The role of inhibitions in dowsing

This article, another from the very early editions of the BSD journals (in this case 1939), is written by a very experienced dowser, writing under a pseudonym. His tackles one the most important aspects of dowsing, that of having preconceived ideas, which will affect the dowsing response.

He gives an example. Traditionally, dowsing had been more of a country man pursuit and he talks of the “old village dowser”. However, new people, with new ideas were now beginning to take up the practice, such as our author. In his example, it is likely that the country dowser considered the dowsing reaction to be caused, at least in some part, by a flow of electricity through the body in/out of the ground, therefore the wearing of rubber soled boots would insulate one and prevent any dowsing.  To our author, this was simply an incorrect pre-conceived idea. The country dowser was inhibiting his own ability to dowse. But by using his fake instrument, to fabricate a supposed dowsing response, the author was able to remove the dowser’s inhibition.

He states quite clearly his experience, “… if one’s instruments, and oneself, are sensitive enough, nothing will stop radiation perception”, and there was nothing he could not dowse for.  (In fact, from today’s perspective, you might even say that perceiving radiation, was also a preconceived idea, but perhaps one that had little effect on one’s abilities to dowse). He says that it is necessary to achieve the right mental state, “… chloroform your imagination …”, but the hardest part, he stresses, is understanding (“translating”) the meaning of the dowsing response.  

The article is here:

http://www.dowsing-research.net/blog_extracts/ BSD_No23_1939_p324.pdf