By John Living
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
My Personal View - Dowsing and God
Tuning our Heart-Mind-Brain ‘Radio’
Alternative Nervous-Muscular Signals
Dowsing is ‘Intuition Technology’
Methods of Transmuting Noxious Energies
HOLISTIC INTUITION SOCIETY’S ‘SHOP’
Bendable and Retractable Bobbers
DVDs of Speakers and Workshops
As Measured on the Mind Mirror, by Edith M. Jurka, M.D.
The Mind Mirror is an instrument designed in London by Dr. C. Maxwell Cade FlEE., F.I.Physics. FI.Bio., awarded the Oliver Lodge Research Grant of the College of Psychic Studies, and Geoffrey Blundell, electronics designer.
The Mind Mirror consists of two electroencephalographs which record both sides of the brain instantaneously. The brain frequency analysis consists of 14 different frequency ranges, from 075 Hz to 38 Hz.
Five original patterns were established. When checking Dowsers it was found that a sixth and different pattern emerged... see diagrams below; which show the left and right brain wave patterns for various slates in normal people, and those observed in meditative people and in experienced Dowsers.
Concerning the very high delta amplitude in all the Dowsers.
Dr. Cade said it correlates with higher levels of consciousness and a reaching out to the unknown. Certainly this is the essence of what a Dowser does - reach out for information not available to the 5 ordinary senses. A confirmation of this interpretation is that the delta frequencies are absent in the 5th State pattern of yogis, whose practice does not include a search.
The increased beta amplitude (which yogis do not have) could come from both sides of the Dowser's brain concentrating hard on the object of the search.
Perhaps the varying amplitudes of theta in the different Dowsers reflect in some way a degree of spirituality for want of a better word. It may be that this tends to increase in such a person as he or she lives longer.
John Living has been a Royal Engineer, a Chartered Civil Engineer, and a Professional Engineer. He started Dowsing in 1952, being taught as a young officer in the Corps of Royal Engineers - he was one of the first officers commissioned by HM Queen Elizabeth II.
John has been the Executive Secretary of the Holistic Intuition Society, and a member of the American Society of Dowsers, the Canadian Society of Dowsers, and the Canadian Society of Questers. His articles have been published in the American, British, and Canadian Dowsing society journals.
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Using the message chart I was told this definition of NAMASTE: (and it is the meaning of ‘True Holy Love’)
I recognize in you myself - I see in you my image;
I am trying to be helpful to you in your mission;
I wish you well in life and will help you as best I can;
- For the Highest and Best Good of All Creation
- Without hurt or harm to any.
My Personal View - Dowsing and God
Please accept that although this booklet has been written based on my own beliefs. I do not intend to force the same beliefs on you! This introduction is to help you to understand my beliefs about Dowsing, not to convert you.
I am certain that there is some ‘Force for Good’ which tries to help us and that Dowsing is one way that we can get that help. Perhaps it is just ‘universal intelligence’ which is there to help us all. How does a human being describe such a force? It may comprise many different ‘entities’ (capable of thinking. feeling, acting, and loving - that is living) which are beyond our understanding.
To me ‘God’, ‘The Great Spirit’, ‘The System’, ‘The Good God System’, ‘The Force for Good’, ‘Universal Intelligence’, ‘Angels’, ‘Spirit Guides’, and other terms used by people are all referring to aspects of the same ‘Higher Entities’ - like different parts of a Higher Government Team: ‘The System’.
I believe in God - the Force for Good; I have had that belief justified throughout my life and recently it has been proven to me by messages received by me using the message chart.
I have been told what to do, warned of events before they happen, and been given names of people who I will meet (and the time and place) who were unknown to me. And these were proven correct. Perhaps when we pray we talk to God; and when we Dowse we listen to God.
Einstein's famous equation E= MC2 equates energy and matter. All living things arc a mixture of energy and matter. Gravity holds matter together; I believe there is a similar force that binds energies and matter together, and pervades the whole universe. It is called `Love'.
The Eskimo have over 50 words for ‘snow’ - and we have but one word for ‘Love’. The Love that is a ‘Force for Good’ is the Love of helping others - not only humans, but the whole of creation. It is the ‘True Holy Love, Namaste’.
