I would say that your local Feng Shui consultant would be able to help you. They might tell you what the best way to face the house is as well.
Brendan
TBH Brendan, its well and good to believe in hard facts and numbers, coming from an accounting background, but it doesn't do to make haphazard remarks about matters that it appears you may not have researched sufficiently.
1. Feng Shui consultants may indeed be charlatans, as can accountants, solicitors etc etc. Perhaps they should have self-regulation until they too make a hames of it!! But feng Shui as a body of knowledge is very old indeed, and not be slighted in this way.
2. Any oil or exploration company worth its salt uses dowsers as a part of their exploration process. One precinct of Switzerland makes it law that the site must be dowsed (regarding illness-producing earth energies) before a building can be sited there.
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The dowsing response is indeed caused by the user. Serious dowsers accept this and scientific study has already accepted this natural activity. No mystery there? The pendulum / forked stick etc is merely an 'aerial', not a magic wand. It amplifies the minute movementts that your mind sends to your muscles. This is the biofeedback system that you have set up in training. You can use any system you wish, including your hands, a visualised pendulum or nothing at all except a feeling. Just because many amateur dowsers get mixed results, this does not invalidate the practice?
4. James Randhi has been challenged on many occasions by dowsers and has failed to allow the challenge. As a previous poster said, please beware of Wikipedia and that includes its sources.
5. The Catholic Church used the services of Abbé Mermet, a french monk to map-dowse for water in parts of the earth where water was NOT easily found. Your 90% reference to the availability of water underground may be true in Ireland but it is patently not true in many parts of the world where the subterranean water table is very hard to reach at times.
6. The US military trained thousands of troops in Vietnam to use a single dowsing rod in one hand, rifle in the other, to locate enemy foxholes.
7. Eveyone can dowse to a greater or lesser extent. Its like the 4 minute mile folks, it can be done. Do not believe such haphazrd references to online research. Try it for yourself. If it works, keep it to yourself, because negativity is contagious in all forms of human activity.
Sorry for the tone, but dowsing is a valid activity, with many studies clearly showing results above chance, with national governments such as Russia and USA spending big money on dowsing / remote viewing. I would suggest that its not done to give us a reality anchor for our sci-fi films.
Marconi's friends had him committed to a psychiatric facility for a short time when he claimed that he could send voices through the ether.....Yet so few years later, most of your grandparents all used this technology in the aul wireless and you continue to do so !! So what seems crazy is not, if you take time to research with an open mind. Please don't ask me to reference the above claims. Google for yourself, so your own research and make proud, bold statements when you have the facts. To make statements contrary to my everyday experience on the strength of Wikipedia is not a very solid platform to stand on.
By the way, I love Askaboutmoney. Keep on keeping on.
One caveat : Abre Los Ojos folks !!!!!!
