Hey Daniel!
That wasn't an attack at you specifically, sorry if that was the impression
you gained. Perhaps I should have elaborated a little.
Dowsing has been used in Wales (where I live) for centuries and local
people tend to accept it as they do rainfall (which we also see a lot of).
You see, what gets my back up a little is the way in which some academics
dismiss such things in the manner thus: "there is no evidence for it,
therefore it does not exist and that is that". Fine if it has been
exhaustively researched. Dowsing has not.
The fact that it has been a perfectly satisfactory method for e.g. finding
water for a long time is passed over by many of these people. It is
inconvenient in terms of the tow-the-line argument they are engaged upon.
But one cannot ignore a man walking the ground with a forked twig and
finding something "blind". Something has happened yet despite trying
various experiments we cannot satisfactorily explain what.
The bottom line is this: dowsing has not been satisfactorily explained
because the mechanism by which it works is currently unknown to science and
nobody has yet successfully devised the appropriate experiment in order to
find out what is going on. Nothing new in this: advocates for a spherical
Earth, Plate Tectonics and so on waited a long time before the proof was
obtained and the laughter stopped.
I should also have added in my anecdote that I wasn't dowsing specifically
for gold at Calliachar. What I was looking for was any "feature". My
experience is that dowsing successfully locates discontinuities - like
faults, mineral lodes, and indeed as reported by another poster, buried
powerlines etc. How? I don't know. Somebody'll find out eventually!
Cheers - John
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