Western Australian Kevin Heitman is a dowsing legend
and a pioneering maverick of a farmer. I had read a press clipping
about Kevin's amazing abilities and was looking forward to meeting
up with him - this eventuated in November 2001.
Kevin is a third-generation wheat farmer in the Moruwa
district near Geraldton who, as a young boy had grown up with the
ability to see people's etheric body. He would note where the etheric
colours were distorted around injury zones and knew that his dying
mother had passed away when her aura disappeared.
Nowadays he has gained a reputation as a hands-on healer
and people queue up at the pub when he arrives to receive treatments.
Kevin rubs his hands together to set up an enhanced energy field then
channels energy through them to relieve various ailments, aches and
pains. He thinks there is nothing special about this ability
and often shows people how to do it for themselves, so that he won't
get so pestered.
At the age of 12 his father had instructed him in water
divining, a skill which had been passed down through generations.
To Kevin it was as easy as learning to ride a bicycle and his natural
sensitivity developed further. He started to see the underground streams
rather than relying on his divining rods. Today, Kevin water divines
from his motor glider. "I can see the electro-magnetic field
created by the underground streams from 10,000 feet it's quick and
it's fun!" he says. He has trained many people in dowsing
techniques at the Dowerin Field Days (local agricultural expos).
Curry grid
During my visit Kevin used his foot to mark out the
lines of the Curry grid that he can see on the dusty driveway, and
I followed him with dowsing rods, confirming their location. Some
of the lines he marked as being wavy or distorted from their interaction
with other energies.
"When you're planning to build a house,"
he suggested "it's a good idea to mark out the grid lines
and align the house walls to them, putting beds in the middle of the
grid squares."
Geopathic Stress
A fascinating observation he has made is that the edge
of the energy field above an underground stream generates heat that
can be detected by the palm of a sensitive hand. He calls this energy
a ley line. (A ley line can mean different things to other people!)
He has also observed that walking one way across a geopathic field
can erase your short term memory somewhat, but walking back the other
way over it can restore it.
When his grandmother died from cancer in 1958 Kevin
observed that she had been sleeping over an underground stream. Later
an uncle and neighbours who died from cancer were found to also have
been over underground streams. "This led me to investigate
as many cases of cancer as I could" he said. "I
went to the home of a child who had been diagnosed with a brain tumour.
The child was sleeping over a crossover field this is where two
underground streams cross. When the boy went to Hayman Island on holiday
the tumour disappeared. A second boy with a brain tumour was
also sleeping over a crossover field. When he went away to school
the tumour stopped growing. When he came home during the holidays
the tumour grew."
Knowing this that moving away from the electromagnetic
field can cure the cancer spurred him on to water divine over 450
homes over the last 20 years. He says that in 100% of the cancer
cases that he has checked the people were sleeping over underground
streams (geopathic stress zones).
Kevin also made observations about the effect of geopathic
stress on emu chicks when he was farming emus. One of his five emu
chick pens was affected by geopathic stress and those chicks did not
grow. Twelve of them died and an autopsy revealed they were deficient
in vitamin B12. The others were healthy and grew normally and
when the stunted chicks were moved to other pens they had no further
problems.
Children are particularly affected by geopathic stress,
Kevin found, and often will not grow well and have difficulties at
school. People who are affected in the work place don't work
very well and are often unwell and having strange aches and pains.
"Just by moving their desk and office chair by half a metre,
their wellbeing can change dramatically and also their work output."
Kevin explained, pointing out to me that "gypsies never get cancer".
Heitman now has a theory that organisms exposed to
geopathic stress react as if the body is in an out-of-control growth
spurt, causing the hormones to direct a mineral shutdown. If
this continues for more than three years the body becomes mineral
deficient and they will eventually sicken and die.
His ideas about Earth acupuncture methods used to
relieve geopathic stress I found rather challenging. "Doing
a copper pipe treatment of a geopathic field sets up a vibration that
stops you from getting a dowsing response. Therefore this is wrongly
thought to have neutralised the noxious energy" he believes.
Agricultural innovations
Kevin told me that he has been experimenting with ways
of improving his wheat crop for some 30 years. "I started
by magnetising the grain to see if it would grow faster. It certainly
did!"
"In South Australia the agriculture department
have done successful trials on magnetising seeds and watering crops
with magnetised water. So it is accepted there, but the WA farming
community is generally more sceptical" he told me.
Kevin showed me how he clamps magnets around the outlet
of his air seeder, so that seed is passed through the magnetic field
before it hits the soil.
He also magnetises water that's used on the crops as
well. I got to see Kevin's new liquid fertiliser sprayer tank
(for liquid cow manure, seaweed etc) that he has developed, with a
generous sized nozzle and magnets around the outlet. Kevin has
also worked on improving the farm's soil fertility by selecting soil
from an area with exceptional growth. "I fermented this
soil with fishmeal and flour and then sprayed the mixture over the
rest of the farm. This has resulted in a massive increase in yield
and quality.”
Now with WA in its fifth year of drought his intuition
has guided him to halve his cropping area, whilst some neighbours
have doubled theirs to try to compensate for losses incurred over
the last few years (some borrowing $600,000 to plant crops).
His intuition told him it would be another dry year which it was
- and it always guides his cropping decisions.
Kevin's wife Betty is also good at following hunches
and took a gamble this year with a new 'wonder' crop seradella,
a legume from low rainfall regions. The harvest was full-on
when I visited and she was ecstatic to report a very good result.
In 1998 Kevin's successful farming efforts were acknowledged
when he won WA's Top Crop Award for the biggest yield and the best
grain on the lowest rainfall. "But no-one asked me how
I did it!" Despite consistently getting a 3-4% higher yield
than neighbouring farms, he finds it hard to convince other farmers
who are reluctant to try some of the secrets he is happy to share.
"They don't want to change" Kevin concludes.
Kevin tinkers in his spare time devising new innovations
for his farm machinery and playing around with a few invention ideas.
He is working on a device to harness the power of lightning strikes,
based on the Tesla coil, amongst other things.
Landcare
The Heitman property is something of an oasis as Kevin
loves trees and has been planting them around the farm for some 30
years, with tens of thousands put into wildlife corridors plus a naturally
regenerating swamp. The drastically rising water table was killing
off most of the trees in his swamp until he took the bold decision
to put in a 15km drain. Now with the water table reduced the
trees have come back to life and are thriving a beautiful sight.
Across the drain on the neighbours property that side of the swamp
was not so lush, with far less regeneration. "What's the difference?"
I asked Kevin. "Mind power!" was the answer.
© Alanna Moore & BSD EEG 2002