While attending a philosophical lecture in 1979 I had my first experience with dowsing. During a break, I was at a buffet table watching a woman spinning an object over various dishes. I asked her what she was doing and she shared that she was determining which foods were good for her by using a pendulum.

I thought it was strange because it appeared that her entire hand was moving the pendulum, in the direction that she said was positive, and it happened over all the deserts, especially the chocolate cake. With this being my first introduction to this type of activity, I wasn’t very impressed, even though I did like the chocolate cake.

For several years I never paid much attention to dowsing because I didn’t have a very good first impression of it. In 1986 while visiting one of our foundation advisors in Germany, Dr. Wolfgang Ludwig, I was surprised when he and his wife, Gisela, both reached into their pockets for a pendulum while looking at a dinner menu. I was dumbfounded and asked them what they were doing and why.

While competing on an athletic scholarship I sustained a knee injury when a gardener left a sprinkler-head in our workout running path. I was sent to the sports physician for the Rams, Dodgers and Lakers who said I would need surgery or I couldn't run again. I received a second opinion from the head trainer at UCLA who also agreed on surgery. Before taking that route, I discovered a healing technique from Europe that might help me, through reading a mechanics magazine. Despite the sports physician and the trainer saying it would never work…it did.

It was 1969 and while doing the therapy myself, I would visualize my running and crossing the finish line in first place. I did this visualization over and over again. I resumed training five weeks later and anchored my university relay team to a fifth place finish in the nationals. I wondered why the experts said the technique I was using was ridiculous and I began wondering what other techniques exist that we are not told about.

In 1998 I was fascinated to read an article in the medical magazine, Cardiology Today, where it reported that snake venom had arrested the spread of cancer. The poison from the mcmachon viper, found in Afghanistan and Pakistan, contains the protein cristostatin which blocked the tumors in mice injected with cancer cells. I kept a close eye on any further reports of the work with snake venom, but nothing was immediatelyforthcoming.

Also in 1998 a report from a German scientific journal detailed trials being done on a chemical taken from ants and used to treat Alzheimer’s. The Aphaenogaster rudis ant, releases a chemical when it leaves the nest, so that it and its fellow colony members, can find their way home. The chemical is called anabasine, and from the report it was used to stimulate the brains of Alzheimer’s patients and helped to reduce memory loss. I kept a close eye on any further reports, but no other information was forthcoming.

Many of my past posts have dealt with therapies and techniques based on the use of the electromagnetic spectrum, most notably in the ranges of electricity, sound, magnetism and color. Today's post deals with water.

In 1990, I had the opportunity to travel to the city of Bad Worishofen, also known as 'The Spa of Kings.' Bad Worishofen is located in Bavaria and is known as the birthplace of the famous Kneipp water therapy.

At the time of my visit to Bad Worishofen, there were over 500 locations in the city offering some type of Kneipp water therapy treatment. Along with these hotels and spas, there were numerous parks with walking and riding paths offering opportunities to experience unique forms of the Kneipp therapies.

The following story appeared in UPI, May 23, 1984. I am presenting the story in its entirety because each of the statements, made by a highly regarded surgeon in England, is profound and important. My post is not intended to promote the product mentioned in the article.

“Radio waves could help paralyzed.

“A British researcher who used radio waves to help cats with crushed spinal cords walk again says the technique has 'enormous potential' in the treatment of spinal cord injuries that paralyze tens of thousands of Americans each year.

In 1936, two physicists at the Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York, reported that red blood cells in the bodies of people and animals carry enough electricity to light up a lamp.

They reported their findings at the American Physical Society in Rochester, New York, stating that the red blood cells carry a surface charge of 15,000,000 electrons.

They stated that, ‘if the charges from blood of a full-grown person could be collected and made to pass through a 25-watt electric bulb, it would burn for at least 5 minutes.’