By “divining energies” I mean the energies that we use, call on, focus on (and with :o) when we look for answers to questions that we have to ask. In my mind, all divining energies are the same. It is the focus we use to access them that changes.

I do think that we know way more than we are aware of. I do think that there is way more to “our world” than we believe. And, for me, divining techniques are a way to access some of this. Whether the workings of this are described as “mystic” or are explained as “a way to access information we already possess” doesn’t matter much to me. It interests me but it doesn’t change much. We all have divining energies. And some of us are more practiced, more able than others. I believe that with these energies, as with all forms of energy, trusting that they exist doesn’t change whether they’re there or not but it definitely affects what we do with them.

According to Wikipedia… “Dowsing, also called divining or water witching, is a generic term for practices which proponents claim empower them to find water, metals, gem stones and hidden objects, usually by fluctuations of some apparatus (typically a Y-shaped twig, rod, rods, or pendulum) over a piece of land or a map. Some claim to need no apparatus at all but to ‘feel’ reactions.”

In esoteric circles, “dowsing” refers to divining with, usually, a gravity pendulum or “bob”. Most of these are some form of crystal suspended from a chain but any weighted, non-stretching string or chain will “work”.