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exactly.
it's subconscious movements causing the sticks to spin. the whole left side of your brain is in charge of pattern recognition. that's what it does, every second you're awake, remember everything and find patterns. it's an evolved need, because if you couldn't recognize the pattern of tiger prints meaning a tiger was near by, you got eaten. only a fraction of this pattern recognition and memory is available to your consciousness.
dowsing is your subconscious leveraging past experience, and pattern recognition to take a guess at where something will be. your old super had been to thousands of job sites, had seen prints for thousands more jobs. there's hundreds of details you don't consciously notice when walking around on a job site, like the location of stubs before the walls go up, but all that gets noticed by the left side of your brain.
come back a month later, grab the sticks and "magically" they cross where the pipe is.
an interesting book that touches on the subject, https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061906107/
Goddamn! This is cool. I had no idea this was being tackled on so many fronts. It's really the shift of the ages, isn't it?
I've added the book to my reading list, and also found this book to look pretty darn interesting: Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain
Just heard a podcast about Michael Gazzaniga. I'm planning to read Who's in Charge?: Free Will and the Science of the Brain. Maybe you'd like it too.