'prove' is slow to embrace this world of uncertainty. Proof gives control. In this world of earth energies we do not have control.

The reader will now need to put the desire for proof on hold. Trust has to become a major element; above all, trust in one's own perceptions. Awareness has to be another. As we said in the introduction, David prefers to call dowsing an art form rather than a science. Many have achieved great things with this art, but, like all arts, it is subjective. Five dowsers examining the same subject, a standing stone, for instance, can give five different results, simply because there may be five or more patterns of energy associated with it. This obviously does not mean to say that they are all wrong. What it does show is that we have to be prepared to examine our perceptions, be able to accept different approaches. Here, we are all pioneers working on the edge of the unknown, where there are no pre-set ground rules.

        David was highly sceptical of the whole business of dowsing. After many years of experience with the artform, he has to admit there is something that cannot be ignored, even if science has not yet caught up. This is not mere superstition. It is not magic, although there is the thrilling aspect of that word in all of this discovery. As electricity has its electro-stress, so these earth energies have their effect, which we will call either 'earth stress' or 'geopathic stress'. These collective terms embrace the feelings and symptoms that people experience in different ways and at different levels. The one thing common throughout is that these are the result of phenomena emanating from planet Earth itself, if for it is alive and has its own electromagnetic grid.
    This chapter traces the effects on people of such different features as geological fault lines, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and subterranean watercourses.

    We have learned to put our implicit trust in the machines which we have created to make our lives less laborious and the instruments we use to measure the smallest effects. The price of doing this Is that we, in our western society have lost the ability to trust the very simple abilities we all have and which, with a little dedication and rather more devotion to awareness can be reawakened. Some people do this already Some have the ability thrust upon them without realising it.

    Sensitivity to the subtle energies of the planet can be sometimes both a pleasant and an uncomfortable experience, as the tale of Geoffrey Alien will show. Here, a man discovered, albeit painfully, that his body was giving him ample indications of planetary phenomena. His body was, in essence, a detection device, a seismometer. He was picking up what are, to some, everyday occurrences, and to others, subtle energies. Perhaps a suitable definition for 'subtle energy' is something for which science has not caught up with yet, and found a suitable definition!

        Geoffrey, an architect living near Dumfries in south-west Scotland, took quite a long time to relate his symptoms to the energies to which they are linked. Planetary tensions capable of causing earthquakes below 6.2 on the Richter scale seem not to affect him, but if the energies rise above this figure they cause symptoms.

        For example: immediately upon waking in the morning, Geoffrey can tell if the earth energies are beginning to rise by the impression of a slight electrical charge around his body. Then a pain occurs in the left shoulder blade and later, another in the lower back, about 7cms. to the left of the spine. When the pain spreads across his back, he knows that somewhere in the world there will be an earthquake within 24 hours.

        Other symptoms manifest to Geoffrey as difficulty in focusing his eyes, and an inability to wear a quartz digital watch which causes a pain in the upper muscle of his arm. Pains down the lower arm, rheumatic feelings in the hands; tingling and burning skin; upset digestive system, and a metallic taste in his mouth are other occasional irritations.

       When he was studying architecture at college in Edinburgh he found that he could not work in that particular building as he suffered from severe dizzy spells. Eventually he got permission to study at home. Having established, many years later, that natural energy fields affected his health, he investigated, and discovered several geological faults which terminated under the College. Moreover, when he had been on vacation he had found that other places where he had felt unwell were also at the ends of fault lines.

        Another recent case reported was of an American who had similar sensitivities. In his case the intensity of his discomfort depended upon which way he faced. Turning until he feels the effects are the strongest, he can then travel to another location and repeat the exercise.This gives him a triangulation, enabling him to judge roughly where the focal point of an earthquake will be.

One thing common to all those who are sensitive in this way is that they are new to the area they live in. None of them suffered from these pains before they settled there and seldom suffer from them when they go away from the area, although they may find some places that do bother them. Many of the sufferers are female, Geoffrey believes, and it is possible that they are at a higher risk because they tend to spend more time in their home.
        Interestingly, he does find certain locations where he can get relief, and that is in the centre of any one of the stone circles in his area. When on holiday in Wiltshire, he visited the giant stone circle at Avebury and felt that there was a great deal of natural energy in that area, causing his whole body to tingle and his head to swim. Some of the stones emitted more energy than others, some from one particular edge. They appeared also to be linked to something outside the circle.

