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    The Essential Dowsing Guide
    The Essential Dowsing Guide
    The Essential Dowsing Guide
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    The Essential Dowsing Guide

    By Dennis Wheatley

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    Dowsing can be defined as the skill of being able to detect invisible targets. Dowsing specialists can find anything from mineral lodes, precious metals, gas, oil, and water supplies, to lost objects, animals and people. This comprehensive introduction explains:

    What dowsing is and why anyone can do it.
    The history of dowsing and famous dowsers through time.
    Instructions on which dowsing tools to use, how best to use them, and different ways of dowsing.
    A list of ancient sites with particular dowsing energy.

    Dennis Wheatley was considered to be one of the top-dowsing teachers in Britain and his clear and well-formatted dowsing instructions are quickly grasped. During his dowsing career, Dennis taught hundreds of people how to dowse, including several famous authors and celebrities. Many professional dowsers agree that his teaching methods simply cannot be improved upon.

    This timeless book written by a Master Dowser is the only introduction you will ever need.

    Review in Fortean Times Magazine by Steve Marshall
    Dennis Wheatley (not the occult novelist) was a renowned master dowser and teacher. His definitive guide, originally published as The Principles of Dowsing, was out of print for many years so this new edition is a welcome return. Well written, clear and concise, it makes fascinating reading, whatever one’s prior opinion of dowsing. Inspired by the work of Guy Underwood, Tom Lethbridge and Hamish Miller, there is a strong bias towards the ‘Earth Mysteries’ dowsing of ancient sites, standing stones and ‘energy lines’. One particularly interesting chapter on water divining is based on the notes and papers Wheatley inherited from Underwood.

    Starting from the basics, with instructions for making coat-hanger dowsing rods, we are led through many styles and techniques of dowsing, such as the use of pendulums – for dowsing maps, as a method of divination, or even for finding lost items around the house. Each chapter concludes with tips and exercises for developing one’s own dowsing skill and accuracy. Wheatley explores some of dowsing’s history and cites a good deal of research into how it may work. For anyone wishing to learn to dowse, this is indeed an essential guide.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOzark Mountain Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateJan 17, 2022
    ISBN9781005920975
    The Essential Dowsing Guide
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    Dennis Wheatley

    Dennis Yates Wheatley (1897–1977) was an English author whose prolific output of stylish thrillers and occult novels made him one of the world's best-selling writers from the 1930s through the 1960s. His Gregory Sallust series was one of the main inspirations for Ian Fleming's James Bond stories. Born in South London, he was the eldest of three children of an upper-middle-class family, the owners of Wheatley & Son of Mayfair, a wine business. He admitted to little aptitude for schooling, and was expelled from Dulwich College. Soon after his expulsion Wheatley became a British Merchant Navy officer cadet on the training ship HMS Worcester. During the Second World War, Wheatley was a member of the London Controlling Section, which secretly coordinated strategic military deception and cover plans. His literary talents gained him employment with planning staffs for the War Office. He wrote numerous papers for the War Office, including suggestions for dealing with a German invasion of Britain. During his life, he wrote more than 70 books which sold over 50 million copies.

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      The Essential Dowsing Guide - Dennis Wheatley

      The Essential Dowsing Guide

      ______________________________________________________________________________________

      by

      Dennis Wheatley

      Table of Contents

      Title Page

      Preface

      Chapter 1: Dowsing Perceptions

      Chapter 2: Mental Dowsing Principles

      Chapter 3: Physical Dowsing Principles

      Chapter 4: Earth Energies

      Chapter 5: Aerial Energy Dowsing

      Chapter 6: Water Diving

      Chapter 7: High Frequency Vibrational Dowsing

      Chapter 8: Dowsing Fissure Systems

      Chapter 9: The Medieval Masons' Design Secrets

      Chapter 10: Geopathic Stress Zones

      Chapter 11: Electromagnetic Radiations (EMRs)

      Chapter 12: Concluding Comments

      Chapter 13: Glossary of Dowsing Terms

      Chapter 14: Places of Interest

      Chapter15: Divining Sacred Space Workshops

      About the Author

      Originally titled: The Principles of Dowsing

      First published in 2000 by Thorsons an imprint of Harper Collins Second edition 20l0 published by Celestial Songs Press

      Third edition 2012 published by Ozark Mountain Publishing, Inc.

      © 2012 by Dennis Wheatley

      All rights reserved. No part of this book, in part or in whole, may be reproduced , transmitted or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic, photographic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from Ozark Mountain Publishing , Inc. except for brief quotations embodied in literary articles and reviews.

      For permission, serialization, condensation, adaptions, or for our catalog of other publications, write to Ozark Mountain Publishing, Inc., P.O. Box 754, Huntsville, AR 72740, ATTN: Permissions Department.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Wheatley, Dennis - 1928-2006

      The Essential Dowsing Guide, by Dennis Wheatley

      A comprehensive introduction to dowsing by one of Britain's top dowsing instructors. This timeless book written by a Master Dowser is the only introduction you will ever need.

