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  THE SOURCE OF DIVINING ROD MOTION
One of the sources causing the divining rod motion is the brain itself - but the paper does not deal with this source - this is the matter of diviners.
During the indication the divining rods crossed at the place of an imaginary axis of t6e antenna.
Having aimed the Moon by means of the tube, the divining rods crossed analogous to the attempt with the wire antenna.
mujweb.atlas.cz /Veda/placek/source_of_divining_rod_motion.htm   (1185 words)

  
 divining rod - Encyclopedia.com
When he walks over a spot under which water or the desired mineral lies, the stem of the divining rod is supposedly pulled down.
Divining rods are associated by many with witchcraft...
The supernatural state: water divining and the Cape underground water rush, 1891-1910.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-divining.html   (1133 words)

  
 Divining rod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A divining rod (also known as dowsing rod) is an apparatus used in dowsing.
Divining rods are used in dowsing, a type of divination that claims to be able to find underground water, oil, and other mineral resources by means not traditionally accepted by science.
In effect, the mineral or water particles were supposed to be emitted by means of subterraneous heat, or of the fermentations in the interior thereof.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Divining_rod   (415 words)

  
 Divining Health
In my Divining Health approach, pendulum dowsing is used to identify disturbance in 11 energy systems known to influence an individual's feeling and functioning.
Divining is a skill each of us can hone to serve our greatest good, physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually.
Ultimately, divining what is truly health-full for us as humans, individually and as a global community, may be the most powerful approach to conscious evolution that we can develop.
feelingfree.net /awareness/dvining_health.htm   (604 words)

  
 Divining rod - Uncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Divining Rod is a Latvian man whose job it is to find water, wherever this tasty substance may lurk.
Rod has been elemental in cleaning up such H2O disasters as the River Thames, the Atlantic Ocean, and the baby pool you had as a child.
Rod has also aided in healing the wounds of certain SDs such as vaginal waterflow bacteria.
www.uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Divining_rod   (118 words)

  
 Popular Superstitions - Divining Rods
The hazel and willow rods, he has by experience found, will actually answer with all persons in a good state of health, if they are used with moderation, and at some distance of time, and after meals, when the operator is in good spirits.
Having before heard of the Divining Rod, and having little faith in it, I desired him to run after the farmer, which he immediately did; and the farmer told me, if I could get him a hazel rod he could easily find a spring of water, if there was one.
Having procured a rod for the farmer, who, holding it in both his hands, and bending it into a bow, traversed for some little time a likely spot of ground, a little way from the house, and presently said there was a spring of water or goods, in a particular spot.
www.oldandsold.com /articles31n/popular-superstitions-35.shtml   (1159 words)

  
 Do divining rods really work? If so, how?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
As I understand it, a divining rod is used by a dowser or diviner to find something he is looking for, most famously water, but perhaps metal or something else.
Divining rods can be used for divining activities such as locating an underground stream or well, the outside edge of someone’s aura or locating ley-lines.
Although divining has been around in various forms for millennia, the well-known forked stick method appears to have been devised in the mining districts of Germany (you can supposedly find minerals with a dowsing rod, too) in the late 15th or early 16th century.
www.answerbag.com /q_view/7179   (3123 words)

  
 Curious Myths of the Middle Ages:
Some who practised rhabdomancy sustained this species of rod between their thumbs and forefingers; or else the thumb and forefingers were closed, and the rod rested on their points; or again it reposed on the flat of the hand, or on the back, the hand being held vertically and the rod held in equilibrium.
A third species of divining rod consisted in a straight staff cut in two: one extremity of the one half was hollowed out, the other half was sharpened at the end, and this end was inserted in the hollow, and the pointed stick rotated in the cavity.
If the divining rod is put in motion by any other force except the involuntary action of the muscles, we must confine its powers to the property of indicating the presence of flowing water.
www.commonplacebook.com /fiction/myths/ch03   (6181 words)

  
 Mining for Ideas
Dowsing and divining is a natural and integral tool of man. It's history is as old as humanity itself.
The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time.
These brain stilling exercises are effective divining rods to use in your daily mining.
www.outbackonline.net /Alluvial_Mining/Main_Mine_DiviningRods.htm   (264 words)

  
 RealMagick Article: Divining Rods by Sherry Sims
Divining Rods, also know as Dowsing Rods, have been used since ancient times by water witchers, shamans, and wise-ones.
It's also possible that the rods will open for a yes, and cross for a no. If that happens, that is fine, and is the right way for you to use them.
The Doctrine of Signatures as fingerprint of the Divine   by Anja Heij
realmagick.com /articles/93/993.html   (1039 words)

