Large amounts of cash are to be made from this lost method of finding water, maybe someone could rekindle this fine art and share their findings for the sake of the future of mankind?
There's nothing mystical about divining and it isn't necessary to wander about a field like a loony. I know half a dozen people that practice divining and it is really all down to the 'practitioner's' basic knowledge and the technique used. In fact, divining can be used to establish almost anything, from water, drains, pipes (hidden overhead or underground) to a person's birthday. When I first had proper insight into seeing someone do it, I was working in association a housing developer in the late 80's on a military base. Some houses which had been built 5 years or so previously had started to develop large cracks. The 'practitioner' was called in after all attempts by various structural engineers to diagnose had drawn a blank. Before going to the site the specialist asked for a copy of the site survey, laid it out on a drawing board. He then bent a large paper clip into an 'L' shape and holding it loosely, pointing forward, worked his way over the drawing. I watched as the clip every so often turned from the forward position to a different angle. He marked the points and direction on the drawing each time. When finished after only marking about six points, it was evident a straight line could be drawn across all the pints in the direction the clip had turned. He then announced there was a large underground stream about 3.0metres down from the surface. Superimposing the damaged house positions on the survey showed they all coincided with the straight line. On site, he marked a central point of the line and told the excavator driver to dig......Sho' nuff, he hit the stream which was running full bore and eroding the sandy gravel subsoil beneath the houses. He then marked the extreme ends of the straight line at the site boundaries and got those positions excavated....Once again the digger hit the stream. The stream was eventually diverted via large pipework and the houses demolished or repaired. The practitioner was used many times after that on new sites and each time he was correct with his findings. It is all about asking 'specific questions' in your mind..........Apparently most people can do it if they follow the same method.
I had a 'dabble' with divining for water a long time ago. I can't remember whether or not I was with someone who was a practitioner of divining, but I do remember using a Y shaped stick held gently at either end of the Y and wandering around a field. I was very surprised when the stick suddenly moved very strongly in my hands. The force of the movement was unmistakeable. I also vaguely recall having another go at it some years later,this time using an L shaped wire rod held in bearings made from the outside of a Biro, with the same effect. I think I shall have another go at it. As Al said, I believe it's about tapping into our subconscious mind, asking the question "Where is water?" or whatever one is looking for.
Sounds like a better option from "being pulled this way and that" that makes you look quite hideous and ending up on your face and being left exhausted and white faced. Lol.:Wideyed:
Apparently it's all about how the specific questions are asked.......and you don't necessarily have to be in the same location as the thing you want to find. EG: "Is there a drain under No.28 Fred Bloggs Road?" or, "Is there a service pipe under No.28 Fred Bloggs Road?" then, "Is there a gas pipe under No.28 Fred Bloggs Road?" And...."Is the gas pipe between 0.5m and 1.0m below No.28 Fred Bloggs Road?" The movement of the L shape wire is purely an affirmative answer to the questions and doesn't necessarliy show direction. To get the direction, it then needs to be done on site EG: "Is there a drain underground below me?" and then move to another point and ask the same question.......two affirmative answers gives the direction.
while i often secretly hope all this stuff is real,im afraid in the case of dowsing im very much a sceptic. if it was a proven skill then by now it would have become mainstream,its been trumpeted for 100's of years and yet remained purely the focus of minority support,half of which seem intent on selling divining rods :Hilarious:. A quick two minute google search has also pretty much shown that a lot of it is "personal" beliefs and rumours and the that theres virtually zero proffesional accounts in favor.:Sorry: i often believe lots of other worldly theories and wonders etc but the main collection of info that covers my thoughts on all this is here: dowsing (a.k.a. water witching) - The Skeptic's Dictionary - Skepdic.com and until i need to search for water ,is where itll stay.
These anecdotes are equivalent to saying "I prayed for X to happen, and X did happen, therefore that proves prayers actually work". Or "I was told snake oil would cure my flu, I took snake oil, I got better, therefore that proves snake oil actually works as a cure". There is a vast lacuna between the events as reported (e.g. water actually being found) and that amounting to 'proof' that divining works. Before evaluating these kinds of claims, first it is essential to have some understanding of what constitutes a scientific proof.
Yes this really works, we use welding rods as mentioned earlier as divining rods to find drains on our farmland, we've also used them to find underground electric cables (although the digger driver still manages to dig through them). Not sure how it works but it's very accurate. Don't know what all the prancing about is for in the film other than providing entertainment value.
About 25 years ago I knew a farmer who employed two diviners to locate and dig a well for him to get him off mains water. Nothing remotely hippy about them. They were two old boys, flat caps and roll-ups, who lived locally, had been making a living divining and digging wells for years and advertised in the local press. It was hilly country near Axminster in Devon. They used wires and settled on a spot right on top of a hill which seemed to me a strange place to sink a well. They dug it by hand, with buckets and a pulley dropping in concrete rings as they went and undermining them to make them drop. Both of them had a finger missing. They had predicted water within 25 feet. When it didn't materialise the farmer was chafing at the bit, but they were adamant they were in the right place and they kept going. I'd never seen anything like it before or since, but they did find the water at 40 feet and as far as I know that well is still in use.
I seen this used. The bloke could tell you size of a pipe, I think he seen them being laid years ago. You need to start finding your own water. The chemicals that are added is doing you no good at all.
a lot of this stuff goes on in cornwall doesn't it. bit mad down there. must be something in the water.
A mate of mine from Cambridge says he uses dowsing on his farm to find water. He's Scottish and about as down to earth as you can get. Another friend wrote a book about lay lines (I think that's the translation) and came round to my flat with his rods. The idea being to check that your bed is positioned in the right place - or at least not the wrong place. I had a go myself with them. To my surprise they did cross at one point in the room and if you kept walking, they uncrossed again. If you walked another diagonal, they still crossed when you got to the same spot. What does this mean? I have no real idea except that the rods are clearly just a conduit for showing some force or other that our bodies experience all the time but which we are not aware of. Migrating salmon return to their birthplace after years in the ocean thousands of miles away. Penguins ditto. How do you think they are navigating? There's a lot of hocus pocus attached to devining but I suspect most people could do it but very few ever try. Not sure how it works with maps though - if it does. Clearly the same mechanism as finding missing people with a pendulum. The world is a very bizarre place. There are things at the heart of quantum mechanics which make no sense but they are verifiable scientifically. And quantum mechanics are the blocks upon which everything in the universe are built.
Key words. Verifiable scientifically. No matter how weird and strange QM is. Its somehow verifiable. Walking around with a couple of sticks finding water in a land surrounded by it and with aquifers all over isnt. Kid yourselves all you want. I'll just sit back and laugh at you. :Shamefullyembarrased:
must be shit seeing every thing in black and white, not trying to start something here. . but a bit of mystery is no bad thing.
