
Dowsing (Divining Rods, Pendulums, Radiesthesia, Rhabdomancy, Water Witching)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
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What Do You Know About Dowsing?
Paul Smith is an expert in the practice of dowsing. He served as one of the government's original psychic spies using a discipline known as remote viewing. The word dowsing itself originated in England in the 1690s, and we're not really sure where it comes from. It goes by a bunch of names but all are theory-laden terms that suggest a particular theory about how dowsing works.
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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.
