Dowsing
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Dowse Today for a Better Tomorrow
What is dowsing? Dowsing is the practice of seeking water or other substances (usually liquid) with the aid of a forked stick, pendulum, a simple L-rod or Y-rod.
While some people consider dowsing a myth or superstition I consider it one of the easiest jaw dropping intuition skills to teach newbies or skeptics.
Improvised dowsing rods can be fashioned from branches, sticks, welding rod; wire coat hangers, bent paper clips or bent coffee stirrers work equally well. Pendulums can be made of most anything, from a zinc washer on a piece of fishing line, class ring on a thread to fancier commercial rods or pendulums.
It is fast and easy to locate potable water, buried pipes, electrical cable, conduit, oil, gold, silver, uranium.. even lost or misplaced objects [from keys, ID, TV remotes, rings to stethoscopes] with dowsing.
Other terms for dowsing are: divining or divination, rhabdomancy, doodlebugging, radiesthesia, Teleradiesthesia, Witching, Divinatory Pendulism, Pendulum Dowsing, Superpendulism, Information Dowsing, Water Dowsing, Biophysical Method, Water Forking, Water Divining, Radionics (specialized dowsing) and Map Dowsing.
The French use the word sourcier for finding the invisible (origin: finding water). Someone who is practicing this ancient art is called a dowser or a diviner.
As for how far back dowsing reaches into history, it is as old as mankind it seems. 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 2500 years old 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.
Many passages in the Bible allude to dowsing, relating in considerable detail how both Moses and his brother, Aaron, used a dowsing device referred to as "the Rod" to locate and bring forth water. In the Old Testament, the Prophet Ezekiel reports that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon,uncertain as to which city he should attack: Jerusalem, the capital of Judah, or Rebath, of the Ammonites (today's modern-day Amman, Jordan). The king directed his dowsers or diviners to select the best target and they chose Jerusalem, leading to its seizure and the long "Babylonian captivity of the Jews".
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.
By the beginning of the eighteenth century it is clear that enquirers into the modus operandi of dowsing were divided into two camps; those who believed that the dowsing reaction was the result of a physical influence against those who lent support to the idea of it arising from a mental cause. This controversy remains with us today and it is possible that both may be correct.
During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries dowsing for water to mark the spot for drilling wells and boreholes was a well established practice with exponents such as Mullins and Tompkins combining their practice as dowsers with the business of well drilling, frequently offering their services on the basis of 'no water, no fee', so confident were they in their abilities.
Dowsing was practiced in the California gold rush of 1848 and again in the Alaskan gold rush of 1896. It was used in California oil strikes of the 1890s.
During the twentieth century dowsing organizations began to be formed with the French Les Amis de la Radiesthesie founded in 1931 whilst this Society was founded by Colonel A H Bell, OBE, DSO, MRI two years later.
Since then many societies have been formed all over the world, expanding the knowledge and practice of dowsing in all its forms. The true value and worth of dowsing can be verified from the track record of successful dowsers and the experience of those who willingly spend good money in employing them today.
Some modern scientists consider dowsing a form of biofeedback and there is growing evidence suggesting it may be true. Thus dowsing is one of the earliest forms of Consciousness Technology. Biofeedback is one of the oldest, most reliable methods of accessing the unconscious.
98% of the people I teach can learn to dowse with no prior experience, in as little as 1hr.
Quotes on Dowsing
Peasants have believed in dowsing, and scientists used to believe that dowsing was only a belief of peasants. Now there are so many scientists who believe in dowsing that the suspicion comes to me that it may only be a myth after all. - Charles Fort, skeptic
Want to learn how to dowse? It's a very kewl skill almost anyone can learn.
At Integrated Magic I bring all that I have learned of Dowsing, intuition, the mind-body connection, Quantum Fields, Matrix Energetics & Quantum Physics to bring about a Shift & change to a higher reality in your life. Contact me and we can discuss if the practice of Dowsing is appropriate & advantageous for you.
References & Links
Water Witching U.S.A.
Best Dowsing E-Book Course
The Intuitive Way: The Definitive Guide to Increasing Your Awareness
