www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No30_1940_p212.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nFirst point of note was that the boy\u2019s interests ranged across the spectrum from interested to sceptical, but this had no bearing on whether an individual could obtain a dowsing reaction, a result which is a little counter-intuitive. \u00a0Furthermore, the sensitivity of dowsing reaction seemed to depend on the choice of dowsing instrument, so they were allowed to choose the device best suited to them. In fact, a couple of boys could dowse naturally with no instrument. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
They began with water detection and depthing. The two depthing\nmethods used were interesting, one involved them imagining they were descending\ndown a shaft, until a reaction was obtained. The depth at which this occurred\nwas the depth of the water and interestingly, this could be doner using any\nunit of measurement. Another method (inspired by Cryke\u2019s method, see post \u201cAnother\napproach to water divining\u201d on\n04-04-2020) involved tracing a circle of dowsing reaction around\na metal object placed in the ground immediately above stream, the radius of the\ncircle represented the depth of water. This observation seems to suggest that\nthe conscious mind can impose rules on the unconscious mind concerning how to\nprocess information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another example of the mind\u2019s filtering ability was\nalso observed when searching for objects on or near the surface of the ground.\nHere they noticed that to detect objects close to the surface, one had to think\n\u201cshallow\u201d, but for deeper objects, one had to think \u201cdeep\u201d, or the object could\nbe missed. Similarly, when searching for\nwater, thinking too much of water would miss iron pipes carrying water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, they observed the effect of other people\ndisturbing their dowsing results. In fact, it was possible for onlookers to \u201cplant\u201d\na dowsing reaction in another dowser. It is interesting to speculate, whether\nthis effect was also related to the observation that contact between an experienced\ndowser and one who has otherwise great difficulty dowsing, can produce results\nin the latter. This observation has often been reported in the BSD journals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here is a nice short article describing some dowsing experiments undertaken by a group of 10-12 school children, who were attending a boy\u2019s school in Eastbourne, England. The author had taught himself to dowse and led the investigation. Though a short account, it highlights a number of features of dowsing. www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No30_1940_p212.pdf First point of note […]<\/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\/340"}],"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=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}