humble said:
Judy, a common fallacy presented by the Skeptic organization is that LRL's only work when a target is visible to the operator, or a hand held L-Rod can only be physically moved in the direction of a target via a mentally influenced ideomoter muscle reflex.
Their argument does not account for several privately owned electronic LRL's that have been invented, tested, and used successfully during the past 30 years using electronic metering & audio to detect buried targets.
Neither does their argument take into account non-electronic LRL's that utilize the operators sense of Feel, to lock on to the field of a target, even while blindfolded. humble
Yes, if anyone could get a currently marketed "LRL" to reliably locate anything, some kind of non-empirical ability would be necessary, because their pseudoelectronics circuitry does nothing in that regard.
There is no evidence that any privately invented "super" LRLs exist, except for some ridiculous claims by a couple of sub-amateur pseudoelectronics wannabes.
And a "non-electronic" LRL would be a dowsing device, by definition.
As I have said before, I have no reason to doubt that someone, somewhere, might be able to find stuff with an LRL, but not because of their so-called "electronic" components.
Lately I have added that I do have reason to believe that none of the LRLers posting on here have ever found anything with an LRL.
I might add that, although there are measurable electromagnetic radiation waves emanating from brains, and measurable electricity inside brains, the same is true for other cells throughout human and animal bodies, and in vegetation.
Also, the electromagnetic energy radiating from cells is of very short range. Using the observations that thoughts can affect others over very long distance spans, to support the idea that cell emanations travel long distances, even though their range has been proven to be short, is a misapplication of logic. There is no reason to conclude that physical "energy" must be responsible for "paranormal" abilities, unless it is being promoted that the soul does not exist, such as with the mantra of Eugenics. None of the "mind is in the brain" claims have ever been scientifically proven, simply because that is not the case.
And that is why an "electronic" device cannot enhance whatever abilities for dowsing a person might have. Because so-called PSI phenomenon do not occur within the physical realm (which includes energy), but they can affect the physical.
I won't argue the existence of the soul, because I am not trying to "convince" anyone about it, but rather I am merely answering the question of the topic title. People can certainly think for themselves on this matter, so trying to convince anyone is not of much help.
But that's my answer....