http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No69_p131-141.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\nAlthough the girl was eventually located by other means, the account is an interesting study in actual dowsing. There are many accounts in which dowsers have successfully traced people. This is probably because it appears to be quite a specialised task and only a handful of dowsers specialised in it, but as a result they became very good. But dowsing is not always exact, because there are often confounding issues, however it may be a helpful guide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The first part of this very detailed account is provided by the\nPolice inspector who worked with the dowser, a Mr Latham, and the latter part contains\nthe comments of the dowser himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The dowser begins the search by dowsing a large scale map using\na pendulum. He describes the action of\nthe latter as he closes in on the area in which the girl was later found. Changes in the pendulum\u2019s swing from oscillation to and fro to gyration is a common\ndowsing reaction, but the meaning of the\nswing may often depends on the dowser themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He later moves to on-site dowsing, using a traditional (and\nat that time widely used) Y shaped dowsing rod, here made of whalebone, which\nwas a material of choice at this time. I think few dowsers today would use the\nY rod. He is feeling the \u201cpull\u201d in the\nrod, to get a bearing on the location of child. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Note also that he speaks of \u201cemanations\u201d. Dowsers, especially\nat that time, but also today, consider that everything radiates in some way,\nand that they are receiving and homing in on this radiation or emanations. If\nwe stay with that metaphor, then to help him \u201ctune\u201d himself into what he is\nseeking, he uses a \u201csample\u201d representing whatever is sought. In this case, it\nis the child\u2019s slipper. As he points out, an inanimate object can become imbued\nwith the characteristics of the thing sought, if the two are connected for a sufficient\namount of time (often referred to by dowsers as r\u00e9manence). Interestingly\nthough he mentions the child\u2019s hair and dog\u2019s hair within the slipper, the former\nshould have aided the search, while the latter may have been sufficient to confuse\nthe search. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dowsers often give vent to their own ideas about how their art works and he expounds on this at some length near the end, hopefully this does not distract from the actual proceedings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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One historical application of dowsing has been to trace missing people, either alive or deceased. In this account, taken from the BSD Journal of September 1950, we find the police working with a dowser in an attempt to find a missing young girl, who it turned out sadly had been murdered. http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog_extracts\/BSD_No69_p131-141.pdf Although the girl […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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\/94"}],"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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dowsing-research.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}