"Martin" wrote in message
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On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 15:41:41 +0100, "Des Higgins"

wrote:


"R.A.Omond" wrote in message
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Keith (Dorset) wrote:
Hi Ken,

More on dowsing.

I once spent a summer living on a fairly remote farm on the north west
coast of Norway. One day the family brought in an elderly man who used
a
coathanger to find the track of an underground stream there.

I was very suspicious of this at first, and OK, we didn't dig down to
find the/water. However, I did get to try the dowsing technique, and
upon
instruction on how to hold it correctly, (this was over twenty years
ago,
and I most likely couldn't do it now), the thing moved 'on its own',
just
as appeared to do for him. I certainly didn't 'make it'.

It might just be worth getting someone in to try this.

"Dowsing" ? Oh for goodness sake ... I guess you haven't even
heard of the ideomotor effect.

Now if you're *really* convinced dowsing works, I have a leetle
tip for you: there's a cool $1,000,000 waiting for you if you
can show it works (http://www.randi.org/research/index.html).

Interested ?


www.randi.org is not reachable for me either (from Dubbelin). Maybe the
name is too close to sounding like a dodgy site?

You are a very skeptical man Roy. Next you'll be tellin me you do not
believe in ghosts or horrorscopes.

My wife, who is an astronomer and not an astrologer, is still wrestling
with
the biodynamics of how the moon focuses energy from the constellations on
the
earth.
--

Martin


Martin tell your wife to think 'Gravity' and 'Spring & Neap Tides'.

It might help. :-))

Mike


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