Emails received from...
Graham Wayt ~ BSD President
Two emails :
(i)
Hello Ced. your letter has just arrived via email to me. Its contents raise a number of issues that need clarifying so to that end I will take them in your letter order
The Professional Register
The new web site is being updated to include the register, however historically enquiries for the register all seem to be via telephone requests to the office who then redirect them to the nearest practitioner a time consuming practice for the office staff who often have to contact 3 or more people on the list to fit the enquiry the main problem being that the members of the list do not always respond to the enquiry and the new client comes back via the office the latter also mimics the response the clients get from dealing direct with the online register hence office costs mount up in dealing with clients. I would also like to bring to your attention that not all practitioners listed on the register have paid their fees to the BSD most have paid and 6 have not, and while on the subject of non payment to the society we have 1257 listed members but only 666 have paid and here is a huge deficit owing to the society, along with the fact that the BSD Dowsing Today mag .gets sent to all listed members the costs of which for production and postage are astronomical .The above problems are now quantified and must be rectified within the next month by the membership. The office staff and all trustees are working to this end
To sum up the professional register works within its practitioner ability to respond to enquiries
Affiliated groups and insurance
There are 30 groups listed in the DT. mag. but only 20 pay any subscriptions all receive numerous copies of the DT mag . About 3 years ago I raised the problem of group insurance with the then trustee group and a detailed search was undertaken to ascertain the way forward for the BSD using their brokers that you mention.
The following was set up any affiliated group of no more than 40 members could have third party insurance for £200 per annum based on all members of the group were members of the BSD and named on the policy
No insurance in the UK will insure unknown numbers of the general public for third party for unknown or unspecified activities
I insure my group in the Gower investigation and dowsing group for £ 210 for year all are members of the group, all are named , A weekly meeting and dowsing group location record are kept there must be a named leader of the group along with a first aider in the group we are lucky as we have 2 doctors in the group if you require further details I will forward you our brokers / insurance documents
To conclude the BSD is owed considerable sums of money from its membership and unless this situation is resolved very very quickly the BSD as we knew it will cease please relay this to all in your circulation and any you have contact with best regards Graham
(ii)
Having advised you of the current financial situation of the society created in main by the members I think that you and other members of the professional register should consider the following
The BSD office staff handle on average 20 to 30 enquiries per week for register members along with a lot of recalls to other professional members who do not respond to direct contact this involves at least one member of staff at various times to deal with this one facet of the organisation
If the BSD should cease in its present capacity the Professional register would need to be moved to a manned office with all the costs of establishment this in itself would be expensive along with weekly running costs to service the incoming calls and contacts by phone to individual practitioners on the register possibly a cost of £ 30 thousand pounds per year split between the present number on the office list of 42 (only 16 paid up to date ) the cost would be in the order of about a thousand pounds per practitioner per year to stand still without paying the telephone account
As President of the BSD I would ask that you relay this missive to all those on the professional register list and ask if they prefer to pay £100 per year to the BSD or run their own show at £1000 per year with office staff they would have to train
Peter Golding
(Re : John Baker's proposed meeting for water dowsers
)
Is it not possible to get somewhere more central as that time of the year can be extremely cold and difficult for travelling but also in the event of us attempting to dowse as you know the temperature can affect the dowsing when in process. if it still going to be held in London unfortunately I will not be able to attend due to the travelling but I wish you well with the get together.
(Re: Ced's letter regarding the affiliated groups insurance. )
I think about several years ago the BSD did inform us that each individual affiliated group would have to get their own insurance as the BSD was no longer covering the affiliated groups with insurance. I am covered for myself and for my group through my insurance relating to Global Discovery. The Insurance company have included Global Dowsers North Wales within my insurance with them. The company I use is HISCOX if it of any help to you guys.
John Baker
(i)
In respect of Peter Taylor’s letter,There is no reason why a similar idea could (not) be put forward in an area with easy access for Peter or any other experienced water diviner. I may be able to use a London office free of charge which is too good to miss and London has good transport links. The reply is appreciated.
(ii)
You may like to try this experiment with your groups.
We are all familiar with using a ‘witness’ to aid our ability to find something. You may like to try this experiment. Take for example 10 plastic cups, labelled A, B, C, etc., invert them, and under
some
of them a place of paper with a number written on it
(the same number in every cup)
.
Place the cups at random on a table and ask people to dowse which cups conceal the number. Get everyone to write down where they think the numbers are hidden.
Then give everyone a copy of the number as is under the cups. This is now the ‘witness’. Everyone dowses again all the cups with the ‘witness’ in their hand. Again write down the results.
Reveal and discuss.
Graham Gardner
I am writing in relation to your local groups newsletter - you might be interested to learn that I have managed to resurrect the old BSD discussion forum at:
http://britishdowsing.net/forum
- it is now completely independent of the BSD, hosted and paid for by my good self with the full permission of the office.
In the old days (!), we used to have a private section on there for local groups, which was only visible to those folks who had registered on the forum and let me know that they were a member of such-and-such local group. It was never well-utilised, in fact the only group who ever bothered to post were Westmoreland Dowsers, who were the ones that originally requested the facility; and even then they only made two or three posts before forgetting about it.
Nevertheless, the facility is there, and if any groups wish to have a section on the forum I'm very happy to set it up for them. They can email me at
info@britishdowsing.net
with their group details and I'll set it up.
The main website page (
http://britishdowsing.net/
) also has the complete archive of the EEG newsletter 1996-2005 - Paul Craddock has been very helpful in providing copies of the first 2 years issues, which were missing from the last time we had it all online, so this is the first time the whole lot have been available. We are still sorting out a couple of the early editions, and I need to create an article and author index, but it's nearly there
.
Please feel free to include a link to the website and forum in your newsletter.
All the best
Andrew Edgar
Sue Brown
Hi Ced
Anthony Bloodworth sent me an article from the April edition of Dowsing Today 2018. It was titled,
Dowsing, the Scientific Way
, by Dr J C Orkney and mentioned a ‘Man from the Midlands’.
I wonder if you know who this chap is and how I can contact him. (...) I’m open to being given more information on this. Also I’m very interested in his archaeological dowsing. How come he has never surfaced before this time?
Do you know of how the BSD is doing? Perhaps they have sent out a Christmas message?
Warm Wishes to you.
