{"id":230,"date":"2020-06-21T22:14:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T21:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/?p=230"},"modified":"2020-06-21T22:14:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T21:14:53","slug":"we-find-what-we-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/21\/we-find-what-we-believe\/","title":{"rendered":"We find what we believe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the recent history of the British Society of\nDowsers, one of its more philosophical members was Dan Wilson. A very\naccomplished dowser specialising in the medical side of the art, he often wrote\nshort articles, or simply letters challenging the accepted orthodoxy.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this letter, he is inspired to write to the Society\nfollowing the Beadon cube controversy, the subject of the last blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No211_1986_p235.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He mentions his review of previous articles in the BSD\njournal, during which we found an instance of another device, which like the\nBeadon cube, supposedly removed the ability to dowse. This was in an article by\nA. D. Manning, who for 20 years had used a rather elaborate looking device,\nconstructed from copper coils (figure supplied), to protect some 2000\nproperties from \u201charmful rays\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No126_1964_p196.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the article, Mr Manning provides some examples of\nhis practice and results. He was familiar with the work of Von Pohl, who was\nmentioned in the post of 06-05-2020. He ends by saying that harmful effects not\nonly from underground steams but other influences. The effect is usually very\nnarrow. (Contrast this with the finding of Dr Bailey, who says otherwise). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enter Robert Leftwich, who was an extremely able\ndowser. It seems that he challenged another dowser, who also used a device akin\nto Manning\u2019s to remove the ability to \u201cneutralise\u201d a stream, to perform his\nwork; Leftwich, would then try and locate the same stream. This he did very\neasily, in addition, finding the stream\u2019s rate of low, depth, and breadth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No131_1966_p211.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his article, Leftwich asserts that the\nneutralisation of harmful streams, or rays, is purely a mental faculty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his article, Dan Wilson highlighted how extraordinary\nthis observation by Leftwich actually was. It is clear that Wilson was no fan\nof the idea of \u201crays\u201d. But what was happening? His idea was to dowse the\nanswer. Through his \u201cconcept dowsing\u201d, he tried to dowse, through a process of\niteration, for a system of language, or vocabulary, that might allow him to better\nunderstand things. But at the same time, he realised that the results of such\nan exercise could not be trusted as facts, but only as \u201cclues\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He derives four principal reason for why dowsers get\nthe wrong answers. To be honest, these are difficult to decipher from his\nwritings. In attempting to understand, the nuances are very likely to be missed.\nHere is my attempt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Our understanding of how things are, affects our\ninterpretation of dowsing results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. He introduces \u201cperceptual consciousness\u201d. This seems\nto be a group consciousness, of which the dowser\u2019s own consciousness is a part,\nand it may, or may not be matched to the task in hand. He suggests (and\nelaborates on this in other writings) that situations have very long histories\nand the perceptual consciousness cannot always comprehend the extent of this\nhistory. For many quests, it is sufficient to be in touch with only the most\nrecent part of that history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. He suggests that there are subconscious concepts (he\nterms them SLWOTs) which are used to interpret reality.  These reside in the group perceptual\nconsciousness.  They can arise from\nvarious sources, for instance from our collective human experience, or some may\nbe added by individuals. He has the idea of a \u201cperceiving intelligence\u201d, which\nis a group effect of each individual\u2019s intelligence, and works to select out\nthe concepts applicable to a given quest, which may be helpful or unhelpful.  Though he suggests that there are ways to\nabandon unhelpful ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.The cultural framework of the dowsers can limit what\nquestions they can pose. This can lead to them working with too many unhelpful\nconcepts and gives rise to incorrect results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Returning to the Beadon cube. There is the shared\nsubconscious concept that the cube will remove the ability to dowse, but one\ngroup held another concept that the no-dowsing effect is not cleared using the\ncube. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps his thinking is best summed up (with the risk\nof over simplifying), by his statement that the whole affair was \u201c\u2026 a case of unwitting\nself-hypnosis with the aid of subconsciously transferred belief patterns.\u201d For\nwhich he recommends that \u201c[one] stand aside for a moment and do your own\nthing.\u201d Here he seems to side with Leftwich, suggesting that for a purely\nmental processes, no devices are necessary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This brings us back to the post of 31-3-2020, and Dan\nWilson\u2019s letter, which is broadly saying that what concepts we think about, we\ncan choose to make a reality. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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