Dowsing

[NobodySpecial268]

Dowsing is a subject most people have at least heard of. Water divining, radiesthesia, and radionics all fall under the heading of dowsing. That is to say that the dowsing sense is needed by the dowser to do his business. The dowsing sense is regarded as a sixth sense, or psychic ability.

The dowsing tools, or rather instruments, vary from the simple pendulum and L-rod to the multi-dialed radionic black boxes.

Nevertheless, lots of people have done this throughout history to find water, diagnose soil deficiencies and health problems, to remedy selection among other things.

The problem is, it is generally regarded that only a small percentage of the population has this ability. A smaller percentage still are considered talented dowsers. Now that is a problem, not everyone can dowse even if they wanted to.

However, there is a solution.

In my early twenties, I worked for an earthmoving company, and the owner of this was a dowser. He would drive across a farmer's paddock with the L-rod in one hand, the steering wheel in the other, and stop when the rod responded. We would look for underground water streams in this manner.

Now at the time I couldn't dowse, the owner tried me out, and I couldn't get a response from the rods even when he knew where the water was.

So he got me to hold the L-rod in my hand and walk across the underground stream, demonstrating that there was no response from the rod. Then he put his hand on my shoulder and we repeated the exercise. Then the rods responded.

We repeated this a few times, and then he took is hand away. The L-rods continued to respond without his assistance when walking over an underground stream.

Half an hour before I couldn't dowse and then I could.

So what happened to change things? I asked him, and he said that he "just short-circuited something in you".

He enabled a non-dowser to dowse.

I've done this myself and enabled a non-dowser to dowse with the pendulum in exactly the same way.

My own thoughts on the matter are that the dowser dowses through the person holding the L-rod or pendulum as if he is holding the pendulum or L-rod himself. For all intents and purposes, this does actually short-circuit something or created a channel.

My suggestion is to find an experienced water diviner, and ask him politely. Of course, there are no guarantees from me that this is a failsafe method that works every time. The necessary research has not been done as far as I know. So if anyone here has done this, feel free to respond and let others know. The pooling of research and experience here will allow others to benefit.

I don't know why this is not widely known, as I have only heard of this from the fellow who taught me. Perhaps it is indeed known in circles and is one of those secrets people like to keep exclusively to themselves.

That said, I have enabled a lady who owned a new-age shop to use a pendulum in this way. I said to her that the hard work starts now, and she would have to practice and study.

Sadly, the lady concerned was out the next day telling people what they had for breakfast. Presumably to demonstrate her new talent. She did not listen. Perhaps that is why the technique is not publicly spoken of. With dowsing, there is a lot of practice and study involved. Indeed, dowsing can be considered a craft, and just like any other craft, one doesn't learn the knowledge skills required overnight.

I'll add to this thread when I have time, and would encourage others to contribute to the thread. Many dowsers have home-grown techniques, and those techniques are often more valuable and interesting than the text books.

[MykeNukem]

Dowsing is a subject most people have at least heard of. Water divining, radiesthesia, and radionics all fall under the heading of dowsing. That is to say that the dowsing sense is needed by the dowser to do his business.  The dowsing sense is regarded as a sixth sense, or psychic ability.

The dowsing tools, or rather instruments, vary from the simple pendulum and L-rod to the multi-dialed radionic black boxes. 

Nevertheless, lots of people have done this throughout history to find water, diagnose soil deficiencies and health problems, to remedy selection among other things. 

The problem is, it is generally regarded that only a small percentage of the population has this ability. A smaller percentage still are considered talented dowsers. Now that is a problem, not everyone can dowse even if they wanted to.

However, there is a solution.

In my early twenties, I worked for an earthmoving company, and the owner of this was a dowser. He would drive across a farmer's paddock with the L-rod in one hand, the steering wheel in the other, and stop when the rod responded.  We would look for underground water streams in this manner.

Now at the time I couldn't dowse, the owner tried me out, and I couldn't get a response from the rods even when he knew where the water was.

So he got me to hold the L-rod in my hand and walk across the underground stream, demonstrating that there was no response from the rod. Then he put his hand on my shoulder and we repeated the exercise. Then the rods responded.

We repeated this a few times, and then he took is hand away. The L-rods continued to respond without his assistance when walking over an underground stream.

Half an hour before I couldn't dowse and then I could.

So what happened to change things? I asked him, and he said that he "just short-circuited something in you".

He enabled a non-dowser to dowse.

I've done this myself and enabled a non-dowser to dowse with the pendulum in exactly the same way.

My own thoughts on the matter are that the dowser dowses through the person holding the L-rod or pendulum as if he is holding the pendulum or L-rod himself.  For all intents and purposes, this does actually short-circuit something or created a channel. 

