http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/ BSD_No133_1966_p288.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nIn this article Scott-Elliott, gives examples of a few\nof the many possible applications of dowsing, in an attempt to unpick the physical\nfrom the psychic. He considered dowsing to be the art of searching based on some\nquestion, so he arbitrarily refers to the dowsing reaction as the \u2018Q force\u2019. He\nasserts that this Q force acts through the dowser and that the dowsing device\nis simply an indicator. I believe that most dowsers would agree with that. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
His examples cover the three broad types of dowsing\npractice: dowsing close to what is sought, for example medical dowsing, and working\nwith plants; dowsing from a distance (in either space and\/or time), archaeological\ndowsing, including dating, depthing of water; and map dowsing, where he dowsed the\nmovements of a ship. To Scott-Elliott,\nhowever, there is no differentiation between these practices, \u201call dowsing is\none\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He concludes that dowsing is \u201cpart physical and part mental\u201d, but it\u2019s not clear quite what he means by this. In some instances, for example in healing, something physical might be transferred something physical. Then there is the interesting effect of clay of the estimation of water depth. \u00a0But as he asks, \u201cis this fact or inhibition?\u201d. Many dowsers have commented that it causes them problems depthing, so there is clearly an effect, but with all dowsing, the dowsing is bringing unconscious biases to the process. How influential are these. There are examples in the BSD journal of dowsers who are untroubled by clay. Take for instance this statement from BSD journal issue no129, page 62, <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe practising dowsers present\nalso expressed the views on the real or spurious effects of clays upon their depthing\nreadings, and here it seems that the mental school had an advantage over the physical\nschool of dowser, the former experiencing no distortion, at all of course, by strata\ncontent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We perhaps have a bias for physical effects, but the simplest explanation for the dowsing effect is that it is purely psychic. In fact, it seems very difficult, if not impossible, to differentiate information glean by psychic means, from that derived from physical source. However, consider this. A buried object might give rise to weak magnetic field at ground level. If we postulate the existence of a magnetic field detector, we might explain the dowsing reaction when in the vicinity of the object. But how do we explain any additional information we might obtain, through dowsing, about the object? We would need to explain how information about the object is actually encoded in the magnetic field. The scientist and dowser, Zaboj Harvalik (see dowsing-research.net for some of his papers) did substantial work on the ability of dowsers to detect weak magnetic fields. He concluded that professional dowsers can detect changes in magnetic field of less than one millionth the strength of the Earth\u2019s field. How can these people possibly function in the World? This seems more understandable if the sensing of the field is through a psychic filter. And finally there is the problem of explaining map dowsing \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This article was written by a former president of the British Society of Dowsers (BSD), named Major-General J. Scott-Elliott. It is a transcript of a talk he gave to members of the society in 1966. At that time there was a good deal of debate about the cause of the dowsing reaction, did it have […]<\/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\/215"}],"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=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}