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Radiesthesia
Oscillations – Season 1, Episode 5
By Omar Musa, presented by Jon Tjhia
From heartbeats to brainwaves, economic cycles to cosmic orbits, oscillations can be found everywhere. This podcast takes artists and listeners deep into the Powerhouse Collection of half a million objects to unearth stories about the vibrations, fluctuations, and movements woven through our world – and beyond it.
Radiesthesia is a kind of pseudoscience – an occult practice dedicated to detecting the radiation of living beings and inanimate objects, and using it to locate people, illness, minerals, water. In this episode, writer Omar Musa explores divination and love, with the help of object number 87/1192 – a radiesthesia pendulum.
‘I was drawn to this object because it seemed evocative of the type of spirit that poets (and yearning lovers) often invoke, a summoning or divination process, where the lines between art and pseudoscience blur.’
Object No. 97/92/14-5
Transcript
Omar Musa Radiesthesia.
Left. To right.
Left. To right.