        One stone appeared to him to be much more powerful than the others, and this turned out to have been repaired, but he did notice that the constant pains from which he suffers, especially in his legs, had gone completely. It was only when he left the circle that the pains returned. The only other times he finds relief is when he walks barefoot on grass, and wearing stockings made of cotton or wool.

        Mattress springs are another source of discomfort to Geoffrey, and a day or two before an impending earthquake the electric fields from television sets make him light-headed.

            There are a number of similar cases to his in the area of Dumfries, which he attributes to the fact that there are no fewer than five major geological faults that terminate in the Dumfries and Galloway area. Other areas of discomfort are: Tobermory in Mull; Musselburgh east of Edinburgh; Callander in Perthshire; and Salisbury in Wiltshire. There must be many others around the country.

        Several times during the year Geoffrey also reports that   he has been engulfed by a massive electrical force which makes him feel dizzy and as if his body had turned to jelly. These probably coincide with current storms, dramatic increases in the Earth's natural energy, which are world wide.

When he started predicting major earthquakes in 1966, Geoffrey was able to tell when they would occur some ten to fourteen days before the event. In 1988 he wrote to the Medical Department of Glasgow University to warn them ten days ahead of a major earthquake about the weekend of the 5th and 6th November. This earthquake (7.3 Richter), was on the Burma/China border on the 6th and killed 730 people, injuring a further 4,800 and affecting more than 3.2 million people in China.
        When Geoffrey wrote again to the University to tell them of another major occurrence in December 1988, the devastating Armenian earthquake occurred ten days later. No other large or major earthquake occurred between these two letters and the events.

            Things started to change dramatically during 1989, and by 1990 his prediction times had been reduced to just one or two days. On Friday, 19th June, Geoffrey warned Dr.Cyril Smith of Salford University, that there would be a major earthquake within the next 24 hours. At 21.00 hrs. on the 20th, Western Iran was hit by an earthquake of 7.7 which killed an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 people, injured another 60,000 and left 4,000,000 homeless.

        On Friday 13th July, while at the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, he was told that there had been an earth tremor in England during the week. Geoffrey said that it was a mere hiccup compared to what they would see at the beginning of the following week. At 07.26 on Monday morning, Luzon in the Philippines was hit by an earthquake of 7.8 which killed 1,621 people and injured another 3,000, and on the following day by one of 6.6.

        On August 17th, he told a client that he had been listening at noon to the car radio and felt that a major earthquake was imminent, and at 13.07 GMT the Solomon Islands was hit by a 'quake of 6.8.

The reason for the shortening of the prediction time seems to be that Geoffrey suffers from some of the symptoms for most of the time. This meant that he had to wait for this fnal extra flare-up of stinging pains all over the upper part of his back before he could make an accurate prediction. At the time of writing of these events (July, 1993), things once again seemed to be changing and the prediction time was beginning to lengthen again.
        Geoffrey learned quite early in his research that sunspot activity, magnetic field changes and natural earth currents all follow the same 11.2 year cycle, from minimum to maximum and back again, although the cycle does vary, due to changes in the rotation of the Sun. The sunspots build up quickly over the first four years and then decline slowly over the next seven, but what he did not know until two years ago, was that 1986, the year he started predicting earthquakes, coincided with the apparent bottom of a cycle and 1991 the peak. To give the reader an idea of the changes that take place during one of these cycles, the following are the average daily sunspot counts since 1986, showing the major part of one cycle:

1986 —     14;
1987 —     29;
1988 —   140;
1989 —   213;
1990 —   190;
1991 —   207;
1992 —   139 (provisional).

