Druids Reduce Accidents on Austria's Autobahn

DRUID FOCUSES EARTH'S ENERGY ON ROAD TOLL
The Telegraph
August 11, 2003

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/10/1060454083125.html

Druids have been brought in to reduce the number of accidents on Austria's
worst stretch of autobahn.

The Druids have put up huge roadside monoliths to restore the natural flow
of "earth energy". After the one tonne pillars of white quartz were erected
beside a notorious stretch of road during a secret two-year trial, the
number of fatal accidents fell from an average of six a year to zero.

Gerald Knobloch, who describes himself as an archdruid, used a divining rod
to inspect the 275-metre stretch of the A9 in Styria and restore "earth
energy lines".

"I located dangerous elements that had disrupted the energy flow," he said.
"The worst was a river which human interference had forced to flow against
its natural direction. By erecting two stones of quartz at the side of the
road the energy lines were restored."

The pillars had a similar function to acupuncture, he said. "Acupuncture
needles also restore broken energy lines. What acupuncture does for the
body, the stones do for the environment."

Harald Dirnbacher, an engineer from the motorway authority, admitted that
they turned to Mr Knobloch as a last resort.

"We had put up signs to reduce speed, renewed the road surface and made
bends more secure but we still kept getting accidents," he said. "At that
point we couldn't think of anything else to do and decided we might as well
try anything.

"I admit when we first looked at it [energy lines] we were doubtful. We
didn't want people to know in case they laughed at us, so we kept the trial
secret and small-scale. But it was really an amazing turnaround."

Scientists are sceptical of the claims. "Natural sciences need evidence.
Whatever can't be measured, does not exist," said Georg Walach, a geophysics
professor at Leoben University in southern Austria. "These energy lines and
their flow cannot be grasped or measured, and their existence is therefore
rejected by scientists." But the motorway authorities are extending the
Druids' role across the country, paying them about $A6300 for each
investigation -- a fraction of the cost of resurfacing a road.