A REPORT ON MY WORK [ 26 December 2007 ]
submitted by Brother James Kimpton of Reaching the Unreached, South India
In the early ‘60s when I was in Sri Lanka, a diviner came to an institution where I was then living. He had a forked rod he had cut from a bush. I then knew nothing about dowsing and asked him to show me how it worked. He asked me to hold one side of the forked rod, put his arm round my shoulder while he held the other side, and as we walked along the rod began to jump up. No matter how hard I held it the instrument refused to remain quiet. For me it all began from there.
Eventually, in 1964 I ended up in Madurai in South India having been forcibly removed from Sri Lanka together with many other “foreigners”. There the need for water was endless and when eventually I founded the organization called Reaching the Unreached, the demand for water supplies was constant. I began to read whatever books I could find about divining – the best being French books. Under their guidance I learned to use a simple homemade pendulum which could and did tell me much more than the rod ever could.
After some time I learned how to map read quite simply by going over a map of England and to my amazement the pendulum began to turn round over the Thames River and as I moved up the river it changed its swing to follow the curves. Now that was a good 6,000 miles away from where I was living. How was that possible? I have no idea how my pendulum can tell me all I need to know while sitting in my office working on a site plan from anywhere in the world. But it works and it is accurate.
During a three year drought I used to go out by car every Tuesday morning, sometimes traveling hundreds of kilometers going from remote village to remoter village. Behind us would come a hired drilling rig. Much of the time these divinings would be done at the request of the Government because they did not trust their own electronic system of looking for water, which was getting less than 50% success. Dowsing by comparison was getting around 98% success, using a vastly cheaper instrument. I have watched a group of scientists working the whole day looking for water with their sophisticated equipment which cannot work in a congested village. Whereas my system would take about half an hour and can work in the tiny lanes of Indian villages.
In a morning I would divine about a dozen points so that by the end of the morning I could go back to the first point I had marked and usually see water coming out of the borehole.
Always I would go to a village, sit and draw a rough site plan, marking in strategic points such as electric posts, buildings, trees, an other landmarks. This would be in a small notebook. On that site plan I would then divine all the existing subterranean streams. That all took about 15 minutes. Where streams crossed I would mark clearly and then I could ask the villagers where they would prefer a bore to be done. I then had to mark that spot precisely because all this area is on black granite, and a drilling rig can miss a good stream by just an inch. So I will walk backwards and forwards over the spot marked by a stone until I am as sure as possible that it is all accurately marked. The drilling rig could then start work immediately. These are powerful brutes and chew through granite very quickly.
To date we have done more than 2500 such drillings.
I presume all this contradicts many of the rules and beliefs connected with divining. To mark a dozen points in a morning goes against the belief that we should only do one a day. Also, if I am out without my pendulum made from a chandelier pendant, I simply look for a piece of string and a pebble. Anything will do. I know quite well that the movement of the pendulum depends on the small movements of the muscles between my thumb and forefinger, which in turn depends on the messages sent by the brain. I often use the illustration of my small transistor radio which can immediately pick up the BBC from 6,000 miles away. My brain is a much better instrument and can surely pick up the small emanations of energy from the moving water even hundreds of feet deep in hard rock. My pendulum can tell me how deep the stream is, in which direction it is running, whether it is sweet or brackish and how much water it will give. For those who claim that divining is non-scientific or an aberration, the only reply to that is that water is running out of that borehole from many feet below. And after so many boreholes drilled in the remotest and direst poor little villages providing domestic water to thousands of people, what further proof is needed that a simple homemade pendulum is not an aberration, and that I should be burnt at the stake for witchcraft!
Finally, I need to thank the American Society of Dowsers and its Water for Humanity Fund for the generous donations we have received which have all been well used in the many waterless villages in this area.
Sincerely, Bro. James Kimpton, f.s.c.
G. Kallupatti Periyakulam Tk.
Tamil Nadu, South India 625 203
A note from Water for Humanity Secretary Steve Herbert: Brother James Kimpton, who had for some years previous been receiving funding from the British Society of Dowsers, inspired a small group of people to establish a raffle at the 1991 ASD Convention to raise money to aid his efforts in developing well on his dowsed well sites in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It was this raffle that eventually evolved into the ASD Water for Humanity Fund. I am proud to say that WFH has funded the work of this great humanitarian and master dowser every year since. To learn more about Brother Kimpton’s work and his organization, Reaching the Unreached, please go to www.rtuindia.org. |
PROJECT COMPLETION REPORT received 01/07/2008
 LOCATION 1: Karattupatti village of Bodinayakkanur Block (Theni)
Karattupatti is a village in the Bodinayakkanur Block of Theni District with more than 150 households and around 1000 population. Being a place with hillocks in a drought-prone area there was an acute scarcity for drinking water. Rainwater stored in a surface level water tank supplying once in 10 days was the only water available for the people of their village. A 200 foot deep bore well which had been drilled in their village stood dry. RTU conducted an extensive search for underground water points in this village and spotted one point. A bore was drilled at this spot. We succeeded in getting water from this 265 foot deep well. This water is pure and sweet. All the people are grateful to RTU for this great help.
LOCATION 2: Melachokkanathapuram (Theni), Gandhiji Colony
Gandhiji Colony is located in the Melachokkanathapuram Town Panchayat of Bodinayakkanur Block of Theni District. There are 250 families in their colony. Due to lack of potable water the inhabitants of their colony had to walk a long distance for a bucket of water. There too, sufficient water was not available for them. Our diviner found a water point near this colony. This 135 foot deep well gave sufficient drinking water to the people. People from the surrounding places also use this well for their drinking water purpose. All the people expressed their heart felt thanks to RTU for solving their drinking water problem.
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