Pixxx
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Re: Lets Blow this Dowsing Lark off Finally!
Apr 09, 2006, 08:17
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Well he's not very clever then is he?
Pix xx
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TheBear
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Re: Lets Blow this Dowsing Lark off Fina
Apr 09, 2006, 08:29
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From the dictionary paranormal is defined as:
par·a·nor·mal
adj.
Beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation:
I think dowsing can be described as such....
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Pixxx
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Re: Lets Blow this Dowsing Lark off Fina
Apr 09, 2006, 08:33
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Well the dictionary definition of dowsing is:
To use a divining rod to search for underground water or minerals.
Dunt say nowt about it being paranormal!
Not that I'm disagreeing with you. I just wanted it explaining thats all, since personally I don't see dowsing as anything beyond normal and I'm a bit dim, like.
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nigelswift
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Re: Lets Blow this Dowsing Lark off Fina
Apr 09, 2006, 09:29
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Well the dictionary is a bit out of date then, surely?
I wonder, is there is a known date when the original concept of ley lines got extended to include the idea that they were lines of unmeasurable energy, detectable by dowsing?
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Pixxx
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Re: Lets Blow this Dowsing Lark off Fina
Apr 09, 2006, 09:48
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"By the 1970s self-styled dowsers or water diviners had seized the nettle and were claiming that leys could be dowsed on the ground (and on the map!) and that ancient prehistoric sites were places of power situated at node points on a great global grid of spiritual energy."
http://www.leyhunter.com/begin/be2.htm
I've not cross checked this.
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nigelswift
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Re: Lets Blow this Dowsing Lark off Fina
Apr 09, 2006, 15:45
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It seems that modern leyhunters - the Society of Ley Hunters - take leys to be what Watkins did, and completely reject the invisible dowsable energy aspect.
Perhaps in fairness believers in energy lines should have invented their own term, not hijacked leys. They are clearly talking about something else altogether.
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Pixxx
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Re: Lets Blow this Dowsing Lark off Fina
Apr 09, 2006, 21:36
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I think you may have pinned it.
Or at least for me you have.
I've certainly dowsed - and successfully. But for ley lines? I'm certain I'm not sure.
Thankyou. I'm actually quite clever but my mind prevents me from being so.
Jasamine xx
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nigelswift
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Re: Lets Blow this Dowsing Lark off Fina
Apr 10, 2006, 00:11
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"I feel Watkins followed the practical lines, around hills and obsticals, but always back to it's true course."
My impression is that he took the line he observed to be the line . That it was a deviation from a truer, dead straight line is something that you propose, from a belief in energies, but not something he suggested. I'm happy to be corrected though.
"If you read through the ley hunter article in full, you will find reference to spirit tracks etc, these are seperate.
Again, I took those to be a postulated theory about the possible beliefs of the ancient peoples regarding the leys, nothing more. I didn't notice any suggestion that there were any "tracks" other than the visibly observed ones. Once again, i wonder whether you are taking the common or garden tracks that are studied by the leyhunters and making them something else.
By all means theorise about energy lines, but why not go straight to them, rather than via leys - since as you say, leys and energy lines don't even occupy the same geographical positions.
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Wiggy
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Re: Lets Blow this Dowsing Lark off Finally!
Apr 10, 2006, 12:13
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Oh ok, I take it back. A fit of pique.
But ..... if people don't want a dowsing thread, they know what not to do, don't they?
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tiompan
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Re: Lets Blow this Dowsing Lark off Fina
Apr 10, 2006, 16:04
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Kevin ,Dunno if you were awareof this but in the the last but one of British Archaeology there was a wee bit on dowsing and Sue Brown of the Archaeological Dowsing Group had an address for anyone wanting to work with an experienced dowser or have any info on validated dowsing . Address = [email protected]
apologies if this is old hat.
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