[Mike(Mont)]

Dowsing works but there are so many different variables to make it unreliable. I like to compare it to a blind man with a cane when he encounters an elephant. He doesn't know WTF (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot). Personally I would say the emotional state of the dowser is one of the biggest factors, but there are many others. And now that I have gone almost exclusively with the electronic receiver, I jokingly call L-rods and pendulums MITAS--Medieval Implements of Torture and Superstition. Dowsing is so obsolete. I don't want to use the "R" word. And from my experience, most people who say they can dowse are just delusional because they never put in the practice (15-25 years of daily practice) and all the necessary daily feedback that is absolutely essential, or learned meditation which is also essential. SO yeah, there are probably more fraud wannabe dowsers then real ones by a factor of one-hundred. But just because this is so does not mean it's okay to generalize and claim no one can dowse. Put another way,99% of fake dowsers give the other 1% real ones a bad name. LOL