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Our re-awareness of the energies of the Earth has re-emerged slowly in the twentieth century. In the 1920s German dowsers found 'Krebs' Houses - places where people got more cancer than their neighbours. Dowsers found underground veins of water crossing under these houses and not under their neighbours. Also, in the 1920s Alfred Watkins of Herefordshire, England, found that ancient holy sites lined up in straight lines. He called these 'leys' and determined that people from the Neolithic, through the Bronze and Iron Ages, well into the Christian era in Britain, located their holy sites on straight alignments with other holy sites. Many times these holy sites derived from extremely different ages, millennia apart. In the 30s, Reginald Alexander Smith, just-retired Keeper of the British and Egyptian Collections at the British Museum, wrote in the pages of the British Society of Dowsers' Journal that he found these same veins under stone rings and other Neolithic sacred sites. Terry Ross, past president of the American Society of Dowsers (ASD) brought the notion of dowsable leys to the United States in the late 1960s.
Since the seminal work of Bavarian dowser Baron Gustav Frieher von Pohl in the 1920s, the association between ill health and prolonged exposure, particularly during sleep, to the energetic fields above strong
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