I suggest that God wants us to display our Love of God by helping others, and that it is more important to do this all the time than to just attend church.
Irrespective of the religion that an individual follows, ‘Others’ includes all forms of life, not just mankind; we should work to improve life for all creation.
This idea is supported by Dowsing - you will often find that you get the most accurate results when helping others - giving your help to the ‘Force for Good’.
Why is this not done anyway, without your request? Because people are expected to do their ‘own thing’, to learn their lessons with the minimum help.
But ‘The System’ loves to be asked to help, since that gives it the ‘excuse’ to make things better.
Also very important is gratitude - most people ask for help, but fail to express their appreciation for the help when it is given!
When you do thank the ‘Angelic Beings’ you will find that they will be eager to give further help.
Perhaps they will not put out ‘that extra effort’ if it is not appreciated.
Namaste, John Living.
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THE HUMAN BEING
We believe what we can see. When we see another human being we see their face, their clothes, and other parts of the body that are not hidden. We see movements and expressions which we can interpret as signals.
But our sight is limited to a small range of the electromagnetic spectrum, which includes the colours of the rainbow; we cannot see infra red or ultra violet light, although the effects of light in these colours can be observed.
Some people can see more - and they report that our bodies are surrounded by auras, and that there are flows and patterns of different colours in the various parts of our auras.
Western medicine considers the body to be a bio-electrochemical system, with various organs that can be dissected and sometimes exchanged, like using spare parts to repair an automobile or computer.
Eastern wisdom accepts that there are systems that cannot be seen, but are crucial to a person’s health and well-being.
Both are correct - but the body is more than even the combination of these views. Life force is recognized as existing, but has never been examined; and many religions believe that we ‘have a Soul’ without being able to describe it completely.
Perhaps it is more correct to know that we are Souls that are having experiences in human bodies.
Physicists have shown that each atom is made of sub-atomic particles, all of which are forms of energy; and the nucleus seems to be surrounded by electrons, which are the basic form of electricity with its associated magnetism.
Such atoms combine to form molecules - and the properties of molecules differ from that of their components.
For example, hydrogen and oxygen are gases - they combine to form water which has different freezing and boiling points from the constituent elements, and can be drunk and used for cooking. When combined with other elements the properties can change to be acidic or alkaline.
The cells of our body are made from molecules – and controlled by the molecular structures that form our DNA; viruses are tiny sub-sets of DNA portions that can interfere with our own DNA in cells and cause sickness.
It seems that for animate life to exist, a form of DNA is required; conversely the DNA structure itself has a form of life - and this is so for even the sub-microscopic sized viruses.
Our body cells form all our bones, flesh, organs, nerves, neurons, and blood - our physical Being is all made of these energies doing different jobs, like teams of dancers making different (but correlated) dance patterns at varying speeds.
A body may have its full complement of DNA and cellular structures, but may not be alive - so there is more to life than just energy cells and electro-magnetism.
This is confirmed by the auras of people; a person whose aura is badly damaged, misshapen, extremely dark, or missing probably has little ‘life force’.
Edgar Cayce was about to enter an elevator, when he noticed that he could not see any aura around any of the other people waiting to descend. He stood back, and so did not get killed with those who rode the elevator to their death when it crashed.
Cayce’s record in distant Healing of people that he had never met personally also proves (to all except those who rely totally on the ‘must be repeatable’ proofs of non-spiritual/ physical science) that energies are involved that are not of the physical dimension, although they may operate in it.
Some people, such as Cayce, may be able to see some of these energies some of the time. Most of us do not have this ability - but we cannot see radio waves either, yet know that they exist, because we can hear their effect on a radio receiver.
Currently people know much more than those who lived a hundred years about the cosmos, this earth, health, and how electro-magnetic energies work.
But we do not know it all! And the biggest gap in our knowledge concerns other dimensions/planes of existence.
We have a choice - we can believe that the physical dimension is the total of all creation, or we can accept that other dimensions exist - perhaps with life forms unknown to the physical world.
If we choose to have an open mind, we can endeavour to improve our knowledge and understanding of such other dimensions, and find ways to work with the various energies that operate in them.
Our Heart-Mind-Brain Team
Research has shown that the Heart has its own complement of Neurons - not as many as the Brain, but enough to be effective.