My suggestion is to find an experienced  water diviner, and ask him politely. Of course, there are no guarantees from me that this is a failsafe method that works every time. The necessary research has not been done as far as I know. So if anyone here has done this, feel free to respond and let others know. The pooling of research and experience here will allow others to benefit.

I don't know why this is not widely known, as I have only heard of this from the fellow who taught me. Perhaps it is indeed known in circles and is one of those secrets people like to keep exclusively to themselves.

That said, I have enabled a lady who owned a new-age shop to use a pendulum in this way. I said to her that the hard work starts now, and she would have to practice and study.

Sadly, the lady concerned was out the next day telling people what they had for breakfast. Presumably to demonstrate her new talent. She did not listen. Perhaps that is why the technique is not publicly spoken of. With dowsing, there is a lot of practice and study involved. Indeed, dowsing can be considered a craft, and just like any other craft, one doesn't learn the knowledge skills  required overnight.

I'll add to this thread when I have time, and would encourage others to contribute to the thread.  Many dowsers have home-grown techniques, and those techniques are often more valuable and interesting than the text books.

I've never put much thought into dowsing, but I do know that a 'dowser' found the well on the property we live on.

He was the local 'guy' that was recommended to my FIL after spending a small fortune trying to drill a well.

Interesting.

[Ksihkehe]

Attached is a course on pendulum dowsing. I don't have much to add to the topic and have no experience with it, but I did have a copy of this on hand. I grew up and spent most of my life in an area where water was fairly close to the surface, but in my current location water witches have been a part of life for a long time and are still used quite often. I was always skeptical, but I'm skeptical of everything until I get around to testing it myself. I do have two brass L rods ready to go, but I need to get around to familiarizing myself with them. Water here can sometimes be virtually inaccessible, but it's not uncommon to see 350' and I've seen them close to 900'. It's a farming and ranching community, fairly arid, so not only is there a need to find water but it also has to flow at a high enough rate to meet the demands of crops. Some of the wells here recharge quite slowly.


  Letter+to+Robin+3-25.pdf (Size: 250.77 KB / Downloads: 2)

Robin was having the same problems that many beginning dowsers have, trouble with accuracy and repeatability. She wisely wrote to the American Society of Dowsers asking for help. The Society sent her the names of ten Dowsers and I was privileged to be one of them. Robin sent a letter to each one and received informative letters from all of us. I had recognized the need for a booklet of this type for some time, but it was this letter that inspired me to start developing it. In an effort to make the booklet as clear as possible and with the suggestions from many dowsers, it is now in its tenth revision with subsequent minor revisions for clarity.

[NobodySpecial268]

Reply to MykeNukem.

Those guys can be very good. They have usually been doing it for ages and have a feel for how water works underground. Like a lot of things, it is experience that counts. I bet he made it look fairly easy too.



Reply to Ksihkehe.

The letter to Robin is a very good guide to pendulum dowsing. The American Society Of Dowsers knows their stuff.

With the L-rods, in the beginning I used to walk towards the power lines on the street holding the rod. The thought was to find the boundary of the Electro-Magnetic (EM) field emitted by the power lines. Once located, it doesn't matter that one knows where the boundary is. I would put a scuff mark at the point indicated. Then do it again and again for practice. One gets an idea about accuracy. One does become more accurate with practice, of course. So it doesn't really matter if the scuff marks vary.

[FCD]

I had a similar experience once.  I was working for this Engineering / Survey company in Utah back in college.  We had this job where we were trying to locate an underground storm sewer on this property.  We had drawings for part of it, but the owner swore there was a junction on the property where the pipe split into two lines (but there was no manhole).  We tromped all over that property trying to find this other line.  On an adjacent property we found an outlet, but how it ran across the property of interest was still a mystery.  After we'd tried everything, this old geezer who was our crew chief said he had one final "longshot" idea.  He pulled these two copper rods bent into an "L" and said we could try to see if we could dowse them.

I thought it was some kind of voodoo and black magic (I was a physics major after all), but I figured I'd just watch anyway.  This guy started walking perpendicular to how we knew the pipe would run.  We weren't sure how much water was inside this pipe, but there may have been some.  Sure enough, after a couple treks the rods crossed and I marked it with some lath and flagging tape (no conclusions, just marked it for later reference if needed).  Then, we moved over a few yards and did the same thing.  Again, after a few minutes the rods crossed, and I drove another stake with flagging.  We repeated this process for the rest of the afternoon.  

