{"id":175,"date":"2020-04-18T18:44:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T17:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2020-04-18T18:45:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T17:45:22","slug":"blink-dowsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/18\/blink-dowsing\/","title":{"rendered":"Blink dowsing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We\nnormally associate dowsers with forked twigs, pendulum, or other dowsing devices.\nHowever, these are not strictly necessary. Device-lass dowsing is quite\npopular. One of the modern pioneers of this was the late Dan Wilson. He popularised\nthe idea of \u201cblink dowsing\u201d, in which the involuntary blinking of the dowser\u2019s\neyes is associated with the dowsing response. Incidentally, many dowsers have\nreported unusual physiological effects when walking over subterranean water, or\nmineral deposits. Mr Wilson was not the first to blink dowse. It is said that\nthe practice was first recorded by a clergyman in the eighteenth century, who found\nthat he blinked spontaneously over subterranean water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article is a short letter that Mr Wilson sent to the British Society of Dowsers. See \u201cLetters to the Editor\u201d \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No191_1981_p41.pdf\">http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No191_1981_p41.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He wrote the letter in response to an earlier BSD article, claiming that dowsing tools were unnecessary, but that some effort was required to dowse in this \u201cdevice-less\u201d manner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr Wilson\ntells of how the new method did not work for him, if he consciously ran through\nthe possible answers to the dowsing question in his mind, until his eyes blinked\nat the correct answer. Instead he used his hand to indicate possible answers. He\ndoesn\u2019t elaborate on this, perhaps he ran his hand over a predefined list of ailments?\nBut interestingly the magnitude of the blink was related to the truthfulness of\nthe answer. He was a very gifted individual and developed the ability relatively\nquickly and thus demonstrated that the need for tools is unnecessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He often used\nhis dowsing ability to diagnose and treat medical issue. The latter part of the\nletter discusses ideas about how mentally activated healing might work. But we\ncan leave that for a later post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We normally associate dowsers with forked twigs, pendulum, or other dowsing devices. However, these are not strictly necessary. Device-lass dowsing is quite popular. One of the modern pioneers of this was the late Dan Wilson. He popularised the idea of \u201cblink dowsing\u201d, in which the involuntary blinking of the dowser\u2019s eyes is associated with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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\/175"}],"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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}