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Treacodactyl Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 25795 Location: Jumping on the bandwagon of opportunism
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cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 32429
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Nick
Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 34535 Location: Hereford
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Foghorn
Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 49 Location: Barcombe, E Sussex
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Bugs
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 10744
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Nick
Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 34535 Location: Hereford
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46223 Location: yes
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Beckyess
Joined: 08 Jan 2006 Posts: 1076 Location: Worcestershire
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cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 32429
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Posted: Wed Apr 19, 06 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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Foghorn wrote: |
Cab, you appear to have an unhealthy (for a downsizer) preoccupation with that large wedge of Randi notes, but thanks for your offer nonetheless.
Actually, I'm not bothered about trying to prove that it works - I'd just like to find some dowsing contacts so I can continue my own personal quest.
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Shame. It isn't an unhealthy obsession at all, but if there's a way that any one of our members here could win a million US dollars simply doing something they believe they can do (translates into less sterling, of course, but is still worth having) then I'd offer to lend a helping hand. I should think that if anyone here were to try such a thing, were they to ask for help they'd get a whole load of offers.
It strikes me that if it did work, one of the dowsers who has tried would have claimed the money by now. And if it does work, then I'd rather it was 'one of ours' that proves it. |
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sally_in_wales Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 06 Mar 2005 Posts: 20809 Location: sunny wales
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jema Downsizer Moderator
Joined: 28 Oct 2004 Posts: 28235 Location: escaped from Swindon
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cab
Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 32429
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 46223 Location: yes
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Foghorn
Joined: 23 Nov 2004 Posts: 49 Location: Barcombe, E Sussex
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Bovey Belle
Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 77
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Posted: Thu Apr 20, 06 5:06 am Post subject: |
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I used to belong to the local dowsing group. Note "used to" (they have since folded up due partly to disagreements between the primadonnas on the committee.) Well - mixed experience - some genuine people and the sort of oddballs that anything deemed remotely "alternative" seems to attract.
IMHO it is all down to the individual - you don't actually need to use dowsing rods to "pick up" on what you are searching for, be it water or a lost ring - the rods just physically manifest what your body is picking up on an intuitive level. I think anyone can do it, but some people are more tuned in and open than others. See it on a level with walking into a room where there's just been an argument, and picking up on the atmosphere. There's nothing physically present there - but you can sense it. Some people are very good at divining for water - there's a chap locally who's a water diviner and who drives a very large and expensive 4x4 and travels round and tells farmers where to sink a borehole to find water - I don't think he has many failures, but I think that in his case it is down to a good eye for the landscape and years of personal experience.
Having said all that - I was NOT at all impressed by a field trip given by the dowsing group, when we "beginners" had a test set up by the very experienced members, where we had to go and test for our name on numbered pieces of paper. Not one person (if I remember rightly) got it right - and that included the people who had set it up. We didn't go back after that! Perhaps that just means that such tests don't work, but my faith in High Command took a nosedive
By the way, if you want an interesting experience, visit the Rollright Stones. There you are handed a pair of dowsing rods before you walk around the stones, and believe me, you get a remarkable reaction from the rods - they spin round and round and from that you may conclude that there IS something in it after all . . . |
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