Education: EAT Project * GROW
Projects: Keyhole-Hugel - Engine MOD
"Where will you drive your own picket stake? Where will you choose to make your stand? Give me a threshold, a specific point at which you will finally stop running, at which you will finally fight back." (Derrick Jensen)
Creating sustainable life, beauty & food (with lots of kids and fun)
Living in Anjou , France,
For the many not for the few
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"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."
The holy trinity of wholesomeness: Fred Rogers - be kind to others; Steve Irwin - be kind to animals; Bob Ross - be kind to yourself
Jim Fry wrote:
Unfortunately, such an ability gives a great deal of independence to the practitioner. If you can seek and find answers for yourself, you have less need of authority. This the early Christian Church did not care for. So dowsing, along with many other traditional skills and knowledge, was banned. But the church also realized that that some of dowsing was useful, particularly the finding of water. So the early church allowed that one form of dowsing to continue. But, just to make sure it did not empower folks too much, the church made it sound slightly dirty or wrong, so the great and useful and common skill and art (of a limited part) of dowsing became to be called water witching. People could still seek water, ...but you better be careful or you might be named a "witch" and suffer for it. To me it is somewhat amusing that the folks who most loudly declare for science often unknowingly find common cause with the church. They simply declare it is not so, so for them it is not.
"The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, these are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?" Gandolf
Living in Anjou , France,
For the many not for the few
http://www.permies.com/t/80/31583/projects/Permie-Pennies-France#330873
"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."
Dale Hodgins wrote:As an atheist, I pride myself in not being taken in by what are essentially beliefs without verification. I was exposed to many Dowsers when I lived in the Bible Belt of Ontario. All of them professed belief in supernatural beings. To me, it's a quasi-religious notion. And just like religion, as scientific knowledge advances, explanations attempting to make it fit within known science, develop.
"The rule of no realm is mine. But all worthy things that are in peril as the world now stands, these are my care. And for my part, I shall not wholly fail in my task if anything that passes through this night can still grow fairer or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I too am a steward. Did you not know?" Gandolf
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