Dowsing (Divining Rods, Pendulums, Radiesthesia, Rhabdomancy, Water Witching)

MYS246: The practice of dowsing has been used for hundreds of years, at least, to find water, gold, oil, and more. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli talk to an expert on dowsing to ask what it is, what we know about it, and how it works.

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Links for this episode:

* Christopher Bird’s book The Divining Hand: The 500-Year Old Mystery of Dowsing

* Etzel Cardenas’s book Parapsychology: A 21st Century Handbook (contains chapter “Applied Psi” co-authored by Paul Smith)

* Kathe Bachler’s book Earth Radiation

* Online at Archive.org

* Alexis Mermet’s book Principles and Practice of Radiesthesia (pdf)

* Ideomotor Effect

* Michael Faraday’s ideomotor experiment

* American Society of Dowsers

* Paul’s DVD course at LearnDowsing.com

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