Radiesthesia - #Dowsing

By Barbara Garcia

Radiesthesia is the present day term for the ancient art of dowsing. According to the British Society of Dowers, the term radiesthesia was first created by French Priest, Alex Bouly in which he compounded the Latin words of radiation and perception. The origins of radiesthesia have been dated to the ancient Chinese and Egyptians as a mystical art. There are many practical uses of radiesthesia with or without the use of devices such as a divining rod or pendulum.

The most popular use of radiesthesia in bygone years was in search of water when digging for wells. It was also popular during the gold rush during 1848 through 1852.
Some of the traditional and practical uses of radiesthesia have been in detecting underground vibrations when surveying for building constructions. Locating minerals and lost objects are quite common as well as locating oil, people, and animals.

It is also possible to detect the freshness of produce at the market prior to purchasing. The freshest give off a higher radius of energy. Farmers and home gardeners use radiesthesia in measuring the quality of soil before planting.

Radiesthesia has gained attention in Alternative and Holistic health fields. Many practitioners attest a number of different illnesses for which in addition to locating the areas, radiesthesia is conducted to identify the cause of the illness. It is also a common practice to measure the energy field of the subject before and after the healing sessions.

Radiesthesia is regarded with much skepticism by the majority of science and medical professions and at times with a great deal of ridicule. Therefore, radiesthesia remains associated with the metaphysical arts.

Those who practice the art of radiesthesia proclaim that everyone has the ability to dowse but are unaware of it due to lack of need or interest.
It is not necessary to use divining rods or pendulums for psychically developed or earth sensitive people. These people have the ability to sense the information needed for divination. Some use their hands and fingers as a source of perception. This particular ability is called Derma Optic Perception.

In general the diviner of a pendulum or dowsing rod is capable of sensing the vibrations and radiations emitted from object, earth, people, animals and vegetation. This indicates a multiple of uses.

Getting started with radiesthesia without the expense of purchasing a pendulum or divining rod can be achieved with a couple objects you most likely have at home. Wire clothes hangers straightened out and bent at one end for handles are a make shift divining rod. Holding one in each hand outstretched in front of you about two feet apart will give you the idea of how it works. Walk slowly around the area you wish to test. If you are in your home and your plumbing is beneath you, the rods will voluntarily cross one and other without your prompting.
A pendulum can be constructed by taking a string or cord and tying one end to a small object that you may have lying around such as a piece of jewelry like a pendant or perhaps a number 8 metal nut if you are out in your garage. Hold the other end between your thumb and index finger. The pendulum will move accordingly to your questions and intentions. For a yes answer it may move to and fro in front of you. It may move side to side for a no answer. Sometimes the pendulum will go in circles.

The point in creating these home made devices to familiarize yourself with the information and the experience necessary for understanding the process of radiesthesia.

Barbara Soblewski Garcia's website www.starmerge.com, offers a wide range of services from private ESP consultations to ESP development classes, an Art Gallery and prints store. Barbara gained mass recognition in the Seventies with her involvement in several criminal cases, most notably The Hillside Strangler. Over the years her psychic powers has been thoroughly tested by numerous investigations in both lab and field settings.

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In Face of Drought, Napa Valley Witches Conjure Water With Magic

California has just creaked through its driest January on record and is staring down a fourth year of crippling drought—and everyone is talking about it. A recent op-ed in the <em>LA Times left us all quaking in our unused Hunter boots. As our reservoirs dwindle, the Department of Water Resources is pleading with residents to conserve water however we can—fix your leaky faucets; let go of your precious lawns. But for some winemakers in Napa Valley, the answer lies in more mystical methods that hail from medieval times.

Marc Mondavi, of the famed winemaking dynasty, is a witch. We’re not being impolite. No, Mondavi is one of many so-called water witches, or professional “dowsers,” who practice the craft known as divining. Divining, or dowsing, is a medieval method of detecting natural energies in the earth to discover treasures hidden underground: ores, petroleum, and ground water. While hinted at in the Bible and in ancient African cave art, divining as we know it today traces back to 15th Century Europe, where dowsers used forked twigs to find ore. Settlers brought the technique over from the other side of the Atlantic, making it popular among American farmers searching for wells. During the Vietnam War, some Marines even used dowsing to find enemy tunnels and weapon caches. 

