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Sapphire Aug 27, 2004 20:59:13
Replying to Paulus

This is my first post here and I'm getting an error message about the length of the post. So I've broken it into two parts. Sorry for doing that, but it seems I have to. I've written at some length to give a proper response to points other people have made.


I first tried dowsing using L-rods at Avebury, with no success at all. My girlfriend was with me, and she had some definite success around the Cove. (Success at what? is something I'll come back to in a moment.) She walked the same line with the same results, and then tried some other locations which also yielded results.

Two days later we tried the rods at the thorn at Glastonbury. She found something again, and to my surprise so did I. We both found the same results.

From then on dowsing with rods has always worked for me, so I'd encourage anyone who doesn't find success to go back to it and see if it's started happening.

Subsequently I carried out some quite meticulous work at several locations, printing maps and making on-site drawings. I was able to verify my findings on different locations, as well as verifying the findings of other people. On one memorable occasion I dowsed around White Horse Hill and verified many of Guy Underwood's findings, though without his level of skill and accuracy.

One of the most interesting occasions occurred in the grounds of Glastonbury Abbey. I'd previously traced a meandering line that I haven't seen mentioned in any of the books on the site. After meandering for soem distance it turns and enters the Abbey ruins through a wall at an angle sideways and downward, and can be followed and picked up on the other side of the wall by entering through a doorway.

As I was dowsing not far from that location I met a girl who'd been staying in the same guesthouse the night before. She asked if she could have a go with the rods, and I advised her to walk in a straight line until something happened. I kept behind her at a slight distance to avoid influencing her as far as possible. She picked up the meandering line, and I was interested to find that she expected it to head for a nearby church tower, which it moved towards for a short distance. She evidently expected the straight lines hypothesised and claimed by some writers on the subject.

Of course the line took her in a different direction, and I kept well back and watched as she followed the same course I'd followed months before, and traced the line through the wall at an angle. It was only when she'd done that that I came up to her again, and told her I'd traced the same line before.

The possibility of that happening by chance is basically nil, obviously, and the likelihood that I'd influenced her course is very low.

(See next post for what I think the signals are, and aren't.)

S Sapphire
Sapphire Aug 27, 2004 20:59:54
Replying to Sapphire

Part two of post:

But what are the signals picked up that way? There's no doubt that water can be picked up. I've done it, and I heard some very interesting stories when I worked for a water company for several years. But I'm also pretty sure that much of what I've picked up isn't water.

I've dowsed a location in Wales on two occasions, once on my own with rods, and once by intuition with a similarly gifted friend. The results were very close on both occasions, and probably identical, though I didn't map the area. It's a small enclosed space, though, with landmarks. At that site there's a well, and the line of flow of the water can be seen simply by looking where it breaks surface and by using common sense and knowledge of water flows. The energy lines are different, and I'm pretty sure they're not water.

Similarly at other sites, water just isn't a sufficient explanation for the sheer number of lines and the courses they take.

I'd like to be more skilful at differentiating the different energies so as to be sure what's water and what isn't. Sense and knowledge tells me quite a bit, but there's a real skill in tuning in to different kinds of energies. Even skilled dowsers have to detune at times to move from one energy line to another.

Once at Avebury someone asked me what I was picking up, and I answered honestly `I don't know.' Calling it energy seems to be a convenient label for saying it's `something.' But there does seem to be some kind of energy flow that follows generally permanent lines as well as fluctuating in power. It can be measured and mapped, and it isn't water, though water is often taken to be part of the pattern, and it really needs to be differentiated out of the mappings, or at least mapped separately.

Those, at least, are my findings.

S Sapphire
Sapphire Aug 27, 2004 21:00:27
Replying to Sapphire

Part two of post:

But what are the signals picked up that way? There's no doubt that water can be picked up. I've done it, and I heard some very interesting stories when I worked for a water company for several years. But I'm also pretty sure that much of what I've picked up isn't water.

I've dowsed a location in Wales on two occasions, once on my own with rods, and once by intuition with a similarly gifted friend. The results were very close on both occasions, and probably identical, though I didn't map the area. It's a small enclosed space, though, with landmarks. At that site there's a well, and the line of flow of the water can be seen simply by looking where it breaks surface and by using common sense and knowledge of water flows. The energy lines are different, and I'm pretty sure they're not water.

Similarly at other sites, water just isn't a sufficient explanation for the sheer number of lines and the courses they take.

I'd like to be more skilful at differentiating the different energies so as to be sure what's water and what isn't. Sense and knowledge tells me quite a bit, but there's a real skill in tuning in to different kinds of energies. Even skilled dowsers have to detune at times to move from one energy line to another.

Once at Avebury someone asked me what I was picking up, and I answered honestly `I don't know.' Calling it energy seems to be a convenient label for saying it's `something.' But there does seem to be some kind of energy flow that follows generally permanent lines as well as fluctuating in power. It can be measured and mapped, and it isn't water, though water is often taken to be part of the pattern, and it really needs to be differentiated out of the mappings, or at least mapped separately.

Those, at least, are my findings.