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译者：依兰
从历史上说，探测术是因为可以有效地寻找水，黄金，石油以及其矿物而出名，但是，它也涉及到许多关于生与死的讨论，在法国，内科医生曾经用灵摆来来帮助他们诊断，灵摆的使用一度作为官方的法国感应力学，成为贯穿欧洲的科学技术存在。很多人使用灵摆去探测过敏和其他疾病，乃至精确的判断胎儿的性别和生日。
贯穿整个历史，人们将灵摆转而用于在险境中求生指引，在可怕的越南战（和谐你妹！）争中，一些美国海军陆战队被教授如何使用灵摆去定位底下山矿和隧道。
历史显示有很多记录了灵摆成功的例子，也包括了非官方渠道出来的成功例子，不列颠的1944年7月二十日的《每周讯报》报道了如下的讣告：“陆军上校Kenneth Merrylees——一个水之占卜者（water-diviner）享年97岁，他生前作为一个炮弹处理专家工作于二战时期时，用探测术去寻找深入地底下的炸弹和定时炸弹的保险丝。
灵摆也有在整个历史上的争议，在1960年的冷战期间，美国人Verne Cameron被南非的政 （和谐你妹！）府请去用他的灵摆来帮助他们定位国家宝贵的自然资源，但是他被美国政（和谐你妹！）府拒绝了签证，在早些年，他对美国海军证明了他特别的占卜天赋，成功的计划了探测术，（确定地图的位置）每一个海底的海军的舰队，他震惊了海军官方，因为他不仅定位了每个美国潜水艇，而且还定位出了世界上所有的俄罗斯潜水艇。后来CIA（译者注：美国中央情报局）决定了Cameron有关国家安全的危险，并且他被禁止离开美国。

原文……
History of pendulum dowsing Historically, dowsing has been known for its ability to locate water, gold, oil and other minerals, but it has also been used in many instances involving issues of life and death. In France, physicians have used the pendulum to assist them in making diagnoses; the use of the pendulum is officially considered to be a science known throughout Europe as Radiesthesia or in French "Radiesthesie". Many people have used the pendulum to detect allergies and other ailments, and even to accurately determine the gender and birth date of unborn babies (baby gender prediction).
Throughout history, people have turned to the pendulum to guide them when their lives were at stake. In dire circumstances during the Vietnam war, some U.S. marines were taught to use a pendulum to locate underground mines and tunnels.
History presents many accounts of the successes of dowsing, including those from officious sources. Britain's Weekly Telegraph of July 20th, 1994 reported the following obituary: "Colonel Kenneth Merrylees, the water-diviner who has died aged 97, worked during the Second World War as a bomb-disposal expert, when he used his dowsing skills to find bombs with delayed-action fuses which had penetrated deep into the ground."
The pendulum has also had its share of controversy throughout history. During the Cold War in the 1960's, American pendulist Verne Cameron was invited by the government of South Africa to use his pendulum to help them locate their country's precious natural resources, but he was denied a passport by the U.S. government. A few years earlier, he had demonstrated his special dowsing talent to the U.S. Navy, successfully map dowsing (locating on a map) every submarine in the Navy's fleet. He shocked Navy officials by not only locating every American submarine, but also every Russian submarine in the world. Afterwards, the CIA determined that Cameron was a risk to national security, and he was forbidden to leave the United States.


其实从这里可以看出，以前是没有灵摆这个概念的，完全只是作为一个探测器，也就更加没有所谓的“和水晶对话”“灵摆的性格”“灵摆的名字”“灵摆的年龄”等拟人化东西………

求授权 转载到灵摆吧和古曼童吧。
为了避免 过于拟人化、招鬼、妖魔鬼怪化的谣言
让更多的人知道 认识 灵摆只是个工具而已