Dowsing for Everyone 1

• This gives instances for generating the term Homolog. The first involves the use of a map, or even a sketch of an area, to find where water may lie. The results are duplicated when walking the land directly. The second involves asking simple questions, to get Yes or No answers, when asked with sincere, focussed intent. One may find any water, or potable water, or potable water from a vein of a water dome, by changing the specific question.
• Henry Howells the author has several brief summations:
• Almost anyone can dowse. However, different people need different types of rods, or even a simple hand. The odds are roughly 4 to 1 that a person who has never tried it will show some ability.
• Approach the subject with an open mind. If you are laughing and embarassed, you will fail.
• Success is most likely when there is a need. It need not be a major need; it is enough to show non-believers that dowsing might work. It is enough to do it to sharped skills. It should not be a greedy materialistic desire.
• Avoid errant thoughts and mental deviations from the search. This can be through keeping the mind blank, or through staying with a single mental image.
• Flippancy can diminish or even destroy the ability of the dowser.
• The question must be phrased specifically to get an accurate answer. Asking questions such as if a vein is 100 feet down, 20 feet down, or would give a flow of five gallons a minute or seven gallons a minute get numerical accuracy. However, once the investigator was admiring the lush turned fall vegitation on the other side of the Connecticut River, and walking had his rods indicate that he was walking across a culvert.
• Record your findings as they are made and check them against results. Don't equivicate with "maybe" or "perhaps" for only absolute self-honesty convinces absolutely.
• Adherence to the truth is the cornerstone of dowsing.
• There is much more to dowsing than the ability to locate water. It has been arround at least 6000 years, as cave paintings in the Sahara at Tassili-n-Ajer that were found in 1939 by archeologist Henry Llote attest. Dowsers have estimated that since colonial days, over three hundred thousand wells have been dowsed.

• The book is by Harvy Howells and was published by the Stephen Greene Press of Brattleboro, Vermont in 1979, with ISBN 0-8289-0341-7 and BF1628.H68.