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Great period piece .

And fruitful ground for the old problem of how dowsers manage to debate when there is a disagreement
about what is being “discovered”. Their dowsed energy line differs from Ley line ,so how do they discuss that problem with those who believe that they have dowsed the Ley , but failed to find their line . Does it all become amicable and and both agree that their findings are correct ? Or do they argue about their differing claims and it becomes a numbers game , how many agree with our findings /beliefs ? I imagine the former .
It could go on forever with others “discovering “ lines unnoticed by the previous “researchers “ , who is to say who is right or wrong ? It is entirely subjective .
Prior to the book how many have dowsed the Hurlers and come up with a totally different response i.e. the “energy” does go to the third , but again I imagine that since the book more dowsers have “discovered” that the third is avoided . Stopped laughing so gave up , might watch a bit more later .

Don't judge me but I rather liked 'the sun and the serpent' when I read it. It does feeds into that very English romantic glastonbury thing but also a 90s environmental gaia-ish view of the landscape, that it's maybe got some ability to fight back against all the crap we humans dish out. It's also nice because if you know somewhere on the line near to you, it makes you want to visit other places along it. Which can't be bad for swelling the ranks of tmaists.

But on the other hand it is about ley lines.

Ah this Christmas we went to a party and it was 'secret santa' time. I got a bottle of booze. But my poor OH, someone had deliberately got him a pair of dowsing rods from Avebury (ie bent copper pipes). He looked very disappointed but tried to hide it. Most people in the room seemed to have some innate belief they would work, curiously. But they were overwhelmingly artists and musicians, maybe they'd never demanded a scientific explanation of why they would or wouldn't work.

I don't live far from the purported line. Perhaps I should go out and take the copper pipes.