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God's Gift : A thumbnail biography of a Water Diviner by S. Bhalla. 21st May 2000.

Michael J. Davis was born in Bombay in 1957, and was educated in St. Joseph's Convent High School, and St. Peter's Boys' High School, Panchgani, and, in Barnes School, Deolali. He then graduated with Honours in World History, Indian Constitutional History and Political Science, from St. Xaviers's College, University of Bombay. He has worked in special services and has travelled widely. He received early indications of his latent dowsing ability from the age of Seven onwards. Both, his paternal and maternal Grandfathers, were Dowsers, and both his parents who are retired Teachers, have the dowsing ability. He has been associated with Water Divining by dowsing since 1965 when this part-time private family vocation 'passed on' to him. Dowsing (deuten, to declare, douse, to plunge) refers to techniques for finding water or other things by using a dowsing instrument, such as a Pendulum. Dowsing is based on the theory that a person can perceive in ways traditionally considered beyond the five senses. Dowsing is searching for anything by projecting an intent of what is desired and receiving confirmation or non-confirmation feedback through the sunconcious mind, usually by the movements of a dowsing instrument (doodlebug when used to locate oil). Kaspar Schott, a Jesuit priest and mathematician, was the first to suggest, in the seventeenth century, that the movement of the dowsing rod was due to unconscious muscular action. There seems to be no end to what tools can be used for dowsing. Virtually any object that displays an unstable behavior will work, and sometimes stable objects as well. By "unstable" is meant the property of an object to move away from equilibrium when exposed even to a small disturbance. An illustrative example would be a small ball at rest inside a bowl which forms a stable system, whereas a ball on top of a bowl turned up-side-down forms an unstable system. It is a form of clairvoyance, the ability to see at any given moment what is happening elsewhere. Divining is a close synonym of dowsing and gets to the root of what dowsing is all about. Divining comes from the word divinus meaning "of, or by, or for a god, the gods, also inspired by them." Hence, divining is a spiritual practice -- the success of which rests on a divine state of mind. Dowsing is a technique, rather than a science, because technology is proven by results and nothing else. Science requires theory, explanation and proof. Needless to say, proof of dowsing in the academic world is slow in coming. Why? Primarily because dowsing is not a physics problem, where the people performing the experiment can be virtually excluded from affecting the results. Dowsing can't work without a person. The circumstances and the people that the dowser is operating with or for have a definite influence on the results. When considered objectively, however, a rejection of dowsing simply because physics and physiology cannot provide an adequate mechanism to account for the phenomenon can be interpreted as scientific arrogance. An open-minded counter argument is that the tradition and folklore of dowsing are not based on its theoretical underpinnings but on the claimed successes of its practitioners; and if the method "works", but current science cannot explain it, so much the worse for science! "There are more things in heaven and earth..." than modern science can fully account for; perhaps dowsers actually are able to respond to some stimulus not yet understood by modern science.. Although the exact physical nature of this stimulus remains unspecified, its presumed existence is regarded by some as a major gap in current scientific knowledge. Dowsing is an ancient skill, mentioned in very early writings, and depicted in early paintings. The first recorded use of divining is thought to be a cave painting at Tassili nAjjer in the Sahara, dated to approximately 6000 B.C. depicting an eager crowd watching a dowser search for water. Use of the technique is recorded by the Egyptians (c. 3000 B.C.), and after their escape from the Egyptians the Hebrews are thought to have used it (c. 2000 B.C.). The activities of their leader Moses are recorded in the Bible: "Thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink (Exodus 17:5 6)." "Take the rod...and speak ye unto the rock...and it shall give forth water (Numbers 20:9 11)" indicates that Moses was dowsing using his staff. Dowsing is simply a natural tool that enables you to amplify what you are already perceiving, but simply have not bothered to pay attention to before. It is a handle on the abstract world of feeling, intuition and the sacred. Michael J. Davis undertakes water divining assignments which are essentially contracts of personal service, rerquiring special skill, as part-time work, in such a way that it does not conflict with his duties, is not derogatory to his status, and not inconsistent with the dignity of his profession as a consultant. Locating sources of drinking water to quench the thirst of fellow humans, animals and plants, as a part-time hobby in one's spare time, cannot be derogatory to anyone's status, nor can this divine gift be derogatory to any profession. None of his dowsing activities are of an executive character, and he does not personally participate in the management of this inherited part-time leisure activity. Internationally acknowledged as a leading water diviner, he is also proficient in Map-Dowsing - the ability to locate water from a distance by extraordinary stimuli, Extended Sensory Perception, the highest art form of the dowsing world. He also dowses for the suitability of precious and semi-precious gem-stones, crude-oil deposits, and noxious rays and geopathic zones, among other things. A geopathic (geo-Earth, pathic-disease) survey determines if there are Earth energies (underground water lines, ley lines and ley-line power centers) under a home or office and if they are neutral or negative (polluted or potentially harmful).He works to solve Geopathic Stress problems. He lives in Deolali Cantonment (the home of the Gunners and the now even more famous Bofors Artillery Gun), 200 K.m., north-east of Bombay, in western India. In these days of acute water scarcity, as an all-weather, year-round dowser, he is engaged in unearthing what is truly a marvellous and worthy resource: the 'production' of pure spring water from solid rock!