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Originally Posted by goldfinder
placebo is belief that something will work and if the person accpets this then it does. This is so obvious I am surpised you would even ask.
The mind is very powerful. Believe in dowsing and it works (sort of), just like the pacebo effect, it sort of works depending on the strength of beliefe.
GF
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The divination remain always divination. It not work with all I am certainly.
In experiments conducted by James Randi.
not a good result among the competitors. The Ideomotor cant work well.
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Diviners are often believers in various cult matters,
such as faith-healing and spiritualism. Some, however,
refuse to accept their claimed powers as anything
supernatural, They tend to think anyone can do what
they do. And in this belief, they are quite correct. Any
person can be seized by the ideomotor-reaction
enthusiasm. But the test, as always, is whether or not
they can then discover water, oil, gold or other
substance solely by means of this twitching of a forked
stick. Tests done in Australia and many other countries
of the world indicate that belief in water dowsing,
and in all forms of divining, are false and fanciful.
Though diviners will continue to be hired by believers
in such powers, and wells will be dug with great
precision on spots located by forked-stick folks, these
water supplies will not prove that dowsing works.
They will only prove that there is a great deal of water
down under the earth, and we do not need silly folks
wiggling sticks to tell us that.
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Divining is a delusion, and must be recognized as such.