Dowsing 1

Left Brain/Right Brain We have been trained very well to use our rational mind, our left brain. Most of us have spent much of the first two decades of our life sitting in rows, being quiet, paying attention and coming up with the answer that the teacher thought was correct. (I have a number of memories from my "academically-checkered" school career where the teacher told me that the answer I gave was wrong, when in later life, I realized that I was correct and the teacher was wrong - but this is beside the point here.) We learned how to quickly give the answer to such questions as: "What is the sum of nine and six?" I trust that you came up with "fifteen" rather quickly. You have trained your left brain, your rational analytical brain very - or at least reasonably - well. But what about: "Is this person telling the truth?" or "Where is the nearest source of water to this house that is good and potable, less than twenty feet down, over five gallons a minute, and runs year 'round?" In both cases, your rational skills will be of little or no use, You have to tap in to the other half of your brain - your right hemisphere, where intuitive, creative and spiritual awareness come from. Just as you have trained your left brain to give you simple mathematical sums, dowsing is an excellent tool to get intuitive responses on demand. But the important point here is that in dowsing you have to ask the right question (a left brain function) to get the best answer (a right brain function). For example with the last question above, if you only asked the first part of the question, "Where is the nearest source of water to this house?", your dowsing rod would show you where the nearest source of water to the house is, but it may be nine-hundred feet down, yield a thimble full of water an hour, taste like sulphur and runs dry for three months every summer! Our unconscious takes our questions VERY literally. In dowsing, you gotta' ask the right question to get the right answer! You must do BOTH good left brain analytical preparation of the question AND solid right brain intuitive work.

Dowsing blind This unattached and open minded state can be hard to achieve if the question is highly emotionally charged or bears great consequence, particularly for oneself or a loved one. In these circumstances, one can get a little more distance by writing the question(s) down on a piece of paper, and several other questions to which the answers are already known (is today Saturday ? - does the Thames run through London ?) on similar pieces of paper. Turn all the pieces face down and shuffle them around until you can no longer tell which is which, and then dowse each piece one by one - "what is the answer to the question on this piece of paper?" Not only does this allow you to dowse with less investment in the outcome, but it also allows you to check your accuracy and can help you to assess how much weight to place on the information your dowsing reveals

Checking and building confidence Getting another dowser to check your answers can be tremendously valuable, and if you find that your friend gets a different answer to yours, look carefully to see whether the difference is truly in the dowsing response or if it is actually related to a difference in the questions asked or the way that you are each interpreting the words and meaning of the question. You can check your accuracy by dowsing questions that you will shortly know the answer to - when making a phone call for example you can first dowse to see if the person that you are calling is at home / in their office - and if they are whether their answer machine is switched on... you'll get instant feedback but again look to see if inaccuracies are due to an ambiguous question... If you find that your dowsing is misleading you, stop and try again later when you are again feeling alert and clear. Remember that genuine need is the best key to unlock your dowsing faculties, and this in itself will help to direct your dowsing and indeed the alignment of your energy generally in relation to the world. I like to say "thank you" to the All Source when I'm finished a dowsing inquiry - it helps to keep ones' energy aligned with Grace and also fosters a sense of reverence and respect for this innate and wonderful gift that we all share. Good Luck and Good Dowsing!

Earth Energies

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An apparently natural circle of cedars over a dome of water. Our re-awareness of the energies of the Earth has re-emerged slowly in the twentieth century. In the 1920s German dowsers found 'Krebs' Houses - places where people got more cancer than their neighbours. Dowsers found underground veins of water Crossing under these houses and not under their neighbours. Also, in the 1920s Alfred Watkins of Herefordshire, England, found that ancient holy sites lined up in straight lines. He called these 'leys' and determined that people from the Neolithic, through the Bronze and Iron Ages, well into the Christian era in Britain, located their holy sites on straight alignments with other holy sites. Many times these holy sites derived from extremely different ages, millennia apart. In the 30s, Reginald Allendar Smith, just-retired Keeper of the British and Egyptian Collections at the British Museum, wrote in the pages of the British Society of Dowsers' Journal that he found these same veins under stone rings and other Neolithic sacred sites. Terry Ross, past president of the American Society of Dowsers (ASD) brought the notion of dowsable leys to the United States in the late 1960s.

