new<\/em> borehole. To ensure that this borehole provided water, he\ndecided to enlist the psychic abilities of F.H. and sent him a rough sketch\nplan. Note that F.H. had never visited the location, and that throughout, it appears\nthat he was living in Africa. <\/p>\n\n\n\nF.H. divined using a crystal. Upon making his mind blank,\nthe crystal turned \u201ccloudy\u201d, then two numbers appeared, 250 followed by 585. The\nlatter remained until he removed the crystal from the plan, only to reappear when\nhe replaced it on the plan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It seems he also divined using copper wires in some\nmanner, not well described. But these wires usually behaved by \u201cgoing down\u201d\nover water, and \u201crose up\u201d over mineral deposits (\u201cusually iron\u201d). When he\npassed the wired over the chosen position of the new borehole, the wires rose up,\nand he saw 250 in the crystal, but the number changed to 585, when the wires\nwent down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later, as he moved the wires over the plan, they \u201cvibrated\u201d\nover a spot very near to the borehole, but under a nearby road. F.H. considered\nthat this was the place where the bore should have been sunk, to a depth of 383\nfeet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later with the crystal in the plan, he observed \u201ca thin blue line, increasing in width as it continued, \u00a0as if drawn by an invisible hand, started from a place on the plan, a few yards below the spot where the figures 385 had appeared under the road] and continued right off the plan, passing the present site of the well by about 20 yards\u2026\u201d. He concluded that the well was not on the underground stream. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The position of the new borehole was suggested by a driller. \u00a0He appears to have divined the spot, and predicted that water would be found at 180 feet, although he had advised that a better site would have been under the road as per F.H.. A description of the layers encountered during drilling, showed a lot of clay, but basalt at 180 feet and no water, which then gave way to \u201cdolorite\u201d [sic] at 250 feet, \u00a0\u201ca very hard igneous rock\u201d, that can contain iron compounds. \u00a0The description does not say whether water was eventually found in the borehole, perhaps at 585feet, but the intention was to stop drilling at 500 feet, and so we might infer that it was a failure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Focussing only on the bore-hole, C.V.H. ignored F.H.\u2019s\nadvice about the underground stream, until after an accidental conversation, discovered\nthat two water diviners working for a previous owner of the property, had located\na stream in \u201cmuch the same direction\u201d as F.H. The article does not confirm whether\nthe stream actually existed, but does show F.H.\u2019s remarkable remote abilities\nto replicate the findings of three diviners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the time this article was written, remote dowsing\nwas still largely considered to be a rare ability for a dowser. Of course, it\nis extraordinary, but dowsers now consider it to be an ability accessible to\nmost, with practice. The use of a\ncrystal, and the visualisation of depth information, is I believe, unique in\nthe BSD accounts. While visualising the course of the stream, might share some parallels\nwith reports of several individuals, who could \u201csee\u201d underground water, while\nwalking over land. But still, F.H. truly had exceptional abilities. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here is a reprint from the Quarterly Transactions of the British College of Psychic Science. Entitled \u201cWater divining at a distance\u201d. http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No22_1938_p285.pdf It is based on a letter from Mr Frank Hives (F.H.), a member of the college. His cousin, Mr Chas V. Hives (C.V.H.) had a property in Australia. The property had an existing […]<\/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\/289"}],"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=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}