{"id":244,"date":"2020-07-15T21:44:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T20:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2020-07-15T21:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T20:44:40","slug":"from-the-ridiculous-to-the-paranormal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/15\/from-the-ridiculous-to-the-paranormal\/","title":{"rendered":"From the ridiculous to the paranormal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In July 1993, the British society of dowsers\ncelebrated the society\u2019s diamond jubilee, international congress, in York.\nThere were several guest speakers from around the globe. But one I think stands\nout. It was delivered by Michael Bentine. Older readers might recognise him as a\nBritish comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons. He was also\nkeenly interested in paranormal, having psychic abilities himself, and knew many\nof the great psychics of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. Although this talk only\nmakes passing reference to dowsing, apart from being amusing, it includes some wonderful\nvignettes, illustrating that some individuals at least, are able to transcend reality\nin in simply extraordinary ways. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His talk, entitled \u201cFrom the ridiculous to the\nparanormal\u201d, is here:&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No241_1993_p305.pdf\">http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No241_1993_p305.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 1993, the British society of dowsers celebrated the society\u2019s diamond jubilee, international congress, in York. There were several guest speakers from around the globe. But one I think stands out. It was delivered by Michael Bentine. Older readers might recognise him as a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons. [&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\/244"}],"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=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}