Spiritualism and the New Psychology

thod of locating underground water. Official bodies as well as private individuals employ pra

's two hands and is said to be twisted upwards by an unknown force when there is water underground. As an ad

d the finding of buried treasure[7] and that it was being used in the year 1918 to locate a seam of coal. Going farther afield, we

rces external to the diviner, but my own observations satisfy me that we need not overturn our o

as twisted upwards with such force that my informant was unable to depress it, and how the man was employed by engineers to tell them where to sink wells, I be

by the man, and he demonstrated it again and again by walking across it, the twig rising each time. It rose again when he was directed past a cook-house. Next he was sent along a path leading from the cook-house to the main building, and the twig rose several times. He said, 'There is water all along here', and was told that there was a pipe running along the path. Here I intervened

here none was known, or that at least six of the bystanders knew of the existence of the water-pipe and were ready to show their anticipation as he approached it and their delight when he located it, nor that he located the other pipe on the wrong side of the path. The movem

s were guesses, aided by ordinary knowledge as to where water-pipes are to be exp

his own powers: otherwise his reference to the gift of

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rms of the fork outward as in Fig. 2, with your palms now looking upward. You will then find that a sort of trigger action tends to occur, and by a slight pressure of your ring-fingers against the twig you can make it rise. Still gripping firmly and pressing your hands a little together you will find it continues to rise, and by bending your hands downwards at the wrists and pressing your elbows to your side you can easily persuade an observer, and perhaps yourself, that you are trying to hold the twig down. You may even find that it leaves a pressure mark on your little finger, w

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ly, and then, when he could not escape from his reputation without owning up to the fraud, being compelled for his peace of mind to repress the deceit comp

and the greatest emphasis placed upon the one success. I have no doubt that in a short time the memory of that one success would be the only part of the performance not forgotten. Moreover, if any one of the bystanders had told me the sto

who also had the power of locating metals was able by means of the twig to indicate the position of two sovereigns concealed under a carpet, showing the relationship of water-divining to some for

ake my arms ache badly. It is quite true that only running water affects me, and on one occasion I had a curious example of this. It was on a Saturday evening, and I quite accidentally found the presence of water close to a house where my

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round was full of water: the geological survey suggested the best place to collect it. I suppose the power must have something to do with the composit

noise of it is carried a long way, especially along any pipe connected with it, and if I told this gentleman that he had heard the noise of the ram he would strenuously deny the possibility, and might challenge me to test whether I could hear the noise; but I have no dissociated water-divining personality unhampered by my conscious efforts and trained to pick up such indications. It would seem incredi

might perhaps admit that the indications of the twig coincided with the geological indications, t

he twig is in no way caused by any physical forces except those exercised by the muscles of the dowser. That the second personality of the dowser

ociation was given me by Dr. W. H. Bryce,

ntirely by the lie of the land. In his own language he always looked for the "rise of the metals" in looking for water. A diviner came to the neighbourhood and located water in two places. In the one place th

on conscious reasoning and he would be incapable of making guesses or picking up indications from the behavi

he man who is sufficiently uncritical to accept the working of the twig as due to some strange 'g