Trees and stones with powers to throw?

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Rhiannon R
Rhiannon May 11, 2012 07:12:22
Replying to Resonox

Well, I was desperate to find an earring once, and I gave dowsing it a go, and I did actually find it! But that was in a very small area and could have been coincidence. Whereas my mother and I searched the usual way for a bit of jewellery on Therfield Heath once and that's massive, and we found that too retracing our steps. So I reckon those two anecdotes rather cancel each other out.

Besides, if dowsing for water really works (and I don't know how it can, but it's said my grandad used to do it, so I'm biased because I want to believe he was a rational creature) it might rely on detection of something ...er actually detectable. Because the water is a thing actually there to be detected.

Whereas, saying certain standing stones have emanations, that is an entirely different thing, that is surely entirely mystical? as what do these vibes indicate - are they something imposed on the stone or are they natural stones selected for this quality? But this quality of what exactly? I mean you can say 'some stones are naturally radioactive and some aren't' and that's something you can't detect without a geiger counter. So sensitive person X is acting like a geiger counter, detecting something real. But what's the use of sticking those in a stone circle if only 1 person in a thousand (or a thousand thousand) can detect that. I'm not convinced it's the same thing you're dealing with, water dowsing and stones.

(And, tsc, water dowsing has long been documented, for centuries (possibly even millennia?) not that that means anything necessarily of course)

R Resonox
Resonox May 11, 2012 07:48:05
Replying to Rhiannon

I tried dowsing as a youngster on the recommendation of the type of book as I mentioned earlier...but then I also tried ventriloquism and magic tricks.
I have a fair record of success just finding lost items (keys, rings etc) through logic, quite often retracing steps as you say. eg keys lost on a large playing field...I sat on a park bench and imagined what the key owner would have done.....hot day coat taken off...not put on the ground..so the only logical place was the horse trough(now used as a decorative planter)...there were the keys down the gap between the soil and the trough sides....guy was well impressed...and I could've quite easily pretended possessing abilities...but I didn't, I'm more the Conan-Doyle approach rather than the Von Daniken
If some stones ripped from the earth and shaped to man's designs and set in the ground can throw people about....why don't some natural paving flags do this too.."sensitive special power people" wouldn't be able to walk down streets..nor would they be able to lean on walls of old buildings etc...without being slung about like rag-dolls.There is a stock answer...but it is as convincing as the "3%" argument. I remain a doubter because of the selectiveness of the "phenomenom".