Post by sparklekaz on Jun 9, 2012 18:00:43 GMT
To dowse is to search, with the aid of simple hand held tools or instruments, for that which is otherwise hidden from view or knowledge. It can be applied to searches for a great number of artefacts and entities. It is most commonly known by most people in association with searching for underground water; not surprising considering the absolute need for water by man and his animals and cultivated plants which sustain him.
What is less readily known is that dowsing can be also used for searching for other underground features such as archaeological remains, cavities and tunnels, oil, veins of mineral ore, underground building services, missing items and occasionally missing persons.
Although no thorough scientific explanations for dowsing has yet been found it is frequently acknowledged that there is some correlation between the dowsing reaction and changes in magnetic flux when dowsing on site.
What is more difficult for the newcomer to accept is that dowsing can be carried out at a distance and, moreover, the distance itself has no bearing on the results; dowsing can be carried out for something in the next room or the next continent. This is of immense practical use for site dowsers who save themselves and their clients valuable time by initially, at least, dowsing at a distance to seek the direction of the nearest source, for example, or actually dowsing over a map of an area to determine more precisely the target of the search.
This particular faculty is frequently used by those practitioners using dowsing in the area of health when they are able to dowse for causative factors and suitable remedies at a distance from the patient, employing a sample or witness of the person, for example, on which to focus their attention.
Dowsing In Energy Work & Healing
A pendulum can be very helpful for determining the root cause of a condition, and whether it originates at the physical level, or on the mental, emotional or spiritual level. A pendulum can pinpoint what may be the best course of action to correct the condition, and can confirm when energy healing is complete.
When it comes to energy healing and dowsing, other uses of pendulums in energy healing include using the pendulum to assess the degree of severity of the condition, as well as the degree of effectiveness of a particular remedy or treatment. A pendulum can show whether a person is responsive to certain methods of treatment, or might be adversely affected by them. The pendulum can pinpoint the exact location of a problem in the body or in the energy field, and can also indicate when the problem is corrected.
While performing energy healing, the pendulum can demonstrate the power, effectiveness, and success of the energy healing, and can indicate whether more healing is required. There are so many uses of pendulums in energy healing that confirm that energy healing and dowsing work well together and are highly effective.
The uses of dowsing are many and include the following:-
Water
The search for water is an important and practical exposition of the art. In addition to predicting the position where water may be successfully found a good dowser will also be able to indicate its portability, depth, volume, pressure and the sort of geological strata that will have to be drilled through to reach the source. Whilst most people have some idea of water lying underground as a water table dowsers are also able to pinpoint water lying in underground streams or aquifers when adjacent drilling would only be into dry rock.
Archaeological Searches
Dowsers are able to detect changes in soil formations beneath the surface and to find hidden foundations of earlier buildings.
Soil Testing and Agriculture
Soils can be analysed for acidity, organic content and nutrient status. Plants and animals can be checked for diseases and seeds for germination.
Mineral and Oil Prospecting
As indicated above the use of dowsing in searching for minerals is ages old and in more recent times the art has been successfully used to locate oil fields.
Site surveys
Dowsing has been employed to locate hidden and dangerous mine shafts, underground tunnels and all manner of building services such as electricity, gas, water, telephone lines on building sites.
Healing and Medicine
Dowsing is widely used to detect and seek the causes of imbalance leading to poor health as well as determining the most suitable remedies. Food intolerance and allergies is another area where dowsing has been of help.
Earth Energies and Geopathic Stress
The study of the energy patterns associated with standing stones, circles and other ancient sites can be greatly assisted by the use of dowsing. How these energies interact with more modern buildings and the people who dwell therein can be determined with the use of the dowsing faculty and advice given on how to minimise malign effects.
History Of Dowsing
Whilst it must be accepted that the idea that the biblical Moses, in striking the rock to bring forth much needed water, was demonstrating his skill as a dowser cannot be proven, it is surely likely that the faculty is as old as man, as is man's need for potable water to survive.
We have to rely on illustrations and the written word for evidence of dowsing practice. The mosaic floor in the ancient synagogue at Bet Alfa in Israel's Jezreel Valley contains a zodiac with a figure under Aquarius holding what could well be a forked dowsing rod.
A bas relief in the Shantung Province of China shows Yu, a 'master of the science of the earth and in those matters concerning water veins and springs'. The figure is holding a forked instrument rather like a tuning fork.
In 1556 Georgius Agricola published his work 'De Re Metallica' which clearly shows dowsing activity in the woodcut therein. One dowser is shown cutting a branch from a tree, whilst two others are shown in the act of dowsing using forked twigs, whilst surrounded by miners digging.
Just shortly after this publication, during Elizabeth I reign, German miners were employed in England to gain the zinc ore necessary to blend with the Cornish copper to make bronze for the armaments of the realm. J W Gough relates in his The Mines of Mendip how 'great faith was placed in the virtues of the divining rod'.
Many references to dowsing occur during the seventeenth century including reportage of the activities of Jacques Aymar who, starting as a successful water dowser, found in the 1690s he could also usefully employ his gift in searching for missing persons. 1693 saw the publication of La Verge de Jacob which gives many instances of the use of dowsing rods.
