This Months Dowsing Tip  "Not many people can leap out of their car and start dowsing properly straight away".  It may well be obvious to some but we do need to be 'grounded' with our surroundings before we can expect to get results.  If you were whisked to a dowsing site on wheels (or in your private jet) you will need to spend a while relaxing and tuning up on arrival.  Some people like to park their car some distance from the target area so that they can use the walking time to get tuned in.  'Being tuned in' is a lazy way of saying that you are aware but comfortable with all that is around...that includes any friends/animals/weather etc. and any other ambiances that you may be stuck with!

An Interesting Web Site
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/renaud91/en/someDefinitions.html .Sorry it is so long.  It is most unusual (especially the English).  It describes a heap of hitherto little heard of precepts and theories. There are also some interesting links.

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                    This Month's Tale (or two)

Way back in 1999 I tried an experiment with the Group which meant that those taking part had to determine the colour of cards sealed inside an envelope.  Six cards of different colours were used.  To cut a long story short the results were very disappointing!
Two days later, at home, a boating friend called Horace came in for coffee and the all important piece of Maureen's cake (or was it two pieces?)
Horace asked what we had been up to at our Group meeting and amongst other things I described the coloured card experiment.  At first, he wanted to have a go.  We began the experiment, but he rapidly lost interest as soon as the cake appeared.  By now I had to make sure he completed the run because he had already got  three out of three.  With some difficulty we completed the run of six and he achieved an astonishing score of six out of six, without any real thought about what he was doing.  I was already nonplussed as you can imagine and tempted providence by asking him for one more answer.......that too was correct!
I have often pondered over this set of coincidences. The chances are so great against him getting all correct that I begin to think that something else is at the back of it.

In 1973, with my family, I visited my sister in law, who lived at Poughil Mill near Bude.  Also visiting were a young couple from the States, the girl was English, the daughter of a friend of my sister in law from Ulster. We appeared to have no connection....until!  Entirely out of the blue we discovered that one of her aunts lived in the same road in Liverpool as we did

The hair does actually stand up on the nape of my neck when this happens.

The statisticians will try to convince us that this sort of thing is bound to happen occasionally.  This does nothing to convince me that there is not some greater design which determines the mystery of extraordinary events like this.

A London bobby changed his telephone number, but gave an incorrect number to a friend, giving the last three digits as 116 as opposed to the correct 166.  A few days later at night on his rounds he noticed an unsecured door.  As he went in to investigate, the phone rang...and yes, you have guessed it....it was his friend ringing the wrong number.

While the Allied Forces were planning the Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944, the following code words were used (and were among the best kept secrets of the war): Utah and Omaha for the beaches where the landing would take place; Mulberry, for the artificial harbor which would be put in place after the landing; Neptune, the overall plan for Naval operations; Overlord the entire planned invasion itself. On May 3, 1944, the first code word, Utah, appeared as an answer in the London Daily Telegraph crossword puzzle; on May 23, Omaha appeared similarly; on May 31 Mulberry  appeared; and on June 2, four days before the invasion, Neptune and Overlord  both appeared. British Intelligence investigated intensively and extensively, but the man who had created the puzzles was found to be innocent of espionage, had no knowledge of any invasion plans, and to all intents and purposes had chosen the words at random.

I have a very strong feeling that co-incidences are a special part of our lives.  After all we live on a planet that just happens to be in an orbit with a very narrow margin of error for life to occur.  Our atmosphere is produced by so many happy coincidences that scientists have not yet begun to put them all together to discover how impossible it seems.  Survival both at macro and DNA level is a miracle (my words!) of the coming together of innumerable ponderables.
Heap big mystery!!!
ps    Sadly Horace died of a brain tumor two years ago.