Dowsing for Everyone 2 - Finding people, moral weight

SPOILER ALERT! The items discussed here are familiar books that are being re-read for travel. As such, no effort is made to shield the reader from the results of plot development.

• The book is by Harvy Howells and was published by the Stephen Greene Press of Brattleboro, Vermont in 1979, with ISBN 0-8289-0341-7 and BF1628.H68.
• This posting deals with dowsing for missing persons, and a sense of morality that emerges.
• The following is quoted from pages 66 and 67.
• Like many other practitioners, [Bob] Ater doesn't confine his map dowsing to the search for water. To illustrate this, here is an excerpt from an account of a seminar he conducted in September, 1977 as reported in the American Dowser.
• "Bob told of hearing a radio report that two undergraduates were lost in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. He had no familiarity with the topography, and the radio had announced only the hikers' point of entry into the Presidential Range. With the aid of a gas station map and a pencil, he traced the route of the young men to the site where they were stranded. This information he phoned to the ranger station atop Mt. Washington. The hikers were found where he'd pinpointed them and confirmed that they had followed the course or 'channel' picked out by his pencil. [Note here, the need was present.]
• "Another time he dowsed the map of a fifty-acre island off Westport, Maine. He confessed that he was a little vague in this hunt. 'All I was looking for was something valuable.' He received a string reaction and, when following up on location, found he'd discovered Indian graves. [The grave is sensed by the rod as 'important' and Indian graves are very important to Indians.]
• "Dowsing for traces of Vikings at the mouth of the Kennebec River, he disinterred bird bones picked clean. That suggested cooking. More dowsing unearthed the charcoal used to roast the game. [No mention of Importance was made here. Carbon dating would have been necessary to determine when the bones were laid down. Only dowsing could connect them to Vikings.]
• " 'Did you ever trace Patty Hearst?' came a question from the floor.
• "Yes, he had, first calling the FBI to see if they'd be interested. The agent he reached was sympathetic, had an open mind. [He found her] But when he called the FBI again, the openminded agent had been transferred; his replacement let Bob know the Bureau didn't need any help from the likes of him. [Later, he saw his drawings matched what the papers printed.]
• " 'How about Jimmy Hoffa?' [This is what prompted me to write this blog.]
• "Ater's smile disappeared, and the lights seemed to dim. He became distressed, angry, almost incoherent, and his emotional disturbance sprayed out to the audience as he castigated the evil that led to and spread from Hoffa's disappearance. Bob could find him or his body, could trace him, but he wanted no part of such people, dead or alive. An uncomfortable feeling permeated the [Masonic] Temple as those in the audience looked at one another. [The negative weight is oppressive and spreads to all who are present. Only an Innocent could perform such a dowsing safely.]
• A handsome woman up front brought relief. 'How about healing, Mr. Ater? I hear you can do that.'
• " 'Oh, yes.' The infectious grin flashed back on, and the lights appeared to brighten." [Light and normalcy were restored.]
• I have personally twice had warnings not to continue with an activity, and they were not accompanied by such a feeling of badness. Or, I might be oblivious to such feelings.