Fraying at the Margins: The Idea of Dowsing

The ancient craft of finding water by using a divining rod is an unlikely place to start a quest for the nature of reality. Here Bill Kenny, a retired academic and Nigel Twinn, author and co-author of several books, including ‘Beyond the Far Horizon’ with Billy Gawn, ‘Autobiography of a Sceptical Dowser’ with Christopher Strong and ‘A Life Divined’ with Hamish Miller, do just that!

How could – indeed, why should – dowsing enable us to find information about virtually anything, seemingly regardless of space and time?  Once we realise that life as we know it is only a ripple on the surface of a vast ocean of ‘information’, just about anything becomes possible!