There have been a number of reports that people who have received Heart transplants become aware of memories from the donor, even to the extent of changing likes and dislikes, and altering life patterns.
It seems that your Heart is your best access to your Intuition, your link to your ‘Soul Senses’.
Little is known about the human Mind; it has not been found within the Brain, in spite of many attempts. Perhaps the Mind is outside the human body, and associated with the auras that surround humans.
The role of the Mind seems to be to operate the higher levels of the Brain - to decide the jobs that should be done, seek resources that are needed, and approve decisions prior to implementation. Perhaps the Soul or Conscious Self give leadership to the Mind.
Sometimes the Mind is by-passed, such as when an emergency occurs and the ‘flight or fight’ mechanism takes direct control of the Brain; research has shown that such actions originate in the lower levels of the Brain before any response can register in the higher levels.
The most important parts of the Brain (in this study) are the left and right parts of the higher Brain - sometimes labelled our logical and intuitive parts.
It seems that the logical part of our Brain is the home of our ego - which believes that it ‘knows it all’. So one task when using out Intuition is to prevent interference by the egoistic logical Brain.
Tuning our Heart-Mind-Brain ‘Radio’
A radio is receiving signals from all frequencies at all times - even when switched OFF.
When we switch ON and tune to a station, we are amplifying the signal received at that frequency.
We tune our Heart-Mind-Brain ‘Radio’ by thinking about a particular person, item, or thing.
Each such subject has its own frequency and ‘vibrational pattern’ - rather like an email address or radio call sign.
So by focusing our thought on such a subject, we become attuned to that subject - part of our Heart-Mind-Brain team starts to resonate to their frequency and vibrational pattern.
Remember that even if the radio is ON, we do not hear anything unless we have earphones or loudspeakers attached. We must have some way of getting that signal into our conscious mind.
We are lucky! Our Heart-Mind-Brain team has the ability to work with our nervous-muscular system to give signals to us by moving our body or its parts.
Also, we can ‘program’ our Heart-Mind-Brain team and nervous-muscular system to specify the meaning of such bodily movements.
Operation of Noxious Energies
As discussed, the human body is an ‘energy body’ – and each cell has an energetic link to the rest of a body; when subjected to a different high energy field (including X-rays), this link becomes weakened, and organization within the cell depreciates.
This results in the cells and the body becoming more susceptible to influences such as viruses and non-beneficial bacteria, so enabling illness to manifest.
Because noxious energies have such a large effect on the human body, this effect can be utilized to determine if a person is being so effected.
Experiment:
First hold your hands body width apart, palms open and facing each other; now gradually bring your palms closer together. Be aware of any slight resistance as they become closer to each other – you are feeling your own aura.
Switch on a TV or computer having a CRT, or a microwave oven, and stand to one side and about three feet (one metre) in front of it. Think, asking your Heart, “Is there an energy field here that has a deleterious effect on any part of my body?” and move the open palm of one of your hands towards its front.
Did you feel a slight resistance, similar to ‘thickening of the air’, as your hand moved within the field of influence of the CRT or microwave oven?
Repeat this experiment standing further away and more to the side.
You will probably feel this same resistance, but at a lower level. How did this work?
For the CRT, it is focusing a somewhat funnel shaped energy field in front of the screen. Your thought ‘tuned your mind’ to the ‘vibrational pattern’ of this field.
Your Heart is the prime controller of your human being-ness – and your major link to your Intuition.
Your Heart-Mind-Brain team co-operated with your nervous-muscular system to give you a signal – the feeling in the palm of your hand.
Alternative Nervous-Muscular Signals
You formulate a question in your logical mind, and can define the meaning of various signals to be shown by your nervous-muscular system. These questions should be formed so as to be clear, simple, and precise, and to get YES or NO replies.
Then ask your Heart the question - place your ‘awareness’ at your Heart, speak to your Heart as if it were a different person.
Each of the signals suggested here have their strengths and weaknesses, being suitable under different conditions. There are others that are favoured by different people, and you can design your own.
Hand Aura: This is first part of the experiment above – you felt the aura between your hands. You can define that this aura remains for YES, and disappears to signal NO. Do not worry – it will not go very far away!
