{"id":253,"date":"2020-09-22T21:26:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T20:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2020-09-22T21:26:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T20:26:47","slug":"mr-tompkins-a-famous-english-water-diviner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/2020\/09\/22\/mr-tompkins-a-famous-english-water-diviner\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Tompkins \u2013 a famous English water diviner."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mr Benjamin Tompkins, a water diviner, gives an\naccount of his 30 years of practice. In it, he tells us that he assisted Sir\nWilliam Barrett who wrote one of the first in-depth studies of dowsing the results\nof which were published as \u201cThe Divining Rod\u201d. In this book, there is a short\nbiography of Tompkins, in which he is described as one of the successful\nprofessional English dowsers of the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. He came to\ndowsing purely by chance, having observed the work of another famous dowser\nnamed Mullins, and without any tuition, it seems that he had instant success.\nThis led him to advertise his services and he received many engagements in most\nparts of the country, and as far afield as South Africa. His list of patrons is\nvery long and impressive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He appears to be firmly of the opinion that water\nradiates some signal, relating to its presence, which enters his body through\nhis feet. Perhaps this was because he felt the dowsing effect like a \u201ccurrent\u201d\npassing through his body. He must also have thought that this signal was\nelectromagnetic in nature, since he asserts that insulation between the feet\nand ground stopped the dowsing action in him. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When attempting to locate the best position for a\nborehole, he utilised his observation&nbsp;\nthat several underground water courses, each of which he \u201cfelt\u201d with the\nmovement of his rod, would converge on to a point, that he termed the \u201chead of\nthe spring\u201d. Interestingly, he notes that when he stood at this spot,&nbsp; his (Y shaped) dowsing rod would continue to\nrevolve in his hands (this is an effect noted by many dowsers in the\nliterature). There must have been quite a force at play in the rod, since he\nseems to have a difficult time in preventing it from revolving. To me, this\nsuggests the possibility of a psychokinetic effect on the rod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is a little vague on how he measures depth, it\nappears to rely on a feeling, rather than using any \u201crule\u201d. Perhaps this is\nprofessional concealment? Regarding quantity, he seemed to estimate it by\nmeasuring the number and size of flows into the spring head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally, he says that water diviners are born and not\nmade, and asserts that his own family have better talent than most and indeed\nthe effect on one of his sons seems truly overwhelming, suggesting a\nwell-developed dowsing sensitivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His article is \u201cThe theory and practice of water\ndivining by the divining rod\u201d:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No4_1934_p77.pdf\">http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No4_1934_p77.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Benjamin Tompkins, a water diviner, gives an account of his 30 years of practice. In it, he tells us that he assisted Sir William Barrett who wrote one of the first in-depth studies of dowsing the results of which were published as \u201cThe Divining Rod\u201d. In this book, there is a short biography of [&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\/253"}],"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=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}