How Can I Tell If I Am A Dowser?
Try one of the basic devices
described below. Hold it in the search
position and walk forward, keeping the mind
focused on your potential target, i.e. underground
flowing water. If you feel you have covered
too much ground, or passed over a known stream
without result, try one of the other devices.
Remember that with a little practice and some
patience nearly everyone can achieve a dowsing
reaction. As will all human skills, aptitude
will vary. We believe, however, that dowsing
is a basic ability and that familiarization with
it is a simple matter for old and young alike.
Which Device Shall I Start With?
L-Rods
(angle rod, swing rod, pointing tool)
Shape: With or
without a sleeve handle. The top wire can be
4 inches to over 2 feet long. The usual
length is around 14 to 16 inches.
Material: Usually wire. A metal
coat hanger is a good source. Welding rod is
also a very popular material. You can use
just about anything you can bend into the L shape.
How to Use: Hold loosely in your hand
with the top wire tilted slightly downward.
When one L-rod is used alone, it acts as a pointer
or a swing rod. It can be requested to point
towards a target or direction, or to swing
sideways when encountering a specified energy
field. (i.e. an aura or noxious zone.
When using two L-rods, they are normally
programmed to cross for over target or "yes" or
spread for "no".
Advantages: Easy to make. Easy to
use. Very versatile and popular. Works
well when walking over rough ground. They
are generally not affected by mild winds.
Disadvantage: Not as easy to carry or
conceal as a pendulum. Although the small
4-6 inch ones can be put in your shirt pocket or
purse.
Pendulum
(usually favored by beginners)
Shape: Can be
anything that you can hang on a string or chain.
They can be any size, even as small as a
paper-clip on a thread. The chain or string
is usually about 3 to 4 inches long.
Material: Anything you can find.
Go by your feelings.
How to Use: Hold down as shown in
drawing. The usual response is for swinging
straight forward for "yes", sideways for "no" and
at an angle for ready for question. Feel
free to instruct (direct, program) your dowsing
system to respond any way you like.
Advantages: Easy to make. Easy to
use. Very popular. Small enough to go
into your pocket or purse. Quick response.
Excellent tool for dowsing charts or maps.
Disadvantage: Some problem in the
wind or when walking. This problem can be
overcome by requesting the pendulum to spin in a
clockwise or counterclockwise direction to
indicate "yes or no".
Y-Rod
(forked stick, talking stick)
Shape: Traditionally
it is a forked stick looking like the letter Y.
They can be any size, usually around 12 to 24
inches in length.
Material: Can be wood, metal or
plastic. Plastic being very common for many
dowsers, probably because of its ease of storage.
How to Use: Hold with pointed end
down. Thumbs will be up and palms towards
center. Hold tight and spread Y-rod outward
while rotating your wrist outward. Your
thumbs will now be pointed outward and your palms
up. The Y-rod will flip up into a delicate
balance. Pointing upward at an angle of
around 45 degrees is usually used for the ready
position. Swinging down from the ready
position to point at a water vein or target.
This can also be used for the "yes" response.
Swinging up from the ready position is usually
used for the "no" response.
Advantages: Acts quickly, can point
directly towards a water vein or target.
Works well while walking over rough ground.
Reliable in fairly strong winds.
Disadvantage: Not as versatile as
other dowsing tools. It only has an up and
down motion. You will need to turn your body
to find direction.
Bobber
(wand, spring rod, divining rod)
Shape: Any flexible
rod, branch or wire. Can be most any length
from one foot to over three feet. They
sometimes have a coiled wire and a weighted tip.
Material: Anything that is flexible.
How to Use: Hold it down at around 45
degrees. You can program it to simply mimic
a pendulum, by bobbing up and down for "yes" or
sideways for "no", 45 degrees for ready for
question. Or you may simply request what you
want different bobber responses; to represent;
like swing back and forth towards a requested
target and to spin when over target.
Advantages: Can replace a pendulum for
field work. Most dowsers find it easy to
use.
Disadvantage: Won't usually fit in
your pocket or purse.
Dowsing For Water ...
To start, choose a dowsing tool
that seems most comfortable for you to use.
The dowser is usually seeking flowing,
underground, potable water suitable for drilling
and pumping.
To begin, assume the search
position. Start walking across the area of
interest. Mentally ask the dowsing tool to
indicate when you cross a vein of potable and
palatable water which, for example, is less than
300 feet deep and would deliver currently, year
round, five gallons per minute from a well to the
surface. Therefore, you have limited your
search to exactly what you are searching for;
excluding other targets of all kinds.
You should indicate to your
dowsing tool that you wish it to indicate when you
are over the center of greatest flow and a
suitable location for developing a well. To
determine approximately the depth in feet, with
your dowsing tool in the ready position, ask if it
is greater than, for example, 10 feet. If
the answer is yes, then ask about 20 feet, etc.
Using the same system, ask about
the gallons per minute recoverable to the surface;
for example, is it greater than one gallon per
minute, two gallons, etc. This method may be
used to determine other qualities or aspects; for
example, pH, temperature, etc.
How Much Further Can Dowsing Take Me?
Dowsing will take you as far as
your sensitivity allows. As soon as you
develop confidence in the dowsing reaction, you
automatically begin to develop selectivity.
If you can pass over metal pipes, plastic pipes
and electric lines to find a flowing underground
vein of water, by inference you can also eliminate
the water from your search to find one of the
others. With practice and patience other
targets, both tangible and intangible, can be
dowsed. Your information could be greatly
enhanced by attending chapter meetings or
conferences.
What is "Map" Dowsing?
Map or remote dowsing is simply an
extension of what has already been discussed.
Using a map or simple sketch of the terrain and/or
individual property, whether this is a house or
ranch of many acres, it can be dowsed by one
proficient in this method. Map dowsing is
often performed using a pendulum and a ruler or
any straight edge that you can slide across the
map or drawing. With a pendulum in the ready
mode, ask the pendulum to indicate with a yes when
the straight edge reaches the target and you can
then draw a line. Then place the straight
edge at the top and move it downward until the
pendulum indicates, that you are at the target
where you can again draw a line. Where these
lines cross, it will indicate a target position.
This map dowsing system can be utilized for well
site locations, water veins, or any other object
of search.
An interesting aspect of your map
dowsing is that distance is not a factor.
The map or drawing can represent property close by
or n a country half way around the world.
Many dowsers use the map dowsing
technique before they go out looking for water.
We are not sure how it works, but it is usually
verifiable in the field.
What Makes Dowsing Work?
There have been many attempts to
explain dowsing over the course of history.
Various books have contained theories and
attempted explanations, but the fact is that the
pages of science are incomplete on this matter,
and we are dependent still on judgment by result.
The facts, as we know them, have been preserved in
our quarterly Journal, to which we invite all to
communicate their experiences to further our
understanding. The Society maintains an open
forum to this end, with freedom of expression as a
rule. We know the results, we sense the
potential and we hope for understanding. In
the mean time the Society holds no corporate views
on the nature of dowsing and does not favor one
technique or tool over another.
