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
The Idiomotor Effect
Jimmy Akins explains the idiomotor effect with a pendulum. Without consciously moving my hand to produce these motions, it's subconscious. The idea from skeptics is that that's that's what's happening in dowsing. And now let's get to that interview with Dr Paul Smith.
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