On 30/11/07 15:45, in article
, "Charlie Pridham"
wrote:

In article ,
says...
Sacha wrote:

[...snip...]
It's like dowsing - those who can't do it scoff at it, those of
us who can know just what it feels like and know that it is not 'in the
imagination'. People have employed dowsers and plant remedies for centuries
because they work. That is NOT to say that I think they should replace
alopathic medicine when it's necessary. That IS a dangerous attitude, IMO.

Oh here we go again ... Sacha, if you really think dowsing works and
you can surely prove it works because, ahem, "it works", I can
help you to a nice cool $1,000,000 (I know the dollar is not worth what
it used to be worth, but I bet even you'd appreciate the extra few
pennies :-).

And the little dig at "allopathic medicine" ... *Sigh*.

Let me know when you're ready to undergo the dowsing test. I'll split
the winnings with you - $999,999 to you and $1 to me. Sounds fair ?

In the hard world of small businesses its hard to see why water bore hole
companies would keep dowsers on their books if there was nothing in it,
and down here they all do, whether it also works with all the other
things claimed for it I do not know, but if you want to try a method to
prove it, 2 plastic Biro tubes, each with a bit of metal coat hanger in
that has been bent to 90 degrees, hold one in each hand tuck you elbows
in tight and walk slowly, we did this in physics at school and out of 30
of us only one did not get a reaction to the water in one of 10 sealed
containers, its difficult to see how you could make the wires spin
yourself. thats good enough for me. Whoever is offering the money is
quite safe because neither I nor my then physics teacher could explain
why it happens

I am genuinely astonished when people say they don't believe in dowsing if
only because it's been so 'natural' a part of my life years before I knew I
could do it, though I've never used it properly. As to explanations, I
don't think anyone has ever attempted one. Ray can't do it but if we join
hands in the middle and he holds one side of the rod and I hold the other,
then he feels it move. Two of my children can do it, one can't.
Because the mains water system in the Channel Islands isn't that extensive -
some parts of the islands still are on wells or boreholes - I've known
people who dowse for water all my life, so it's nothing strange or unusual,
IMO. I daresay that in some years time, there will be an explanation, just
as we now understand the moon and the tides, the ripening effects of the sun
etc. ;-)
I have known several people who do hands on healing, too, including myself
and I'm darned if I know how that works but perhaps we better not go
there.... ;-)) In the meantime, this site is quite an interesting article
on the subject from a cynic who learned better. ;-)
http://www.turningthesolomonkey.com/?s=dowsing
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'