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A very interesting article, with my name listed as a successful dowser. I must point out that I am a sceptic, using a pendulum, and registered for this as such. As the author of 'The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal' (a chapter of which is on dowsing) and doing a doctorate taking a very pragmatic approach to interpretation of non-state non-literate archaeological sites, I must explain!
I use a pendulum a lot in doing magic tricks and public performances explaining the ideomotor response (the innate muscular movements that will cause a pendulum to move on thinking about it without you being conscious of the fact you are actually causing the movement). I have no doubt that the pendulum moving over that square (as it did) was a result of my identifying that square as the most likely - and not anything to do with some kind of psychic response. I have a strong ideomotor response and can make a pendulum swing in any direction by thinking that way. In experiments I have done with dowsers, and other paranormal claims, I have been able to replicate anything claimants have been able to do - including very accurate psychic readings - WITHOUT using any paranormal means. I use rational reasoning.
So please keep my name firmly on the sceptical end of the spectrum - but as a true sceptic - happy to be convinced otherwise by evidence produced under test conditions.
Fun debate! Thanks, Andy!
Lynne Kelly
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