Greetings mi amigo Twisted Fork and everyone,
While out prospecting, treasure hunting, or even hunting game or fishing, have you ever had that odd feeling that someone was watching you, or was present even though you could not see any other human being anywhere around? A university study attempting to reproduce the "abduction experience" reported by so many folks, used a special headgear fitted with small electromagnets - the purpose of these was to send electromagnetic waves into the test person's brain. The pattern they used in their magnetic waves was mimicking the wave pattern of another person. The test subjects reported feeling the presence of another person in the room, even though no one was present. This fairly well proves that human beings are capable of detecting the presence of another human mind, even when the person is not in sight, by picking up the electomagnetic waves which are generated by all human brains.
I think there really IS something to it, that there is a life after death, at least something seems to survive - and would bet that an old prospector or treasure hunter would be of the type of person who would want to 'hang around' perhaps to see if anyone finds something, or perhaps even to try to help another treasure hunter to find something. I know some folks would scoff at what I am about to say here, but I personally have had a sort of "intuition" or just a "feeling" that I should swing my detector in a particular spot, and I always (or almost always) then take the detector to try that spot that gave me such a strange impression. In virtually every case, what turned up was either silver or a very unusual artifact like a cannonball. Was this some long-dead spirit trying to help un-earth a lost 'treasure'? I cannot say for certain.
I am no psychic and claim no such abilities, and oft times I have trouble understanding the terminology used by practitioners of "shamanism" methods to search for treasures but on a basic level have some idea of how it works. I would be hesitant to try it myself as a method, and even among practiced psychics the problem of mis-interpreting the "signals" which are being received would probably be very frustrating.
On another level it is easy to see, in your mind's eye, (in many sites where treasure hunters and prospectors search) the way things were even without any special psychic or shaman abilities. Sometimes it could be helpful in finding camp sites, etc.
Oroblanco