Re: Skeptics, courtesy, & thread title(s)
Siegfrid,
Finally, after all these years, someone realizes the most important and fundamental aspect of dowsing. Thought!!! “It’s the thought that counts”.
A thought is energy that causes neurons in the brain to fire in certain patterns. That firing produces tiny currents along definite paths in the brain cortex that can be picked up with sensitive instruments through electrodes on the surface of the skull. This thought that starts out very tiny will or can develop into a full blown thought producing at least a 70 millivolt potential somewhere in the cortex. It fires the first neuron, which in turn causes others to fire in a certain sequence. In this universe, no energy is lost. If we can pick up the current produced by the thought outside of the head, it means that the energy of that thought was sent in the form of electromagnetic waves, and at the velocity of light into the environment. Since energy can’t be destroyed, that thought remains in the universe, and might or might not impinge on someone for whom it was created.
Since dowsing depends somewhat on the detection of electromagnetic waves. It seems likely that there could be a lot of energy in the form of thoughts most anywhere.
Dowsing is a way of being conscious of sensory inputs which are not directly connected to the instinctive brain functions. For example man's sensitivity to magnetism. The organ we assume to be responsible for this sensitivity is the pineal gland . We know that the pineal is contained within the skull, but the pineal lies outside the brain, and has no direct contact with the brain nor does it have direct nerve connections. So the pineal must communicate with the lower brain through subconscious urges, and not rational thought. In the case of dowsing, clearly the subconscious brain (not mind) is, in some way, able to alter muscle tension in the shoulders and arms, by way of the ideomotor effect, causing the crossing of angle rods, and the swinging or rotation of the pendulum.
Following is a few examples of dowsing that I hope will explain what I mean. I have practiced and researched dowsing and consciousness for many years.
In the mid-1980’s, I had a client in the Cayman Islands that wanted me to search for a horde of gold that supposedly had been buried by the French near a fort. There were three of us on this particular search. We started on the beach late at night (another dowsing myth exposed) looking to detect a gold signal. One was picked up, and we proceeded to follow the trace down the beach. We came to an area where the signals stopped, and I began to box the trace where a yard met the beach. Unbeknown to me, the yard belonged to one of my companions. Bedrock was not deep at this location, and we quickly had a fairly large hole down to the limestone bedrock. Nothing was found. The owner of the property then said, “ My father always thought that the gold was buried right here!!”
At another time, I was searching for a famous lost gold mine in Arizona. I had map dowsed the area, and gotten a location not too far from the Gila River. I had not studied any particulars about this mine before I dowsed for the location. My partner field dowsed the area when we got there, and indicated the same spot that I had map dowsed. We searched for three days, and found nothing. Later, I found a newspaper account (1891) that had been written about a man who was a friend of the original finder. “ Charles O. Brown of this city has stated that he thinks the mine is located at……………..”
My theory is that once a thought is created about an object by a person now living or someone long dead, they have in effect placed that object at a certain location. This, I believe is the reason for so many empty holes.
I once was called to a farm at Gisela, Az. where a family wanted me to find a large amount of gold coins that had been buried by the patriarch who had died in a drowning accident. Eventually, I found a trace in their garden that was near the kitchen windows. The family members dug up the whole garden area without finding the coins. The son of the patriarch told me, “ Mother always thought Dad buried those coins in the garden where he could watch over them”.
Everyone can make his own conclusions from these examples, but the evidence is very strong that thoughts play a large part in dowsing.
