Anecdotal dowsing stuff

Hi,

I'm not even close to being an expert dowser. I don't know the first thing about sun spots or auras or any pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo but I do know a few things about making a pendulum swing. An old well-driller / gold miner taught me in a, sort of,  reverse fashion. Please bear with me. This is kind of long winded.

About ten years ago My daughter started dating a red-neck from a town East of us. Listening to her prattle about the new love of her life and his family, I learned that the boy's father was a well driller when he wasn't digging for gold,....or vice-versa. Being the smart and considerate father that I am, I figured it was time to meet the family.

After about the third beer/coffee set-down the 'well-driller' started opening up a bit. He had been a well driller his entire adult life (looked to be about seventy). He told me he would not even take his equipment off the truck without 'witching' the property first,...and he had made a good living for forty years providing water for people...... Do you have any idea how hard it is to keep a straight face or say something intelligent when you have just been covered with horse manure? It was tough for a few minutes...but apparently I carried it off. God loves me.

He then started talking about mining. He said he had 'witched' out a couple of old claims in Southern OR. and had re-filed and set up a 'proccessing plant'. He said my daughter had mentioned that I dabbled in metal detecting and would I like to follow him down and participate in some digging....assuming my machines worked. He did not believe in jerking around with detectors.

Then he pulled out, not vials but...large containers of nuggets. Big mother nuggets.....WE MADE PLANS.

He then took me out in his yard, said he had anticipated my coming and had buried some gold. He wanted to see if I "had the power". He handed me a string with a nugget attached to it. It was the biggest nugget I had ever touched. After I proved that I did not have power he snatched the string out of my hand and said (paraphrasing) 'watch and learn, stupid'. He gave me a crash course in how a pendulum works. It was eerie.I could also see it was the real deal.

OK...I came. I saw. I conquered. In seven years time I found more gold than in the previous twenty, all with a couple Minelabs...while he was really loading up with a back-hoe, trommel and sluices from Hell. The boy didn't even know what a settling pond was. Then two years ago he died on me. His a@$ hole son sold the claims....so I started messing around with pendulums.

I made one pendulum from a 257 Ackley case with water and a gram of flakes epoxied in it, a seated bullet and 80lb Spiderwire glued in the primer hole. I ordered a modified Mermet pendulum from Canada. I sent off for a book; Modern Dowsing by Raymond C. Wiley (got a half dozen more but keep coming back to this one).I also use Dowsing for Beginners by Richard Webster (has a bunch of practice routines).  The first thing I did was scare the devil out of my wife. She was not expecting 'the power'. Neither was I.

After a littile practice this thing was moving for me. I was asking yes-no questions and when I asked it to confirm what her name was, the thing didn't just swing, it jerked. She saw it, I felt it. She starts screaming to 'get it out of the house! It's evil!'. She's really religious and this was not making her happy. Took about thirty minutes of explaining that it was not a wigi board and you could only successfully use a pendulum if it was for helping  people or good. It was right in the books.

I am working hard on my map dowsing, to the exclusion of any other kind. My wife helps with straight-edge and marker....I love my wife....I love my pendulum. I love the anticipation when the pendulum confirms my research (research is first).

To all skeptics and doubters who want pictures or proof. To all who are too intelligent to be fooled....Bite me! More for me!

Bud











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Hey Bud, congratulations for persevering, you tell it well & good luck in the future. Max

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Great POST Bud

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oRo,

He wasn't my father-in-law but my daughter's boyfriend's Dad. After that, he was a damn good friend. After the initial letdown, finding out I was not a dowser, we didn't talk dowsing much, just prospecting. I was in Heaven, working his claims. Why muddy the water?

I started messing with it just before he died. Think I was trying to prove something. At any rate, he never got to see me...move the pendulum.

As far as working a map, I set up, bottom left corner then bottom right corner with my wife working a straight-edge. After I get crossed lines I set up left or right verticle center, as the mood hits me. This gives three crossed lines. If the third line doesn't intersect or come close enough to scare it, something is radically wrong. If my lines intersect, I rest, then do it over again with my eyes closed. If I'm still getting a tight intersection of ALL three lines, it's time to start the truck.

My wife has this stupid idea if I run the detector and she does the digging, everything brought to light belongs to her....I would have been better off if she'd stayed scared of the pendulum.

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I don't know how to do anything other than 'keep it simple'. I said I didn't do anything other than map dowsing. I guess you can add information dowsing to that, when I'm asking about possible objects/treasure on a given map. I have used nothing but topos.Can't see why it wouldn't work on any map. Using topos I can go directly to my computer and get gps coordinates.

As I said, I start on a lower corner and ask the question(word it correctly). I concentrate on the exact spot/corner I started, with the pendulum point dead still. My wife does the 'straight-edging' and marking along the line that my pendulum is moving/pointing. I move to the opposite lower corner and we do the same thing. I know this thing works for me so if the lines don't converge/cross, I either didn't have my head on straight or I worded the question badly.

I guess most people would be happy with those two lines crossing on the map. I NEED that third line crossing the intersection of the other two. It changes my mindset from 'I believe' to 'I KNOW'. I want that third line to be exact but if it's within 'scaring' distance, I'll take that as my fault , then ask for a 'YES' pinpoint at the line convergences. I said it didn't matter which side(middle center) I asked for the third line. My wife says I ALWAYS do the left side. I didn't notice that. Maybe it's because I'm left handed.....or I was leaning that direction....don't know.

Should your 'partner' be a believer? ABSO-DAMN- LUTELY!!!  I know few people who buy into dowsing. When I'm doing-the-deed I don't want those people within a mile of me....Bad Juju..Karma....whatever. Negativity will screw up anything in your life, especially something as easy to ridicule as dowsing. I don't respond well to ridicule so I do my own thing and, every once in a while, quietly take something to my safe-deposit box. Running my mouth here is one thing. Letting someone who knows where I live know I have goodies is a whole 'nother ball game.

One thing I think is important (probably no one else does), I LIVE with my two pendulums. They are in my pocket right now. They go to church with me. They are in my pants pocket, next to my bed at night. I talk to them and I talk to God about them. No one...NO ONE touches them. OK...I'm nuts....but I KNOW it makes a difference.

I don't know about 'Sun-spots'. Don't have a clue about alignment of the stars. I don't care if Pluto is in it's seventh house (or where ever the Hell he goes when Mickey ain't around).

All I know is I saw an onery old man, who was nearly an illiterate, talk to his nugget pendulum and it moved and pointed to gold. I saw him use it successfully a few times after that over a seven year period. I try to copy his style and procedure. I keep it simple.


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