Dowsing

A dowser, from an 18th century French book about superstitions. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

By the use of a Pendulum or Dowsing Rods, Dowsers can tap into the subconscious, the surrounding environment, a person, place or thing either on site or remotely, the past, present and the potential future to access information, guidance or answers to specific questions. Pendulums come in all shapes and sizes. Some are made of wood, copper or metal and others from a selection of various crystals. However, a Pendulum is any weight that hangs on the end of a short string. This could be a key hanging from a piece of twine, a ring on a chain, or even a darning needle dangling on a thread. Dowsing Rods are metal L shaped rods that are held in the hands parallel to the ground. Dowsing makes visible information which is normally hidden to our five senses

Questions are asked by the Dowser. The answer is determined by which direction or manner the Pendulum or Dowsing Rods swing or move. The Dowser will have predetermined what each swing or movement means before asking the question. Therefore the Dowser will know which swing or movement means Yes, which means No and which means I Don’t Know or Rephrase the Question.

What is All This Dowsing Business About?

We are all surrounded by our own unique electromagnetic energy field commonly referred to as our aura. So too is every living creature, plant and tree. Rocks, water, land, buildings and even jewellery and cars all emit their own vibration. All these vibrations or emissions of energy interact with each other continuously communicating, sending messages or signals and in return receive responses or information which can then be acted on. This two way communication happens automatically and we are generally unaware of it. Ancient man relied heavily on his ability to tune into his environment in order to receive information that assured the survival of himself, his family or race. By doing this, ancient man was using his finely tuned senses to dowse. Dowsing enabled ancient man to make visible or bring to his normal five senses that which normally remained hidden. Animals use their natural dowsing ability to find a source of water, food supply or even their breeding grounds. For ancient man and animals dowsing came quite naturally. They were not exposed to the constant babble, distraction, toxins and noise pollution of our modern world. They were aware of the sounds, rhythms and patterns of the natural world around them. They were aware of how their body reacted to certain situations and used this knowledge to maintain their survival. By familiarising themselves with the signals been transmitted back and forth via their brain and nervous system they could be alerted to the proximity of dangerous wild beasts or severe weather conditions long before they could actually see or hear them.

Dowsing and The Subconscious

It is sad to say that modern man today has lost touch with his own natural dowsing abilities and relies too heavily on his normal five senses to discern the world around him. He also relies too heavily on external information when all he needs to know lies within. Our subconscious is the gateway to self-realisation and great understanding. Deep within the subconscious lie the answers to all our questions and the solutions to all our problems. This all sounds wonderful, but if the subconscious is so wonderful, then why is it not forthcoming with all its wisdom and why do we continue self sabotage our health, happiness and peace of mind. To understand why this happens we must first understand how the subconscious works.

Below our personal conscious lies our subconscious. Our personal conscious is what we use on a daily basis to get up in the morning, make our breakfast, catch the bus, train or drive to work. Our personal conscious interacts and communicates, analyses and logically works out our day as it progresses. Our conscious is at full throttle during the waking part of our day. Our personal conscious acts as a censor or filter and generally needs a rational and logical explanation for everything. Our personal conscious will tell us what is possible and what is not based on personal experience and conditioning.

When we fall asleep at night, our personal conscious lets down its guard and rests too. With the conscious temporarily off guard and slow to filter or censor information the subconscious now moves forward and endeavours to communicate with us. It does this by sending us messages in dreams via symbols, metaphors and archetypes. Information about our health, problems, work, relationships are transmitted nightly to us in this manner. However, dream interpretation is at best vague and difficult. Dreams speak to us in cryptic code and very few of us can accurately interpret their deep meanings. This is because we have lost the ability to do so. Ancient man placed much importance on the messages contained within dreams and acted upon their warnings or advice.

When we wake in the morning, the conscious comes back into play and can quickly block out the memories of our dreams as it censors and filters the information it allows to become conscious. The subconscious is quickly suppressed as the personal conscious takes charge once again and can only deal with and will only accept certain information and certain types of communication. This information comes in a logical and rational manner and not through dreams and symbols.

 If we are open-minded enough or more right-brained, then our personal conscious will seek to analyse or find meaning for our dreams and therefore the subconscious will seek to communicate with the personal conscious and vice versa. As a result it becomes easier to tap into our subconscious, our greatest source of information and guidance. Unfortunately for most, the left-brained attitude will be to dismiss the dream as nothing more than a silly dream and use just their personal conscious to solve problems. The subconscious gets pushed further and further away and man loses touch with his natural healing and problem solving abilities.

Today, people use various methods especially meditation to communicate with their subconscious. Meditation quietens the conscious, left-brained activity of mind and allows the subconscious, right brain become more active. However, more and more people are now returning to the old and ancient methods for accessing information, answers and guidance from their subconscious through Dowsing. By the use of a Pendulum or Dowsing Rods the subconscious communicates its information to us via the nervous system.

