Theos-Talk Archives (January 2004 Message tt00014)

Jan 2 2004

 

 

Re DOWSING -- Success testing under scientific conditions

 

 

Thanks Fali:

 

Dowsing – a long-time interest of mine.  

 

Glad to see it gets some “scientific” recognition and some “proof.

 

If you come across any more interesting items like this, do let me
know.

 

Thanks 

 

 

Dallas

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: fali
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2004 1:19 PM
To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;
Subject: Fw: Ten Year 1995 Study Gave Dowsing 96% Success Rate

 

 

 

Thanks to Dave Haith.

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WATER DOWSING IN ARID REGIONS:

 


>From the Journal of Scientific Exploration
Stanford University Stanford, Ca.
Stanford, Ca. USA 
March 27, 1995 

<http://twm.co.nz/dowsing_jse_com.html>
http://twm.co.nz/dowsing_jse_com.html

In an article published in the current issue of the peer-reviewed
Journal of
Scientific Exploration, a science journal with the editorial offices at
Stanford University, Professor Hans-Dieter Betz, a physicist at
the University of Munich, presents the results of a German government
sponsored program to test and apply dowsing methods to locate water
sources
in arid regions. This ten year project involved over 2000 drillings in
Sri
Lanka, Zaire, Kenya, Namibia, Yemen and other countries and is thus the
most
ambitious experiment with water dowsing ever carried out.

While an adequate water supply is not a major problem in most
industrialized
nations, it is estimated that water pollution is responsible for some
80% of
all diseases in Third World countries. Lack of high quality drinking
water
affects approximately two billion people on a worldwide scale and is a
problem that is growing, according to the United Nations.

The enormity of this problem led the German government to initiate a
long
range program via the GTZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Technische
Zussammenarbeit or German Association for Technical Cooperation) to
explore
innovative water detection methods in arid regions. Motivated by both
the
high cost and modest success rate of purely conventional hydrogeological
methods, the GTZ project teamed geological experts, experienced dowsers
and
a scientific group led by Professor Betz to monitor and evaluate the
results. 

The outcome was striking. An overall success rate of 96% (by dowsers)
was
achieved in 691 drillings in Sri Lanka. Based on geological experience
in
that area, a success rate of 30-50% would be expected from conventional
techniques alone. 

But the overall success rate is not the only indication that the dowsing
phenomenon is of considerable practical use. According to Betz, what is
both
puzzling but enormously useful, is that in hundreds of cases the dowsers
were able to predict the depth of the water source and the yield of the
well
to within 10 to 20 percent. We carefully considered the statistics of
these
correlations, and they far exceeded lucky guesses.

Numerous conventional explanations for the success of dowsing-located
drill
sites were carefully examined by Betz in a series of reports summarized
in
the article. Virtually all of the drill sites were in regions where the
odds
of finding water by random drilling were extremely low, thus eliminating
the
success by chance hypothesis.

Another argument sometimes advanced is that dowsers get subtle clues
from
the landscape and geology, perhaps without even being consciously aware
of
their highly developed detective skills. This too was ruled out in
various
ways, the most impressive being the ability of dowsers to locate
underground
sources, often 100 feet down, whose streams are so narrow that
misplacing
the drill site by a few feet would yield a dry hole. Such precision is
far
beyond any know geological indicators.

The scientists also carried out laboratory tests, placing water pipes
underground or in a test room one story below where dowsing subjects
were
asked to walk around and find the artificial sources of flowing water.
Such
idealized tests were not successful enough to account for the real-life
drilling results. This led Betz to hypothesize that it is not some
unknown
biological sensitivity to water that underlies the phenomenon.

Betz conjectures that there may be subtle electromagnetic gradients
resulting from the fissures and water flows creating changes in the
electrical properties of rock and soil. The dowsers somehow sense these
gradients in a hypersensitive state.

Says Betz: I¹m a scientist, and those are my best plausible scientific
hypotheses at this point. But there are two things that I am certain of
after ten years of field research. A combination of dowsing and modern
hydrogeophysical techniques can be both more successful and far less
expensive than we had thought. And we need to run a lot more tests,
because
we have established that dowsing works, but have no idea how or why.

1. The American Dowser, Fall 1995, Volume 35, No. 4 The American Society
of
Dowsers 

 


This work was published in The Journal of Scientific Exploration, /
Stanford
University - Unconventional Water Detection, by Hans-Dieter Betz, 1995.
Read
the entire article on-line:

<http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/articles/betz/1.html>
http://www.scientificexploration.org/jse/articles/betz/1.html

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