Sig's Hypothesis Number One Before I begin to tell you how I see the Earth Energies, I must tell you of an something that I have been working on for over fifteen years now. I call it "Sig's Hypothesis Number One." (I must admit that I don't have Hypotheses Two or Three, but that is what I started to call it years ago, so I have stuck with it.) It is: "Even if they were trained by the same teacher, when dowsing for intangible targets (like the Earth Energies), it is quite probable that no two dowsers will ever find exactly the same thing." There are several ways of seeing this reality. Between one-thousand BCE and onethousand CE, there were a number of men (sorry, women) who saw God, Their names were Confucius, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Krishna, Zoraster, Jesus and Mohammed. There is no doubt in my mind that each of them saw their Maker, the One - yet they each came back and told different stories. Now, let's take just one of them - Jesus. All Christians see their

way to God through Jesus, yet there are Greek Orthodox, Anglicans, Catholics, Jehovah's WItnesses, Evangelicals, Gnostics, Fundamentalists, Methodists - the list goes on and on. Each denomination has chosen to get to God through Jesus, but in a slightly different way. If you want to be a Methodist, you have to agree to see it how John Wesley did - you stand here, kneel at this point, etc., etc. Each Christian sees their way to God through Jesus slightly differently. It's like the three blind men "looking" at the elephant. One felt the trunk and said it was like a hose. Another felt the ear, and said it was like a piece of canvas, while the third felt the leg and said it was like a tree trunk. What you see depends upon where you stand, your sacred point of view - as a wonderful teach of mine, Grandmother Twylah Nitsch, Wolf Clan Mother of the Seneca told me. So we all see the Spiritual differently. It depends upon what your teacher taught you to see, your level of consciousness, what you are ready to see, and probably a number of other factors as well. What does this mean in terms of dowsing the Earth Energies? We're all going to find something different, and that is not only ok, that's the way it is. This is anathema to scientists, but it is reality for dowsers. Dowsing is not a tool of science. Another word for it is "divining." It is a spiritual tool, a way to "see" the other side. So how can you find it to be a useful tool when dowsing intangible targets like these Earth Energies if no one else finds what you find? I woould suggest that you listen to as many dowsers as you can who have been working with these energies, and then, find what YOU find. Look for repeating patterns at sacred sites. This will be your clue that you are on the right track. Listen to others, then decide for yourself.

How This Blind Man "Sees" the Earth Energy Elephant These are the two major earth energetic targets that I would encourage you to look for: primary veins and domes of underground water, and energy leys - a six to eight foot wide beam of yang energy that sometimes accompany leys, alignments of holy sites. I have chosen to focus on these two energies because they are the closest to the physical. While I would not recommend drilling for water in the centre of a sacred site, if you apprentice yourself to a good water dowser, you can get to gnow the feel of this liquid gold. Also, as many times (but not always) energy leys run concurrently with Alfred Watkins' leys (alignment of holy sites), again, when you find a ley, you can dowse to see if there is an accompanying energy ley. (Remember, not all leys have energy leys - it sounds like o contradiction, but I have found it to be true.) So, having said that, this is how this blind man sees the Earth Energies:

Underground Primary Water Now that you can get a dowsing response, it is important to be able to find underground veins of primary water. The best thing to do is to link up with a dowser. You can do this through the American Society of Dowsers or a dowsing organization in the country where you live. You can walk by streams, look for places where water seeps in and then trace that vein away from the stream. The best is to apprentice yourself to a good water dowser for a while. The ability to find water is perhaps the most important skill any dowser can have, not only for this purpose, but for health reasons, not to mention the critical shortage of good drinking water our planet is suffering with right now. Many animals are attracted to water. Usually big ant-hills are located over Crossings of veins of water. Walk around the ant-hill and look for the veins with your L-rods. In New England these veins are usually no more than six inches wide - usually less. The cedar trees in the picture above, growing in a circle, show a dome underneath. A dome is an upflow of primary water (which comes up from the bowels of the Earth carrying the water which then feeds the veins).

When veins of underground water cross each other (one above the other), they create a spiraling energy. Sometimes, if planted on top of such a place, a tree picks up that cork-screwing energy. You can see it clearly here, and you will find several veins of water Crossing under this tree. Dowse it yourself. On his website, Dragonlines, Patrick MacManaway has an excellent discussion of geopathic stress - something that can come, from among other things, spending a lot of time over these veins of undergroud primary water.