Is geopathic stress real? (Picture: Getty/Metro.co.uk)
‘My wife and I lived together and slept in the same bed for 27 years. She died but I remained, and remain, healthy.’
Tragically, Peter Stott lost his first wife to cancer in 1998. Her death, he believes, was due to geopathic stress (GS) – harmful energies that originate from the Earth.
‘I found out that the house where we had lived had a serious GS problem,’ he says. The discovery prompted him to become a professional ‘dowser’, devoting his life to finding and managing geopathic stress.
But what exactly is this mysterious force erupting from the surface of the Earth – and can it really harm people?
If you’ve never heard of it, you won’t be alone. Likewise if you know what geopathic stress is, but don’t believe in it.
The field is one in which faith often quashes science, and passion wins over proof.
Geopathic stress is said to cause discomfort and health issues for certain individuals. These energies, also known as ‘harmful Earth rays’, can be detrimental, beneficial or neutral according to those in the know.
Peter Stott is a professional dowser
The word ‘geopathic’ is derived from the Greek words ‘Geo’ meaning the Earth and ‘pathos’, meaning disease or suffering – hence the term pathogens, the medical terms for bugs that make us ill.
Although GS might sound like BS to some readers, it’s worth noting that sewers and underground pipes, for example, can emit harmful gasses and negatively impact a person’s health. In particular, hydrogen sulphide in the fumes can be potentially fatal.
Dowsing is also used to detect gasses that aren’t man-made, including methane seeps in wetlands and emissions from geothermal areas such as those found in volcanic regions.
Wetlands can emit large volumes of methane (Picture: Getty)
All this begs the question ‘how can one actually detect GS’?
Here we circle back to the controversial practice called dowsing, and this is where things get weird – or weirder.
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Dowsing, practitioners say, is a method used to detect the presence of various subtle Earth energies and assess their nature and quality. They argue that some of these energies can be linked to geomagnetic anomalies caused by flowing underground water, dry faults and fissures, subterranean cavities, or mineral and crystal deposits.
Many dowsers use rods… (Picture: Getty)
… while others prefer a pendulum (Picture: Getty)
Dowsing is carried out by a dowser, practitioners who try to find the source of these energies using special tools, such as pendulums, rods, and bobbers – essentially sexed-up tree branches. The person holds the tool, waiting for it to move or react, which they take as a sign that they’ve found what they’re looking for.
In her book Dowsing: The Ultimate Guide For The 21st Century, author Elizabeth Brown suggests that dowsing can be used to find all manner of …read more
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