  
 FS ParaPages: Divining Rod Led Searcher to Dead Girl   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
VANCOUVER (CP) - With his trusty divining rod and a strand of hair from a murdered girl, Rex Fitz-Gerald was able to solve a mystery that had confounded more than 400 searchers.
A friend suggested he use his divining rod - also known as dowsing rods - which are generally used for finding water.
His is a metre-long telescoping rod with a stainless-steel coating.
www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/divining.htm   (609 words)

  
 divining rod
The use of the dowsing rod in the searcli for groundwater is a stîll unresolved problem for geophysicists and geologists.
Most dowsers wiIl agree that their own body is actually the observation instrument and that the movement of the rod serves only as an indication, as an amplifier or even as a measure of the sensed reaction.
Therefore this writer is not convinced that the 96 percent success ratio is necessarily due ta the dowsing rod, it could also be due to the dowser's photogeological and other observational skills.
www.evasion.ch /radiesthesie/diviningrod.html   (1861 words)

  
 divining rod — FactMonster.com
divining rod or dowser,stick used in searching for underground water or minerals.
Divining Rod - Divining Rod A forked branch of hazel, suspended by the two prongs between the balls of the thumbs.
Hazel - Hazel (See Divining Rod.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 Related...
www.factmonster.com /ce6/sci/A0815674.html   (184 words)

  
 Rod - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Switch (rod), a long, straight piece of wood, either in the natural state (stem, branch or twig) or finished, as used as a staff (attribute and/or walking aid) or for corporal punishment, or a bundle of such switches
Rod cell is found in the retina and is sensitive to light/dark (fl/white)
Rod (cryptozoology), a species of creature that flits about in the air at such a high speed as to not be seen by the naked eye, but which can be caught on video
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rod   (279 words)

  
 Divining Rod   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Of this rod divination the vulgar notion, still prevalent in the north of England, of the hazel's tendency to a vein of lead ore, a seam or stratum of coal, and the like, seems to be a vestige.
According to one authority, the experiment of a hazel's tendency to a vein of lead ore is limited to St. John Baptist's Eve, and the hazel requires to be of the same year's growth.
With the divining rod apparently is connected a lusus naturoe of ash-tree bough, resembling the lituus of the Roman augur and the Christian pastoral staff, which still maintains a place in the catalogue of popular superstitions.
www.sacredspiral.com /Database/scry/1913b.html   (604 words)

  
 ethics news & views: Following the Divining Rod: beginning movements in ethics and servant leadership
The image of following the divining rod describes the feel of these early stages of our work in the D. Abbott Turner Ethics and Servant Leadership initiative: discovering the places where scholarship and activity toward service to the public good...
The image of following the divining rod describes the feel of these early stages of our work in the D. Abbott Turner Ethics and Servant Leadership initiative: discovering the places where scholarship and activity toward service to the public good lie in the ground of the Emory University community.
First, Greenleaf argues that knowing who one is, who one is becoming, and why one is choosing to become such a person forms the basis of all servant leadership.
www.ethics.emory.edu /news/archives/000224.html   (1301 words)

  
 How to use a Biorad Landspurg System divining rod
When passing directly over a bank, an underground river, the rod of the dowser will be raised and remain raised, (or drop and stay down, depending on the person using the rod).
The rod has two branches which are 50cm long, 5mms diameter and are connected at the end by an aluminium tip.
There is not reacting by the divining rod, no “dowsing signal”, to stagnant waters or from underground piping or drains which are man made.
www.landspurg.com /html/en/06.shtml   (848 words)

  
 What does the Bible say about divining rods?  -- John MacArthur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
And of course the Lord is talking to the children of Israel, warning them that when they enter the land of Israel they’re going to run into all kinds of strange religious customs, and He tells them that these things are an abomination and that they’re not to be involved with them at all.
And here he is speaking about their idolatry, and of course it’s a forbidden thing to consult a divining rod.
Demons get their wishes and their will through all of the various methods mentioned in Deuteronomy 18, and divining rods is simply a way that you release your mind to an outside power, much like a Ouija board, and demonic control can be the result.
www.biblebb.com /files/macqa/1301-F-1.htm   (406 words)

  
 Dowsing - Crystalinks
Map dowsers use a dowsing device, usually a pendulum, over maps to locate oil, minerals, persons, water, etc. However, the prototype of a dowser is the field dowser who walks around an area using a forked stick to locate underground water.
Dowsing is a searching tool that has been used for thousands of years by those who have tried, with the help of a Y shaped rod, to locate underground water, ore bodies, oil and other important resources.
Dowsing, also called divining or water witching, is a generic term for practices which proponents claim empower them to find water, metals, gem stones and hidden objects, usually by fluctuations of some apparatus (typically a Y-shaped twig, rod, rods, or pendulum) over a piece of land or a map.
www.crystalinks.com /dowsing.html   (401 words)

  
 Divining rod is all we have on Harriet Miers - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
Divining rod is all we have on Harriet Miers - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
Divining rod is all we have on Harriet Miers
Since there is no paper trail, the divining rod is drawn back and forth.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2005/Oct/08/op/FP510080307.html   (786 words)

