From: utzoo!decvax!vortex!lauren
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: dowsing and magnetism
Article-I.D.: vortex.27
Posted: Wed Feb 23 16:18:34 1983
Received: Fri Feb 25 03:21:10 1983

Wait a second.  If you're going to "buy" the idea that dowsing is real,
then forget about magnetic fields affecting coathangers!  Supposedly
many dowsers use wooden "indicators".  In fact, several persons who have
responded directly to me on this subject claim that they've seen 
dowsing action so intense that pieces of wood actually stripped off
such indicators.

I suppose it could be claimed that the magnetic fields are affecting
the people doing the dowsing, not the indicators.  In this case, one
might assume that the dowsers subconsciously manipulate the indicators
(as discussed in other messages on this topic) in response to their
"perception" of the magnetic fields.

I am still very skeptical on this topic, but I have received a considerable
number of replies from persons (quite a few at BTL) who have first
hand experience in this area and claim dowsing is real.  Nobody has 
offered an acceptable explanation, however.

I still haven't made up my mind -- guess I won't really believe it until
I get a demo...

--Lauren--