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"Mary Fisher" wrote:

I know HOW it's done, just wondered if folk here had.


I used to do it on the construction sites I used to manage. I also
taught several colleagues how to do it. It isn't difficult, and it is
certainly very useful.

Especially if you know (consciously or subconsciously) where the
things you are dowsing for are.

In any properly controlled tests that have been done dowsing doesn't
work.


I was a complete sceptic until I tried it. Until then, I believed it
was hokum.

We were starting work on a site that had been covered with brick
hardcore and scalpings (quarry waste) and there was no sign of any
services. After 5 minutes' tuition I managed to locate two
electricity cables, a water main and two sets of telephone ducts
within an hour and a half. The locations were extremely accurate,
within half a metre or less.

I have never managed to use dowsing to locate water, which I think is
where most of the doubts arise. But it is remarkably effective, even
in the hands of a sceptic like me, for locating underground services.

I have used it many times since and it has never let me down. But
that's probably because I work well within its limitations.

I bet if you did a proper double-blind test it wouldn't work.

I wouldn't. But I don't bet on anything.

In fact
there is already such a bet available, I think you can win $1000000 if
you can show that you really can dowse. James Randi has had an offer
of this amount outstanding for many years and no one has won it.

Is it worth a bit of your time for $100000?

It wouldn't attract me.

I wonder why James Randi (never heard of him) is doing it? What point is
there?

Mary

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Chris Green