{"id":114,"date":"2020-03-28T21:55:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T21:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2020-03-31T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T09:58:24","slug":"helpful-tips-on-dowsing-for-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/28\/helpful-tips-on-dowsing-for-beginners\/","title":{"rendered":"Helpful tips on dowsing for beginners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This extract is from a more recent BSD journal (1991). It is\nthe content of a lecture delivered by a former president of the British Society\nof Dowsers, Major-General J. Scot-Elliott. He came to practice dowsing later in\nlife and specialised in archaeological dowsing. He authored a helpful book, \u201cDowsing:\nOne Man&#8217;s Way\u201d, published in 1977. (It might still be available from the BSD\nshop, <a href=\"https:\/\/britishdowsers.org\/\">https:\/\/britishdowsers.org\/<\/a> )<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his lecture, you can see how the explanation of the\ndowsing effect has moved from the idea of a mental radio (objects giving off\nemanations), to the realisation that it is a matter of mind. Interestingly\nthough he suggests that the ability may not be evenly distributed throughout\nthe population, with only 10% having the ability to become \u201cgood\u201d dowsers. But\nthe key he asserts is to find an application for one\u2019s dowsing and concentrate\non that, rather than apply dowsing to everything and then practice with that\napplication. Early work needs to include good feedback, to build confidence. Expecting\nnovice dowsers to perform well is not justified, and this has implications when\none considers past experiments designed to prove the credibility of dowsing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As in the post of 26\/03\/2020, he believes it is necessary to\nkeep the process of dowsing as simple as one can. Avoid preconceptions as much\nas possible (in the dowsing field these are sometimes referred to as\nshibboleths). He mentions that samples are only an aid to focus the mind, they\nmay be helpful sometimes, but just a written description of the object sought\nmay also be sufficient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He ends with a helpful description of his way of working and\nalso some basic rules for beginners. Dowsing is the art of seeking, and for\nthis to be successful, one requires practice with feedback, in order to develop\nconfidence and identify confounding factors. But he also stresses that \u201cthe\nneed to know\u201d is important, ie the results are improved, if the search is\npersonally important to the dowser. And of course, the question the dowser asks\nthemselves in their search must be the correct one (otherwise, garbage in,\ngarbage out) and interestingly, it often should account for time, because of\nthe r\u00e9manence effect. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article is entitled \u201cDowsing for beginners\u201d, see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No232_1991_p248.pdf\">http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No232_1991_p248.pdf<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This extract is from a more recent BSD journal (1991). It is the content of a lecture delivered by a former president of the British Society of Dowsers, Major-General J. Scot-Elliott. He came to practice dowsing later in life and specialised in archaeological dowsing. He authored a helpful book, \u201cDowsing: One Man&#8217;s Way\u201d, published in [&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\/114"}],"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=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}