SLIMBRIDGE DOWSING GROUP REPORTS
Location. Location. Location. - Arthur Marrow
Lost, stolen or strayed? Whether you are looking for your missing spectacles or a dead body, dowsing can find them. There was a record turnout of over 30 people for Arthur Marrow’s talk on Thursday, 11th June, Location Location Location, so maybe they’d all lost something too?
As we like to joke, Arthur is renowned for helping the police with their enquiries, and although this sounds quite glamorous, Arthur takes a very prosaic and organised approach.
“Always use a checklist,“ he says firmly, “and write out numbers 1 to 10 on a piece of paper, plus 100, 200, etc. On another piece of paper, write down all the letters of the alphabet, and on a third, draw a cross and mark the points of the compass, north, south, east and west.“ Now we’ve set out our stall, we can begin.
Firstly, focus the mind very strongly on the object or person you are seeking. Thinking hard, write down and dowse over such simple questions as What, Where and When. Photographs can be useful too. Using your pendulum or rods, and your prepared sheets of paper, phrase your questions so that they can be answered “Yes“ or “No“. Double check everything and finally, instructs Arthur, make good notes afterwards.
When asked to help find a missing young girl in the north of the country some months ago, Arthur started with the compass points, and his pendulum found she was in the southwest quadrant, just a couple of miles from home. Her subsequent discovery, safe and well, proved him correct.
When Barry George was convicted of Jill Dando’s 1999 murder, Arthur dowsed and felt there had been a miscarriage of justice. Dealing directly with the Home Office, subsequent events proved him right. He has also made private predictions regarding the missing farmer’s wife from west Gloucester, and on the disappearance of little Madeleine McCann, but both cases remain sub-judici so we must await the outcome.
On another occasion, Arthur helped police locate a massive stash of stolen items, just as they were about to be shipped abroad. By dowsing the alphabet written on one of his precious sheets of paper, Arthur was able to spell out the address of a felon the police were seeking, many miles away in London. They rushed round to the house and there he was!
Yet Arthur is a modest man and reports his failures as well as his successes. A friend recently asked him to locate her wedding ring, missing for several years. He dowsed and found traces of where it had been, but could not find where it is today.
Honest to a fault, our speaker also confessed that he had once tried to dowse lottery numbers, but was told if he used his skills for personal gain, he might lose them. So he does not do that any more.
During a lively question and answer session, someone asked whether dowsing is learned, or whether you are born with it. The answer is, we are all born with the ability to dowse, and we can all do it - until we’re told we can’t!