Tag: Abbé Alexis Mermet

• Dowsing: Fraud, Demons, or God?

  An engineer’s firsthand encounter with dowsing leads to a historical exploration of science, Catholic thought, and the enduring mystery of divining rods.

  RMDell’Orfano

  July 30, 2026

  Religion

  Abbé Alexis Bouly, Abbé Alexis Mermet, Athanasius Kircher, buried cable, Catholic Church, Catholic theology, Christian discernment, divination, divining rod, dowsing, engineering, hidden knowledge, historical theology, ideomotor effect, Jacques Aymar, occult, pendulum dowsing, radiesthesia, science and faith, spiritual discernment, underground water, unexplained phenomena, water dowsing