Dowsing Ethics

By Nigel Percy and Maggie Percy

Just because you can dowse about something, does that mean you should?

Dowsing is a deceptively simple natural skill which can change your life in so many ways. Most dowsers have very good intentions, and they think that gives them permission to use dowsing any time they believe it can make their life or someone else’s better. They are mistaken.

At some point, guided only by good intentions, you will be led to do things that ultimately are intrusive, ineffective, bad karma and just plain wrong. This is because good intentions are not a proper substitute for a clear sense of ethics.

The real-life examples in this book will help you to understand why there might be different views from yours and what you might need to take into consideration the next time you dowse. Dowsing ethics is not some dry and dusty academic subject, but something which affects you every time you dowse, as this book clearly shows. Not only are there case studies and examples, but there is also help given in deciphering the mess which is present day dowsing ethics.

Buy Dowsing Ethics today and learn how to become an ethical dowser.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sixth Sense Books
• Release date: Nov 29, 2016
• ISBN: 9781946014085

Nigel Percy

Nigel Percy grew up in England where he studied history and enjoyed philosophy and played with computers. The things about being human which couldn’t be as easily explained, such as intuition, began to fascinate him more and more until, in the end, he decided to stop teaching and explored the ideas which attracted him more.In 2000, he met his future wife Maggie in a dowsing group online, and they joined forces to share their passion for this a natural intuitive skill with as wide an audience as possible. For the next 20 years they served a global clientele using dowsing and energy clearing methods. They have co-authored over 20 nonfiction books, mostly on dowsing and intuition.Nigel writes fiction under the pen name Andrew Elgin.

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INTRODUCTION

Do we really need this book? After all, dowsing is just a hobby for most people. Nothing serious. And everyone knows what they know, don’t they? What do you need a book about this crazy subject for anyway?

Ethics is for academics. It’s for people studying for exams. It’s philosophy, for goodness’ sake! That stuff’s for the eggheads and the serious people. But dowsing is just something to pass the time, something to do, something interesting. It’s not on the same level as those philosophers, is it? Dowsing isn’t some deep, meaningful subject? Nobody studies it at university. It’s a pastime, that’s all.

But what if it wasn’t that simple, that easy to put the two things, dowsing and ethics, into two separate camps?

What if, instead, the two camps actually occupied the same ground? What if, instead of ethics being just a small area which only a few people could ever get interested in, it turned out to be something that everybody was involved in, even when they weren’t aware of it?

What if, the place where the two met, where dowsing and ethics met, turned out to be the place where your life started to change?

What if, instead of thinking of dowsing as something which was an interesting hobby and not much more, it turned out to be just as important as any subject ever studied in any university?

What if ethics and dowsing didn’t teach you very much about dowsing or a great deal about ethics, but, instead, taught you a great deal about yourself?

What if you’re about to take the first step on a fascinating journey?

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If you read the introduction and you’re still here, well done.

If you didn’t, then perhaps it’s just easiest to say that you are welcome here. But only on three conditions.

First, you are welcome if you are willing to read and to think.

Second, you are welcome if you are willing to challenge yourself.

Third, you are welcome if you are willing to adjust how you act.

If these don’t sound like you, then, please, for your own sake, put this book down right now and walk away. That way, nobody gets hurt, nobody gets upset, nobody ends up in a place they never wanted to go to.

Still here? Excellent! Let’s get started, shall we?

First, I want to explain a little bit about ethics and then explain why it’s important to think about - and apply! - ethics and dowsing together.

Later on, we’ll be looking at some concepts often encountered by dowsers and how they don’t always mean what everyone tends to think they mean.

Then, we’ll be taking a look at some attitudes and ideas which apply specifically to dowsing and to dowsers (although there are many other people who could be included!).

Then we’ll be taking a look at some problems which can present themselves to dowsers at one time or another. Some might have easier answers or resolutions than others.

And then, by that stage, we’ll be able to look at what this really implies for anyone who is serious about their dowsing. Does that mean it’s not for hobbyists? No! After all, everyone starts out as a hobbyist. And don’t get me wrong, hobbyists will get a lot out of this. But, by the end, I hope to persuade everyone who reads this and who started out as a hobbyist, that there is no such thing.

And if you consider yourself beyond the hobbyist phase in your dowsing, and you’ve got a handle on it and what you do with it, then I hope that this will make you pause and, possibly, re-think what you do. (Remember the three points at the beginning of this chapter? You’re here, so you are OK with them.)

But whatever you use dowsing for, whatever your favorite applications are, I hope by the end to persuade you that there is something bigger and more important going on in the background.

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What Is Ethics All About?

Ethics is about how to live your life. That’s what it concerns itself with. And, for that reason, it has been studied and discussed and argued and written about for well over 2,000 years.

Because if the point of ethics is to decide how to live your life, you’d think that there would be some set of rules or guidelines which we’d all agree on.

But there isn’t. There are no absolute rules in ethics. But that doesn’t mean that there are no rules at all. The tricky (and the most interesting) part of ethics is finding out what those rules are for you.

You might think of the Ten Commandments as a set of rules. But they are Christian or Jewish (depending on the precise wording). So, you’re Buddhist or agnostic, does that mean they don’t apply to you?

And why should we obey something that someone else has called a ‘commandment’?

Right there, you have two of the subjects of ethics; the subjects of duty and of obedience.

In other words, ethics is about your life and the rules you follow that allow you to live with the least guilty conscience possible. (And what is guilt anyway? Why do we feel guilty? Should we feel guilty?)

Ethics is about right and wrong, good and bad, justice and revenge, duty and responsibility. It’s about the set

Reviews for Dowsing Ethics

[Tim Schmidt · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Dowsing Ethics is a very good book. It really gets you thinking and considering your values.

It is easy to read with good examples and some questions to ask yourself that really made me think about if I am an ethical person. As Nigel points out, there are powerful things that you can do, they may be good or bad. He helps you decide how you would handle issues in dowsing.