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    Dowsing for Treasure: The New Successful Treasure Hunter's Essential Dowsing Manual
    Dowsing for Treasure: The New Successful Treasure Hunter's Essential Dowsing Manual
    Dowsing for Treasure: The New Successful Treasure Hunter's Essential Dowsing Manual
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    Dowsing for Treasure: The New Successful Treasure Hunter's Essential Dowsing Manual

    By David Villanueva

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    DOWSING for TREASURE: THE NEW SUCCESSFUL TREASURE HUNTER'S ESSENTIAL DOWSING MANUAL reveals secrets known only to a few amazingly successful treasure hunters.

    If you want to find all the treasure you can handle — gold, silver, coins, jewels or anything else you call treasure — real fast. And if you want to find all this treasure without spending a fortune on expensive equipment or books and courses, using up all your free time studying and trying to put complicated rituals into practice in the field, then this essential manual was written for you!

    Expert metal detectorist, treasure hunter and internationally acclaimed author, David Villanueva, draws on his many years of experience at successfully dowsing for treasure to reveal ALL in this fact-packed manual.

    This completely revised and updated edition of the original SUCCESSFUL TREASURE HUNTER'S ESSENTIAL DOWSING MANUAL incorporating FAITHFUL ATTRACTION, is a revolutionary new guide to finding treasure, which shows how anyone — beginner or seasoned professional — can easily use the skills they probably never realized they had, to locate treasure — wherever it lies hidden. And, just as importantly, how to pinpoint and recover that treasure fast.

    Please note: This book is based on the two previous E-books mentioned above, which have been combined, revised and updated with some material subtracted and some new material added. If you have either of the previous E-books then this book will be an excellent companion volume; if you already have both previous E-books, then you have the main issues covered.

    Contents include:

    1 Introduction
    2 A Brief History Of Dowsing
    3 How Does Dowsing Work?
    4 Why Not Just Use A Metal Detector?
    5 Finding And Using A Dowser
    6 The Pendulum
    7 Map Dowsing
    8 The L-Rod
    9 To Bait Or Not To Bait
    10 Building A Better Gold Trap
    11 To Look For Or To Unlook For
    12 Buying A Better Gold Trap
    13 All That Glitters
    14 Metal Detectors And Search Heads
    15 Photographing Treasure Auras
    16 Research
    17 Putting It All Together
    18 Treasure Hunting Basics
    19 Search Agreements
    20 Bibliography

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Villanueva
    Release dateJan 11, 2016
    ISBN9781311644824
    Dowsing for Treasure: The New Successful Treasure Hunter's Essential Dowsing Manual
    Author

    David Villanueva

    David Villanueva (1951- ) was born in Birmingham, England, where he grew up. In the early 1970s his mother bought him a copy of Ted Fletcher’s book A Fortune Under Your Feet, which, together with David’s great interest in history inspired him to buy a metal detector and take up treasure hunting as a hobby. Family stories about the origins and history behind David’s Spanish surname also spawned the hobby of genealogy. A career move brought David to Whitstable in Kent, England, and it was here that David’s love of history research developed into great success both in metal detecting and family history research. A little later David felt the urge to put pen to paper and started writing articles for the two British metal detecting magazines - Treasure Hunting and The Searcher – which have published more than two dozens of David’s articles between them. Success in writing articles soon led to David’s first book: The Successful Treasure Hunter’s Essential Dowsing Manual: How to Easily Develop Your Latent Skills to Find Treasure in Abundance, published in both digital format and paperback. To date, David has written over a dozen books in the metal detecting, treasure hunting and family history genres.

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      Dowsing for Treasure - David Villanueva

      DOWSING FOR TREASURE

      The New Successful Treasure Hunter's Essential Dowsing Manual

      By David Villanueva

      Smashwords Edition

      All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means, including scanning, photocopying, or otherwise without prior written permission of the copyright holder. Copyright 2016 David Villanueva

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you are reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      DEDICATION

      To James (Jimmy) Longton, (1930 - 2015) a true friend.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      While, for obvious reasons, there is much secrecy in treasure hunting, now and again you come across kind gentlemen who willingly share their knowledge, expertise and even their equipment! I owe a debt of gratitude to: Jimmy Longton, Kybob, Glenn, Takis, Mike Scott, Frank Delamere Richard and David. Thank you gentlemen.