Dowsing has been defined by Major-General Jim Scott-Eliot, a Past President of the Society, in his book 'Dowsing - One Man's Way as: 'The ability to use a Natural Sensitivity which enables us to know things we cannot know by the use of the day to day brain or by learning, by experience, or by the use of the five physical senses.'
What is less readily known is that dowsing can be also used for searching for other underground features such as archaeological remains, cavities and tunnels, oil, veins of mineral ore, underground building services, missing items and occasionally missing persons.
Although no thorough scientific explanations for dowsing has yet been found it is frequently acknowledged that there is some correlation between the dowsing reaction and changes in magnetic flux when dowsing on site.
What is more difficult for the newcomer to accept is that dowsing can be carried out at a distance and, moreover, the distance itself has no bearing on the results; dowsing can be carried out for something in the next room or the next continent. This is of immense practical use for site dowsers who save themselves and their clients valuable time by initially, at least, dowsing at a distance to seek the direction of the nearest source, for example, or actually dowsing over a map of an area to determine more precisely the target of the search.
This particular faculty is frequently used by those practitioners using dowsing in the area of health when they are able to dowse for causative factors and suitable remedies at a distance from the patient, employing a sample or witness of the person, for example, on which to focus their attention.
Dowsing In Energy Work & Healing
When it comes to energy healing and dowsing, other uses of pendulums in energy healing include using the pendulum to assess the degree of severity of the condition, as well as the degree of effectiveness of a particular remedy or treatment. A pendulum can show whether a person is responsive to certain methods of treatment, or might be adversely affected by them. The pendulum can pinpoint the exact location of a problem in the body or in the energy field, and can also indicate when the problem is corrected.
While performing energy healing, the pendulum can demonstrate the power, effectiveness, and success of the energy healing, and can indicate whether more healing is required. There are so many uses of pendulums in energy healing that confirm that energy healing and dowsing work well together and are highly effective.
The uses of dowsing are many and include the following:-
Water
The search for water is an important and practical exposition of the art. In addition to predicting the position where water may be successfully found a good dowser will also be able to indicate its portability, depth, volume, pressure and the sort of geological strata that will have to be drilled through to reach the source. Whilst most people have some idea of water lying underground as a water table dowsers are also able to pinpoint water lying in underground streams or aquifers when adjacent drilling would only be into dry rock.
Archaeological Searches
Dowsers are able to detect changes in soil formations beneath the surface and to find hidden foundations of earlier buildings.
Soil Testing and Agriculture
Soils can be analysed for acidity, organic content and nutrient status. Plants and animals can be checked for diseases and seeds for germination.
Mineral and Oil Prospecting
As indicated above the use of dowsing in searching for minerals is ages old and in more recent times the art has been successfully used to locate oil fields.
Site surveys
Dowsing has been employed to locate hidden and dangerous mine shafts, underground tunnels and all manner of building services such as electricity, gas, water, telephone lines on building sites.
Healing and Medicine
Dowsing is widely used to detect and seek the causes of imbalance leading to poor health as well as determining the most suitable remedies. Food intolerance and allergies is another area where dowsing has been of help.
Earth Energies and Geopathic Stress
The study of the energy patterns associated with standing stones, circles and other ancient sites can be greatly assisted by the use of dowsing. How these energies interact with more modern buildings and the people who dwell therein can be determined with the use of the dowsing faculty and advice given on how to minimise malign effects.
History Of Dowsing
Whilst it must be accepted that the idea that the biblical Moses, in striking the rock to bring forth much needed water, was demonstrating his skill as a dowser cannot be proven, it is surely likely that the faculty is as old as man, as is man's need for potable water to survive.
We have to rely on illustrations and the written word for evidence of dowsing practice. The mosaic floor in the ancient synagogue at Bet Alfa in Israel's Jezreel Valley contains a zodiac with a figure under Aquarius holding what could well be a forked dowsing rod.
A bas relief in the Shantung Province of China shows Yu, a 'master of the science of the earth and in those matters concerning water veins and springs'. The figure is holding a forked instrument rather like a tuning fork.
In 1556 Georgius Agricola published his work 'De Re Metallica' which clearly shows dowsing activity in the woodcut therein. One dowser is shown cutting a branch from a tree, whilst two others are shown in the act of dowsing using forked twigs, whilst surrounded by miners digging.
Just shortly after this publication, during Elizabeth I reign, German miners were employed in England to gain the zinc ore necessary to blend with the Cornish copper to make bronze for the armaments of the realm. J W Gough relates in his The Mines of Mendip how 'great faith was placed in the virtues of the divining rod'.
Many references to dowsing occur during the seventeenth century including reportage of the activities of Jacques Aymar who, starting as a successful water dowser, found in the 1690s he could also usefully employ his gift in searching for missing persons. 1693 saw the publication of La Verge de Jacob which gives many instances of the use of dowsing rods.
Dowsing has been defined by Major-General Jim Scott-Eliot, a Past President of the Society, in his book 'Dowsing - One Man's Way as: 'The ability to use a Natural Sensitivity which enables us to know things we cannot know by the use of the day to day brain or by learning, by experience, or by the use of the five physical senses.'
