2022-06-07
We spend a lot of time promoting freedom and decrying those people and concepts that limit our freedom, but what does it mean to be truly free?
We also spend a lot of time suggesting that we should make up our own mind about the articles and information that comes our way, because our freedom to choose wisely is totally dependent upon our ability to discern truth from falsehood and to interpret correctly those nuances of meaning that might not be entirely familiar to us.
Freedom is of little use if we cannot discern the truth upon which to base our decision-making, so meaningful freedom requires access to truth, which these days appears to be deliberately hedged about on many major issues of the day by the authorities.
Socrates is reported by Plato to have believed that he knew nothing, and that is a concept rooted in the logic that all our senses can be deceived, and that any article on the internet and traditional media could be fake news!
But then we have undoubted (?) instances of intuition, extra-sensory perception, call it what you will, that perhaps most of us have on rare occasion, and some more frequently than others. Do these provide a tantalising clue that perhaps we have other means at our disposal to (at least sometimes) catch a direct glimpse of a truth that wasn't otherwise apparent?
No doubt we could argue about that for days but what if there might actually be a scientific explanation for such glimpses? What if we could train our minds to seek them out?
That would be a whole new ball-game!
Dowsing is a case in point.
It is well known that some people dowse for water, some others are said to dowse for all kinds of things - buried pipes, cables being an obvious example.
They don't always use the traditional dowsing rods, some can dowse for stuff using a pendulum and don't even have to be on location but can dowse over a map! Some even dowse for ley lines (whatever they may be).
As a total failure at dowsing I'm not qualified to comment, but I have come to the understanding that if you can train your subconscious mind to indicate a yes/no result (eg: by affecting the swing of a pendulum suspended from the fingers) then you can ask your subconscious any yes/no question and it will give you the answer.
That implies that our subconscious mind has access to a trove of information - sometimes referred to as the akashic records - that we could tap into if only it could speak back to our conscious mind - so we devise work-arounds to enable our subconscious to communicate.
Is dowsing scientific? Surely if it works, then "science" should be able to offer an explanation for it or "science" must be regarded as incomplete.
OK - are you ready to follow the science to the next level? Prepare for take-off ...
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