      CONTENTS

      1 INTRODUCTION

      2 A BRIEF HISTORY OF DOWSING

      3 HOW DOES DOWSING WORK?

      4 WHY NOT JUST USE A METAL DETECTOR?

      5 FINDING AND USING A DOWSER

      6 THE PENDULUM

      7 MAP DOWSING

      8 THE L-ROD

      9 TO BAIT OR NOT TO BAIT

      10 BUILDING A BETTER GOLD TRAP

      11 TO LOOK FOR OR TO UNLOOK FOR

      12 BUYING A BETTER GOLD TRAP

      13 ALL THAT GLITTERS

      14 METAL DETECTORS AND SEARCH HEADS

      15 PHOTOGRAPHING TREASURE AURAS

      16 RESEARCH

      17 PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER

      18 TREASURE HUNTING BASICS

      19 SEARCH AGREEMENTS

      20 BIBLIOGRAPHY

      21 BOOKS IN PRINT FROM THE SAME AUTHOR

      1 INTRODUCTION

      Since becoming involved in treasure hunting some 40 years ago, the burning question for me has always been: How can I find more treasure in less time? Not that I am impatient or don't find pleasure in the pursuit itself; it is just that finding more, faster, is surely the route to success. I read the books and the magazines and there is plenty of good advice. Buy the best equipment you can afford. Develop your skills. Research thoroughly. Good advice but is it enough? The majority of treasure locations are unknown and most finds are accidental. Or are they?

      Reading through the treasure hunting magazines there are countless stories of finds being made in remarkable circumstances. Many treasure hunters make good finds 'after only five minutes searching' or 'walking back to the car' or 'having dreamt of treasure' and so on. I may have believed this to be exaggeration, if I hadn't started having similar experiences – the usual format being a casual discussion about a particular object followed by recovering a similar object almost immediately. Some put this phenomenon down to luck or coincidence, while others give it fancy names such as Serendipity, Assonance or the X-Factor. It happened so many times to me that I knew there must be more to it. What was the nature of this phenomenon and could it be harnessed? I tried deliberately saying 'I am going to find (a certain object)' before searching and even chanting 'I want gold' during a search. But it never did any good. Then I heard about dowsing.

      When I looked into dowsing it wasn't just about specially gifted people finding water, as I thought, almost anybody could find absolutely anything large or small. The best treasure dowsers could locate treasure, hundreds or thousands of miles away using a simple tool with a map, then go out into the field and dig it up. Although dowsing still hasn't been scientifically proven it was certainly worth investigating as the possible answer to a treasure hunter's prayers.

      I read books on dowsing, most were obsessive about finding water, some were academic, and there were one or two practical guides on the techniques of dowsing but almost nothing on treasure dowsing. I bought a pair of L shaped rods and tried to follow the instructions with little effect. I didn't know what the problem was at the time and assumed I was one of the very few people unable to dowse. Looking back, the problem was the instructor had devised the most impractical way imaginable to use a pair of L-rods.

      I all but forgot about dowsing until I heard about Jimmy Longton. Jimmy was offering to dowse maps for a small fee or percentage of the finds. More as an experiment than anything, I sent Jimmy a map of a field, which had already yielded a little treasure. A couple of days later Jimmy phoned me rather excitedly about the potential of the site: There's gold and silver everywhere. He said. When the map arrived back, it was littered with crosses; some indicated iron but most indicated non-ferrous metal. Immediately, I noticed that most of the crosses were concentrated in the area where I had already made finds and a row of ferrous crosses coincided with a row of iron stakes on the site. Jimmy lived 300 miles away and had never visited the site, I hadn't told him anything about the site either, so how did he know? Using Jimmy's map I went on to double the amount of finds I recovered from the site.

      More importantly, as well as the map, Jimmy had sent me instructions on how to make and use L-rods for treasure dowsing. Jimmy's instructions were clearly practical from someone who knew what he was talking about. I followed his instructions and quickly learned to dowse. I confess to being a poor dowser compared to Jimmy. Even so my treasure hunting success rate has improved remarkably to the extent that I have not only held one or more metal detecting club annual trophies for a number of years but I have all but lost count of the number of treasure finds I have had to report since the introduction of the UK Treasure Act in 1997.

      Through this manual, I am aiming to draw on my own and others' experience in the practical use of dowsing to aid the location of treasure. You do not necessarily need to become a dowser yourself, you can easily find a dowser to do the job for you or use this manual to teach a friend or relative. This is a practical guide to the best ideas for supercharging your treasure hunting; use the ideas and I guarantee you will be amazed at the results. Good Hunting!

      2 A BRIEF HISTORY OF DOWSING

      Dowsing has been recorded since the time of Moses, for the story of Aaron producing water from the rock (Exodus chapter 17, verse 6) is often quoted as the first written evidence. Even if we dismiss the Biblical claim, dowsers appear engraved on ancient Egyptian stonework and on the statue of a Chinese emperor dating circa 2200BC. Little else of dowsing is recorded until Agricola wrote De Re Metallica, in 1556, a composition on mining, which included an illustration of German dowsers at work.

      Illustration from De Re Metallica

      Almost a hundred years after Agricola, Martine de Bertereau, Baroness de Beausoleil travelled Europe, with her husband, locating mineral deposits by dowsing. They discovered over 150 ore deposits of iron, gold and silver in France alone, before being imprisoned for practicing the 'black arts'. Later, in the same century, a particularly interesting book was written by Jean Nicholas de Grenoble published in Lyons in 1691 under the title of La Verge de Jacob or L'arte de Trouver les Trésors: Les Sources, les Limites, les Métaux, les Mines, les Minéraux et autres choses

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