Dowsing for Everyone 2

SPOILER ALERT! The items discussed here are familiar booksthat 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 book was described earlier on December 31 with a focus on water dowsing. It is further described here with a focus on Lei Lines, Auras, and finding people.


• Finding People: This is a quote from Page 66.


• "Like many other practitioners, [Bob] Atar doesn't confine his map dowsing to the search for water. To illustrate this, here is an exerpt 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.


• "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 strong reaction and, when following up on location, found he'd discovered Indian graves.


• "Dowsing for traces of the 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.


• " '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. Ater found where Patty was, the building she was in, its relation to other buildings. He mapped this all out, completely with nearby roads and railroads. 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. Ater laughed when he retailed this and said that when the papers printed pictures of Patty's hideout and its surroundings, the drawings he'd made matched the actual in detail.


• " 'How about Jimmy Hoffa?'


• "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.


• "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."