Another method to establish the object sought

This article, published in 1951 in the Journal of the BSD, is a description of a Dr Robertson, who evidently was a very good practitioner of the art of dowsing.

He seemed to specialise in water divining and the article describes him dowsing onsite for water in India. However, he had the ability to dowse, in a very precise manner, for any object. To do this, he followed a particularly interesting technique. He used a traditional Y shared dowsing rod, “.. afresh forked and pliable twig ..”. He would hold the two ends of the Y in his hands, and then touch the third length onto either the object, or example of the same, that he was seeking. What we have here appears to be a kind of programming of the search. It’s interesting that the author could also use this technique, suggesting it is not necessarily dependent on the dowser. However, in the last post, we saw the dowser holding a sample (a slipper in that case) whilst dowsing. One possible explanation is that this procedure somehow programmed the intention to find the object within the mind of the dowser.  Using this technique, an example is given, of the ability of a dowser to trace the path, previously trod by a person (like we saw in the previous post – “Tracing the lost” – 13/3/2020).

The author says that the “waves” of the object then entered the stick. That is his own explanation, but as pointed out in previous posts, the dowsing effect has been thought of as a kind of radio reception. He even talks of something “vibrating” the stick. But this is probably best thought of as an analogy. It seems that it was the author’s experience that not everyone can obtain a dowsing reaction (something we will hopefully return to in later posts). Then there was the curious observation that when the author attempted to use Dr Robertson’s dowsing rod (“stick”), he was unable to, for it seemed that the rod had somehow rather bizarrely become entangled with Robertson’s.

The full article is here:

http://www.dowsing-research.net/blog_extracts/BSD_No73_p38-39.pdf