        There appears to be a link between the intensity of his symptoms and these natural cycles. It will be interesting to see if they continue to change over the remainder of this present cycle, and eventually return to their 1986 levels.
        Not only do his symptoms allow him to predict when a major earthquake will occur, but they also give him a good idea of how powerful it will be. Following his talk at an international seminar, The Centre of Complementary Medicine in Southampton requested more details and predictions. On the 12th October, 1989, he wrote to them, to say he was going on a week's vacation to the west coast of Scotland and would report on whether his pains, which were now building up quite quickly, would get worse or disappear. They did disappear, but not before he had gone through hell and back. On Monday 17th, he got up feeling as if he was at death's door. In the afternoon, he became so tired that he had to ask his son to drive the car. When they arrived back at their chalet he lay down on the couch and slept for several hours, a sure sign that a major earthquake was about to occur.

        As soon as he awoke the following morning he switched on the television to find out where the earthquake had struck, to see all the pictures of the devastation which followed the Oakland earthquake in California at 00.04 GMT on the 18th October.

        On arriving home, he wrote off immediately to the Southampton Centre to tell them that the only thing that surprised him about the earthquake was that he had expected it to be much more powerful than the 6.9 magnitude that was being quoted. When the official figures came out several months later it had been upgraded to one of 7.1, (i.e. three times more powerful).

        Twice in 1992, the BBC reported that earthquakes of 7.0 on the Richter scale had occurred. His symptoms indicated that they were much less severe, which turned out to be the case.

        Geoffrey believes that seismologists and volcanologists will never be able to predict an earthquake or a volcanic eruption until they ac¬cept that they can be seen as world-wide events. He recognises evidence that the area in which the earthquake or volcanic eruption will occur may appear to be dead prior to the event and that all the activity is going on elsewhere. Like the calm before the storm. Several times over the last few years, seismologists and volcanologists have predicted earthquakes and volcanic eruptions which have not occurred. For example, the U.S. Geological Survey predicted that in 1995 Los Angeles would be hit by the biggest 'quake of the century. This one did not occur, but three days later Kobe in Japan was hit by a disastrous series of violent tremors. Geoffrey has been able to predict the time, but not the location of every major earthquake since 1986.

On January 14th, 1993, Geoffrey could not draw a straight line and was unable to work at his drawing board. The following day it was announced that four scientists had died and ten were still missing after the Galeras volcano in southern Columbia erupted suddenly without warning. At the time the scientists were taking readings inside the crater. One of them was Professor Geoffrey Brown, one of the world's leading experts in predicting volcanic eruptions. This was a tragedy, but it seems to suggest, at least in Geoffrey's case, the human body is more sensitive than any man-made instrument which can only pick up the type of information for which they have been programmed. The bodies of humans and animals are much more sensitive. On one occasion, however, Geoffrey's prediction did not turn out quite as he had thought. He wrote to the British Geographical Survey on the 21st December, 1988 that the energies in Lockerbie had been building up and were now extremely high. On Christmas day both the Mount Tohachi volcano on Hokkaido Island and the Lonquima volcano in the Andes erupted. As far as he can find out, two volcanoes have never erupted at the same time before in recorded history.
Leading up to this event the energies had risen even higher during the 21st December. They were so strong by the early evening that he didn't even get up from the table after his evening meal to wash the dishes, something he always does. As he sat there, he wondered if he had made a big mistake with his earthquake predictions, because suddenly the whole house shook. There was no earthquake. He could see from his home that the village of Lockerbie was ablaze following the bombing of the Pan-Am jumbo-jet which crashed there. He will always wonder if these very high energies on that fateful day had anything to do with the bomb going off prematurely.

One of the first things he noticed after moving to Dumfries in 1977 was that whenever he crossed the border into England, he would get relief from his awful symptoms. Right on the border is a mass of overhead high tension cables. Returning northwards, however, his symptoms worsened. He has had some terrible journeys travelling back from England.
        Clarencefield, a few miles south-east of Dumfries, had the same effect, where his symptoms eased after passing under the overhead power lines from the Chapelcross nuclear station. Returning home the same problems returned — dizziness as he passed the pylons — which persuaded him that some overhead power lines may have good effects as well as bad.