Body Sway: You stand up, and your body sways forward for YES – or backwards for NO. The greater the movement, the stronger the signal – and the more decisive is the YES or NO. This may have happened to you many times before, when you met someone new – you moved forward if attracted, or backwards if your auras were not compatible.
Eye Blinks: One blink YES, two blinks NO, three blinks meaning that the question was not understood, or should not have been asked, or that the answer was not available at this time.
Tongue Position: Hold your tongue midway between the floor and roof of your mouth; if it rises to the roof it indicates YES, if it drops to the floor of your mouth the signal is NO. Big advantage is that nobody else knows that you are asking a question of your Intuition.
In all these cases, the strength (or length for eye blinks) of the movement indicates the strength of the answer.
Experiment:
Choose one method of signalling that appeals to you, and practice some simple questions to which you know the answer, such as “Is today [Monday]?” (or other day). “Am I male?” “Am I female?” “Do I like [Ice Cream]? (or broccoli, coffee, peanut butter) “Do I now live in [name of town]?” (try different names).
Now repeat this with the other signalling methods. Which method gave you the most correct answers?
Pendulum Power
We can use our Intuitive abilities to locate such noxious energies; we can improve our Intuitive abilities by using methods of amplifying the signals received - and to get more information.
When experimenting with working with our Heart-Mind-Brain team to get these signals via our nervous-muscular system we were in the equivalent stage of using an earphone to ‘listen’ to our Intuitive ‘radio’. We can use simple tools such as your Pendulum to amplify these signals.
One aspect of using a Pendulum that is not often realized is its ability to magnify thoughts. When a Pendulum makes a circle (as in the suggested YES and NO signals) the form created by your hand, string and the Pendulum is a cone – a circular pyramid.
Pyramids have long been recognized as having a special effect on energies due to their shape - even sharpening razor blades, and mummifying any meat product that they contain.
This effect is used in the normal loud speakers attached to your sound system - a magnet is vibrated by your amplifier, and its vibrations are magnified by the paper cone to which it is attached.
Your Pendulum acts in exactly the same way to magnify your thoughts!
When using your Pendulum always be sincere - as in Prayer; you are working with the ‘God Energy’ and ‘Angelic Forces’.
Dowsing is ‘Intuition Technology’
In the English language the use of tools to so amplify the signals received is called ‘Dowsing’; it is not some weird gift that a few people have, but a simple system that most people can learn.
So our next step is to work through some simple exercises; we will become able to access our Intuition ‘On Demand’ – a skill that can be useful to us in many ways.
To become an expert Dowser needs lots of hard work, over months, maybe years. The important part is improving - getting better at co-ordinating and using your skills. And you will never learn if you do not keep trying! Even as an expert, you may lose your skills if you do not keep on practicing.
Much of the early part of the Bible is based on stories that the Israelites learnt in Egypt - even the name of ‘Ptah’, the last King-God before the Pharaohs, has been carried down into English (via Latin) as Pater or Father, and as Path or Way.
In ‘Awakening Osiris’, the beautiful and topical translation by Normandi Ellis of the ‘Egyptian Book of the Dead’, it tells how Horus (Adam), the son of Osiris (Heaven/Spirit) and Isis (Earth/Physical),
"... was born out of death, carrier of his Father's wisdom. He was the living emblem of Love. He was Light triumphing over Darkness, the first man, the miracle of nature ... he was followed by magic ... A pair of doves circled over him ... they dropped two plumes which he placed on his forehead, two gifts that fell from the sky - Intuition and Love, gifts from the Goddesses - that he might walk toward Heaven and his Father and never lose his Way".
Intuition, that wonderful gift, has been decried as evil, as witchcraft, as blasphemy - especially by those who would lose power if mankind could converse directly with Above and get help when needed, who refuse to respect religions other than their own, who forget that God existed before any religion.
We can all regain our abilities to access that gift – the Heavenly Plume of Intuition - by using ‘Intuition Technology’, otherwise known as ‘Dowsing’.
Dowsing Applications
In France, Germany, Russia, and other countries in Europe, governments accept Dowsing - and some government departments have Dowsing sections. North America is far behind - mainly due to vested interests and fear of ridicule. But it is used ‘on the quiet’ by many large organizations.
