The Chinese knew the harm Geopathic Stress (GS) could cause over 4,000 years ago and avoided building houses on stressful places, i.e. 'dragon lines'. From a Neolithic (New Stone Age) village in Orkney, through many Bronze Age hut circles in Dartmoor, to American habitation sites of the Adena and Hopewell people and the homes of the Inca residents high in the Andes, the inhabitants never built their homes over these life destructive high vibrations.

The first recorded use of divining is thought to be in the The 'Caves of Tasseli nAjjer' in the foothills of the Atlas mountains , which were discovered in 1949. They contain prehistoric cave murals, one of which depicts a dowser surrounded by his fellow tribesmen dowsing for water. These paintings have been proved to be at least 8,000 years old by the carbon 14 process.

Divining was known everywhere in ancient times by the Egyptians, Hebrews, Persians, Druids, Greeks, Romans, Hindus and the American Indians. Very little is mentioned of diving by ancient scribes and historians, as the art was a powerful well kept secret.

The Egyptian Queen, Cleopatra, had at least two diviners with her at all times, not looking for water, but for gold. Use of the technique is recorded by the Egyptians (3,000B.C.) and after their escape from the Egyptians the Hebrews are thought to have used it. The activities of their leader Moses are recorded in the Bible: 'thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink' (Exodus 17:5-6) ' Take the rod..... and speak ye unto the rock.... and it shall give forth water' (Numbers 20:10-11) which indicates that Moses was a skilled diviner. The Chinese Emperor Tu in (2200B.C.) is pictured with a divining rod. Druids no doubt divined for the correct site for Stonehenge.