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The tools of radiesthesia have been around a long time, methods of dowsing or divining to determine something. It is considered the easiest of the intuitional approaches to the application of radiesthesia, such as dowsing rods for finding water or the pendulum for finding answers to our questions through movement.

Radiesthesia refers to the act of detection by the human body. Theory has it that all human bodies have a unique energy or radiation characteristic, or an aura. The practitioner has an ability to detect this energy field in order to find things such as water underground or to diagnosis an illness on some level of the body or etheric field. It was a term first used in the was written in 1949 entitled, "Psychical Physics" whereas Gerald Garden wrote a book titled "Witchcraft Today" in a feeble attempt to prove the existence of witch power in the 1950s.

Rods and pendulums are the primary tools used in the divination of dowsing. Radiesthesia was originally used in France to discover missing people, making diagnosis and prescribing treatments but dowsing for water has been strongly associated with synonymous. Whereas the rod was initially used, the small pendulum began to be used as an indicator with the British Society of Dowsers founded in 1933.

The professional radiesthsist or dowser is someone who is very sensitive to substances around them, considered sensitive to energy which can be amplified by their usage of the pendulum or rod. Using the rod or pendulum is similar to connecting with a psychic medium, extremely close to ESP than simply contemporary physics. The pendulum was chosen over the larger rod as it was easier to work with in medical diagnosis. A pendulum is a long chain or string with a small crystal or object at its end. I have found the oval or oblong shapes work better as receivers, but many people successfully find that any shape will work. The string or chain being held by the hand needs to be something that is nonwoven, in order for it to adequately receive the energy movement coming up from the object on the end.

Highly important in the receiver is the ability to use the pendulum without any personal muscular activity influence interfering with the object. The mind should be completely empty of emotion and personal interference, other than the question asked and the influence of the sought-after answer to the object at the end. The string or chain is held over the area is question, such as an area where water could be underground. What is crucial is the action which arrives upon the question, with an oscillating movement clockwise, anticlocekwise, or back and forth.

When a medical diagnosis is desired, the pendudlum is placed over the healthy part of the body, then repeated over an unhealthy part - the pendulum will move differently between the two areas. Many people use the pendulum for Yes or No answers, with the "Yes" answers causing a clockwise rotation, while a "No" answer causes a anticlockwise movement.

With both dowsing and the pendulum, the phenomena of superpensulism or teleradiesthesia can come into play, when the energy sensitive individual will work with a location map instead of going to the actual physical location for an answer. There are two societies for individuals who wish more information on the subject: (1) American Society of Dowsers, Inc.; Danville, Vermont, 058289. (2) British Society of Dowsers; Sycamore College; Tamley Lane; Hastingleigh, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5HW, England.