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.
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 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”