      1. Dowsing 2. Ancient Sites 3. Dowsing Tools 4. Famous Dowsers

      I. Wheatley, Dennis, 1928-2006 II. Dowsing III. Title

      Cover Art and Layout: www.noir33.com

      Book set in: Times New Roman

      Book Design: Tab Pillar

      Published by:

      WWW.OZARKMT.COM

      Dedicated to those dowsers who influenced my dowsing perceptions:

      Guy Underwood, Tom Lethbridge,

      Dr. J. Havelock Fidler, and Hamish Miller,

      Also,

      Bernhard, a German Master-Dowser who paced the ancient sites with me, revealed incredible new dowsing dimensions, and persuaded me to put pen to paper.

      Preface

      When I first started to dowse, there was still a school of thought existing that one should not teach anyone to dowse, apart from demonstrating the first elementary reaction of dowsing rods or pendulums. The idea was that beginners had to find out everything for themselves from their own inner teacher and not absorb ideas or concepts from other people.

      This hard line approach had a certain truth in it, but it meant very few people could or were prepared to venture into an apprenticeship in the art of dowsing. However, over recent years things have changed dramatically. There are now advanced dowsing tutors ready to impart to beginners not only the dowsing rudiments but also a much wider knowledge, which can only be acquired by extensive study and years of practice.

      One of these highly advanced teachers is Dennis Wheatley. Some of his teachings have developed from the works of the late Guy Underwood, who discovered the geodetic system of earth energies, as well as from later exponents of other earth energy systems.

      This book is a comprehensive guide for both novices and experienced dowsers alike. None of us can become experts in all of the fields of dowsing, but gradually we find an area of the principles of dowsing discipline that really appeals to us and works well for us. It is at this stage that our inner teacher takes over, and we discover things that are especially meaningful.

      So, even this truly excellent book-comprehensive though it is-is not the full story of dowsing. No book can ever make that claim; however, once you have read it and feel attracted by its contents, you will, no doubt, be influenced to progress in your own way. This is the author's main message.

      We do not use dowsing, said Enid Smithett, a well-known exponent of the art. Dowsing uses us.

      So let Dennis Wheatley become your guide and this book your reference and move on from there.

      Sir Charles Jessel, B.T.

      Past President and Honorary Life Vice-President

      of the British Society of Dowsers

      Chapter 1: Dowsing Perceptions

      Dowsing is popularly associated with water finding, conjuring up visions of old men using Y-shaped twigs which mysteriously react when approaching a water supply in the earth. Down the ages there have been many celebrated water diviners. Such dowsers exist today with incredible skills. George Applegate finds water supplies when dowsing from aircraft and has not made a mistake in fifteen years, but the scope of dowsing is much wider than water finding.

      Defining Dowsing

      Dowsing can be simply defined as the skill of detecting invisible targets. This being so, its scope is limited only by the imagination. For example, some dowsers specialize in the following fields:

      Water, oil, gas supplies, mineral lodes, soil analysis, precious metals, archaeological remains, treasure troves, medical diagnosis, finding lost objects, finding lost people, map dowsing.

      The list could be extended indefinitely.

      Many dowsers are adept at finding earth energy flows and exotic patterns, which interlace the surface of the planet. On a more prosaic level, underground public utilities-from water pipes to sewers-can be accurately located by dowsing.

      How to Dowse

      Most people need to dowse with a dowsing tool, such as an L­ rod or pendulum as shown in the illustration.

      Angle Rods and Pendulums

      The rod can be made from a metal coat hanger, piano wire, or fencing wire. The tube can be of metal or plastic, such as a ballpoint pen casing. Tube retention can be achieved by bending the rod's end or using a grommet as shown. A pendulum can be made of wood, crystal, brass, or Perspex in weights from 2.5 g to 10 g. The cord can be a fine twine or chain.

      Dowsing tools act as indicators when a dowsing target is found. An L-rod will swivel, and a pendulum will gyrate. The dowsing tools do not respond to the target. The body reacts to the target, and the dowsing tools respond to a dowsing reflex mechanism. Theories abound as to what the dowsing mechanism is. These we will discuss later. L-rods are easy to make from wire coat hangers, piano or fencing wire. A pendulum can be of any weight with the bob being from 2 ½ to 10 grams, suspended on a fine cord, twine or chain. Some dowsers need no dowsing tools, and this is known as device­less dowsing. They intuitively sense the target or may have tingling feelings in their body.

      The Sixth Sense

      Dowsing is a form of sixth sense latent in all of us which has atrophied in modem man. After all, why dowse for water when it is on tap in the home? Guy Underwood believed the dowsing sixth sense to be an atavism inherited from our remote ancestors, the early tool-making hominids to whom it was invaluable in the evolutionary survival stakes. Most people do not realize they have this sixth sense, but it can be easily triggered and with practice developed to professional standards. In over ten years of teaching dowsing, I have not found a person who could not dowse. Children adapt to dowsing much more easily than adults as they carry less mental baggage, biases, and prejudices. They learn rapidly and

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