        At Fort William, on the West coast, he felt especially bad when playing golf. Being a very methodical person, he carefully noted how he felt while playing a round, until a pattern emerged. A line of H.T. pylons bisect the course, and when he walked on the north-west side he experienced varying degrees of discomfort, from very bad to severe. On the south-east, however, he felt little or no pain. On the way home, he stopped in Callender for a break, and his symptoms returned with a vengeance. He became so dizzy walking down the street that he staggered and feared that people might think he was drunk.

    He mentioned his experiences to a friend who told him that Fort William was not the place for sensitives like him, as it lies at the end of a major geological fault, the Great Glen Fault line. His friend, as it happened, had the same problems. His wife had never felt well since moving into their new home which subsequently turned out to have been built on a fault line.

    Reflecting on the other problem areas, he noticed that the Dalton fault is on the side of Clarencefield where he feels discomfort, and on the A74 highway, between Annan and Carlisle, three faults end just before the mass of overhead power cables. (Carrutherstown, on the top of the Dalton fault, is, incidentally, an accident blackspot on the A74). Callander is associated with two faults, one terminating a short distance to the north, from Loch Tay, and is almost directly on top of the Highland Boundary Fault, which runs from Stonehaven in the east, just south of Aberdeen, to Helensburgh in the west, north of Glasgow. This is within sight of the Faslane nuclear submarine base.

According to Dr.Stuart of the British Geological Survey in Edinburgh, changes in natural magnetic fields can induce currents in telephone lines and power distribution cables. It is also known that telephone lines are used to detect changes in the Earth's currents, the natural electric currents flowing just below the ground, which Geoffrey believes are released on to the surface of the planet by way of fault lines and quarries, etc. It is these to which sensitive people may be susceptible.
If the energies are picked up by overhead power cables, etc., then that would explain why there is a good and bad side to them. Cancer clusters, for instance, may occur only on the side where there were fault lines and quarries and other man-made disturbances from which the energies can flow. Geoffrey's personal experience suggests that the problem is not entirely due to the magnetic fields which surround the power lines, but from the natural energies which are drawn towards them. This will be explored further in the following chapters.

It is interesting to note that some established methods of eliminating earth energies from houses, by using amethyst crystals, etc., actually make Geoffrey feel much worse, and holding coils of copper amplifies this effect. Areas around nuclear reactors, apparently, have no effect on him, although his body vibrates so badly when he stands above the crossing of two subterranean streams that they almost knock him off his feet. One wonders how many people are suffering from similar problems, and find difficulty in living or driving in certain areas of the country. Indeed, how many road accidents have been caused by these phenomena?
We have seen that people can react to natural phenomena without realising it. We can feel unwell and think we have a virus or we have eaten something that has not agreed with us. Perhaps we are, in fact, reacting to planetary events, underground water courses or seismic activity. What may at first sight be a symptom, to be masked with aspirin or Scotch whisky, may actually be a gift of insight into earth energies. The next chapter looks into their history.
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Electrostress-
Chapter 01 Disease
Chapter 02 Vibrations
Chapter 03 Facts and Figures
Chapter 04 Bedtime Story
Chapter 05 Around the House
Chapter 06 Power Lines
Chapter 07 Computers
Chapter 08 Microwaves
Chapter 09 Some Solutions
Chapter 10 The Positive Side?

Geopathic (Earth Energies) Stress
11 Earth Stress, Earthquakes, Earth Sensitives
12 History of Ley Lines, Ionization Under Cancer Beds, Scientific Measurements
13 How to Use Divining Rods, Protect Yourself, Allergies
14 Unhealthy Earth Energies, The Hartmann Net and Curry Grid
15 Black Spirals, Crop Circles, Demons, Oscilloscope Measurement
16 Crossing Leys, Ion Effect, Allergic to Microwave Ovens, Graveyards, Quarries
17 Natural and Man-made Sources of Unhealthy Energies
18 Imprinting Your Own Energy
19 Eliminating Unhealthy Earth Energy
20 Cup-marked Stones or Petroglyphs
21 Human disease and Mother Earth
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CHAPTER 11

Earth Stress

Earth Sensitive People