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The Divination of Disease
o human beings have different vibrations at

different times? Can the presence of a certain
disease in the body give forth waves which
make it possible to diagnose it and describe the
symptoms?
According to Gurdial Singh, this is entirely dependent on the swing of a pendulum. It reacts in. different
ways to different people and different illnesses. From its
oscillations, he can predict not only what ails the
patient but also whether or not the man is capable of
being cured and if so with what particular system of
medicine.
H e described his method as "radiesthesia" which is
neither an avant-garde mechanism nor another
gimmick of faith healing. It is a strictly scientific way of
analysing the waves emanating from a patient's body at
various times in both sickness and health.
His method brings to mind the theories of Franz
Anton Mesmer who spoke of the human body having
tides which were ever moving in health but stagnant in
illness. To get these tides moving again, Mesmer used
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magnets. Later, he found that magnets were not really

necessary because his own body acted just as well. With
a mere touch, he could get the tides to move and thus
effect a cure.
Gurdial Singh uses the currents given out by a
patient's body, only to diagnose disease. His method of
treatment is a well-known one. But he is of the opinion
that the method may vary for different physicians. He
himself believes implicitly in homeopathy, studying it as
a hobby in his early days till it grew into his greatest
obsession. His dedication is revealed by the fact that he
takes no money at all for his fantastic cures. Even the
medicines are given free of cost.
His method of analysis takes just a minute or two.
There is no detailed physical examination; no verbal
narrations of symptoms on the part of the patient; no
time-consuming blood and urine tests or X-rays. There
is no delay as there normally is, when he analyses with
the help of modern scientific instruments. W i t h his
short-cut method, both organic disturbances as well as
the presence of tumours or stones can be detected at
once and pin-pointed to their exact localisation.
"Can anyone practise this system independently?" I
asked him.
"Well, almost everyone," he said, "The first requisite
is that a doctor's mind must be completely devoid of
selfish thoughts or preconceived notions. Secondly, he
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must be sensitive to signals not perceptible to all, which

means he must be gifted with a certain degree of extra
sensory perception. Thirdly, he must be absolutely
impartial in his treatment - not influenced by the
financial or social status of his patients."
The science of 'radiesthesia' according to him, is not
a novel concept. It was in existence ages ago. In fact, it
was practised in India in ancient times by the high
priests who had developed the science to a marked
degree of efficiency. Later, when political considerations ruled the roost, the method was abandoned and
mercenary instincts prevailed. W h e n Gurdial first
salvaged the system from its cobwebs of disuse and
started practising with chains and pendulums, many
people were suspicious and felt it was some kind of
black magic. But there is no witchery in the system.
T h e word 'radiestheisa' was actually coined by a
Frenchman. Gurdial showed me a brass pendulum he
had got from France. He said he had chanced upon a
book on the subject and had immediately been
enthralled. He was tempted to experiment. With a
spurt in the number of patients, he had been finding it
extremely difficult to devote time to routine analysis.
With this short-cut system which took just a minute or
two, he was able to attend to many more sufferers.
He also found that the diagnosis in each case was
remarkably accurate. He often cross-checked to see if
he was right by first diagnosing a disease with just the
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pendulum and then verifying with the patients to tally

symptoms. He was invariably proved right. He was very
hopeful of this avenue of healing and started
prescribing his medicines only on the basis of this
method.
Gurdial who is in his fifties now, was born in Malaya
and came to India at the age of sixteen but he was
almost thirty-two before he started taking an interest in
the divination of disease.
He said that at Delaware in Oxford there was an
Institute where electronic gadgets detected disease
using that method. But many scientists abroad have
been using magnetised gadgets as well as pendulums of
brass or steel with the same degree of success. By a
system of elimination, Gurdial found that wood suited
him best.
He showed me a kind of wooden reel threaded on a
metal chain. W h e n he held it in front of a patient, the
pendulum first moved in a left to right motion and
then lapsed into a circular oscillating movement.
Gurdial could they say what ailed the man.
There are two methods of analysis. One, where the
doctor is in direct contact with the patient. He can use
touch to ascertain what is wrong. W i t h the second
method, it is possible to analyse bodily secretions in the
same way and get accurate results, even if the patient is
absent.
Next, he displayed a pendulum made of many brass
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reels threaded unto a chain. With it, he was able to

conduct an analysis of blood, stool and urine. With each
patient, he used a different number of reels. Some
needed three to come in tune with his own vibrations;
others needed more or less, depending entirely on their
fields of frequency. But in every case, the patient had to
be brought on the same wavelength as the doctor by
subtly adjusting the number of reels. Pendulums could
be of metal or wood; they could be magnetic or nonmagnetic; even electronic. The material was unimportant. It depended on the inclination of each analyst.
"As a water diviner douses the earth for water" he
said, "so we douse the body for ailments."
"Does that mean you can do water divining too?"
"Yes," he said. "The principle is the same. It is similar
to the instance of a man driving one type of car, who is
asked to drive another. It is not difficult. There is just
the question of getting used to the feel of the thing. But
personally, I wouldn't like to branch off into water
divining as I have more or less specialised in the
divination of disease."
As I left the place, highly impressed by this statements, I wondered why he hadn't ever contemplated
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The Divination of Disease

o human beings have different vibrations at

The Divination Of Disease

magnets. Later, he found that magnets were not really

Encounters With Men 'Of Miracles

must be sensitive to signals not perceptible to all, which

The Divination Of Disease

pendulum and then verifying with the patients to tally

Encounters With Men 'Of Miracles

reels threaded unto a chain. With it, he was able to

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