Welcome to this new dowsing blog, I hope you find it of interest.

For the first post, I want to mention the British Society of Dowsers (BSD), see https://britishdowsers.org/

This organisation was established in 1933, by Colonel A. H. Bell. The early years of the society’s existence attracted several former officers of the British army, who either had, or presumably had, personal experience of the efficacy of dowsing, as practiced by those they commanded.

Since its inception, the society has published a quarterly journal. This began as “The Journal of the British Society of Dowsers”, then for a brief period it became “Radio Perception”, before reverting to its original title, and finally in 2000 it was renamed “Dowsing Today”. Throughout its history, the journal has contained accounts by members of their various dowsing experiences and experiments. It is a rich source of information relating to how dowsing has been and is practiced.  

Because of that, I will be drawing heavily on content derived from the BSD journals. Digital versions of the journals are not currently publicly available, so currently this blog is the only place where this material may be read online. But rather then full volumes, I will post individual articles of what I consider are of particular interest.

Today I have posted the editorial from issue number 1 of the BSD journal, 1933. Though short, it is a good introduction to some of the key aspects of dowsing.

http://www.dowsing-research.net/blog_extracts/BSD_No1_p1-2.pdf

Reference is made to the various tools that a dowser might use, while practicing their art. It also mentions that although dowsing might be more familiar as water divining, there are many more applications of which many people remain unaware. So for example, in addition to being able to locate items underground, dowsing can be used for medical diagnosis.  The example of tracing lost people is also referred to. There is a curious reference to an object having a “scent”, that is leaving some invisible trace behind once the object has been moved. This is what dowsers often refer to as remanence, and from the dowser’s point of view, it is as if the object is still in situ. Obviously, this can cause problems for while dowsing.

The dowsing mechanism might be thought of as being a physical effect. But dowsers can search by dowsing maps of some distant location of interest. So there appears to be some anomalous method of information transfer at work.

I hope to provide further illustration of these points at a later time.