Hi Bill, Hi All:
"It's important that you concentrate and stay focused - you can't be a scatterbrain." My favorite line in the article.
DowserBill - Did you hook up with any of these guys when you were living in SE Kansas?
Dowsers claim to find treasures, trickles, trinkets
09/14/2006
By Nikki Patrick
Morris News Service
PITTSBURG, Kan. - Everything on earth has an energy, and dowsers can tap into this to find water, treasure, even unmarked graves, according to Phil Armstrong.
He's the president of the Four-State Dowsing Club and a resident of Webb City, Mo., and recently gave a speech to the Crawford County Genealogical Society.
"The first person I ever saw dowse was my father, with a willow branch," he said.
He said that he also studied with a mentor, a man in his 90s, in Purcell, Mo.
"Dowsing is thousands of years old, and it came to America in the 1600s," Armstrong said. "They used dowsing in World War I to find unexploded bombs, and in World War II to find land mines. When Gen. George Patton was chasing the Germans across North Africa, they were blowing up the wells, but Patton got a dowser and had all the water he needed."
He added that dowsing was also used during the Vietnam War to find Viet Cong tunnels and caches of weapons.
"The big oil companies use their electronic equipment to discover deposits of oil - and then bring in dowsers to confirm the finds," he said.
Dowsing devices can be made from a variety of materials, including wood and metal. Armstrong said that he has never used willow, but makes his own rods from metal, with ball bearings in the handles because they increase sensitivity.
"I focus on the tip of the rod and mentally image what I'm looking for," he said. "I communicate with the rod and ask it questions that can be answered with 'yes' or 'no.' It's important that you concentrate and stay focused - you can't be a scatterbrain."
However, Armstrong said that anybody can learn to dowse "if they understand the principles and work at it." . . . . . . . . .
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