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.AI-powered
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Dowsing (Divining Rods, Pendulums, Radiesthesia, Rhabdomancy, Water Witching)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
What Is the Idiomotor Effect?
The idiomotor effect is one of the most common explanations for dowsing among skeptics. It's not psychokinesis or mind-over matter, but a natural phenomenon that people use subconsciously. Parapsychologists investigated this in the 1800s and found it was humans' muscles moving objects rather than spirits.
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