This article, published in 1951 in the Journal of the BSD,\nis a description of a Dr Robertson, who evidently was a very good practitioner\nof the art of dowsing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He seemed to specialise in water divining and the article\ndescribes him dowsing onsite for water in India. However, he had the ability to\ndowse, in a very precise manner, for any object. To do this, he followed a particularly\ninteresting technique. He used a traditional Y shared dowsing rod, \u201c.. afresh\nforked and pliable twig ..\u201d. He would hold the two ends of the Y in his hands,\nand then touch the third length onto either the object, or example of the same,\nthat he was seeking. What we have here appears to be a kind of programming of\nthe search. It\u2019s interesting that the author could also use this technique,\nsuggesting it is not necessarily dependent on the dowser. However, in the last\npost, we saw the dowser holding a sample (a slipper in that case) whilst\ndowsing. One possible explanation is that this procedure somehow programmed the\nintention to find the object within the mind of the dowser. Using this technique, an example is given, of\nthe ability of a dowser to trace the path, previously trod by a person (like we\nsaw in the previous post \u2013 \u201cTracing the lost\u201d – 13\/3\/2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The author says that the \u201cwaves\u201d of the object then entered the stick. That is his own explanation, but as pointed out in previous posts, the dowsing effect has been thought of as a kind of radio reception. He even talks of something \u201cvibrating\u201d the stick. But this is probably best thought of as an analogy. It seems that it was the author\u2019s experience that not everyone can obtain a dowsing reaction (something we will hopefully return to in later posts). Then there was the curious observation that when the author attempted to use Dr Robertson\u2019s dowsing rod (\u201cstick\u201d), he was unable to, for it seemed that the rod had somehow rather bizarrely become entangled with Robertson\u2019s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The full article is here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n