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Reviving The Ancient Intuitive Skill of Dowsing

Reviving The Ancient Intuitive Skill of Dowsing

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Mankind’s ancient ancestors faced many challenges, for instance the need to be able to find drinkable water that did not show on the surface of the land. Many of these challenges were solved by way of the ancient practice of dowsing. Some writers believe that the one human figure in cave paintings at Lascaux, France, is shown dowsing with a stick but this assertion is speculative since no one really knows how to interpret these ancient drawings. A more reliable indication of the antiquity of dowsing with a rod is the persistence of these practices among the Arunta, an indigenous tribe of central Australia.

A dowser, from an 18th-century French book about superstitions (Public Domain)

A dowser, from an 18th-century French book about superstitions (Public Domain)

Historical References To Dowsing

An example of ancient dowsing is found in the book of Numbers in the Hebrew bible ( Numbers 20:2-11), when God instructs Moses on the technique of dowsing with a rod: “ Now there was no water for the congregation; so, they gathered together against Moses and Aaron. And the people contended with Moses and spoke, saying: “If only we had died when our brethren died before the Lord! Why have you brought up the assembly of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our animals should die here? And why have you made us come up out of Egypt, to bring us to this evil place? It is not a place of grain or figs or vines or pomegranates; nor is there any water to drink.” So Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the door of the tabernacle of meeting, and they fell on their faces. And the glory of the Lord appeared to them.

Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.” So Moses took the rod from before the Lord as He commanded him.

And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?” Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.”

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 Dr Gary White, Ph.D. is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University, where he was a professor of music theory and a successful composer. He established Pilgrims Process Publishers, which has published over 30 books including a series of seven books under the general title of “Powerful Places in …” which is co-authored with his wife, Elyn Aviva. His latest book is The Dowsing Mind - Into the Multi-Dimensional Realms and Back.

Top Image: People search for water, metal frame to find water ( scharfsinn86/Adobe Stock)

By Dr Gary White

 

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Dave LeClair's picture

All that education and not a lick of sense. Moses did not use a dowsing rod you nitwit. Faithless man. 

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Elyn Aviva and

Elyn Aviva (neé Ellen Feinberg), Ph.D., M.Div., is an independent researcher specializing in sacred sites, powerful places, comparative religion, and pilgrimage. Her Ph.D. (Princeton University 1985) was the first dissertation in cultural anthropology documenting the contemporary pilgrimage on the Spanish... Read More

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