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Is there anything behind the ancient art of dowsing or water divining?
Laurence Gale reports
water divining - prompted me to investigate the subject further. As you might expect, members’ views ranged from “divine intervention” to “a complete load of b......”. Well, you get the idea! My first experience of dowsing came many years ago when a contractor came to the golf course I was working on to undertake some drainage work. He confidently pulled out a set of divining rods and proceeded to map a number of drainage runs. I also remember a time when, as an apprentice gardener, we were planting trees in Kings Heath Park, Birmingham, when one of the lecturers came out with a set of divining rods to indicate where a water pipe was, so we did not dig it up or plant a tree on it! Over the years I have watched
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many of our industry colleagues use divining, or dowsing, rods to locate drains, ditches, water sources and electricity cables. One such colleague is Berwyn
recent message board thread on the ancient practice of dowsing - often referred to as
approved Tutors.
www.britishdowsers.org The definition of dowsing is “to search, with the aid of simple hand held tools or instruments, for that which is otherwise hidden from view or knowledge”. It can be applied to searches for a great number of artefacts and entities. It is most commonly known in association with searching for underground water. What is less readily known is
that dowsing can be also used for searching for other underground features such as archaeological remains, cavities and tunnels, oil, veins of mineral ore, underground building services, missing items and, occasionally, missing persons. Although no thorough scientific
Evans from ALS. I met up with him at Shifnal Town Football Club where he was using a set of rods to map out some defunct drains. Here, he was attempting to find out exactly where the drains were, at what depth, and where they had stopped working. Berwyn was introduced to
dowsing over twenty years ago when a friend helped him locate some drains in his garden. He was so impressed he began practising and, over the years, has become very experienced in interpreting the signs and movements of his divining rods. He can now define drains, power cables, water pipes, French drains and old foundations. The British Society of Dowsers represent anyone who practices the art of dowsing and supports its Code of Ethics. The Society also maintains a Register of Professional Dowsers and
explanation for dowsing has yet been found, it is frequently acknowledged that there is some correlation between the dowsing reaction and changes in magnetic flux when dowsing on site. We have to rely on illustrations and the written word for historical evidence of dowsing. The mosaic floor in the ancient synagogue at Bet Alfa in Israel’s Jezreel Valley appears to be the earliest evidence, whilst many references to dowsing occur during the seventeenth century, including reports of one Jacques Aymar who, starting as a successful water dowser found, in the 1690s, that he could also usefully employ his gift in searching for missing persons.
eighteenth century it is clear that enquirers into the modus operandi of dowsing were divided into two camps; those who believed that the dowsing reaction was the result of a physical influence, against those who lent support to the idea of it arising from a mental cause. This controversy remains with us today and it is possible that both may be correct. During the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries dowsing for By the beginning of the Tel: 01449 673783
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