Different water witches have different methods—some search with L-shaped brass rods or Y-shaped twigs, while others use metal pendulums. Mondavi discovered his gift during high school, when his girlfriend’s father handed him a willow fork. The pair found he had talent, but he didn’t think much of it. Mondavi, after all, is no stereotypical crystal-carrying spiritualist. But as a man in wine business, Mondavi is especially concerned with the plight of California’s farmers, and not just his own winery. "I’m referred to by most of the well drillers here in the valley, when people call them to drill a well. They would rather have a spot marked by a dowser than just randomly pick a spot, because there’s not water everywhere," said Mondavi in a recent interview. "And with today’s drought here in California, I’ve been very busy."

When he began working for his family’s winery, Mondavi connected with the late Frank Wood, who developed him as a dowser. Several years ago, the pair went up against a team of professional hydrologists, and beat the scientists in finding water not once but twice. Martin Luther may have long ago declared divining “the work of the devil,” but Mondavi is such a believer that today he sells a line of wines called The Divining Rod.

Considering that California grows more than 90 percent of America’s broccoli, strawberries, and garlic—and we are the world’s fourth largest wine producer—it’s no wonder water-starved Wine Country is home to a robust coven of water witches, some of whom have been working for decades. And some farmers are investing thousands of dollars to employ them. 

Rob Thompson is a third-generation Northern California dowser whose grandfather divined oil and gas deposits in the 1930s. Unike Mondavi who dowses only on the weekends, Thompson is answering the uptick in demand due to the drought by focusing on divination full-time. “I dowse all over California,” says Thompson, whose frequent work in Napa and Sonoma sometimes takes him afield to Bakersfield or Oregon. “That’s all I do right now,” he says. He will even work remotely anywhere in the world, dowsing via Google Earth.  

So how does it work exactly? Armed with divining rods, the water witch begins a session by standing in the middle of a plot of land, slowly turning in a circle with his rods pointed outward, almost like radar. When he or she finds water underfoot, the two rods suddenly cross. Thompson says the sensation of discovery “feels like two magnets pulling together,” a force of energy that may call to mind the movement on a Ouija board. If Thompson feels a pull in one direction, he heads that way, adding that his rods cross with stronger pull depending on how much water is underground.

It’s easy to laugh off divining as mysticism, once fostered in the Middle Ages and now primed for modern Bay Area bohemians. That is until you think about the amount of money involved in drilling for water. To drill a hole just as a test costs a farmer around $15,000 (a diviner may only charge $500 an hour), and a finished well easily fetches six figures; that’s before any other expenses, such as the cost of constructing roads to haul in drilling equipment. While dowsing is often dismissed as pseudoscience, the truth is that even geologists are only making educated guesses, based on topography and flora, when it comes to finding wells. It’s mostly speculation until someone busts out a drill.  

Doing business with witches may seem a little crazy, but working dowsers point to thousands of gallons divined and count some of Napa’s largest wineries as clients. And the wine business there is booming in spite of the drought. The California Department of Agriculture has stated that the 2014 grape crop earned $706 million, an all-time record. With one year’s crush yielding so many barrels of cash, dabbling with the occult may be a perfectly practical expense in the wine business.

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What Is #Dowsing And How Does It Work?

By Helen Leathers

Isn't that where you look for water with a stick?

Yes, dowsing has traditionally been a method of 'divining' or looking for underground sources of water (and often oil). But dowsing isn't just about finding water.

Dowsing is a method of finding answers or objects as indicated by the movement of a device such as dowsing rods, hazel branches or a pendulum.

The dowsing device moves to indicate a positive or negative response. When asking questions it will give yes or no answers. When looking for objects it will indicate that you're getting nearer or further away, or you can combine the two and ask questions to determine where a lost object is.

