Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

Another connection between the ley line and dowsing phenomenona is that both underwent a change in the late 60's .
Ley lines as originally described by Watkins were routes between A and B when A and B were almost anything old ,from, Neolithic monuments to Iron Age monuments to mediaval moats , churches of any period ,wells and even natural features . Incredibly contentious but nevertheless related to actual sites on the ground .
After the statistical likelihood , accuracy and obvious question of why choose straight lines for routes when the easiest way from A-B was a geometrical truth rarely found in the real world , Michell and others changed the leys to "lines of force " not tracks , but unrecordable entirely subjective straight lines of energy .
Dowsers took to this like ducks to water .If you have a problem proving finding you can find real stuff , then why not find stuff that is invisible and unrecordable .Thus they arrived at an excellent circular symbiotic relationship ,"we'll find your lines of force for you " , the landscape mystics wrote about them thus encouraging other dowsers to "find " the original and other lines .Who is to say that because your rods move , as they usually do in 90% of cases , that you haven't found a "ley" ?