Dowsing is contentious

Dowsing is contentious, there's no doubt about that. Scientists have conducted experiments that have shown dowsing for water under experimental conditions returned only the same results as expected by chance. But even if the data from experimental conditions suggests looking fro water doesn't appear to return anything greater than chance that doesn't mean that practical useful applications of dowsing for whatever one is looking for should always be ignored and dismissed as nonsense.

Dowsing is simply the externalizing of an internal process. Everybody is capable of dowsing. To an uninterested on-looker it appears as though a dowser is randomly responding to chance movements of a device in their hand.

But to the dowser, the actual instrument is secondary to the process of searching for information that is going on within their mind. This is a practice as old as mankind itself - Shamanic journeying, travelling to meet aspects of one's environment to receive answers (whatever those aspects are "real" or "imaginary") has been occurring for eons. Dowsing is a process of exercising one's intuition. many scientists, although using intuition every day cannot define a place for intuition in experimentation.

Dowsing is based upon mindful observation of the inner world which allows the information about the external world to penetrate to awareness. It is a practice of active observation which allies itself quite naturally to many so called spiritual practices such as meditation.

Scientific experiments in Israel in 1998 found that the more human beings watched their world then the greater their effect upon it was.

Our reality is affected by the way we perceive it, whether that be through our well-understood psychological processes such as our ever-present cognitive bias (our ability to perceive most easily that which we are looking for), or through more esoteric practices such as intentional focused awareness and observation.

Dowsing is an ancient way to access intuition and while there are definitely ways that we can be misled with it there are also ways it can provide very interesting and useful results... and not just when dowsing for water.

To me the question is not whether dowsing is valid or not, but how do we harness such intuitive potential in human beings and what can we learn from it that enables our world to be a less painful place for so many.

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