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DOWSING AND DIVINING
Dowsing, or divining, as it is often known, is an art that has probably been with us for thousands of years, with depictions of dowsers at work certainly being found in mediaeval woodcuttings, though there are suggestions that some of the images found in Egyptian pyramid art and cave art may show dowsers at work! There has also been speculation that legends of Moses and various saints striking rocks or the ground resulting in water springing forth may well refer to divining skills.
What is certain is that water is key to life, and the ability to locate pure water sources was as crucial to survival for early man as it is for us; dowsing is a tool that allows us to achieve this, and indeed, water divining or dowsing is still one of the best-known and most widespread applications of the skill. (The need for water was so urgent that water divining, or water witching, as it was often known, was the main dowsing application to survive the centuries of persecution of wise women and men, healers, and others who seemed to have access to information that the authorities considered dangerous.)
It is important to understand that dowsing is not a "psychic gift"; it is an ability or sense that most, if not all humans possess, but which the majority of people have forgotten or discarded through lack of usage. Click here if you'd like to have a go at dowsing yourself! Learn to Dowse
Uses of Dowsing and Divining
Dowsing is a tool that has numerous applications, from helping you to choose the correct range of vitamins for your body's needs to identifying ripe fruit; from finding lost objects to finding oil and mineral deposits. As previously mentioned, a water diviner can dowse to find water or, then again, you may find your complimentary therapist using it to find the right essences, essential oils, etc for your treatment, as well as using dowsing as a tool for diagnosis. Would you believe that armies have used it for clearing minefields! (Indeed, the Founding Fathers of The British Society of Dowsers (founded in 1933) were chiefly military officers.)
Some of those interested in archaeology have established the outline of long-ruined buildings, or discovered missing features, by dowsing. In the field of geomancy, many of us use dowsing in a variety of ways; a geomancer may dowse for the ideal location to lay out a new sacred space, or to map the energetic patterns at a sacred site, or, indeed, to find the best site for a new home or business; most geomancers will track geopathic stress lines and stress zones, underground water veins, energy leys, earth grids and myriad other energies by dowsing. Personnel working on behalf of the utilities' companies may dowse to track pipe work or wiring. Dowsing gardeners may determine if a seed is "good", or aim to maximise performance by establishing the best way round to plant a bulb or plant.
Unbeknownst to most of the world, dowsers and diviners undertake the majority of these tasks all over the world on a daily basis. How many dowsers, if any, could be equally successful at all of these different tasks is debatable; as with most jobs or interests, we all have our own specialisations, though water diviners, for instance, will frequently also work with oil and / or mining companies to locate viable deposits, so there certainly is some degree of overlap.
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