Dowsing is the action of a person who is called the dowser using a rod, stick or other device--called a dowsing rod, dowsing stick, doodlebug when used to locate oil or divining rod to locate things as underground water, hidden metal, buried treasure, oil, lost persons or even buried bodies.
You can use a pendulum, a forked stick or metal rods. This is very useful for yes and no questions. A pendulum can be anything really, from fishing a line and a small weight, to a necklace with a crystal on the end. As long as it can be held in the hand and dangled, it can pretty much be used. Dowsing is rather exciting when done with a pendulum because you can design your own charts for answers and it is really a very flexible tool.
Dowsing or water witching can be used to locate hidden water wells. Back in the days they would see it as something a witch would do that is why they gave it the name water witching.
Dowsing was originated in Germany during the 15th century for the use to find metals.
The technique spread to England with German miners who went there to work in the coal mines. During the Middle Ages dowsing was associated with the Devil. In 1662 dowsing was declared to be superstitious by a Jesuit, Gaspar Schott. In 1701 the Inquisition stopped the use of dowsing rods in trials.
Dowsing is one of the easiest ways to access a repository of unlimited knowledge, referred to by Carl Jung as the collective unconscious or the super conscious mind. You are gaining access to this library of unlimited knowledge through your Higher Self.
When you dowse, you are engaged in a dialog with your Higher Self and other spirit guides who are trying to assist you in obtaining the information you seek. You are asking a question in your mind that is most often framed with a yes or no answer.
Even though dowsing is known throughout history in this way to me the most important use of dowsing is to find hidden knowledge similar to the High Priestess in a way. To find knowledge that is hidden…would be a big adventure.
Dowsing has existed in various forms for thousands of years. The original may have been for divination purposes, to divine the will of the gods, to foretell the future and divine guilt in trials.
If you have had any experience or more information with Dowsing please share. We would like to hear more on all of your opinions also.
Subject: Dowsing 
Sun Aug 30, 2009 5:11 am
