Hidden in the words

Summary of: John F. Caddy PhD, Hidden in the Words: a Meaning Undetected, 2011. Read the book » | View the book cover » | Buy on Amazon »

A brief summary of the book that deals essentially with a method of dowsing our vocabulary. and some of its results.

This text describes some discoveries I made about the language I use, especially when writing on scientific topics but also on spiritual or emotional subject. I describe a form of dowsing I learned in Sardinia, which can be modified to give numerical scores for words or sentences in response to the question: ‘What is the energy of ___?’: before dowsing for an answer which is reflected by the number of rotations of a stiff but elastic Y-shaped wand. A score of around 14 rotations is a neutral or unemotional score, lower values mean a word is depressing, and higher values it is uplifting. These scores reflect the judgement of the subconscious mind, and are often surprisingly different from my conscious preconception, but on reflection, appear to be valid. A graph is shown below of the scores elicited for a range of emotions.

A phenomenon which reflects the reality of scientific reports is that the vocabulary used to describe science (I call the scores in this range as falling into‘The band of rationality’), rarely exceeds a score of 15-20. This appears to reflect the requirement for scientific texts that they strictly correspond to an unemotional or materialistic mental framework, since allowing emotion to enter a description of a scientific experiment could lead to exaggeration. This however makes it difficult to scientifically study unemotionally, a spiritual or religious subject where much higher (or much lower) scores will be obtained.

Two other conclusions that could be mentioned are:

1. Names of religious figures from the distant past may still retain a relatively high score: why is this?
2. Vocabularies from foreign languages do not elicit comparable scores to equivalent words in my native language, english.

An alternative method of obtaining energy scores is illustrated that is the key practice in Pranic Healing, notably using hand spacing to measure the energy a phenomenon evokes.