" The account in the Dave Cushman article you cited is a textbook 
illustration of the "ideomotor effect" I mentioned before re to how 
dowsing "works"."

I notice the original article on Dave Cushman's site is nothing to do 
with Dave and was probably written after his death.  It's even signed at 
the bottom by Roger Patterson who now maintains Dave's site.

I know Roger well and he has a tremendous understanding of bees' 
behaviour; mostly obtained by careful observation and experimentation.  
He can debunk a lot of myths and I have never known him to be wrong  
although I am still to be convinced by his ley line theories.  The snag 
is he keeps getting positive results when demonstrating his dowsing 
skill. His latest apparent success was when he identified some stones on 
my land as a 1200 year old grave.  An archaeologist later said he was 
wrong.  He thought Roger's date was right  but suggested it was 3 graves 
rather than one.  Now there is a formal dig being carried out and the 
current team of experts think it could be a single high status grave but 
they will be spending some more weeks preparing the site before actually 
lifting the cap stones and confirming anything.  In a way I am almost 
dreading Roger being proved right on this because it could undermine 
just about everything I believe in.

Steve Rose, North Wales

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