http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No25_1939_p19.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nThe lady, who does not appear to be a dowser herself,\ndescribes the abilities of a local dowser, before giving an account of several \u201cexperiments\u201d\nmade by her husband, after he had discovered he had an innate dowsing talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We see as in the last blog post, that the dowser uses\na sample of the object sought, using the motto \u201cLike to like\u201d, and we learn how\neffective this method appeared to be at differentiating between similar\nobjects. In fact, even a sample was unnecessary, the dowsing instrument only\nhad to be \u201cinitialised\u201d for the search, by being placed in the vicinity of where\nthe object (in this case a fox) had been. (She even mentions the use of dowsing\nin central Germany, to track down criminals, but that this was not always as straight\nforward as it might seem). This all possibly suggests that there is a mental aspect\nto the initialisation. More evidence for this comes from the manner in which the\ndiviner sought the depth of underground water. As we have seen in other posts, the depthing\nmethod is personal to the dowser, rather than apparently being a property of\nthe water; the Bishop\u2019s rule did not work for this man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are told that her husband appeared to have a\nnatural dowsing ability and set about experimenting with his newly discovered\nability. He seemed particularly sensitive to water and the accounts suggest\nthat this was neither self-delusion, nor (in one case at least) possible ESP\ntransfer from spectators, who might have knowledge of the presence of water.\n\nAn\nobservation of particular interest, is when her friends formed a human chain beginning\nat one end of the dowsing rod, held by her husband, and ending at the other end,\nheld by a non-dowser. If there was any<\/em>\nbeak in the chain, the rod would not move over water. I think that this is the\nonly account of such a phenomenon in the BSD journals. However, we might speculate\nthat it was caused unconsciously by her husband\u2019s intention, or maybe even by\nher own. We have seen that a person new to dowser may have their ability apparently\n\u201cinitiated\u201d by a dowser, when both hold either ends of same dowsing rod, or\neven if the dowser uses their dowsing rod to touch the novice. The intention to\nassist the latter is often reported to be effective. And just to add to the\nmind over matter conjecture, she ends with a description of a man with obvious\ndowsing ability, who tried to prevent his dowsing rod from turning, only to have\nit break in his hands. This is another story recounted often in the BSD journals.\nIs it due to psychokinesis?\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here is an example of perhaps my favourite style of article in the Journal of the British Society of Dowsers. A simple account of dowsing practices, devoid of much interpretation. \u201cSome dowsing experiences\u201d by Helen Wedderburn-Maxwell: http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No25_1939_p19.pdf The lady, who does not appear to be a dowser herself, describes the abilities of a local dowser, […]<\/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\/303"}],"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=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":305,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}