An interesting account of dowsing

Posted by Oliver Robinson on 20 February 2010 | 2 Comments

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The below account of an experience of dowsing helping retrieve a stolen object is fascinating. The speaker is Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer, author of Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism and the Extraordinary Powers of the Human Mind. She is a psychoanalyst - writing the book seems to have been in large part a response to this anomalous experience.  

In the talk she refers to 'the gorilla' - this is a reference to the famous perception experiment in which a person who is asked to do a counting task doesn't see a gorilla walk through the visual display they are looking at, because they are too focused on the task that they have been told to do.


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  • To a dowser this is rather commonplace. Yes, to have achieved such accuracy is great, even for a dowser, but it is not uncommon. Elizabeth Mayer couldn't have contacted a better dowser!. Harold McCoy is extraordinary and a wonderful person!. There are many of us "gorillas" wandering around!

    Posted by Kay Whitefield, 16/03/2010 3:46am (2 years ago)

  • This just so simply encapsulates the paradox of our conventional definition of reality!

    Posted by Robert de Vos, 22/02/2010 9:18am (2 years ago)

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