This post is a departure from the usual posts, looking\nat the applications of dowsing. Many dowsers have offered up their speculations,\nabout how dowsing works. Although these are sometimes proposed with\nconsiderable authority, when one looks back at these explanations over the\nyears, one cannot help coming to the conclusion that dowsers should probably just\nstick to their dowsing. Certainly, the lack of a comprehensive theory underpinning,\nnot just dowsing, but psi-related activities in general, is a problem for those\nwho wish to convince die hard materialists of the efficacy of these activities.\nThe approach I am taking in this blog, is simply to recount the myriad ways in which\ndowsing is and has been applied. Interested readers may take away from this\nwhat they will. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, of the accounts I have read, there is one that stands out. This was written by a dowser named Alasdair Beal. After eliminating common explanations, he makes the novel conclusion that dowsing is \u201cthe art of foretelling possible futures\u201d. This is done through the search question(s) which the dowser poses, and the dowser duly gets a result, even if they never receive any feedback. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although he does not elaborate further on the idea, one might consider that each possible future is then feeding information back to the dowser working at an earlier time, about how things turned out. Of cause there\u2019s the thorny issue of causality, but that our understanding of that seems to be rather a mess anyway. \u00a0If one considers, from physics, the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, and from parapsychology, the retro-causal experiments of Helmut Schmidt, for instance, maybe Mr Beal has an interesting point to make. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyway, the article, entitled \u201cA theory of dowsing\u201d, is here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n