The following article was extracted from The Divining Hand: The 500-Year-Old Mystery of Dowsing, by Christober Bird “Dowsing can best be explained as to search with the aid of a hand-held instrument such as a forked stick or a pendular bob on the end of a string – for anything: Subterranean water flowing in a [...]

Extracts were taken from his autobiography, The Modern Bethesda, Or the Gift of Healing Restored (1879) Dr. James Rogers Newton was born in Newport, Rhode Island, on September 8th, 1810, and was a lineal descendant of John Rogers, who was burned at the stake. In his youth, Dr. Newton enjoyed all the advantages that competence [...]

The following information is an excerpt from a lecture presented in England in 1987 by Hubert M. Schweizer. The transcripts of this lecture, containing diagrams and charts, as well as some exercises to develop an awareness of the Calligaris technique, is available from the World Research Foundation. Guiseppe Joseph Calligaris was born on October 29, [...]

Theophrastus Phillippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known as Paracelsus, was born in Einsiedeln, Switzerland in November 1493 and died in Salzburg on September 24, 1541. He was a medical doctor, alchemist and philosopher who provoked controversy during his lifetime and still invokes controversy today when his name is mentioned. The question his reputation invites [...]

(Gerolamo Cardano; Jerome Cardan) The information and quotes contained in this story were taken from the book, Doctor Cardano; Physician Extraordinaire by Alan Wykes, published by Frederick Muller Ltd. in 1969. Gerolamo Cardano was born in the year 1501. He was an inventor, an astrologer, a philosopher and was the first to propound the mathematical [...]