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From Pat Deveney's database:
American Dowser, The. The journal was devoted to the development of the practical skills necessary for dowsing, theories and discussions of why and how dowsing works, articles on the history of the art and its Christian background, clippings from the press mentioning dowsing, accounts of events and conventions of the society, and articles and letters on related topics, like pendulums. While dowsing is often equated with "water witching," the journal extended the reach of the art to oil, gas, various minerals, and lost property.
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| American Dowser V17 N4 Nov 1977 | |
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The American Dowser is the quarterly of the American Society of Dowsers, based in Danville, Vermont; the 1977 issue sampled here is a working practitioners' journal. Its departments — 'Ideas about Dowsing,' 'Dowsing Experiences and Problems,' 'Instruction' — walk members through field dowsing for water and locations, pendulum technique, and map or 'information' dowsing understood as posing yes/no questions to the instrument. A thread of ley-line work gives it a genuine, if minor, earth-mysteries and new-age flavor, but the center of gravity is hands-on divining rather than occult theory. Apparent spiritualism and phrenology signals are artifacts: the 'control' is of the pendulum, the 'faculties' are mental. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description. |
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| Dowsing and Radiesthesia |
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