I'd like to say that it doesn't matter what device you use, but in reality it's a case of finding out what suits you best. In theory any dowsing tool should work for you, but I can't guarantee that. Let me clarify this for you, I've used a pendulum since my early teens and they have always worked really well for me. It actually really doesn't matter what is on the pendulum, glass, crystal, plastic, I've even used a polo mint! However I tried and (dismally) failed at using copper rods. I was very disappointed as I had bought my first pair in Avebury (a village in Wiltshire, U.K, set within an ancient stone circle) while I was away on my Reiki 2 course so I had high hopes for them. A number of people I knew could use them straight away - even the really sceptical people I knew, but they appeared to lose all signs of life in my hands. It was only when my mum got me a set that had plastic sleeves around the handles that I succeeded. This pair of rods were able to move freely in the sleeves which took away a lot of my own scepticism and doubts about whether I was causing them to move or not. I think I needed this element of my own self doubt to be removed, as I am in fact quite cynical about these things and always look for a physical explanation first. I late discovered that I didn't need to worry about how they worked, or that I might be making them move myself - more on that below.

So in my experience pendulums of any sort are easier to master, but that's just me. You may find rods, or a small tree branch works very well for you.

People often say to me, "I bet you're just making that move yourself!" When asked this question, I always say 'Yes, I think I probably am!'. So, how does dowsing work then?

I believe that we are able to unconsciously access vast amounts of information through our intuition or psychic abilities and therefore all information is available to us. Some people refer to this as the collective consciousness, or in some cases 'The Akashic Records'. I think of it as universal knowledge. Some things we know but have forgotten, like where we last saw something that we've lost, for example. This information is in our subconscious, we just need a way to find it. So when we dowse we access this pool of information, answers and wisdom, or our own subconscious. Involuntary micro muscular movements cause the movement of pendulums and other devices to give us a visual indication of the answers to our questions.

However, I also say to people, why don't you try dowsing? Give it a good shot - it won't happen overnight so be patient and practise with it. When you find that it works for you, do you need to know any more? Or can you just accept that it is a brilliant way of accessing your psychic side?

Helen Leathers is a lifelong intuitive, clairvoyant and medium, some would say psychic. Helen prefers the term 'a naturally modern mystic'. Helen teaches, inspires and encourages spiritual growth, personal and psychic development.

Helen draws on her natural and intuitive abilities along with many years of research and personal development to produce books, products and programs to help you, whether you're just a little curious, an absolute beginner or have been involved in spiritual and psychic development for some time. http://www.helenleathers.com

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Properly #Drilling - Insight Into Finding Nicely #H2o

Author: Darnell Humphrey

"Very first we have to see if there is water here", said the guy, whom Jesús launched as Carlos.

Holding a branch of the "Y" in just about every hand, Carlos walked back and forth on the home. Suddenly, the finish of the stick shot down, with his hands following the motion.

"We will dig here", he reported. "There is a superior vein perfect right here."

"Allow me check out it!", I stated. He gave me one particular the branches of the "Y", and as we arrived at the spot, the stick jerked down with awesome pressure.

To make a extensive tale brief, we dug the effectively there, and identified water at eighty meters, which was very good for that semi-arid element of Mexico, the place it only rains in July and August.

Second Nicely

Rapidly-ahead to 2008 in New Brunswick, Canada.

I have just acquired a house which has no drinking water provide. All water there arrives from personal residential drinking water wells.

A single of the effectively drillers that I have contacted has made some quite bad responses about the availability of good water in my portion of the village. He states they have to go so deep that they may well only discover salty water. So negative is it that he refuses to drill there.

Then I listen to about a perfectly driller who makes use of old-fashioned "pounding" equiment, which, my informant says, is a much outstanding way of discovering great veins at lesser depths. He indicates that prior to calling Mr. Mercer, the properly driller, I have a specified Michael come through and "switch" for water.

