Dowsing

[heyjt]

Has anybody else on the forum had any experiance with dowsing? I've been working on it for a couple of years now and have had a lot of fun with it.<br> While a forked stick is traditional, I find two bent "L" rods are the most reactive for me. Mine are made of simple heavy wire.<br> It's very easy to find buried electric and water lines. As far as underground veins of water, I am picking up everything, without discernment for depth,volume or flow. That is what I am trying to figure out now. <br> The other interesting thing we've been trying is using a partner to determine where a persons energy field is or to "pass" energy to a person who is holding the rods and see the response. I haven't done much with pendulums yet.<br> The best resource for the subject I have found is "The Divining Hand", By Christopher Bird. <p></p><i></i>

[marykmusic]

Been a dowser for years.<br><br>L-rods are my favorite for finding lost things, ley lines, whenever I have to actually walk somewhere.<br><br>Pendulum is the best for me when I map-dowse. When I first used this in a practical manner, was the summer of '81. My family and my best friend were moving from Winslow AZ (we went broke there and ever after have called it Lose-fast) to who-knew-where. Three of us were on horseback, Dru, my then 8-year-old daughter Jamaica, and I. My husband drove the Travel-all with my son Derek (aged 6), the milk goat and eventually her twins, the tipi on top and all our stuff. I needed to find a campsite for evening with water and grass, using a Forest Service map. Some of the springs indicated were there, some not. Often I was directed by dowsing to a blank part of the map, but my pendulum was ALWAYS correct... At about 20 miles per day, bareback, we ended up riding about 300 miles on mostly the Rim Road before parking at Hannagan's Meadow for a while. We would stay for up to a week wherever we found an especially good site.<br><br>There are lots of ways to dowse. This is only one example. --MaryK <p></p><i></i>

[heyjt]

MKM:<br>How did your pendulum react? For instance, did you ask a yes or no question about an area on the map, and get a vertical or horizontal swing?<br> Also, with your "L" rods, how do you determine a ley line as opposed to a vein of water?<br> I find this all very interesting. I may have to make another pendulum... <p></p><i></i>

[marykmusic]

What you are thinking is all-important.<br><br>First, we don't all use pendulua in the same way. Years ago, my "yes" was a forward/backward swing, and "no" was back-and-forth (both in straight lines.) Lately, a clockwise circle means "yes" and a counter-clockwise is a "no." First you have to establish what works for YOU.<br><br>Looking for whatever you want is how the L-rods (or whatever tool you have) works. You must be able to concemtrate. If you're looking for ley-lines, don't get off-track by thinking about something else.<br><br>A class I taught tested me out like this: at the beginning of the class I gave one of the students my ring, which they hid. I then map-dowses a drawing of the layout of the room, and got the general area, then went there with my L-rods and found it easily. That was a good demonstration which anyone can try. Nothing builds up self-confidence like success. --MaryK <p></p><i></i>