Spirituality: Developing your Dowsing Skill for Divination
Test your Dowsing Skills
The Pendulum and its Use
The pendulum is used widely by professional dowsers or water-diviners,
who often prefer it to the divining rod. As well as its traditional
use in detecting water or minerals, the pendulum is variously used to
divine the sex of eggs or foetuses, to diagnose illnesses, or to find
the locations of lost objects or people.
You can develop and test your own dowsing powers in the following
experiments. You will need a simple pendulum which can be made by
tying a finger ring or other small weight on a length of fine thread.
About 12-18 inches (30-45cm) is fine.
To use the pendulum, hold the end of the thread lightly between the
thumb and first two fingers of one hand. Your hand should be held
comfortably at about shoulder height so that the ring hangs down
freely.
Experiment 1
Hold the pendulum as described above. Now simply TELL the pendulum to
move back and forth. Do NOT try to make it swing by moving your hand -
keep your hand still while staying relaxed. You will find that the
pendulum starts to move as directed, slightly at first and then with
increasing amplitude (keep up the mental intention). Now tell the
pendulum to stop. The swing will quickly reduce until the pendulum
stops moving.
Try telling the pendulum to move in different ways - e.g., left to
right, diagonally, clockwise, anticlockwise. In each case the pendulum
will move in the intended direction.
Practice these tests until you have developed a good sense of the ways
in which the pendulum moves and the effects of your mental intentions
on the movements.
Experiment 2
IMPORTANT: In this experiment, and the experiments that follow, it is
important that you do NOT consciously intend any particular movement
of the pendulum. You should rather simply WATCH the pendulum to see
how it moves.
Ask a friend to hold out a hand and allow the ring to dangle just
above it. You will find that the ring will start to move, apparently
of its own volition. You may find that the direction of movement is
different depending on the sex of the person. It is often said, for
example, that if the person is male the ring will swing back and
forth, whereas if the person is female, the ring will trace a circle
or ellipse. See if this is true for you.
Experiment 3
Think of a number between 5 and 10. Now hold the pendulum so that the
ring hangs down inside a glass tumbler, without it touching the sides
or bottom. It may help to shorten the pendulum and rest your elbow on
the table. The pendulum will start to swing until the ring strikes the
side of the tumbler. Mysteriously, the ring will continue to swing so
that it strikes exactly the number of times you were thinking of, then
it will slowly stop.
Experiment 4
Get three cups and invert them on a table. While you turn away, ask a
friend to hide a coin under one of the cups. Now turn back and hold
the pendulum over each of the cups in turn. From the movements of the
pendulum, see if you can tell which cup the object is under.
Experiment 5
Try using the pendulum to get answers to questions that you are
interested in. You will need to decide in advance what each direction
of movement means. A simple and sensible system is to use a
forward-and-back swing for "yes" and left-to-right for "no".
Alternatively, you can use clockwise for yes, and anti-clockwise for
no. If you have a complex question, you will need to break it down
into a sequence of yes-no questions. Have fun, but don't take it too
seriously.
Source: http://www.psychicscience.org/dows1.aspx
The Pendulum and its Use
The pendulum is used widely by professional dowsers or water-diviners,
who often prefer it to the divining rod. As well as its traditional
use in detecting water or minerals, the pendulum is variously used to
divine the sex of eggs or foetuses, to diagnose illnesses, or to find
the locations of lost objects or people.
You can develop and test your own dowsing powers in the following
experiments. You will need a simple pendulum which can be made by
tying a finger ring or other small weight on a length of fine thread.
About 12-18 inches (30-45cm) is fine.
To use the pendulum, hold the end of the thread lightly between the
thumb and first two fingers of one hand. Your hand should be held
comfortably at about shoulder height so that the ring hangs down
freely.
Experiment 1
Hold the pendulum as described above. Now simply TELL the pendulum to
move back and forth. Do NOT try to make it swing by moving your hand -
keep your hand still while staying relaxed. You will find that the
pendulum starts to move as directed, slightly at first and then with
increasing amplitude (keep up the mental intention). Now tell the
pendulum to stop. The swing will quickly reduce until the pendulum
stops moving.
Try telling the pendulum to move in different ways - e.g., left to
right, diagonally, clockwise, anticlockwise. In each case the pendulum
will move in the intended direction.
Practice these tests until you have developed a good sense of the ways
in which the pendulum moves and the effects of your mental intentions
on the movements.
Experiment 2
IMPORTANT: In this experiment, and the experiments that follow, it is
important that you do NOT consciously intend any particular movement
of the pendulum. You should rather simply WATCH the pendulum to see
how it moves.
Ask a friend to hold out a hand and allow the ring to dangle just
above it. You will find that the ring will start to move, apparently
of its own volition. You may find that the direction of movement is
different depending on the sex of the person. It is often said, for
example, that if the person is male the ring will swing back and
forth, whereas if the person is female, the ring will trace a circle
or ellipse. See if this is true for you.
Experiment 3
Think of a number between 5 and 10. Now hold the pendulum so that the
ring hangs down inside a glass tumbler, without it touching the sides
or bottom. It may help to shorten the pendulum and rest your elbow on
the table. The pendulum will start to swing until the ring strikes the
side of the tumbler. Mysteriously, the ring will continue to swing so
that it strikes exactly the number of times you were thinking of, then
it will slowly stop.
Experiment 4
Get three cups and invert them on a table. While you turn away, ask a
friend to hide a coin under one of the cups. Now turn back and hold
the pendulum over each of the cups in turn. From the movements of the
pendulum, see if you can tell which cup the object is under.
Experiment 5
Try using the pendulum to get answers to questions that you are
interested in. You will need to decide in advance what each direction
of movement means. A simple and sensible system is to use a
forward-and-back swing for "yes" and left-to-right for "no".
Alternatively, you can use clockwise for yes, and anti-clockwise for
no. If you have a complex question, you will need to break it down
into a sequence of yes-no questions. Have fun, but don't take it too
seriously.
Source: http://www.psychicscience.org/dows1.aspx
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