Michael uses plain dowsing rods that he makes by bending wire coat hangers. Holding a person in just about every hand, straight in entrance of him, he walks back again and forth and seems to be for a vein, then a different crossing the first one. Every time he "hits" water, the rods open to the aspect.

It was attention-grabbing to check out, but even a lot more fun to try it for myself. And I can attest to the truth that the rods opened up when I reached the spot Michael had indicated! Not only that, as I stood there talking to him, one particular of the rods took off and hit me on the arm. And I swear that I had absolutely nothing to do with this.

We marked the most effective spot with bricks and sticks, and when Mr. Mercer drilled there he discovered superior, clear and abundant h2o at a mere 70 ft.

Would he have discovered that vein had he drilled elsewhere? I will never ever know.

What I do know is if I ever have to drill one more perfectly, I'm not taking any possibilities. I'm calling the drinking water diviner.

About Dowsing

If you'd like to learn about the historical past of dowsing, dowsing tools and how to use them, and so forth., there's lots of data obtainable on the Website.

A good location to commence would be the dowsers' associations. There's a person in most countries and they all have websites: in the U.S., it is the American Culture of Dowsers in Canada, the Canadian Society of Dowsers in Britain, the British Society of Dowsers - to identify a very few.

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#Dowsing-Finding Water, Metals and Spiritual Peace

by Larry Isaacson

Dowsing, also known as divining or doodlebugging, is seen by many as a simple superstition whereby adherents claim to be able to find water, precious metals, oil and other unseen substances deep within the earth. They do this by tapping into some unknown force that impels a forked branch they are holding to be drawn in a downward direction over these hidden items, thereby exposing its location and minimizing the amount of digging that has to take place.

The practitioners of dowsing are, of course, its strongest adherents. Many believe, for example, that they can find potable water, determine how deep it is, and how fast it flows. Walking over an area suspected to contain an underground stream, the diviner's rod, often a two pronged branch of a willow or hazel tree, is brought down sometimes with astounding force over an underground stream and whose direction of flow can be mapped by the variations in this force as the dowser moves towards or away from its flow.

Besides tree branches, divining L shaped rods can also be used. These will align themselves with the flow of water in a pipe, or cross over each other if it's an object of some sort. Coat hangers, and rods made of plastic and glass have also been used with some success. Some diviners use pendulums from which is suspended a crystal or a piece of metal. The direction the pendulum moves establishes the location.

Others ask the pendulum a question, and the direction the pendulum moves determines whether the answer to the question is a yes or no. First questions determine whether the left right or up down motions mean yes or no, after which other questions can be asked with the pendulum providing the answers. A pad or cloth with the words "yes" or "no" on it, as well as other words drawn within a circle simplify the reading of the pendulum's answers.

The paranormal claims and unalloyed certitude of dowsers has been questioned and tested on many occasions. Some believe that the ideomotor effect is the true explanation for the otherwise inexplicable movements of dowsing rods. This is an involuntary movement caused by a thought process or an idea rather than a sensory stimulation, in which the subconscious knowledge or perception of the dowser is the underlying source of influence.

It appears that under scientific conditions, the success of dowsers to find hidden pipes with running water is no better than chance. The James Randi Educational Foundation, an organization dedicating to uncovering charlatans and protecting individuals from pseudoscientific claims, offers a million dollar prize to "anyone who can demonstrate a paranormal ability under fair conditions that prevent fraud or error." This prize explicitly includes dowsers, and has yet to be claimed.

Notwithstanding, dowsers continue to ply their trade, and have extended it to medical diagnosis and treatment, finding dead bodies and missing persons, and buried objects of all sorts. Dowsers of a more spiritual bent feel it brings them closer to God, and some have compared its emanations to those of the Tree of Life in the Kabbalah. To its most devoted practitioners, it remains a powerful and sustaining vehicle that is nurturing and self-sustaining, and is unlikely to be debunked by skeptics of any sort.

Larry Isaacson is Vice President of Haskell New York Inc., a company which sells Discount Office Supplies and Storage Cabinets online at OfficeSalesUSA.com.