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Dowsing

by Edward Fawcett

Dowsing is not a nonsense as so many people seem to think, not at any rate the sort that field dowsers practice, which is a matter of reacting to anomalies in the magnetic or electro magnetic or other fields through which we all pass. This is the sort of dowsing used in the detection of underground water, buried masonry, metal pipes and Roman seals.

Another set of dowsers go in for dowsing from maps, which some may say is basically the same process though the reasoning is obscure. Nevertheless there are overlaps.

Dowsing has been used to find lost objects, even people, so when my brother and sister in law were describing the disappearance in their house of a friend’s treasured camera I thought why not have a go. The whole house had been searched several times and not a trace. My procedure was to go from room to room holding my forked dowsing stick in front of me and ask ‘Is the camera in this room?’ In four rooms there was no response but when the question was put in the sitting room the stick sprang upward. I then revolved with the stick in front of me saying ‘Show me the position of the camera.’ Again the stick shot up pointing towards an armchair. My wife stepped forward and pulled the camera from under the chair. I have no idea how this works but it did.

My first experience of long distance dowsing was when I and a friend were trying to find two crop circles formed the night before. The farmer’s instructions were “Go through this gate at the end of this lane and you will see them!” We couldn’t.

I revolved; stick at the ready, asking where they were. Up it went and on following its direction we found the circles behind a rise in the ground. There is so little connection between this and field dowsing that there ought to be called by different names, perhaps dowsing and divining.

To return to field dowsing. It is now known that the human body contains a network of sensors, probably concentrations of haematite. As are to be found behind the eyes of migratory birds. The sensors are placed near the long muscles of the body in the arms and legs and at the base of the neck and back. These sensors pickup differences in the magnetic fields through which the body passes, and inform that part of the brain that deals with automatic functions such as heart beat, breathing etc. The brain in turn passes a signal to the muscles to expand or contract. This causes a slight adjustment to the poise of the body, needed to maintain one’s balance when passing through change in the magnetic field. This adjustment is part of the balance system of the body, and is common to all of us. [ Click here to go to page 2 ]

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