Hidden in the Words
a Meaning Undetected
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The technique described in this small book is an ancient method of dowsing to assess the influence our subconscious has on the language we use to express ourselves. As such it is completely subjective: not requiring the assistance of a psychologist as long as you are capable of keeping an empty mind. The purpose is to allow your body to dictate your response to an image or a word without the conscious mind influencing the process. The author illustrates two methods of obtaining a response from the subconscious: the first which uses bare hands, stems from an oriental school of pranic healing - the spacing between the hands being proportional to the energy generated by the question being addressed. The second method counts the rotations of a plastic wand in response to a question such as: 'What is the energy of the word ____?'. This method of dowsing, long used in Sardinia, is useful precisely because it gives a quantitative response. The dowsing wand, which you actively turn, stops turning when the response to the question is complete. It is suggested that the mechanism in both cases is to measure the expansion of the bodily aura in response to the question being raised. Lists of emotions, ordinary words used in speech, the names of people and spiritual entities, and common verbal expressions, were tested by this methodology, with results that were often surprising. It was the author's impression that the scoring of words and phrases reflects much earlier processes; either historically, or in the early learning stage of the author. What emerges from the histograms of word energy scores is that negative emotions with low scores are separated from positive emotions and spiritual words with high scores, by a 'Band of Rationality'. This contains the majority of words commonly used which have a low emotional content. Another intriguing observation is that dowsing the numbers we use daily, there seems to emerge a 'relict' of personal learning, namely, by counting on the fingers! Another interesting series of observations on the names of famous persons emerges; namely, that the 'score' achieved by famous people is on the one hand, positively influenced by their apparent spiritual role in society, as well as by the frequency with which their names are used in the public media.
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This book describes two subjective methods of evaluating what your subconscious actually feels about the words you use in everyday communications, and in spiritual or intellectual activities. The first method demonstrated measures the spacing of your palms in a 'slow clapping' motion, which follows in response to a question. This technique has been used in the pranic healing school of the Philippines to test the state of energy body components, but can equally well be used to gain a response to mental questions in a form of divination. The second method uses an unusual and ancient form of dowsing, once employed for a variety of purposes in Sardinia. Dowsing seems to date back millenia, to when ancient monuments were sited almost inevitably, above underground water sources. This method counts the number of rotations of a Y-shaped plastic tube (in substitution for the traditional forked hazel twig) you are able to make, in response to questions of the type: 'What is the energy of this (place, word, phrase, name)?' - your subconscious prevents further rotations occuring beyond the number which corresponds to its energy relative to other words. The book contains an assessment of a large number of commonly used words, phrases, names, and emotions, and evaluates also the energy scores for numbers in common use. Many of these evaluations were carried out by the author, and hence inevitably, are subjective, though the method has been used successfully by others. For example, trials with Swedish subjects are mentioned, that show persons with a modicum of interest and competence in 'energy fields' are capable of duplicating these results if they are able to extend their auras. What is the connection with the aura? The author's hypothesis is that both methods are measuring the extension of the aura in response to a question held in mind. The significance of the book then, is that it allows people to assess their reaction to the english language, to persons in the media, and to review excerpts from text files to assess the likely impact they will have on the reader.
About the Author
I learned to use dowsing first to sense the hidden energies in the archaeological and spiritually important sites that abound in the Mediterranean region, and my researches on shamanism are described in my last book: 'A Return to Subjectivity', published by Trafford Press, and in a number of articles such as that published in the Network Review of The Science and Medical Network, and other publications related to vital energy. By profession I am a scientist, with several technical books and many papers on marine ecology and fisheries theory in the scientific literature. What I am trying to do with this book on dowsing is very different: to show that we have a capability to interact with our subconscious mind and evaluate the energy released by different items of vocabulary (see work of Jung for information on the role of the subconscious). The results described so far in the book suggest that in our evolutionary history, we have made a transition from a vocabulary dominated by emotional words, to using words with limited emotional energies in order to make progress in science and materialistic activities. The implications of this for science and everyday activities are only beginning to emerge.