Dowsing 수맥탐사

** Dowsing 은 과학적으로 밝힐 수 없고 다만 뇌의 알파파를 이용하여 직관으로 인식하는 방법인 것 같다. 직관은 나이가 어린 아이들이나 intuition 훈련을 평소에 쌓은 사람에게 나타난다. 조용히 눈을 감고 심한 복식호흡을 하면서 전신을 이완 시키고 빠저드는 정신세계를 경험해야만 이룰 수 있는 것이다. 수맥이나 광물을 찾는 것은 과학적 탐사기기를 사용하는 것이 바람직하다. 나는 우선 수맥을 찾기 위해 지층의 기울기를 보아야 한다고 생각한다. 지층이나 암츧이 누어 있으면 그 아래 방향에 water well 이 있을 가능성이 많다. 또한 지형이 골자기를 이루고 있으면 그 아래쪽에 물이 고일 가능성이 많다. 늪이 있거나 물푸래나무가 무성하거나 나무가 잘 자라면 물이 많은 곳이다. 다음으로 smartphone을 이용하여 Dowsing Apps 를 install 하여 electromagnetic field 을 찾아 내서 지하의 사정을 추측해 보는 방법을 쓰는 것이 좋을 것 으로 본다.

Dowsing

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Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites,^[1] and many other objects and materials, as well as so-called currents of earth radiation (ley lines), without the use of scientific apparatus.

Dowsing is also known as divining (especially in reference to interpretation of results),^[2] doodlebugging^[3] (particularly in the United States, in searching for petroleum^[4]) or (when searching specifically for water) water finding, water witching or water dowsing. There is no scientific evidence that dowsing is effective.^[5]

A Y- or L-shaped twig or rod, called a dowsing rod, divining rod (Latin: virgula divina or baculus divinatorius), a "vining rod" or witching rod is sometimes used during dowsing, although some dowsers use other equipment or no equipment at all. Dowsing appears to have arisen in the context of Renaissance magic in Germany, and it remains popular among believers in Forteana or radiesthesia.^[6]

 

 

History

Dowsing as practiced today may have originated in Germany during the 15th century, when it was used in attempts to find metals.

 

Dowsing was conducted in South Dakota in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to help homesteaders, farmers, and ranchers locate water wells on their property.^[12]

In the late 1960s during the Vietnam War, some United States Marines used dowsing to attempt to locate weapons and tunnels.^[13]

As late as in 1986, when 31 soldiers were taken by an avalanche during an operation in the NATO drill Anchor Express in Vassdalen, Norway, the Norwegian army attempted to locate soldiers buried in the avalanche using dowsing as search method.^[14] 16 soldiers died.

Dowsing rods[edit]

1942: George Casely uses a hazel twig to attempt to find water on the land around his  Devon farm

 

Traditionally, the most common dowsing rod is a forked (Y-shaped) branch from a tree or bush. Some dowsers prefer branches from particular trees, and some prefer the branches to be freshly cut. Hazel twigs in Europe and witch-hazel in the United States are traditionally commonly chosen, as are branches from willow or peach trees. The two ends on the forked side are held one in each hand with the third (the stem of the Y) pointing straight ahead. Often the branches are grasped palms down^{[citation needed]}. The dowser then walks slowly over the places where he suspects the target (for example, minerals or water) may be, and the dowsing rod dips, inclines or twitches when a discovery is made. This method is sometimes known as "willow witching".

 

Many dowsers today use a pair of simple L-shaped metal rods. one rod is held in each hand, with the short arm of the L held upright, and the long arm pointing forward. When something is found, the rods cross over one another making an X over the found object. If the object is long and straight, such as a water pipe, the rods may point in opposite directions, showing its orientation. The rods are sometimes fashioned from wire coat hangers, and glass or plastic rods have also been accepted. Straight rods are also sometimes used for the same purposes, and were not uncommon in early 19th-century New England.

In all cases, the device is in a state of unstable equilibrium from which slight movements may be amplified.^[15]

Other equipment used for dowsing

A pendulum of crystal, metal or other materials suspended on a chain is sometimes used in divination and dowsing. In one approach the user first determines which direction (left-right, up-down) will indicate "yes" and which "no" before proceeding to ask the pendulum specific questions, or else another person may pose questions to the person holding the pendulum. The pendulum may also be used over a pad or cloth with "yes" and "no" written on it and perhaps other words written in a circle. The person holding the pendulum aims to hold it as steadily as possible over the center and its movements are held to indicate answers to the questions. In the practice of radiesthesia, a pendulum is used for medical diagnosis.

Scientific appraisal

Skeptic James Randi at a lecture at Rockefeller University, on October 10, 2008, holding an $800 device advertised as a dowsing instrument

 

A 1948 study tested 58 dowsers' ability to detect water. None of them was more reliable than chance.^[16]

A 1979 review examined many controlled studies of dowsing for water, and found that none of them showed better than chance results.^[5]

A 2006 study of grave dowsing in Iowa reviewed 14 published studies and determined that none of them correctly predicted the location of human burials, and simple scientific experiments demonstrated the fundamental principles commonly used to explain grave dowsing were incorrect.^[17]

 

More recently a study^[18] was undertaken in Kassel, Germany, under the direction of the Gesellschaft zur Wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften (Society for the Scientific Investigation of the Parasciences).

The three-day test of some 30 dowsers involved plastic pipes through which water flow could be controlled and directed. The pipes were buried 50 centimeters under a level field, the position of each marked on the surface with a colored strip. The dowsers had to tell whether water was running through each pipe. All the dowsers signed a statement agreeing this was a fair test of their abilities and that they expected a 100 percent success rate. However, the results were no better than chance.

 

 

 

Continuing use of dowsing

Regardless of the scientific experiments, dowsing is still used by some farmers.^[30][31]

Commercial and "high-tech" dowsing devices

A number of devices resembling "high tech" dowsing rods have been marketed for modern police and military use: none has been shown to be effective.^[32] The more notable of this class of device are ADE 651, Sniffex, and the GT200.^[33][34] A US government study advised against buying "bogus explosive detection equipment".^[32]

Devices:

• Sandia National Laboratories tested the MOLE Programmable System manufactured by Global Technical Ltd. of Kent, UK and found it ineffective.^[33]
• The ADE 651 is a device produced by ATSC (UK) and widely used by Iraqi police to detect explosives.^[34] Many^[34][35] have denied its effectiveness and contended that the ADE 651 failed to prevent many bombings in Iraq. on 23 April 2013, the director of ATSC, Jim McCormick was convicted of fraud by misrepresentation.^[36] Earlier, the British Government had announced a ban on the export of the ADE 651.^[37]
• SNIFFEX was the subject of a report by the United States Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal that concluded "The handheld SNIFFEX explosives detector does not work."^[38]
• Global Technical GT200 is a dowsing type explosive detector which contains no scientific mechanism.^[39][40]