Healers use a Pendulum to find causes for illness in their patients; engineers locate errors on drawings; computer experts find errors in computer code; gold and oil deposits are found; buried treasure and ancient artefacts are located; water, electric, and telephone utilities use Dowsing to find their lines.
Dowsing has been used in many places to increase food crops - by helping plants grow, keeping bugs away, and even putting a protective field around them to prevent diseases. There are many other uses of Dowsing that are not covered here.
Dowsing goes under many names; for centuries the Chinese have used Feng Shui to decide how to place and make a harmonious home. In Europe it is used to choose sites which will be free of cancer causing ‘rays’ and to find causes of high incidences of road accidents - and then eliminate these causes!
You can access your mind and body parts, and the creations of man such as cars and computers; you can contact animals and vegetation!
Learning to Dowse is like learning to read. Once you have started, you can apply it to many fields. The list is endless. And you can do a lot of good by letting others see you use your Dowsing skills in public.
People complain that businessmen, politicians, medical practitioners, and the general public do not accept Dowsing.
Yet there are many who ‘use their Pendulum’ in private – this is especially true of ladies. By letting others see that you Dowse you are encouraging them to be Dowsers - and to Dowse in public themselves. That way Dowsing will become accepted! It is up to you!
Just think how much better the world would be if politicians ‘did the right thing’, if alternative medicine and spiritual healing reduced illness, if the justice system were fair to all, and if children were not abused.
This will happen. It will happen sooner if you help – by Dowsing in public, to help get Dowsing accepted as a true ‘gift from God’, for us all to admit that we can get help from Higher Entities, such as our Guardian Angels, Higher Selves, or other labels that we choose to use.
You may encounter resistance and negativity from some church authorities. In some religions it has been accepted that priests can Dowse - but not persons not ordained. The Spanish priests used Dowsing to find treasure in the Americas, while burning other people at the stake for using witch craft.
When you have gained some experience as a Dowser, and have gained confidence in your ability to Dowse, then ask ‘The System’ about any of the statements in this booklet that you find surprising - check that all this is true!
Bonding with Your Pendulum
A Pendulum can be made from a paper-clip on a piece of cotton thread, a brass weight on a string, or a cannon ball on a chain - if you are strong enough to lift it! Some people use key tags or a crystal on a metal chain.
A glass bead, about 3/8 inch (1 cm) diameter - spherical or pear-shaped) suspended by about 15 inches (40 cm) of braided thread (e.g. a thin shoe lace) is a good compromise.
First bond together with your Pendulum as a team, and specify that the ‘Love of Truth’ communication channel always be used in your Dowsing - so hold your Pendulum in your hand, and say:
“I, [your name], the owner of this Pendulum, declare that all answers shall always be given in the Love of Truth when using this Pendulum or any other Dowsing tool; I pledge to use my Pendulum only for Good.
I hereby renounce any previous contracts which may interfere with my Dowsing or are in any way not for my Highest and Best Good, and let my Dowsing energy be maximized.”
One of the best introductions to Dowsing is the ‘Letter to Robin’ by Walt Woods, a renowned Dowser and a Past President of the American Society of Dowsers. It can be downloaded from http://www.lettertorobin.org - but many experienced Dowsers find that the chart suggested is very difficult to use and that the signals are troublesome.
Walt’s section on programming is excellent - and should be used by every Dowser! His section on ‘Over 100 Interesting Areas to Explore’ is fantastic!
You should be in a state of prayer when using your Pendulum. This means being really sincere and honest, concentrating on what you are saying and thinking – and thinking only good thoughts. Ask in your mind that you - and your Chakras and Auras - be balanced, and check if this is so by Dowsing.
You may also find that taking a ‘Pranic Breath’ helps your Dowsing: place your conscious awareness at the top of your nose / between your eyes; breathe deeply, feeling the breath with your conscious awareness; exhale, moving your conscious awareness straight back into your head. You may feel yourself expand, and your ‘mind chatter’ will usually lessen.
Because using your Pendulum is such a serious business it presents a problem: if you use your Pendulum only for serious matters then how do you get the practice that you need to learn (and to teach others) to become proficient?
