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Einstein himself respected dowsing and what it implied. He said:
“I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as a type of ancient superstition.
According to my conviction this is, however, unjustified. 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.”
THIS SHOW - SATURDAY – July 16, 2016 - 11:05 AM
We are going to have the privilege of having one of the county’s great Dowsers on our show,
Gary Plapp. Gary has recently attended the West Coast Dowser’s conference in Santa Cruz.
Gary has been training people in dowsing for decades. Some are concerned about the “woowoo” aspects of dowsing. Is it magic? Dowsing has been used around the world practically
since the beginning of time, to find optimum locations for wells, locate underground resources,
to “clear” energies in your home or on you property, and also to just simply ask questions from
a pendulum for guidance. Join us to find out about how you too can use dowsing in in your life
as yet another wonderful too for self-sufficiency.
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Dowsing
What is it? ....
Most people have heard about the old-timers that dowsed to
locate water using a tree branch. The practice is sometimes
called “witching” or “divining“, although there are many different
names for it. Finding an underground water source is very
useful, but dowsing can be SO MUCH MORE!
There are various methods of dowsing and many types of
tools. Dowsing is a practical, decision-making process, and uses
a tool to bridge the analytical and intuitive sides of our being.
The dowser intuitively searches or “divines” for a visible
response from a tool, usually rods or a pendulum.
History....
References to dowsing are found all over the world in most cultures. There are
pictoglyphs of dowsing on cave walls dating back as early as 6000 BC. References to
dowsing also appear at several places in the Bible.
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Dowsers have suffered a lot of ridicule over the ages, which is usually the case when
people don't understand something that has no apparent explanation.
So, how does it work? ....
To put it simply, we don't know. Although there are several
theories, science cannot prove how it works. It is said that around
90% of what makes up our reality in this world, cannot be
experienced through our five senses.
Dowsing is explained as an intuitive connection to the sub-conscious which is able to
tap into the "universal consciousness" or "mind of God". Some relate it to the
holographic idea - God is within and God is all-knowing. The dowser "tunes in" to the
information similar to meditation. Others say dowsing is related to kinesiology or
"muscle testing". Kinesiology is done by holding a thought or question in your mind
while testing the truth or positive reaction from your sub-conscious through a muscle
response.
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What can dowsing be used for?....
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Locating underground water domes and veins
Determining the water depth and flow rate
Finding lost objects
Agricultural purposes such as soil analysis and crop
selection
Locating oil or mineral deposits
Energizing water or food
Locating subtle earth energies such as grid lines, vortex
areas
Balancing energies
Identifying health problems, allergies, etc.
Removing harmful energies
Indicating beneficial foods or supplements
Sending healing energies
Finding answers to questions that cannot be answered by
rational thought process or scientific methodology
Practically anything you can think of!
various dowsing tools... V-rod, l-rods and several types of pendulums
The different dowsing tools....
Dowsing tools can be made of any material - plastic, metal, wood, etc. A pendulum
for example can simply be made from a string tied to a metal nut or any suitable object.
“Y” or “V” rod - dowser holds the two open ends, rods respond by bending up or
down
“L” or angle rod - dowser holds the short sides with the long sides being horizontal
and parallel, rods respond by crossing or opening wider
Wand or bobber - a single 3-4’ rod held at the thinner end, response is bobbing up
and down or moving sideways back and forth
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Pendulum - dowser holds the string about 5-6” up, keeping arm and hand as still as
possible, pendulum responds by swinging up and down, right to left, or circling clockwise
or counter-clockwise
Charts - pendulum points to answer, range or percentage
Maps - with pendulum, a grid narrows the location of what you're looking for to a
specific area
Keys to successful dowsing....
There is no right or wrong way, just what works for you. The dowser has to learn to
"tune in" mentally to the process, which actually means getting your mind out of the
way and letting your sub-conscious take over.
The scientific part of dowsing is asking the right question and knowing how to
"phrase" the question. You must be open to whatever answer is brought forth and not
be emotionally connected to a specific outcome. Remember you are simply searching for
"truth". Dowsing is an skill that anyone can learn, and like most things, it takes a little
time and practice.
Books and dowsing groups....
The Future is Yours, Do Something About It!, Raymon Grace
Dowsing for Beginners, Richard Webster
American Society of Dowsers, regional and local chapters Ohio Buckeye Dowsers, monthly meetings in Richfield, OH
info. - Jim Davis 330-981-3300
LINK:
http://earthsongfarm.com/dowsing.html
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Meet the 'Water Witcher' Who Is Helping
California Farmers Deal with Drought
By Lauren Rothman
March 26, 2014
Sharron, the water witcher, in the field. Photo courtesy of Sharron Hope
I live in a city and I’ve never seen a water well. It sounds exotic, or even fictional. I just turn on my faucet,
water comes out, and I don’t have to consider its source.
