Dread Companion II

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.

• This actually stems from a comment by my nephew Hans Ka:rn when he heard that a dowser can dowse a map as well as actual ground: "But this means that anything is possible!" I had to say 'Yes', but I knew that this is not true. Direct evidence comes from Henry Gross and his daughter being able to suppress each other's dowsing reactions. The mental atmosphere rules. Also, the detailed articulation of what is searched for is a wonderfully effective filter of the results.
• The responsibility of being moral about wielding dowsing scares me, and the discussion on how to acquire such skills in reality is something I should be responsible for in speculations here in this blog. I then realized that there are several schools of savants who work together to prevent blocking and to self-regulate their activities. Dread Companion shows three schools; the Beautiful new folk, the Ugly new folk, and the old folk, who generally combat excessive use of dowsing powers. Other books, such as the Talcot Mundy "Jimgrim" series posit a right hand path of scholars and a left hand path. The right hand path works for general good of all, including non-gifted, while the left hand path school works for personal good, and reverts to facism. Sufis and semi-Sufies, such as the followers of Gurdjief, are more modern examples of such schools.
• So, I will let the schools handle the morality problem, and travel elsewhere for a while.