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My wife's uncle used to help out at old cemeteries, divining for lost grave sites. Apparently it worked.
Silliness, i can walk around half of the great plains with two sticks and say “dig here”. Guess what? They’ll hit the water table.
This is about as scientific as using a pocketwatch pendulum over a pregnant woman to guess the sex, or reading tea leaves.
Powder..patch..ball FIRE!
I can remember my grandfather deciding where to put the new well for his house using a “Y” from a willow.
when he hit the spot where the well actually ended up the ends in his hands twisted the bark off as the “witch” bent to the ground.
he could find a water or sewer pipe anyplace.
And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts also.
It’s hocus pocus nonsense, like a ouija board.
If it really works, then it should be easily proven by having the practioner walk over a few test surfaces,,including one or two control beds with nothing in them at all.
Of course, then we’ll be told it was a prepared course, and the rods can only discern natural situations, not the others or some such excuse. This is New Orleans crystal ball fortune telling for old geezers. This is ESP.
This sounds like global warming science. Absolutely no requirement to follow the scientific method. Add in a compete denial of physical science, and just say “it works”.
By all means bring your skills to the Amazing Randi and a check for $1 millioin dollars awaits you
It’s an electromagnetic response, and it’s well validated. All you have to do is look at the human body as an electromagnetic detection system, a magnifier if you will. That’s why blindfolding the dowser is bunk - how do you know that’s not part of it? Why should it be excluded? Who cares if the entire body and all the senses are magnified by the extension of the rods? Are seismographs bunk because the needles won’t move if you isolate the mechanism? Bah.
I’ll tell you why this is suppressed - because mainstream science doesn’t want to acknowledge sensitivities of the human body, or the limits of the technological applications of the scientific method. The idea is that in a thousand years, people will just be blobs of jello inside technological extrensions of the body that can be controlled by access to the “cloud” of the time. Realities of the abilities of the actual human body without technology - like dowsing, or meditation, or psi - get in the way of that. In fact, they sabotage it. After all, whether physical, mental, emotional, psychic or spiritual, you can’t have people thinking they can develop themselves through personal exploration and effort! That gets in the way of the developing collective!
A pastor friend of mine was "run out of town" for interfering with water witching. He was pastoring a church someplace in New England where ground water is hard to locate and most of the local drillers used rods. Some of the fellows in the church were troubled by it, so they along with the pastor decided to "test the spirits." To accomplish this, they prayed together once a week that if the witching was the result of the action of unclean spirits that it would fail to work. Lo and behold, almost immediately the well drillers started having trouble finding water. Somehow they found out about the prayer group and then things got real ugly-fires, broken windows, gunshots at night, dead pets, you name it. The pastor ended up fleeing the state.
True story. And it happend in the 1970's, not the 1790's.
I use a dowser made of copper tubing to witch for Double Eagles.
The most I've ever found was a Garcia Y Vega cigar box full of them in my neighbor's abandoned cistern.
Haven't figured out what to do with them yet.
(NOTE: It also works as a Gaydar.)
My husband does it. He uses a Y shaped branch for water and metal rods for metal. I thought it was a bunch of “bleep” so one day I covered my living room floor with newspapers and hid 3 quarters and told him to find them and he did!!!
Never seen it, don’t know, but I kinda hope it’s real.
Every house I’ve ever built, the well sites were witched, both of them, main site and “repair” site in the event of a failed well. They didn’t ask me, they just did it. It’s the norm here.
Same with my parent’s houses, one of which is on a high plateau below a cliff at the base of a mountain. The well had to be punched through bedrock. All wells there are punched and very deep out of necessity. Good water, expensive well.
Does it “work?” I don’t know but have never had a well fail.
Connecting with your subconscious and getting it to reveal things your conscious mind misses can and does work.
www.skepdic.com/dowsing.html
Anyone with real confidence in his abilities is free to prove his mettle in front of The Amazing Randi. Do it under conditions that prohibit cheating, and he'll give you a million dollars. No one has managed yet.