When we got done the stakes all formed a perfect line from the outlet we'd found to a point in the middle of the field.  We'd started in the middle of the field (not at the outlet) so he wouldn't be biased by the outlet location.  We then laid out the 2nd line according to the engineering survey data we had.  Right where the stakes stopped turned out to be the intersection point of the two lines.  But I still wasn't convinced, and the old crew chief even said he could never go back into the office and say we located the lines using this method, so he had to be sure too.  They were doing some dirtwork on the site so we had a backhoe come over and dig up the spot ...(and yes, locates had been done of the property first...by us!).  Sure enough, right at the exact spot where we had estimated the intersection point was a lateral 24" reinforced concrete pipe which had been cut into the main 48" RCP storm sewer line and never documented (without a manhole at the junction to boot)!  It wasn't at a right angle either; this pipe ran at about a 40 degree angle off of the main line.  There was no way in hell this guy could have faked or lucked out guessing that.

I will always be blown away by that experience.  It was dead-on too.  Even the old crew chief who was super Mormon and had probably never sworn a day in his entire life said..."Well, I'll be damned!"

I've heard so many people since say dowsing is just some kind of smoke & mirrors or sorcery, but I've seen that shit work...in person.

[Nugget]

Attached is a course on pendulum dowsing. 

That's really interesting! I watched a fellow dowsed some property when I was young so I've tried it a few different times throughout the years,  with zero luck. After reading the PDF i just may try again! 

[NobodySpecial268]

That's really interesting! I watched a fellow dowsed some property when I was young so I've tried it a few different times throughout the years,  with zero luck. After reading the PDF i just may try again! 

If there is no response to the pendulum, in the first post is described how I was 'enabled'. If you know a competent dowser, give it a go. Don't forget to post here : )

[Nugget]

If there is no response to the pendulum, in the first post is described how I was 'enabled'. If you know a competent dowser, give it a go. Don't forget to post here : )

Oh, it's the dowsing rods I've never had any luck with! I've used a pendulum many times when trying to locate lost objects, but haven't gotten correct directions. It's possible I wasn't phrasing my questions correctly? I learned to just sit quietly while picturing the object I want to locate in my mind and wait until I 'feel' where I should look. Sometimes three or four places come to mind, but it has always worked for me.
I figure the knowledge of where I placed it is buried somewhere in my mind and sitting calmly allows the recall process to eventually bring it forward.

There have been times when I get nothing; then I just go about my day but the lost object gnaws at me even though I've made it a non-issue, and while I'm preoccupied doind something the answer just pops up. 

I'm a crafter of many different genres, so locating that one special item needed while the 'spirit moves me' can be an all-consumin force at times!

[NobodySpecial268]

Oh, it's the dowsing rods I've never had any luck with! I've used a pendulum many times when trying to locate lost objects, but haven't gotten correct directions. It's possible I wasn't phrasing my questions correctly? I learned to just sit quietly while picturing the object I want to locate in my mind and wait until I 'feel' where I should look. Sometimes three or four places come to mind, but it has always worked for me.

Horses for courses as they say. Most people have an innate preference between rods and pendulums.  There was a fella from the American Dowsers who said that to find lost objects he recommended tossing a coin over one's shoulder and letting the rods take him to it was good practice.

The phrasing of questions correctly is probably the most difficult part of it all. That takes a lot of work, and success depends on this. The simpler the queries the better. In medical dowsing, the British Radionic people at Delawarr Laboratories in England had worksheets for their practitioners. For example, on one sheet they would have the title Vitamin Deficiencies  under which there would be a simple list of vitamins. Vitamin A, Vitamin C, and so on.  Just that, with one very important addition. That addition was the word Other. Every diagnostic list always had the word 'Other' as the last entry. It did not matter what the list was, it was always 'Other' as the last item on the list.

So in practice, if there was no response for an individual vitamin deficiency, there would probably be a response for 'Other'. Which means we have to dig deeper.  That is where knowledge and lots of study comes in.

I figure the knowledge of where I placed it is buried somewhere in my mind and sitting calmly allows the recall process to eventually bring it forward.

There have been times when I get nothing; then I just go about my day but the lost object gnaws at me even though I've made it a non-issue, and while I'm preoccupied doind something the answer just pops up. 

I'm a crafter of many different genres, so locating that one special item needed while the 'spirit moves me' can be an all-consumin force at times!

I'm not good at finding things either, and do what you do : )

[Nugget]

If there is no response to the pendulum, in the first post is described how I was 'enabled'. If you know a competent dowser, give it a go. Don't forget to post here : )

I don't know any dowsers, unfortunately. Maybe the power of suggestion, or just knowing it's possible and following the PDF guide will make something click? I'll let you know!