The origin of this misconception to call us diviners, is the endeavour of those wishing to discredit the ability of the dowser. What better way than to put it out of the bounds of man and into that of the occult (hidden) world. Does not the Bible forbid divination?
Radionics, the Americanisation of the word Radiesthesia which came from the French, which in turn developed from the Greek word rhabdomancy. Rhabdo meant ‘a rod’. Remembering of course that of the several languages that comprised the New Testament, the main one was Greek.
In Wales, dowsing was originally called ‘Rhaabdomancy’. Which is interesting when you consider the research done by Terry Blotchett in his study, ‘The Hebrew Origin of English’. Welsh is the language that most accurately can be tracked back to the early Hebrew of the Bible. His work takes one through the migration of the Hebrew people as the tribes of Israel migrated. The Royal families of these people are to be found in north west Europe and Great Britain. The many hundreds of years these migrations took, allowed for their language to adapt as new incidents, wars, people and languages influenced them. There came the softening of the hard consonants to the softer ones e.g. ’b to p’, the introduction of vowels and dipthongs. In fact any English word that Terry was given, he lead a path back through history with the above influences, arriving up with the original Hebrew. His statement that English is 99% Hebrew of the Bible, was countered with the point that he couldn’t state 100% because he hadn’t traced every word. But every word given proved its origin. He added that all languages he studied had a trace of the old Hebrew in it, with Chinese containing 1% Hebrew. In a museum in the Netherlands, there is a setting depicting the history of the very early settlers in the land, and the man stands with a pendulum in his hand. Also from that area of the world in Norse mythology we have the Ash tree as representing the tree that holds up the world. It is interesting to note that in Scandinavia, the wood of the Ash tree is the preferred choice of wood to make a dowsing rod.
So these people came from a land where a dowsing tool was in common use. The Egyptian pyramids contain art of pendulums. Herodotus, the Father of History, in his classic book of 5 .B.C. mentions that the willow was the preferred timber for a dowsing rod.
In Europe and Great Britain, we have the Druids, their earliest records date back to 3 B.C.. They acted as priests, judges and teachers. They were referred to as ‘knower of the oak’ in that they worked within the energy of the oak tree. The wood from the oak tree was commonly used in make dowsing wands.

In far off China, Emperor Ta Yu the Great, 2123-225BC, is recorded via a stone etching holding a forked dowsing tool.

Closer to home, here in New Zealand the maori people asked of the mahoe wood, using a rod of this wood. They believed the wood to carry messages to them from the spirit within, that had the answers to ‘all’.
“So dowsing has been around since the dawn of time.”
Let us remind ourselves, that Dowsing is the art of detecting energies and Radionics in the art of hooking into these energies and being able to utilise them.

Dowsing gives us the yes and no answers, usually using a pendulum. With rods we can detect the flow of energies and the direction that they flow. The more practice with a dowsing implement the more we are developing our God given intuitive ability. The more practice the greater our awareness and confidence.
Fear cripples our ability to live life to the full. The same with dowsing, fear allows doubt to come in and remove our positive belief in the outcome. We are after all using a dowsing tool, to connect with the energy within. That energy, that comes from that little spark of light in every cell. Our body works on the positive charge from that tiny ball of energy. Feed it positive input and our body responds in a positive way. Feed it a negative input and the body’s response follows suit.
Once introduced to dowsing, we gain the realisation of positive in = positive outcome within our whole being, our thought, our action and our health. In this Society we cover many aspects of learning about energy from; the spoken word; food; colour; numbers; our environment and so much more.
I was asked recently, did we need to retain the word ‘Radionics’ in our Society name. I had no hesitation coming back with the answer ‘yes’. Remember that Radionics is the art of being able to utilise the energies that we detect. Only an experienced dowser can attain the ability to use radionics. For Judith Rubie, Ren and myself the big jump forward into Radionics was the intensive four day course we did in Spiritual Response Therapy. It is Ren though that has taken this art and developed it to the high level that he has. Not everyone has the dedication or time to practice Radionics to the level that he has, and I am in awe of what he achieves.
So this God given ability to sense these positive and negative influences are inherent in all of us. Just as a golfer, shooter or someone who puts themselves ‘in the zone’ we too need to develop this ability to go within. It initially takes a prop as in a pendulum or rod to pick up on them, but with practice, practice and practice, we develop this innate awareness and ability to adjust and use these natural influences to awaken them within oneself, that then can be used for the betterment of so many areas of life.