Re: occam's razor
I can't take exception to anything you've said, but you didn't address the primary thrust of my argument. When these migrations do happen, they are done as a group. Almost all the animals travel together to the same destination. Dowsers claim to be heading to the same destination, but none of them can say they take the same route. My primary concern is this: It's dowsing, right? Why don't dowsers dowse the same way? I'm not talking about using two rods as opposed to three, or walking forward as opposed to backwards, but why do some folks just use the rods, and why do some put coins in their mouth, and why do some stick magnest in their shoes. There's a vast sea of methods that dowsers employ that have no scientific purpose, but why do these folks swear by them?
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Unexplained Phenomina is something I can't personally explain,or do (yet?). But I ain't afraid to hypothesize.1st Animals aren't necessarily traveling together. Salmon for instance travel over a vast area of sea but as they swim upriver they are bottle necked into a group simply by the confinement of space (area).This would give the impression of grouping. Crows fly in small groups and join with other groups along the way to form flocks.There is a Pecan tree in my yard that is one of those way points and I watch them coming in from different compass points to meet there as do the Parrots.
"Why don't dowsers dowse the same way?"(quote af) I would argue they do, they use the subconscious to take them to an unknown destination.Methods/ techniques vary, from what I read, but the underlying task is the same.To perform a task I use what I feel will work, confidence in success is a important part of success.The little dowsing I've done so far I notice I feel self conscience about people looking a the nut job walking around with wires flailing from his hands and it stifles my concentration or more to the point my lack of it. If my mind isn't a blank page I see that that I've written before and dowsing is uncharted territory.My premonition is that I could just hold my hands up an get the same input of info as the rods would give.My feeling is it comes from the brain or "Mood".That probably sounds crazy as my sensible deductive reasoning brain function says so too. But this is, again, unexplainable, like premonition.The hardest part for me is listening to or "hearing" that little silent voice, and having the faith to follow it all the while feeling like it's a wild goose chase, yet not wanting to allow those feeling to interfear. Till I find something or repeatedly don't this is something I have to deal with internally and in my own way. I can say that it's enlightening me to new emotions. I'm a hard case that figured I'd seen it all and done it all, dowsing is working it's way to spots under my mental callouses.
One other thing that has been on my mind about dowsing, and again it's a bit crazy to some, that is if God would frown on my new persuit. I have faith but not Religion, I care not what a Church or Religion thinks or says. My relationship with "My" God allows my to go straight to the source so to speak. I seek no help from Him other than to help protect my soul from damage. It appears He's cool with it and it's not offencive or deviant. Again unexplainable yet important, at least to me and again instructive of the varying methods, paths or techniques people use to achieve the same over all goal. It's your road walk it as you will if you have to crawl it crawl like a Marine.
