Dowsing
What is it and what can we do with it?
By Adrian Incledon-Webber
WHEN YOU ASK MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHAT DOWSERS DO
most will answer “They fi nd water don’t they”!
Well yes we do. However the modern dowser armed
with L rods, Y rods, pendulum, aura meter and a multitude of other instruments looks for and fi nds considerably more than just water.
The Witchcraft Act was not abolished until 1952 and I
believe that earlier dowsers, not wanting to face the ire of the church, hid behind ‘fi nding water’ to become a very necessary part of the community. We all need water to live and therefore the local church turned a blind eye to the water dowser who in turn helped the people in so many more ways.
I believe that early dowsers and alchemists have much in
common, with pendulums and rods being used to fi nd herbs, medicinal plants and cures for all types of illnesses from the earliest of days. How did our forefathers know which was a healing plant and more importantly, which was deadly poisonous. I doubt that they ate the plant and then waited to see what happened; we would run out of shamans and healers very quickly that way! It is far simpler to hold a pendulum in two fi ngers and start asking questions.
When dowsing started is lost in the mist of time. We
are talking before Christ was born and this intuitive art has continued to this day. Of course people are sceptical; they have every right to be and that scepticism should include everything in life that they haven’t tried or seen before. To stagger blindly along not doubting or questioning anything, whether about something new or whether revisiting old issues is madness, as is to completely discount or rubbish something that you haven’t even tried. The look on someone’s face when the rods start to move over an energy line is priceless, showing complete and utter amazement! The sceptic turns believer.
Of course people say “You moved the rods” and I would
totally agree with them! I am not telekinetic, although we all have the ability to be, so a muscle movement triggered by an electrical impulse from the brain is involved in the process. Where the original ‘thought’ comes from telling the brain what to do is the diffi cult question to answer! Anyone using rods and pendulums etc will have their own thoughts on this subject. Mine, for what it is worth, involves tapping into a ‘Universal Consciousness’, using the dowsing rods, our body and brain as antenna to harness these natural energies, in turn converting them to thought and then movement. However I might be completely wrong!
As a child I would visit ancient monuments such as
Stonehenge and Avebury and marvel at not only the enormity of the task involved in erecting these stones but also the dedication of the people who built them. I was always desperate to know more, why were they built, who was the original architect (was it one person or a group who decided to build such an amazing edifi ce)? Those people had such amazing insight and to see the stones still standing - wow what a legacy our forbears left us!
These thoughts would be overwhelming leaving me feeling
totally inadequate. Would I be able to discover anything more, apart from reading books, about these unique and spiritual places? Then dowsing came into my life again, in a big way!
I had started when I was seven years old, by mistake. I
ordered a metal detector from a children’s comic that turned out to be a pair of dowsing rods! The advert didn’t lie however as they can be used to fi nd metal as well as water, energy lines, archaeological artefacts, underground pipes, to navigate, and to fi nd pubs (although that didn’t come until later on in my life) etc. The uses are many and so varied. It wasn’t until reaching a more mature age that I could really appreciate what you could do with a pair of dowsing rods or pendulum. (Some would disagree with me using the word ‘mature’ but I
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