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Show Humans Have Same Homing Instincts As the Pigeon, an Authority Asserts can detect game from a greater distance than can gun-dogs. The same principle applies to pigeons. pig-eons. They become impregnated with the "magnetic smell" of their loft and, as they circle in the air, they feel the magnetic pull in one direction and fly that way. This sense of direction, due to magnetic pull, was widely held by the ancients, Macbeth says. We have lost it today through lack of use. There are still aborigines, however, how-ever, who can tell where the south lies by instinct, and a few Europeans Euro-peans can find north without a compass. Man, who marvels at the manner in which homing pigeons wing their unerring way hundreds of miles to their own lofts, has the same homing hom-ing instinct as the pigeon and doesn't know it. It lies latent in many of us, and only needs practice prac-tice to develop, declares Noel Macbeth, Mac-beth, of Chelmsford, Essex, says Pearson's London Weekly. The instinct arises from "terrestrial "terres-trial magnetism," linked up with the water diviner's power of detecting detect-ing water beneath the ground. According Ac-cording to Macbeth this power is far more common than is generally supposed. Approximately four men out of ten and six women out of ten have it. Macbeth's theory is that every object not radio-active has a wave-field, wave-field, and by holding something in one's hand with the corresponding wave-field one can detect that object. ob-ject. For instance, with a hazel rod, which has a corresponding wave-field wave-field to water, one can detect water. wa-ter. An authority under whom Macbeth Mac-beth studied in France, by using a bird's feather as a divining rod, |
