today we went on a hike with two of our friends. one is a concrete worker and the other is a retired contractor; both are good christian friends who i would love to have around me during any trial sent my way. both can dowse, for water, i'll not be speaking of any of the other dowsing. we hiked up to a spot that was short of our goal, but good enough for us in terms of we had a good time and didn't want to take a big chance with the weather. on the way back down, the contractor showed us how you can find water using a willow branch with a y. i have been skeptical and so has keith about this practice. let me explain what we observed, then i'll tell you what i think after reading a few things on the internet.
at one spot, our friend was able to demonstrate the technique to us. he held the y with one hand at each end palms up, with the joint pretty much straight up. similar to this. oh ya, there is snow all around, around 6 inches deep, in other words water everywhere since it is starting to be a warmish day and there are some rivulets of water running under the snow. he started off with a somewhat whimpy stick that broke. now if you look at the picture, i don't know about you, but i can't figure out how someone can break a stick by twisting it while holding it like that. and i did see it break by being twisted. we then switched to a more substantial stick that keith trimmed. keith and i couldn't do it. a little later on the trail, keith and i just couldn't stand it, we had to do some experiments. we had this guy walk backwards, forwards, sideways with the stick in front, back, to the side, held with hands straight crossed and paired with keith. we observed the following. if the stick was held to the side of the body (the joint was off center but the stick was parallel to the body) the effect was not observed; if the spot where the stick previously bent was stood over and the stick gradually brought to be centered on the body it would bend down. no matter if the person approached the spot with the stick in front or in back (going forwards or backwards) it always bent away from the person's body.
getting back, i read the internet a bit. there is a lot out there saying it is by witchcraft type of stuff or by subliminally thinking it should work etc. and that scientific testing, when done right, shows it doesn't work... now obviously it isn't detecting water since the snow covered the ground and the stick didn't bend (even when over the running water rivulets). and i don't think the people were bending the stickes themselves, consiously or unconsiously since i just can't see how it would break in the way it did if it was only them. i don't think it is evil, these people are genuine christians who want to follow Jesus. some sites point out that the water would run to a low point if you drill so perhaps the striking water when drilling is a side event that distracts from what is really going on. i wish i knew what was going on. it is kinda cool. and i love to have things that scientists don't explain because they can't and so they just brush it off as something that can't be. this reminds me that we still do not know a lot about this world, as much as we pretend to know by talking about things like relativity, the strong force, quarks, electrons, electromagnetic waves, etc. there is still much to know, learn, discover.
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STRANGE is all I Have to say. I first hand witnessed the effect with about 50 different tests comprised of multiple (2) people and multiple test sites.
The part that jen failed to point out was that the reason the little Y stick broke was because it actually found water, or found something. at any rate the force was so hard it snapped the stick.
We have hypothesised that it could be some kind of field effect. what kind of field? I have no idea. but the stick most definatly worked best when centered in front (or back) of the body.
Rich will most definatly be joining our 3 wo[man] hiking team as he has proved his value in wilderness rescue by aid of willow and his ability to supposedly recover water if one were to dig deep enough.
strange indeed.
i used to think it was all hocus pocus--but--my sister can do it and i have seen people do it with a coat hanger. when my sewer quite working the real plumber call a dowser to find where the break in the line was so he didn't have to dig up the whole yard. the break was right where the dowser said it was.
My boss had a dowser come out and help find the best place to drill his well.
he walked around for a bit, drew a big x and verified the center. turns out they hit 30+ gpm where the neighbors have about 8-10gpm
maybe there is some kind of 'field' created with the water reacting with the environment - electromagnetic?
have rich do it at his house, and see if it's effected by a transformer.
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