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Dowsing Revelations
by Jacqueline Froelich
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The opening to the cave looked like the entrance to a sepulcher. Large, weathered cut limestone blocks were stacked around the small arched passageway. Although it was a hot, muggy spring day, the air inside the mountain cave felt cool. The dripping stone walls veered off into various dark rooms and tunnels. From its depth a small spring emerged, trickling out and down the mountain into the dappled sunlight.
We had just finished our research. The three of us were lined up on the path outside the cave, arms at our sides, staring straight ahead. Harold walked slowly towards us with his head down, pointing the sharp metal object directly at us.
I was first.
I stood there, completely still, watching the blunt instrument as it approached my solar plexus. Approximately five feet from my body, it began to turn, almost as if some invisible force was pushing it aside.
"Boy, you have a lot of energy," Harold said. "Most people's energy field radiates out no more than afoot."
Since childhood, I've always had a profound amount of energy, which has gotten me into trouble from time to time. I responded with, "So what else is new?" Everyone laughed.
Harold continued to "check" my "aura" resonance. He walked toward me from the left, from behind, and on my right. The inverted L-shaped dowsing rod reacted in much the same way, turning five feet from me, no matter what direction.
"Yep. No doubt about it. You are one strong young lady," Harold said.
I felt rather invincible as Harold moved on to Barbara. She stood quietly grinning as Harold measured her energy field. The rod turned one foot away from her on three sides, but when he measured Barbara on her left, the rod barely turned.
"Oh, now that's interesting," Barbara exclaimed. "I fell off a ladder recently and my left shoulder has been giving me lots of trouble." None of us had been aware of this incident.
Totally absorbed by the experiment, Sunny, the last to be "dowsed", was anxious not only to be tested, but to test as well. After her energy field checked out at a healthy two-foot circumference, Harold showed her how to hold the copper rod upright but tilted slightly downward in its loose brass casing so that it would take a definite force to move it left or right.
Sunny was immediately successful as a neophyte dowser. She proceeded to dowse all of us, some nearby trees, even the dog. She has since decided to become an apprentice to Harold.
For several years, the Water Center has had a keen interest in the phenomenon of Dowsing and we have had the good fortune of learning from and working with Harold McCoy, an internationally recognized expert dowser and trustee of the American Society of Dowsers. Along with his wife Gladys, who is President of the Fayetteville chapter of the American Society of Dowsers, Harold has recently founded the Ozark Research Institute, dedicated to investigating, researching and teaching the "power of thought".
Dowsing or "water witching", an ancient method of locating underground water with the use of a wooden or metal hand-held instrument, is a common practice in many cultures as well as here in the Ozark bioregion. Any elder Ozarkian will have some sort of "witching" tale to tell.
It has only been in the past decade, however, that dowsing has evolved into other realms. Not only are dowsers locating underground sources of water and minerals, they are becoming adept at locating lost objects and hidden treasures, many times from long distances by simply using a map of the given area along with a pointer and a pendulum.
The pendulum, a common tool used by most dowsers, is a small weighted object suspended from a cord or chain, held between the fingers. Allowed to swing freely, the pattern the pendulum makes -swinging in a circular motion clockwise or counterclockwise, forward or backwards, left or right - will determine the answer to any given question. The pendulum moves differently for each individual. For some, a "yes" will find the pendulum moving left and right, while for others it will move in a circular motion. Research with pendulum motion indicates that the movement can be attributed to subtle, involuntary autonomic muscle contractions of the wrist and arm in reaction to the subconscious.
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