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Dowsing Revelations
by Jacqueline Froelich
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Dowsers are also concerned with geopathogenic or what they call "noxious" energies which emanate from the earth's crust that tend to negatively influence the electromagentic fields in the environment. By diverting or dispersing these negative fields through dowsing, a positive, more healthful environment will result. Dowsing has come a long way since the early days, according to Harold. Born in 1932 on Bohannon Mountain in northwest Arkansas, he learned to dowse as a small boy. "In those days when someone needed a well, you got a pick and a shovel and started digging down a hole six or eight feet across. But no farmer would be crazy enough to start digging a hole without somebody saying there was water down there, so you'd always call a water witch in. Usually it would be some old guy who would come, find a peach tree, cut a limb into a forked stick and walk around until he found a spot to dig 25 or 30 feet down for water." One day, after the water witch had finished and flipped the forked stick aside, Harold picked it up and discovered that the stick moved downward for him just as it had for the dowser.
Harold soon forgot this boyhood adventure when he joined the army. After serving as a military career officer for several decades, Major McCoy retired from the U.S. Armed Forces in 1973, returned to the Ozarks and purchased a 75-acre farm. "There were no buildings or water on the property, so 1 cut a peach tree limb, walked around and there was one spot where it really went down," Harold said. "I had a driller come out. He drilled a well and hit water exactly at the same depth that I had dowsed." Since that event, Harold's life began to change. People began calling him to come out and dowse their place. Motivated to practice his craft out of service, Harold would never request a fee. Word of mouth traveled quickly and in no time he developed a reputation as a modern-day expert dowser.
After decades of working with hundreds of dowsers and researching their methods and records, Harold is convinced that dowsing can be explained as clairvoyance.
"Dowsing is a universal phenomenon based upon natural law," Harold said. "Dowsing based upon the power of thought. A lot of people think when you dowse, you are picking up the vibrations of the water with the help of the forked stick or dowsing rod. But it's really the power of thought. Today dowsers can locate water long distance in a region thousands of miles away from them. Obviously, then, no dowsing sticks are involved. Dowsing is a function of the mind, rather than a physical or electrical connection between the stick and the water. We are connected to everything on earth. Once we realize this, we are unlimited by our imagination."
From his dowsing experiences, Harold has discovered that the power of thought extends to various realms of life and matter. Through the use of prayer and meditation, he concentrates on consciously raising his higher mind into what he calls the "Universal Mind," using creative imagination to serve others.
Looking me square in the face, Harold said with conviction, "With focus and the realization that anything is possible, I am able to do such things as divert underground streams of water and find lost objects." A year ago, he helped a woman in California find her lost harp. Working with his pendulum and maps, he successfully located the musical instrument without physically searching for it.
A slender man in his late 50's with fine features and keen ability to focus his attention on the subject at hand, Harold is always eager to discuss his craft. However, whenever we visit, he will usually attempt to counter his metaphysical work with statements like, "Who would have thought I'd be involved in these things? I'm a career military man!" Both he and Gladys's conservative appearance contradict the fact that they are cutting-edge noetic scientific explorers.
In demand and constantly traveling to speaking engagements allover the country, Harold also directs national and regional dowsing conferences and schools. His energetic and enthusiastic approach to the mysteries of life is contagious and inspiring. Harold asserts that anyone can learn to dowse. All that is necessary is a dowsing tool -a cut branch, bent wires or rods purchased from a dowsing implement supplier -and the intent to locate something. Although dowsing appears to be easy, it takes a great deal of concentration and practice.
With the tool in hand, the dowser must stand quietly, keeping in mind what it is she wants to find, perhaps a lost object or an underground source of water. Although dowsing techniques differ, a basic method involves holding the instrument upright in a loosely balanced position and walking in any direction. The rods will move either downward or turn depending on the style of tool being used, indicating the location of the water vein or object. Cross checking is accomplished by approaching the area from the other three directions.
Dowsing works beyond the five senses utilizing the principle of thought projection, Harold said. "It's not the tool; it's the individual and the intent. The intent is what opens it up. It comes when you ask the question with an open mind. It's just the energy, this wonderful life force that everybody's floating around in."
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