There is, by now, sufficient evidence accumulated to make the correlation between cancer and earth energies strong enough to warrant serious consideration. No longer is it enough to dismiss such claims as some 'New Age' mumbo-jumbo, especially since the hard evidence has been around for nearly 100 years.

It began in 1929 with a careful investigation of a small German town to find out why so many of the inhabitants died of cancer. It had the highest death rate from cancer in the country. Each of the beds of the deceased was subsequently found to be directly over a line dowsed independently, under careful supervision. The line was a line of geopathic stress.

'Geopathic stress' is a term used to describe a wide variety of energies arising from the earth in one form or another.The most common originates from underground water which creates a narrow but highly potent band of energy which can be measured and recorded by sensitive instrumentation. This energy can severely disrupt the functions of the nervous system leading to cancer as well as other serious diseases.

When the resulting maps and results were published, the Berlin Central Committee for Cancer Research became very interested. This was the beginning of the European investigation of Earth energy effects on health.

This correlation between disease and location has been taken much more seriously in Europe than in America. There have been a succession of investigations of the link between the two which have shown, consistently, that it exists.

Dr Hans Nieper, a respected German cancer specialist, has written, 'According to studies I have initiated, at least 92% of all cancer patients I have examined have remained for long periods of time - especially in respect of their sleeping place - in geopathically stressed zones'

Dr Paul Seeger, the former Chief of Cancer Research based in Berlin has said, 'No serious minded criticism, be it ever so prejudiced, can afford to ignore proofs of the existence of pathogenic telluric [of the earth] influences. Hundreds of cancer institutes all over the world have spent billions without having found any convincing proof of cancer's cause. Why has it not been possible to spend a few million of that huge sum for a thorough investigation of telluric radiation as a prime cause of cancer in human beings? Why has this newly discovered continent of knowledge not been applied to cancer prevention?'

Dr Veronika Carstens, in 1985, published a study reporting that 700 cases worldwide of terminal cancer patients recovered their health without ANY conventional treatment but just by simply moving their bed from a geopathic zone to an area where there was none.

And this is not just hearsay. In the 1970's a full-scale scientific investigation was carried out by the University of Vienna. It involved professors, doctors, engineers, scientist and dowsers. Nearly 1,000 volunteers took part, with close to 7,000 investigations and nearly half a million measurements being made.

What all this boiled down to was that, by spending just 15 minutes in an area identified as being geopathically stressed, 17 of 24 different biological parameters were found to be affected negatively.

It is certainly time that such a widely recognized phenomena was given serious consideration by cancer investigators here. The energy is easy to detect; dowsers can do it easily although there are other expensive devices which can now do some of the work. The effects can be negated swiftly.

Surely such a simple solution to such a severe problem deserves the courtesy of investigation?