Here in the eastern United States, we’re doing OK when it comes to precipitation, but our West Coast neighbors
are seriously suffering from a terrible drought. California—often referred to as our nation’s “breadbasket”
because it grows nearly half of all domestically produced fruits, vegetables, and nuts—is deep into its second
year of reduced rainfall, the likes of which the state hasn’t seen since the 70s. That much food on the line means
a lot of profits are in danger. With this year’s drastically reduced crop yields, food prices across the country are
rapidly increasing. In the next few months, the prices of artichokes, celery, broccoli, and cauliflower could rise
by 10 percent.
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The devastating drought in California. Photo by Flickr user Ingrid Taylar
These high stakes are making California farmers both desperate and creative, because they’re looking for ways
to find water underground since it refuses to fall from the sky. A couple of weeks ago, an article about “water
witches” caught my eye. The piece described so-called witches in California using the age-old technique of the
divining rod—usually just a tree branch—to tap into energy fields below the surface of the land to locate
groundwater and pinpoint where to drill wells. This common practice, also known as dowsing, has been around
since at least the 15th century and has been also used to unearth precious metals, gravesites, and oil reserves. In
spite of its popularity, witching has long been stigmatized. In 1518, Martin Luther thought the notion of walking
around with a wooden stick in the woods was completely freaky, and decried it as occultism. Seventeenthcentury France even put strict limitations on water witches. But while scientific bodies such as the US
Geological Survey claim that witching is about as successful at finding water as pure guesswork, it continues,
after many, many centuries, to remain popular: Winemaker Robert Mondavi, a practicing water witch himself,
has popularized the practice in California’s vineyards, and even John Franzia—the Two-Buck Chuck guy—
advocates dowsing.
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I wanted to hear about witching firsthand, so I called Sharron Hope, the president of Gold Country Dowsers, the
Oroville, CA–based chapter of the American Society of Dowsers. Hope, who has been dowsing in California
since the 70s, said that in recent years her business has more than quadrupled. Just don’t call her a witch.
VICE: When you go out dowsing for water, how exactly does that work?
Sharron Hope: I head to the property, I find a tree branch, and I hold it out in front of me. Then, I turn around
in a circle, and when the branch senses energy, it’ll start dipping down towards the earth, but just minutely—
you have to really concentrate on what you’re doing; you have to forget about everything else, just relax and
turn slowly, and when you feel that dip, you walk in that direction. When you get over the site where there is
the most water, that stick is gonna point down to the earth.
You say “when the stick senses energy.” What kind of energy are we talking about here?
Water, of course, is flowing underground, and it’s flowing past rocks, and rocks actually store energy. So as it
goes through those rocks, the water strips off some of that energy—some of those electrons—from the rocks.
And that energy goes shooting straight up. That’s what the tree branch, up on the surface, is responding to. I
started doing water wells in 1979. And I’ve noticed over the years that there are heavily-traveled deer trails over
water veins. And a lot of times, when I go out to dowse, the spot that I find to drill the well is where two deer
trails cross. So wild animals, too, can pick up on that energy that comes up from the water.
The process sounds kind of supernatural. Is that where the name “water witch” comes from?
Actually, the name comes from the fact that a lot of dowsers, historically, used a branch from the witch hazel
tree to find water. But the overall term is dowser—you know, we don’t like to be called water witches, actually.
It provokes snide comments. It’s really just an old-fashioned term that people used 100 years ago.
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An old-school dowser. Photo via Wiki Commons
It sounds like dowsing has a long history.
As far as we can figure out, the practice goes back at least 10,000 years. There are actually petroglyphs of men
holding a tree branch and looking for water. And of course, before we had machinery and drilling rigs, we had
to hand-dig wells, so you better believe they had some kind of methods to find the water. And basically, most of
'em just used a tree branch.
OK, so back to the branch. Once you find your spot, what do you do?
I’ll mark that spot, and then I’ll get my L-rods out. They’re made of solid brass, and they have a copper handle.
So I’m holding on to the handles, and I’m standing a little bit away from the site that the branch found. And I
move towards that site, and I get right over it, and then those two L-rods will cross.
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So they’re sort of drawing together of their own accord?
