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Dowsing Revelations
by Jacqueline Froelich
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Thus the Ozark Research Institute has a broad spectrum of beneficial programs and projects lined up, all imbued with an ecological mission. "Everybody's interested in healing, of course," Harold said, "but the organization is just as much interested in proving the power of the mind, when it comes to cleaning up water sources and toxic waste dumps, or fixing the damaged ozone layer."
Although Harold does not have scientific credentials, he is making sure that ORI projects involve a strong element of empiricism. "We are working with medical doctors and individuals with Ph.D.s in microbiology, chemical engineering and environmental engineering. For example, a microbiologist who teaches at the Tulsa University will be setting up experiments to see what influence the mind has on the growth of bacteria, if it can be sterilized and controlled."
Despite his new venture into holistic healing and investigating the power of thought, Harold continues to explore and refine his water dowsing technique - occasionally in conjunction with the purposes of the Water Center.
For the past fifteen years, the Water Center has been working to restore Eureka's 66 springs to their natural pristine state. When the indigenous peoples inhabited this area, they did not build dwellings in the spring's area. Considering the waters sacred, they would perform ceremonies, partake of the healing waters and would then leave the area to distant encampments.
When colonialists began to converge upon this land in 1879, they too discovered the healing qualities of the springs. At the turn of the century, the natural hygiene movement, which proselytized drinking copious amounts of mineralized spring water, bathing in spring water baths and eating fresh wholesome foods brought people from all over the world to the "City That Water Built", to "take the waters". Many healings of cancers, arthritis and other diseases were documented within the spa city in those early days.
It was not long before Eureka's fragile ecosystem became overloaded by the over 80,000 residents. The springs' healing properties, polluted with human sewage, ceased. The health seekers quit coming. Consequently, by the 1930's, Eureka became a veritable ghost town.
A revival occurred for the little community of mostly fanning families in the early 1970's when hippies and artists began to flock to the area in search of the good life. Out of this group of ecologically-minded citizens, the Water Center was founded with the goal to clean up Eureka's healing springs. This was not to be an easy task. The population of Eureka fluctuates profoundly each summer. Over two-million tourists visit the mountain village of 2000 souls, drawn by its Victorian architecture and winding streets full of galleries and shops.
After working with wastewater technicians, consulting engineers, and local politicians, the Water Center came to the conclusion that the only way to return the springs to their pristine state was to either completely overhaul the city's waste treatment system with innovative appropriate technology utilizing compost toilet/greywater systems and septic tank/holding systems or move everyone off the spring recharge zones, evicting everyone from the city within a five-mile radius.
Eviction was out of the question so, instead, the city opted to renovate the existing sewage plant and repair many of the broken sewer lines. One engineering study revealed that out of every 100,000 gallons of sewage produced in Eureka Springs, more than 50,000 gallons never reached the city's treatment plant, due to the shifting limestone subsurface which caused this "blackwater" to leak into area wells, springs, creeks, and lakes. Even after the city invested millions of dollars into a new waste treatment facility and sewer line repair, the springs remain severely polluted.
In 1987 the Water Center decided to try a new approach to restoring the springs. We invited Harold and several of his associates from the American Society of Dowsers to come to Eureka and dowse a spring.
"It was Clear Spring that we chose to work with," Harold said. "There was no water running out of the pipe at all. It had been twenty years since it had flowed. There was a pretty steep bluff above it and it was cold, really cold, being February, and it was slippery. But we crawled way above it and dowsed to find the old channel that furnished water for that spring. When we found it, I ‘asked' if there'd be another stream nearby that we could divert into this old channel that would eventually run out Clear Spring at the bottom. I was shown the location of the new channel and we took a piece of metal rebar and pounded it into the ground over the channel and ‘knocked' that stream in there. I just knew it was in there. We worked our way back down the hill to look at the spring and we found there was at least five gallons per minute flow running out of the pipe. It worked!"
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