THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS

NOVEMBER '26 NEWSLETTER FEATURED ARTICLE

ASD DIGEST

VOLUME 44, NO.2 – SPRING 2004

OUR DOWSING SENSES

By VERONIKA STRONG

Life's solutions are usually simple and so it seems is dowsing. We pick up energies, but we can't quite explain where the information is coming from and how to interpret it. The information is relayed by our senses. Our senses make us aware of what is going on around us. We see, hear, feel, taste or smell. However, the awareness of what we sense is limited. Our awareness is the level at which we perceive and understand everything that is going on around us, but our senses may limit our awareness. 

The eyes, although our sight may be good, can only perceive the color spectrum from red to violet. If we want to see more, we either need X-ray machines or special infrared equipment. Animals like birds, insects and nocturnal creatures have much better sight than we have. 

Some animals have extraordinary eyesight. Birds can see from high above the ground when a small animal, like a mouse, or even an insect, moves on the ground. The night animals in the jungle, such as possums, see little insects in complete darkness, which is far beyond our awareness. We need special equipment to see what the animals can see naturally. It would be easy to say it does not exist, but we do know it exists, we are just not aware. Our senses limit us. 

Although our hearing is quite good, it is again limited. An elderly corgi can hear a hot-air balloon miles away when it is hardly visible and she will let us know. We all know about bats and their extraordinary hearing.

Elephants communicate at great distances with a very low rumble between different herds, yet we can't hear it; we can only detect it with special computer-enhanced equipment. It is also said that the elephants pick up sensory information from one herd to the other through their feet. We are not aware of the sound or the vibration.

It's the same for the sense of smell. Dogs are used for tracking, from drugs to humans - yet our sense of smell isn't good enough to keep us on a track. Insects smell the tiniest fraction of a scent miles away. Again, we realize it exists, but our awareness is limited.

So here we are, multi-sensory beings with only limited awareness. We can't say that nothing exists beyond our awareness, as we do know it is all there. So, what is happening?

If we were aware of every piece of sensory information that is going on around us it would cause an information overload. There are many thousands of sensory messages every second of our lives, and if we had to process each and every one of them, we would simply go mad. All the information gets lodged in the subconscious mind, which after all, runs our body. If we were aware of every breath every heartbeat, and, for that matter, every function of our body, we would have no time to do anything else. The subconscious mind only releases information to the conscious mind when it is of benefit. In other words, we don't notice our body temperature unless when we are too hot or too cold, or we notice our breath when we are out of breath, and our heartbeat when it is too fast.

I am sure you will all remember the story of the fire chief yelling at all his firefighting men when they were in the middle of a burning building. They were ordered to stop immediately and get out quick. This is usually not what fire chiefs do! In this case, as the last one got out, the whole building collapsed. Something in the chief's mind had alerted him to danger, and as a consequence he managed to save all the men's lives. There is another example of a mother with a new baby. If the mother was to sleep in another room away from the baby, surrounded by all sorts of noise, with children playing somewhere else in the house, music going, and traffic noise outside, this mother would sleep through it all. But if the baby next door would as much as make a little noise (without a baby monitor), the mother would be awake and alert in an instant. How can we explain that?

She sleeps through all the loud noise but the tiniest noise from the baby and she is wide awake. There is no impending danger in this case.

Our awareness is in a constant state of flux; however, at the moment of any action or decision, something seems to change. We can only do what our awareness allows us to do. To stop us from going mad with the thousands of sensory messages bombarding us all the time, our brain has a protection in place. This system protects us from a brain overload; it is called reticular formation or reticular activated system. A network of nerve cells are scattered throughout the brainstem and the base of our brain. The brainstem is the so-called highway of messages and controls several of our subconscious automatic functions such as breathing, eye reflexes, etc. The work of the brainstem is below our consciousness and operates largely on an automatic basis. This reticular activated system is acting as the watchdog for sensory information, alerting the higher brain centers to either new or important sensory stimuli that need a conscious response.

These reticular formation cells will allow information to get through which is either of benefit (mother and baby) or a warning of danger (firemen). How often do we get a sudden 'message' to change direction or stop what we are doing. Our subconscious mind has all the information, but we only let through to the conscious mind what we need to know.

So what has that got to do with dowsing?

Most dowsers, I am sure, are aware of deviceless dowsing which means we use body signals to get a 'yes' or 'no'. The main sense we use for nonverbal communication (see, feel, taste, smell or hear) will be the easiest to use for deviceless dowsing.

How many dowsers feel geopathic stress with their hands, or in my case, get instant cold feet? There are people who clearly hear a warning in a dangerous situation, or see an aura, taste danger, or smell a change in life.

We pick up with our bodies all the energies around us, even though we may not be aware of doing so. When people get ill in a geopathically stressed house, their body is simply giving them a message.

Nearly everyone with geopathic stress in the house will confirm that they don't know why, but they usually don't like the house, or they have a 'feeling' in a particular room, or they don't sleep well. All messages from the body alert the person to some kind of danger.

So as dowsers we are asking the question for which we need to know the answer. For the answer, we need to extend our awareness; all the information and knowledge is in our subconscious.

Have you ever wondered that you never noticed something before, and when it becomes of benefit or of value, you see it everywhere! Take a car for instance. You want to buy a new car. As soon as you make up your mind what you want, from that moment on you see that car everywhere. That car hasn't come out of nowhere; it is only your awareness that has changed. Dowsing is an extension of our awareness to get the answer on a need-to-know basis. The answer will be released from the subconscious mind as soon as it is of benefit to us.

Does that not make sense?

Veronika Stone, author, dowser, and healer with her husband Christopher, give lectures, classes and professional dowsing help to a varied clientele. steppingstones8@btopenworld.com. Telephone: #01386833899. They live in Evesham, England.