The answer lies in asking ‘The System’ for permission to practice - like guessing the cards in a pack, telling dates of coins, or finding non-essential things. But if you ask permission to practice and then use the results for personal gain (like having an unfair advantage to win at cards) you may be penalized.
The Signals that You Use
The next key to Dowsing is to make certain that your mind fully understands the signals to be used. A computer is just a piece of furniture without a program - and in the same way your Dowsing needs to be programmed. You can have different programs for different tools and various jobs, and can change the programming at any time, like using different computer programs.
If you have been using a set of Dowsing signals. then you may decide to stay with them. You can also just ask for the signals that your body and mind suggest be used. But these may not be the best signals to use in all circumstances – you would not use a word processor to handle a spreadsheet, or do gardening with a table fork.
The ‘Physical Signalling System’ evolved from asking "Is this good for me (to eat, etc.)?" with a swing joining you and the food (drink, action, ...) indicating a good connection - YES; a swing side-to-side (like a barrier) advising that it should be avoided - NO.
Positive energies tend to spiral clockwise - if spiralling anticlockwise they are often negative. This can be described as the ‘Metaphysical Signalling System’: ‘Clockwise = Positive / YES’ and ‘Anticlockwise = Negative / NO’.
The programming (or signal system) suggested in this booklet has been found to be good for most people, and if you are new to Dowsing, or having difficulties with your Dowsing, then you may decide to use it.
If so, then say:
‘I now cancel all previous programs that I have had for Dowsing, and state that the signals to be used are a clockwise circle to indicate YES, an anti-clockwise circle to show NO, a to-and-fro line to signify WAITING, and a side-to-side line to mean that an answer is NOT AVAILABLE’.
Although you can use either hand to Dowse, you may find that the best hand to use as your Dowsing hand is the opposite hand to that which you normally use; this allows your ‘normal’ hand to be used for writing when you are Dowsing.
But if you find this difficult, use your normal hand. The term ‘other hand’ means the hand which is not holding your Pendulum.
Now hold your Pendulum as shown on the cover page, with the holding point between your thumb and the first and index fingers of your hand (both fingers and your thumb on the string), with about 7 inches (20 cm) of string to the point of your Pendulum, which should be about 1/4 inch (0.5 cm) above a piece of blank paper. Just hold it still - this is like teaching your dog to sit!
Step 1 Hold your Pendulum above the middle of the ‘up and down’ line (below) and make it swing along the line - towards you and away from you; say "This is the WAITING POSITION - ready for a question".
You can check that this is understood by holding your Pendulum still, and without making it move ask it swing in the WAITING POSITION
Step 2 Hold your Pendulum over the clockwise circle, and make it move in a clockwise direction telling "This is a clockwise circle - it is the signal for YES”
Step 3 Hold your Pendulum over the YES circle (still, or in the WAITING POSITION) and ask your Pendulum to give a YES signal.
Repeat steps 2 and 3 until you are getting success, and then check that you get the same signal when your Pendulum is not over a circle - that is how you will normally use it!
Step 4 Then hold it over the counter-clockwise and NO circles, doing this routine again for NO. Practice these YES and NO circles to make sure that you have them correct - they are the key to being able to Dowse.
Step 5 Repeat this procedure explaining that if the question is poorly worded, is not understood, is beyond your Dowsing ability, or should not be asked, or is not available at this time, then the NOT AVAILABLE signal to be used is a swing on the NOT AVAILABLE line.
Repeat steps 1 to 5 until you have success: then you can ask simple questions for practice, such as "Is today Wednesday?" - but wait until you are instructed before asking any important questions.
Now repeat these exercises - just thinking YES, and then NO.
Whenever you start a Dowsing session, it is worthwhile to ask that you be shown the YES and NO signals being used - and change them if needed.
When you are satisfied that the signals are being correctly given - that your Heart-Mind-Brain team is understanding the intention and that your nervous-muscular system is working well to implement the signals - then try simple questions (ask them quietly, in your mind).
Using a Bobber
Some people have difficulty in getting a Pendulum to work well for them when they first start. If you are having difficulty, use a ‘Bobber’. Get hold of a wire coat hanger, cut it on one limb at the hook, and straighten it. Hold the hooked end in your hand (the hook is a handle) and point the free end in front of you.