I know I’m not even close to becoming fluent with L-rods, but I’m excited over the success I’ve had with them. And I’ve become impatient. When it comes to the basic tools of dowsing – L-rods, Y-rods, and pendulums, among others – I’m eager to move on to the pendulum. It seems to present huge potential for expanding dowsing and divining in an array of intriguing areas.
Again, I’m going to take the advice of experts and pay attention to what Terry Ross and Richard Wright say in The Divining Mind:
More than any other instrument it is the one most commonly associated with unfounded claims. Some treatises speak of the pendulum as if it were a conduit to the spirit world, able to connect us to a source that can give us all sorts of compelling messages from the vasty deep. Other books talk about it as a mysterious device that will lead you to untold riches, romance, and personal fulfillment. Many of these publications do not even use the term dowsing. The paradox for us is that the claims, although sensationalized, may indeed contain a germ of truth, but that trust is so distorted by exaggeration, superstition, and appeals to egotism that, if they answer any need at all, it is only to a limited a superficial part of our nature.
If you have read such claims, your first task is to recognize their sideshow appeal and disregard them for the moment. You may, in fact, find it helpful to disregard everything you thought you knew about the pendulum and be willing to start with a fresh outlook.
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