From back cover: In part one of this book, Francis Hitching explores the history and tradition of dowsing and reveals how we can learn to dowse. The second section describes the scientific search to understand dowsing, and documents the latest research on dowsing by the U.S. government and others. Hitching relates the art of dowsing to other types of paranormal abilities and psychic manifestations and develops the connection between dowsing, psi and the frontiers of human consciousness.