"Looka me! I'm dowsing!!"
Posted on 06/11/2015 6:44:59 AM PDT by BenLurkin
LYNDONVILLE, Vt. (AP) — Some journey here to learn an ancient practice. Others to hone their skills. Many return year after year.
More than 300 people — a few from as far away as the United Kingdom — attended the American Society of Dowsers' 55th annual convention and expo, which runs through Monday.
Practitioners use metal rods, forked sticks and pendulums and what they say is their subconscious to tap into a universal natural knowledge to find water or minerals underground or lost objects like a set of keys.
"It's really a fascinating place," said Susan Connolly of Westport, Connecticut, of the six-day convention that includes workshops in dowsing and metaphysical topics like using quantum energy, stone circles, Earth acupuncture and holistic home and business harmonization.
Dowsers know they have doubters.
The United States Geological Survey points out that underground water is so prevalent in many places that it would be difficult not to find water.
Scientists who have studied dowsing say it is no more reliable than guessing and that dowsers subconsciously move divining rods in response to their surroundings, rather than drawn by a mystical force.
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Years ago I went through there during the convention. Spent a half hour or so. I’d always through dowsing was about finding water. No so. Very weird set of folks.
"Looka me! I'm dowsing!!"
I went to the convention for several years. Dowsing is a learned skill and very real. Posters who claim it’s make believe have no experience with dowsing. Physics is now beginning to develop theories which may account for such phenomena.
My neigbor and I built new houses next to each other. I didn’t believe in dowsing and got 1/2 a gallon a minute of dirty water out of my well. He dowsed and got 200-300 gallons per minute of clear water.
Royal Dano and “The Rifleman”.
Wish I could find something like that on my farm. The water there is so full of sulpher, iron and who knows what you can just about chew it. If you drink the crap I’ll guarantee you’ll never be irregular. Quantity is hardly worth the mention. Pretty much the same everywhere in the county that gets 48” of rain a year with rivers and creeks all over the place.
Even dowsers can’t find water there.
To each his own. I won't judge. Religion falls in a similar category at this point in our technological and scientific understanding. Hell, Science is beginning to develop theories that prove intelligent design in the universe too.
Yes, I think you are right.
Back when I was working as a hydrogeologist, I worked with a consulting P.E., who had a side business drilling water wells. He dowsed wells (only when asked) and was 100% when he did this. He didn’t advertise being able to do this.
I watched him do it, and he could tell depth to water, thickness of the producing zone, and approximate the final well yield. This was proven time and again, as we completed each well. And it was not a geologically simple area: it was in an area of fractured granite bedrock, with faults; coarse alluvial fill; and buried blocks of faulted Paleozoic sedimentary deposits. In other words, a highly complex subsurface. As a hydrogeologist, I couldn’t believe it this, but I also could not argue the results I saw with my own eyes.
I have also seen plumbers do this sort of thing to locate water lines in a house with pipes under or in a concrete slab, in looking for leaks. (But they generally had to have flowing water to do this...)
Yeah, as a scientist I could not say I believed in it, but I also could not ignore the empirical evidence I saw with my own eyes. Kind of makes you think about things a bit...
I will go with Penn and Teller’s research.
I don’t know anything about dowsing. All I know is that we were a 100 yds apart and had astronomically different results. I thought dowsing belong to the divination and “peeping” arts and decided to leave it alone. On my next house the sewer lines collapsed and I had to dig them all up. A dowser came out and laid the lines out exactly right. He gave me the copper rods and they literally jerked me toward the water main. He said I had the “power” and I should use it! I never got near those voodoo sticks again!
I did see a bunch of water dowsers walking around the green but the inside of the hall was filled with new age spiritualist types.
Rhymes with “electromagnetic fields”
The people in my family can do it... it seems to be genetic.
When you show or try to tell others about it,
it turns out that only the ones that it works for
tend to believe that it works at all.
I think it has to do with body chemistry and the subsequent transmission of EM fields.
I don’t know how it works, specifically, but I know it’s not “supernatural”.
Nope, I’ve seen it work.
Retired detective admitted that he hired psychics off the books for some cases, especially with kids.
He did it four times and closed all four cases due to leads the psychic was able to suss out for him.
Not everything that counts can be counted. Einstein publicly declared that some of his experimental findings were impossible, were it not that the experiment proved it was actually happening. Quantum entanglement was just one of them.
The only thing I dowse for now is liberals! I find them in schools, media, politics, dry bath houses, everywhere! don’t even need to use a dowsing rod!
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