  
 MetroActive | Santa Cruz | Divining Rods
Sign from Rod: Dr. Gene Healy demonstrates the use of a divining rod, traditionally used to find water, but now used to find just about everything--from lost keys to good videos.
In the summer of 1692, a peasant from a village near Lyon made news all over the French countryside when he successfully tracked an accomplice to a grisly murder using a forked stick that twisted in his hands each time he crossed the suspect's path of flight.
Although Grachek still dowses with a rod, mostly for the sake of clients who might find a rod-less water witcher unsettling, both he and his son have refined their dowsing sensibilities to the point that they can see water courses and domes without the aid of dowsing tools.
www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/06.27.96/dowsing-9626.html   (1396 words)

  
 Courses Dowsing Divining with Rod & Pendulum
Everyone has heard of the water diviner at some stage or other but the art of divining itself, goes far back into the dim and distant past.
Today, divining skills are also used in widely varied disciplines, from finding water and searches, through to allergy testing, homeopathy and medical diagnosis.
And, although the divining method is always the same, the information received can be as wide and varied as you like, since it largely depends on the nature of the questions which are asked.
anamspirit.com /courses.html   (541 words)

  
 BookPage Fiction Review: The Divining Rod
Betty, the substitute for Simon's dead mother, walks the golf course with a divining rod, searching futilely for the gold coins her dead husband says he buried in a fairway.
Knight's understated prose gives the book its power, moving slowly, but fully, though the gamut of his character's emotions -- Sam's concern that his wife is too young; Simon's overwhelming sadness; Delia's rationalizations and bald-faced lies; Betty's Sisyphus-like dedication to finding the hidden treasure.
Knight, who concurrently has published a well-received collection of short stories, Dogfight, proves himself a fresh, formidable talent in The Divining Rod, and he has breathed new life into the world's oldest story.
www.bookpage.com /9810bp/fiction/divining_rod.html   (323 words)

  
 The Origins of Popular Supersitions and Customs: Divination and Omens: (4) Divining Rod (Dowsing Rod)
Mr E. Vaughan Jenkins of Westbury and mendip, Wells, Somerset, wrote as follows:--"You may possibly like to hear of my experiences as to the divining rod.
In July, 1876, that very hot summer, the old well under my house became fouled, and the water unfit to drink, so I decided on sinking another well, about one hundred yards from my house, if I were advised that water could be found there.
As yet it is purely unscientific; nobody seems to know why the twig held in the hand becomes agitated when near a spring, but of the fact itself doubt diminishes every year that passes.
www.sacred-texts.com /neu/eng/osc/osc45.htm   (256 words)

  
 Dowsing pendulums and divining rods - The Other Line
This is a quality built rod with solid construction with brass handle, adjustable swivel point and that smooth, silky action.
This spring-loaded rod has very high sensitivity and brings a new dimension to rod dowsing by adding several different movement ranges besides sideways - vertical, diagonal, clock- and counter-clock-rotation.
This rod is similar in action to Bio Tensor® and consists of a wooden handle and two probes: gold-plated spring wire with a wooden ball and gold-plated spring wire and ring.
www.diviningmind.com /volvoline.html   (1030 words)

  
 Dowsers in Ireland Irish Society of Diviners
Due to the deaths of three of the leading members in 1965, the Society became dormant for a period, reviving again in May 1976 due to the efforts of Mrs.
As often as not the first resort was 'send him to Wilson', and Wilson at the Old Gasworks in Montgomery Street would pass the rod over a large sheet of the town to spot the location - as of then - of the missing money, straying ducks, or whatever.
This condition, of course, was what the anti-clockwise circuit of the rod hsad already indicated to the dowser.
anamspirit.com /society.html   (572 words)

  
 Dowsing is in the Bible!
A book entitled "The Divining Rod," states this about the condition of the dowser: "The holder of the rod generally appears exhausted by the effort; in some cases he complains of sickness or giddiness, occasionally the pulse rises, he breaks out in a violent perspiration, and trembles all over."(1)
The SORCERER who wished to use it [the rod] grasps the butt-end of the rod in his right fist, and after burning incense and scattering sacrificial rice, repeats the appropriate charm, which commences with a summons to the spirit to descend from the mountains and enter into his embodiment.
The result is that the tip of the rod commences to rotate with rapidly increasing velocity, until the SORCERER loses consciousness in which case the rod will point in the direction of any sort of lost or hidden treasure, which it may be the object of the operation to discover.(5)
www.fortunecity.com /millennium/newchurch/92/dowsing.htm   (1687 words)

  
 Healing Cancer Naturally: Geopathic Stress: Definition, Symptoms & Role In Cancer Development. Suggested 'Home-Made' ...
Benedictine monk and alchemist Basilius Valentinus leaves detailed instructions on the use of the divining rod in his testament.
Dowsers and diviners were used on all fronts of World War I to detect water, caves and duds.
These three are using a dowsing rod, a pendulum, and a compass.
www.healingcancernaturally.com /geopathic-stress-and-cancer.html   (3069 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - divining rod (Metallurgy And Mining: Terms And Concepts) - Encyclopedia
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