Local Dowsing Group News :   No. 30

The Revealer

Surely the Rolls-Royce of Dowsing Instruments
In 1956, Mr Lawrence Veale, a retired building contractor, invented the “Revealer”, a rather magnificent, state of the art dowsing instrument.

It was manufactured by the Leeds firm, J.C. Oliver, and sold for the princely sum of £72, which included a wooden presentation case. It consisted of two copper cylinders, each of which was fitted with a 21-inch indicator rod that was pivoted at right-angles as shown in the figure. To ensure freedom of movement, each rod was mounted on ball bearings.

The device could be used to find buried objects as far down as 200 feet, the rods crossing when the operator was standing over the object sought. For depth measurement, the Bishop’s rule was suggested.

A unique feature was its ability to determine the composition of buried objects. For this, a so-called 'mineral bracket' was fitted to the right-hand cylinder. Samples: copper, lead, iron, carbon, zinc, asbestos and an empty plastic tube (a void) were secured by a series of elastic cords fitted to the bracket.

Other samples could be added by the operator. When using the Revealer, the dowser held the appropriate sample. The rods were then supposed to react to anything but the sample concerned. So, if you had a reaction and wondered whether it was copper, you would pull the copper sample towards you, and thereafter the rods would not then react, if it was indeed copper you had found.
However, this comment from former BSD President Arthur Bailey is interesting. “When I pulled a sample of, say, copper towards me I could then find copper pipes and nothing else. … I worked it backwards, which shows again that the mind completely overrides the actual sample. In other words, there is nothing magical in rods or the way they are made. It is the person operating them who is crucial.” (But then even the Bishop rule worked differently for Arthur!)
 
Throughout the 1960s the instrument attracted much press interest, and even featured on TV. In 1967, an article in The People , described Veale’s theory for the instrument’s operation “… all matter emits invisible ‘waves’ which can be picked up by certain people if they attune themselves mentally to the task in hand”. The article stated that more than 1000 devices had been sold. They were in use by the National Coal Board, ICI, the National Trust, several large construction firms, and some local councils. Even the Glasgow police admitted to using the device in a murder hunt.
 
In 1971, the Society of Psychical Research investigated the instrument. A questionnaire was sent to 93 organisations and individuals who had purchased the Revealer; two-thirds replied and of those, “A surprisingly small number of respondents gave the Revealer a positively adverse report.” One informant stated that “each instrument saved its purchase cost many times over.” One thoughtful operator stated, “The sophisticated appearance, its expensive cost (£72-10p), the matter-of-fact instructions, all tended to create confidence that it (the Revealer) will work. This calm, confident state of mind is very necessary in dowsing operations.” Which probably accounts for the relative success of the device.
 
[I hope to give a fuller description of this novel instrument, later, in the BSD journal.]
 
Nick Haywood.  


"I had the power to locate buried objects"

This article from the Newcastle Chronicle, in 1958, describing a reporter's use of The Revealer, is available on request from Ced Jackson on Info@CedJackson.org


Dowsing for Beetles

An attempt to show that dowsers can identify plant pathology 

Please help in tracking the beetle Agelastice Alni
The beetle inhabits alder and willows and leaves a wonderful tracery of veins, which many people find unsightly.

RHS Wisley states that previously rare, and considered extinct in the UK since being found in Manchester in 2004, it appears to be on the increase in the North West of England. The beetle has since been spreading and was found in north Wales in 2018.

Please search & record dates, post code and Ordnance Survey references. If you are a map dowser please confirm by a site visit. Are there signs of the beetle being naturally controlled ?

Thank you for your time. Some of you will know that I am trying to establish dowsing for public policy applications, and this is one such example, i.e plant health.

Email your observations please to mike.haxeltine@talktalk.net
telephone 01252 652 639


Dowsing in the UK

  Active organisations include...

        British Society of Dowsers :          www.britishdowsers.org
        Dowsing Research Group :           www.dowsingresearch.org
        Professional Dowsers Register :   www.professionaldowsersregister.co.uk
       Water Special Interest Group :     skad7@hotmail.com    
       Spirituality Special Interest Group:    Kate.Tudorhall@gmail.com
       Int' Assoc' of Health Dowsers :       www.healthdowsers.org
        Local Dowsing Groups :                 www.localdowsinggroups.UK