{"id":111,"date":"2020-03-26T19:54:31","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T19:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2020-03-31T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T09:58:24","slug":"dowsing-with-phantom-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/26\/dowsing-with-phantom-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Dowsing with phantom maps"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>During the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century, the idea of dowsing over\nmaps began to slowly catch on, although not all dowsers considered it possible.\nHere Evelyn Penrose, a remarkably talented dowser who we have met in an earlier\npost, writes about a surprise she had while map dowsing for water in Australia.\nShe had previously map dowsed on many occasions, but as is often the case in\ndowsing, the practitioner will often discover something new about their art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had always considered, that it essential that the map\nshe was using, should have sufficient detail of the actual land it represented,\nso that it could not be confused with another similar area of land. That is the\nmap acted rather like a finger print. It is a method very much in keeping with\nthe vogue at that time to use a sample of the object sought, when dowsing. The\nidea being that somehow, the dowser and sample worked together. However, on one\noccasion, much to her surprise, she discovered that she had successfully dowsed\nfor underground water, using a map that represented not the actual layout, but the\nfuture layout of the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is as if the real dowsing was purely mental, with the map\nonly acting as mental prop, to help focus it and thereby shut out all\ndistractions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article is \u201cThe Phantom Map\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No83_1954_p285.pdf\">http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No83_1954_p285.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the 20th century, the idea of dowsing over maps began to slowly catch on, although not all dowsers considered it possible. Here Evelyn Penrose, a remarkably talented dowser who we have met in an earlier post, writes about a surprise she had while map dowsing for water in Australia. She had previously map dowsed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}