Dowsing is being used extensively in the holistic world for determining the health of the chakra system, nutritional deficiencies, dosages, allergies to foodstuffs and the root causes of certain ailments or problems. The dowser tunes into and connects with the subconscious of their client by setting the intention to do so. Questions are asked or guidance sought for the higher good of the client. The subconscious responds by sending signals to the brain which in turn sends signals via the nervous system causing involuntary and invisible muscle twitches which initiates movement in the pendulum causing it to swing, rotate clockwise or anti-clockwise. The Dowser will have predetermined meanings associated with each movement of the Pendulum or Dowsing rods and so will be able to interpret the response or replies from the subconscious.

Natural Dowsers

Everyone has the natural ability to dowse. As human beings we have not only inherited that ability from our ancestors but our physical and biological make up points to the fact that we are built and constructed in a way that makes us natural walking dowsers. However, as discussed earlier, to a greater extent we have suppressed this natural ability in ourselves by not using it and not giving it credence when it occasionally works with no effort on our part. We are mystified and amazed when we hear of a person who escaped certain death because he or she just got a sudden feeling that they should slow right down coming up to a particular bend or junction only to discover that had they driven at their normal speed they would have been involved in a serious car crash. Some will believe that it was the person’s Guardian Angel or Spirit Guide stepping in to save them from an untimely death. We also have to look at the possibility that it was the natural dowsing ability of the person that tapped into the information field of their surrounding environment, sensed the impending danger and communicated this back to the conscious of the person who then had to make the decision whether to act upon the information or dismiss it as illogical and irrational. How many times have we heard people say after they have made a terrible mistake or decision that “I knew it was the wrong thing to do. Every nerve cell told me not to but I just went ahead and did it. I don’t know why”. This happens to us all because even though our subconscious attempts to communicate with us and warn us, our personal conscious steps in and dismisses it as being irrelevant and then talks us into going ahead with the doomed action or mistake.

Dowsing and Geopathic Stress

Dowsing is not just used in holistic practices or for the individual looking for answers or solutions to problems. One of the oldest uses for dowsing was to source underground water for survival purposes. Tribes would settle and thrive around the nearest source of water. As discussed earlier, we all are surrounded by energy. So too is everything in our environment. To source water the Dowser would set the intention for his energy field to tune into the energy field of natural underground water streams. When water was found this information was communicated back to the Dowser via the nervous system causing the Dowsing Rods to move in a certain predetermined manner alerting the Dowser to the presence of water.

Underground water is perfectly natural and in itself no danger to humans. However, the water itself emits certain vibrations or energies that as they pass through the overhead land and rock formations distort and mutate. These distorted vibrations can have a very negative effect not only on us but also on our environment. Dowsing your environment for underground water streams can expose areas of geopathic stress that may be causing or have the potential to cause detrimental effects on our health and happiness.

As humans, we are each surrounded by our own unique energy field. This energy field is perfectly normal and we could not survive without it. However, this energy field needs to be kept in balance in order for us to remain healthy. When a phenomenon occurs over a period of time which disturbs this delicate balance, then it can impact on our health, behaviour, emotions etc. There are many reasons why this can happen, but one of the most lethal to the human energy field is that of geopathic stress. Underground natural water streams disturb the electromagnetic energy field of anything that is directly located above the flow, and intensifies in areas where two or more water lines cross. This is a completely natural occurrence and in general causes little harm. It is when these natural underground water streams flow under your house, where you sleep or an area where you spend a lot of time, e.g. your workplace, that they become nasty and unhealthy for the human body. Prolonged exposure to geopathic stress can cause a breakdown in physical, mental or emotional health and has been scientifically linked to causing certain cancers.

Geopathic stress is invisible to the naked eye but it’s suspected presence is often experienced as a room that feels cold or unwelcoming all the time, a place where you can never seem to get comfortable in, or that you feel headachy, spaced out, dizzy or nauseous in after a short time, insomnia, chronic health problems or depression that seems to lift when you spend time away from the offending area. Cats tend to gravitate towards areas of geopathic stress so their favourite sleeping areas may be a sign of its presence. An area of your garden where nothing will grow properly for no apparent reason can also be an indication that geopathic stress may be involved. There is also some evidence that connects geopathic stress to spirit or poltergeist activity as the change in vibration acts as a magnet or vortex for the astral plane.

The ancient art of Dowsing can detect the presence of geopathic stress by using Diving Rods and Pendulums. Dowsers are also known as Diviners, Water Diviners or in the old days Water Witches Once geopathic stress is discovered in an area, steps can then be taken to neutralise it using certain methods or avoid it by rearranging furniture , specific placing of crystals or the introduction of certain plants and feng shui. Obviously it is not possible to remove the underground source of water but it is possible to rebalance the destructive energy it is emitting. Dowsing is also used to locate the best and deepest source of underground water for sinking a well.

It is a little known fact that the military use Dowsers to trace unexploded mines and minefields. In World War Two, dowsers were relied upon heavily for this purpose and to source water. Dowsers are regularly called in to find the most likely location of oil or minerals on land. The services of Dowsers are also used to find missing persons and bodies concealed or buried after avalanches, earthquakes and bombs.

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