Just recently, UK newspapers ran with an article based around an article on Medium by a supposed PhD scientist outraged that people still used dowsing. She wants you to cease and desist with this magic at once! And there, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with science these days.
Anything that has yet to be explained by science has in the past been likened to magic. Electricity was once deemed magic. These days, we are constantly barraged by UAP’s and UFO’s that defy the laws of science and travel at impossible speeds and turn on a dime. They are also magic I suppose? What we see here is the state of modern science. Bogged down in materialism and money it panders to the highest bidder. Its practioners often slaves to narratives bought and paid and for lacking curiosity. Just read this supposed scientists bio to discover how lost these people are lacking curiosity, not open to the possibility that there are new things to be discovered and unable to see the spiritual side of humanity.
Dowsing works.
My father always used rods as a way to find underground pipes and electrical wires - he even used them in walls. All the water company engineers use them too for the same reason. It works! Most geologists I know use dowsing rods to find water and some to find metals and ores. Many will deny it if confronted or asked but the truth is - it works.
Science - the awful materialistic side of it - can’t even say what consciousness is yet wants to place it as a function of the brain. In doing so, it cannot explain so many effects of consciousness except by calling it superstition and woo woo. Dowsing included.
Meanwhile, real science is being conducted in many places - some surprising. Remote viewing - another woo woo feature of consciousness - is used by and was used by the secret intelligence services of most countries along with other supposedly woo woo practices. You see, if it works, use it is a far more practical approach than calling it fraud and superstition.
I have news for scientists like her. Magic is real. Its existence is seen in areas like these…
The Placebo Effect – defined as follows by Wikipedia – “Also called the placebo response. A remarkable phenomenon in which a placebo — a fake treatment, an inactive substance like sugar, distilled water, or saline solution — can sometimes improve a patient’s condition simply because the person has the expectation that it will be helpful.” The problem I have with this definition is the word ‘fake’. There is nothing fake about the magical power of the subconscious mind! Magic works on faith, belief and imagination. The more that you believe something to be so, the more it will become so. This is why, in magic, we conduct rituals and act out a part, why we dress the part and convince our deep selves that we are the part….
Visualisation – Again, we can use the imagination to convince ourselves that some outcome will occur and magically, it does. Don’t believe me? See this article. Many top athletes pay small fortunes to learn how to visualise their success.
Expectation – How many times have you expected not to find a parking place and then not been disappointed? How about trying it the other way around? Expect a parking place and you will find one.
Music – Have you ever noticed how a particular song can evoke a specific mood? Combine this with ritual and dance and you get something like the famous Haka of the New Zealand Rugby team…..
Just a few examples of magic at work….
In fact, we live in a magical world and if you look through the right eyes, magic is everywhere. I feel sorry for people like the scientist? who wrote that article for she lives in a dull world where magic and humanity really doesn’t exist. And without the eyes or heart to see it, the future is bleak.
Sadly I am attending a funeral this morning of a good friend who was a dowser. He used to find wells and water courses to great effect. I still have the rods which he made from heavy electrical cable. I have dabbled with them and seem to get a response from them. Although I'm buggered if I understand the feedback, merely that they cross and this may be relevant. My home is 600 years old, I suspect the site has had a settlement on it long before that. Having found a 3rd century silver Roman coin in the garden. I think that a spring is nearby as it feeds one of the ponds in the garden. Do you think your major / minor earth lines are anything to do with underground water courses or are these too linear or symmetrical to be water born? As for science and academia, simply most have never left school.