Yes, they go together of their own accord. They cross and make an “X.” And if I back up again and walk
around that site, maybe about 8 to 10 feet away from it, as I get to a water vein, those rods are gonna separate
and make a line. That indicates the edge of the water vein. So that’s the process that I use. In fact, I was out
dowsing a well in Berry Creek today for a family who bought ten acres out there, and they want to have a well
for a little family garden. And last Thursday, I was out at a vineyard—it was almost 200 acres, and I dowsed
several well sites for them.
Do vineyards make up a lot of your clientele?
Oh, I have a variety of clients. A lot of homeowners around here have property with acreage, and for a lot of
them, their wells have either gone dry because of the drought, or the water table has gotten so low that they’re
not getting enough out of their wells to run their households. We have rice farmers around here, and I’ve
dowsed wells for them. We have a lot of agriculture around here. I’ve done organic orchards, citrus farms, olive
orchards—there’s a lot that I’ve done in the past 35 years.
Has your business increased in the past couple of years because of the terrible drought?
Oh, definitely, definitely. For most of my career, I’d been dowsing about one well a month. Now I’m doing
anywhere from one to four a week.
Do you get calls from people who had never heard of dowsing before?
Yes, the well-drillers are actually referring people to me. Because the well-driller, you know, he just drills a
hole. He says, “Where do you want me to drill your well?” And at $15–50 a foot for drilling, you don’t really
want to have to guess at where he should start drilling—you want to know.
Thanks, Sharron.
LINK:
http://www.vice.com/read/meet-the-water-witcher-who-is-helping-california-farmers-deal-with-drought
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California water witches see big business as the
drought drags on
Dowsers, sometimes known as ‘water witches,’ are in high demand in drought-stricken California, where four
dry years find farmers and vintners taking desperate measures
Mary Catherine O'Connor
Monday 15 September 2014 02.00 EDT Last modified on Thursday 6 August 2015 16.46 EDT
Sharron Hope has been a dowser since 1997. Markedly cheaper than hiring a hydrogeologist - which can cost as
much as $50,000 - Hope offers her services for around $500 a consultation. Video: Mary Catherine O’Connor
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Outside of a farmhouse on a 1,800-acre organic dairy farm near Oroville, California, Sharron Hope bends over a
printout of a Google Earth map, holding a small jade Buddha pendant. The map shows a small section of the
farm to the east, and Hope is hunting for water. As the pendant swings, she notes a subtle change in motion that,
she says, indicates she has found some.
[…]
As California rounds the corner towards a four-year historic drought, many farmers and vintners have become
completely reliant on groundwater. After divvying surface water allotments to satisfy urban, ecosystem and
industrial needs, farmers in many parts of the state received little or no irrigation water from state agencies this
year. In a normal year, allotments would cover roughly two-thirds of farmers’ needs.
Sharron Hope, a water dowser in California, uses a jade pendant to locate underground water on a map.
Photograph: Mary Catherine O'Connor
Under these severe drought conditions, the success or failure of a well can mean the success or failure of a farm
or vineyard, so before the drill bit hits the dirt, landowners need an educated guess as to where to find the most
productive well site on their property. To get that, they can call in a professional hydrogeologist, which can cost
tens of thousands of dollars – or they can drop a fraction of the cost on a dowser, such as Hope.
Despite a distinct lack of empirical evidence regarding dowsers’ efficacy, demand is high and dowsers’ phones
are ringing off the hook.
“I’ve gotten far more calls this year from farmers looking for a water dowser than in most years,” says
Sacramento-based Donna Alhers, who heads the Sierra Dowsers, a chapter of the American Society of Dowsers.
Water dowsers from around the state are also seeing a spike in demand. “I’m getting a lot of calls from people
whose wells have run dry,” Hope says.
[…]
Mary Catherine O’Connor is an independent reporter and co-founder of Climate Confidential.
The Vital Signs platform is funded by Avery Dennison, Domtar and Chiquita. All content is editorially
independent except for pieces labelled advertisement feature. Find out more here.
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LINK:
https://www.theguardian.com/vital-signs/2014/sep/15/california-drought-water-witches-dowsers-farm-groundwater
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Jul 1, 2016 @ 06:00 AM
Uranium Seawater Extraction Makes Nuclear
Power Completely Renewable
James Conca ,
Contributor
I write about nuclear, energy and the environment
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own.
America, Japan and China are racing to be the first nation to make nuclear energy completely renewable. The
hurdle is making it economic to extract uranium from seawater, because the amount of uranium in seawater is
truly inexhaustible.
