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DOWSING - GETTING
STARTED
There are a number of different types of dowsing
tools, as well as a variety of versions of device-less dowsing.
Some people will be able to dowse without tools from the
very beginning. For others, a tool will help to magnify
the dowsing reaction, or even present the brain with something
to keep it busy, and may thus be a valuable and necessary
part of the process. The most common dowsing tools in use
in the English-speaking world, at least, are the pendulum,
L-rods, Y-rods, bobber and aurameter. Please choose to start
with whichever one feels best to you, or that you can most
easily make or acquire. As a guide, you might like to know
that most people start with either a pendulum or L-rods.
Therefore, I have included instructions on how to make rudimentary,
but perfectly serviceable versions of each of these tools,
on the relevant tool’s page.
In Ireland and the rest of the British
Isles, the y-rod was the tool that most dowsers traditionally
used to find water. Many of those who would have used this
tool would have told you that only the wood of a particular
tree would do, be it hazel, ash, apple etc; you get the
idea, everyone had his or own special, fail-proof way of
doing it. The point is that each of these diviners was programming
him or herself to only work with a very specific tool to
find a very specific product, in this instance, water. The
beneficial side effect of this was that dowsing became automatic
- they didn’t have to think what they were doing; they had
pre-programmed themselves to find water, and that’s exactly
what they did.
If you choose to believe that dowsing
will only work if you use a rod from a rowan tree growing
beside a northerly- flowing stream that has been cut on
the second Tuesday of May, then that is your choice. However,
I would suggest to you that you might consider accepting
that we can dowse perfectly well using any material or,
indeed, any tool that we have to hand. Most modern y rods
are two simple strips of plastic, held together with a sheath
at one end. Some of the best dowsers in the business use
such specialised equipment as a stone with a hole in it
dangling from a piece of kitchen string, a nut (of the nut
and bolt variety) on a piece of brightly coloured wool use
(to facilitate being easily found if dropped, rather than
for any innate magical or scientific properties), or a branch
with a string and weight on the end (rather as one might
imagine Tom Sawyer’s fishing pole). The tool is not important.
“How can that be?”, you ask. Well, there
is a very simple answer to this, but it is one that some
people find difficult to accept – the answers come from
your own intuition, not from the pendulum, rods or aurameter;
the tool simply magnifies the infinitesimal fluttering reactions
of your own nervous and electrical systems. (To say that
the answers come from your intuition is somewhat of an over-simplification
but dowsers have yet to agree where exactly we access the
data; what is clear, however, is that it is not the tool
that is accessing the information).
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