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Dowsing: A Journey Beyond Our Five Senses

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Dowsing tells the story of dowsing and its principles, and offers instructions for making dowsing instruments, locating water, and dowsing your own home. The book is thin, impeccably designed, and will stimulate more thinking and subsequent "Eureka" moments than a dozen novels laced with narrative innovation. And, at $10.00, it's a marvelous gift for yourself or someone you care about. I loved it.

This little book, written by a Brit, is both concise and comprehensive. It covers the history of the ancient art of dowsing, its multiple applications, and its future possibilities, in a way that can be understood by most anyone. I highly recommend it.

- Ralph Squire, Trustee, American Society of Dowsers

This is a great little book on Dowsing, and a welcome addition to this excellent series on the ancient sciences. Miller covers the subject in some depth while remaining comfortably light-hearted. I first came across dowsing when working on a construction site and saw buried cables located by the technique. I later saw a missing dog accurately located using map dowsing and thereafter learnt what I could about it. Try telling a country farmer that it doesn't work as does an ealier reviewer! For the record Agricola records that dowsers "...wander hither and thither at random through mountainous regions. It is said that the moment they place their feet on a vein the twig immediately turns and twists, and so by its action discloses the vein; when they move their feet again and go away from that spot the twig becomes once more immobile." This is in fact what occurs and Miller's book, told with the simple charm of a master dowser, is an excellent and gentle encouragement into the mysteries of this venerable and ancient science.

I've purchased and read a number of books on dowsing. There are only 2 books that I drag around with me in my shoulder bag ... this book and "Everybody's Dowser Book" by Ona C. Evers. Not exactly having powerful dowsing skills ... these two are small and easy to carry ... while being exceptionally inciteful and thought provoking as I develop my skills. If you are someone who believes only in what has already been scientifically proven ... don't bother. Because if you believe it won't work, it won't work. If you are curious and willing to try ... then I recommend this book.

This a delightfully short yet complete account of the uses of dowsing, a distillation of wide experience on virtually every continent. Written by one of the true gurus in this field it provides essential details which one can carry in a shirt pocket to refer to in the field. In all, a great introduction to an physical force, known for millenia, used by pre-christian cultures, yet still without complete scientific explanation.

This glob of New Age silliness is part of an otherwise interesting and well-intentioned series called "Wooden Books," introductions to mathematical proofs, anatomy, etc. Sadly, this entry is a load of hooey, starting on page 2 when author Miller talks about the history of dowsing. He discusses a 1556 book by Georgius Agricola on the subject of using dowsing to find metal ore. Miller admits that Agricola actually discouraged dowsing, but claims that the refutation is due to Agricola being wary of dowsing's association with the occult.

In fact, Agricola, like many others, rejected dowsing because it simply was not useful: "A miner...should not make use of an enchanted twig because...a forked stick is of no use to him, for there are natural indications of the veins which he can see for himself without the help of twigs." Thus Miller, either through ignorance or design, has misinformed and misled his readers.

Dowsing, like psychic powers, has repeatedly been tested and repeatedly failed under controlled conditions. Miller fills the remaining 62 pages with unproven and wild claims about psychic powers, astral travel, time travel, and other such things. For those who know anything about the topics, it's actually kind of funny!