And it seems America is in the lead. New technological breakthroughs from DOE’s Pacific Northwest (PNNL)
and Oak Ridge (ORNL) national laboratories have made removing uranium from seawater within economic
reach and the only question is – when will the source of uranium for our nuclear power plants change from
mined ore to seawater extraction?
Nuclear fuel made with uranium extracted from seawater makes nuclear power completely renewable. It’s not
just that the 4 billion tons of uranium in seawater now would fuel a thousand 1,000-MW nuclear power plants
for a 100,000 years. It’s that uranium extracted from seawater is replenished continuously, so nuclear becomes
as endless as solar, hydro and wind.
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Researchers around the world have been working frantically to develop an array of materials and fibers able to
economically extract uranium from seawater. They have succeeded, as discussed at a conference devoted to the
topic. Researchers at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory exposed this special uranium-sorbing fiber
developed at ORNL to Pseudomonas fluorescens and used the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National
Laboratory to create a 3-D X-ray microtomograph to determine microstructure and the effects of interactions
with organisms and seawater. Courtesy of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Specifically, this latest technology builds on work by researchers in Japan and uses polyethylene fibers coated
with amidoxime to pull in and bind uranium dioxide from seawater (see figure above). In seawater, amidoxime
attracts and binds uranium dioxide to the surface of the fiber braids, which can be on the order of 15 centimeters
in diameter and run multiple meters in length depending on where they are deployed (see figure below).
After a month or so in seawater, the lengths are remotely released to the surface and collected. An acid
treatment recovers the uranium in the form of a uranyl complex, regenerating the fibers that can be reused many
times. The concentrated uranyl complex then can be enriched to become nuclear fuel.
This procedure, along with the global effort, was described in a special report in Industrial & Engineering
Chemistry Research. The scientists from PNNL and ORNL led more than half of the 30 papers in the special
issue, involving synthesizing and characterizing uranium adsorbents and marine testing of these adsorbents at
facilities like PNNL’s Marine Sciences Laboratory in Sequim, Washington.
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Scientists envision anchoring hundreds of lengths of U-extracting fibers in the sea for a month or so until they
fill with uranium. Then a wireless signal would release them to float to the surface where the uranium could be
recovered and the fibers reused. It doesn’t matter where in the world the fibers are floating. Source: Andy
Sproles at ORNL
[…]
This marine testing shows that these new fibers had the capacity to hold 6 grams of uranium per kilogram of
adsorbent in only about 50 days in natural seawater. A nice video of U extraction from seawater can be seen on
the University of Tennessee Knoxville website.
[…]
Fortunately, the cost of uranium is a small percentage of the cost of nuclear fuel, which is itself a small
percentage of the cost of nuclear power. Over the last twenty years, uranium spot prices have varied between
$10 and $120/lb of U3O8, mainly from changes in the availability of weapons-grade uranium to blend down to
make reactor fuel.
So as the cost of extracting U from seawater falls to below $100/lb, it will become a commercially viable
alternative to mining new uranium ore. But even at $200/lb of U3O8, it doesn’t add more than a small fraction
of a cent per kWh to the cost of nuclear power.
However, the big deal about extracting uranium from seawater is that it makes nuclear power completely
renewable.
[…]
However, seawater concentrations of uranium are controlled by steady-state, or pseudo-equilibrium, chemical
reactions between waters and rocks on the Earth, both in the ocean and on land. And those rocks contain 100
trillion tons of uranium. So whenever uranium is extracted from seawater, more is leached from rocks to replace
it, to the same concentration. It is impossible for humans to extract enough uranium over the next billion years
to lower the overall seawater concentrations of uranium, even if nuclear provided 100% of our energy and our
species lasted a billion years.
In other words, uranium in seawater is actually completely renewable. As renewable as solar energy. Yes,
uranium in the crust is, strictly speaking, finite. But so is the Sun, which will eventually burn out. But that won’t
begin to happen for another 5 billion years. Even the wind on Earth will stop at about that time as our
atmosphere boils off during the Sun’s initial death throes as a Red Giant.
[…]
So by any definition, solar, wind, hydro and nuclear are all renewable. It’s about time society recognized this
and added nuclear to the renewable portfolio.
Dr. James Conca is a geochemist, an energy expert, an authority on dirty bombs, a planetary geologist and
professional speaker. Follow him on Twitter @jimconca and see his book at Amazon.com
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LINK:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-seawater-extraction-makes-nuclear-power-completelyrenewable/#7954927146e2
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