Don't go there. Dave Cushman didn't investigate the issue sufficiently. It's a folk belief perpetuated by the New-Ager types. Understandable perhaps, due to the widespread belief in dowsing, which is the main method for "discovering" ley lines. It's a bona-fide phenomenon, but you have to realize what you're looking at, which is ideomotor behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_phenomenon How people are fooled by it, documented here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideomotor_phenomenon The Skeptic's Dictionary and Skeptical Science essays do a reasonable job of debunking ley lines: http://skepdic.com/leylines.html http://www.skeptical-science.com/critical-thinking/magical-ley-lines-debunked/ *********************************************** The BEE-L mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html
