Getting back to the book I'd read on pendulum dowsing responses in the late 1980s......it was a book already out of print at the time. The author was a clinical psychiatrist, so he used pendulum dowsing as a tool for evaluation of a patients mental condition. Now, this book also mentioned something about dowsing tests. He mentioned how doing a test, to put the pendulum to a task of proving the results will always be right, backfires on you every time. Then if you admit your pendulum is answering in a way to prove dowsing really works, the test can be done correctly (if not prolonged for too long).
The author's explanation for how pendulum dowsing works, is the abilities of both the conscious mind and the subconscious or super-mind (as he called it). The book went on to say that for the conscious rational mind of an idividual to try and trick the super-mind, would be like a child trying to out smart an adult. This could be compared to your young son or daughter wanting to wrap you around their finger, to convince you to give them what they want right now.
I was just beginning to get my own responses with a pendulum, so tested out his theory. Found a deck of playing cards, one pack never used before with no bends, scratches, scrapes, on any of the cards. I figured out that by holding the pendulum over the deck, you can dowse the color of the top card, then see how many times it would be right or wrong.
So, my test was set up, now holding my pendulum over the deck, asked first if red (either yes or no), then if black. The results came in like this on the entire deck of cards.
Red-all red cards were dowsed as black.
Black-all black cards were dowsed as red.
I shuffled the deck, really good 3-4 times to make sure it was done right. Same thing happened again. Tried a few more cards, same results again. I realized suddenly, by the laws of random chance, the correct answer should have happened at least 2-3 times. Took out a quarter, flipped it without dowsing the answer. You can be right quite often on whether quarter lands as heads or tails.....simply by the laws of random chance. If a dowsing test never produces a correct answer, this would be impossible according to the laws of random chance. Maybe we don't recognize random chance as a law, but for now on here, I'm going to call it a law.
It's also really hard for me to believe that the dowsing deniers, who put out these videos on the Internet, can offer a large sum of money, get qualified people to take their test of dowsing ability, to use dowsing to prove it doesn't work. This started back, well the first TV show I'd seen was in the late 1980s. To test people over a period of a couple decades, to say nobody ever can get it right, seems to me random chance eventually is going to kick in. If any of them do get it right, why don't we hear about it?
The important thing to remember, is not who believes what, but that we get our feedback, when treasure hunters request a map to be dowsed, they don't feel intimidated to the point, don't show back up to give us a report. It would be silly, to ask for feedback if the results are not going to be accepted or permitted.
I guess I needed to have my little rant here, forgive me if it got slightly off-topic. Trying to figure out how, I'd got so sidetracked on this comment. It must be the card deck test using a pendulum. Holding it over an object location, to me is the same as what is reffered to (on this forum) as "physical dowsing" because of how it was used in the experiment.
My test mentioned above, should be considered a physical type of dowsing test....not mental dowsing as when map dowsing. There are videos on YouTube for L-rod map dowsing, a dowsing tool is simply that, technique or our methods make the results either "mental" or "physical" in nature. My own personal opinion is, both require some conscious mental effort along with the physical and subconscious influence of the super electromagnetic field of the heart.
You stand over a spot with a branch searching for water, normally we call it physical dowsing. About the pendulum book, I first mentioned originally, because of lead used as a material in past decades for pendulums (it now can be avoided for any type of dowsing tool, because the toxic effects are known).
