Local Dowsing Group News: No. 52
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On the morning of September 12th bleary-eyed dowsers will emerge into the autumnal mists of Worcester Racecourse.
This is therefore an appropriate point in the space-time continuum to consider the structure and role of our national organisation, and what steps might be considered to ensure that it continues to be fit for purpose.
The BSD is a classic British membership organisation, built with good intentions around progressive educational and social objectives.
There are a number of interests reflected within the BSD, not all of which may pull in the same direction. They include…
Water Dowsers
There is a steady demand for their services. You either have the skill to find water - in sufficient quantity, quality, at an appropriate location, depth, and throughout the year - or you don’t. It is dowsing’s Gold Standard.
The BSD’s website currently lists only 6 self-defined water dowsers, 3 male and 3 female. Too few on which to build a mass organisation. They are predominantly self-employed. There are high informal barriers to entry. Often they have personal or informal links to drillers. Professionals in that they dowse for a fee.
There is no direct or group representation of Water Dowsers on the BSD Council. Some are members of the Professional (Water) Dowser’s Register, 7 male and 2 female, which is not affiliated to the BSD.
See also Special Interest Groups below
Health Dowsers
As opposed to the you-are-or-you-aren’t classification of water dowsers, there are many complementary health practitioners in the UK, several of whom may use dowsing as one of their skills. They may self-describe as dowsing-for-health practitioners.
There are probably more women (health) practitioners, than women (water) dowsers, which partly springs from women’s strong interest in health matters historically neglected by men. Strong links with other women’s health groupings. Some professionalisation in that they may dowse for a fee, but not exclusively.
No formal representation of health dowsers on the BSD Council.
Local Dowsing Groups
The BSD website lists 20 such groups. See also www.localdowsinggroups.uk which lists 34. LDGs do not 'trade' though some individual members may do so. Most but not all affiliated to the BSD. No direct representation on BSD Council.
Dowsing Researchers + the Dowsing Research Group
Individual dowsers, some are also academics. Around 21 are members of the DRG, which is not currently affiliated with the BSD. Interests include the nature of dowsing, high-end physics, the Electric Universe, Earth Energies and Crop Circles.
Lone Dowsers
May or may not be members of a Local Dowsing Group, or individual members of the BSD. No representation on the BSD Council, other than via individual BSD membership. A large group in need of support.
Special Interest Groups
There used to be several SIGs within the BSD, some with their own funds. During a recent BSD cash shortage these funds were transferred into the BSD’s main accounts.
Some Local Dowsing Groups may formally or informally operate as leads in particular fields, an example being Water. Steve Dawson of Dowsing Anglia (which itself has nearly 500 members ) recreated the Water SIG, which is also really motoring with 150 members, including over a dozen professional Kurdish water dowsers who Steve has worked with over six years. Brill !
One other new and thriving SIG is Spirituality. Pre-Covid there were rumours of other SIG-type groupings re-emerging.
Several organisations whose interests are not primarily about dowsing have interests which overlap with dowsing at many points. Examples are the Scientific and Medical Network, and the Institute of Noetic Studies.
The National Picture
Just a few years ago there was a single national organisation, which operated as the representative body for most of these activities.
Since then the environment has become become more complex.
Can the centre hold ?
What is to be done ?
Whatever the current pattern of dowsing groups in the UK, it should not be beyond our ability to build bridges.
Not invented here
People sometimes ask us ‘Are you a dowser ?’, to which an answer may be
‘I do dowse’. It may be time to put aside the sheriff’s badge, cap and gun, stop asking what people are and ask instead what they do.
There are many who may utilise the dowsing skill without claiming the title of dowser. Dowsing is ‘a means of finding out’ - or in Yorkshire - ‘a means of finding owt’, and it may be helpful to identify a level of basic competence in the skill.
The Information Universe
Some scientists consider that the universe is not only quite big, but consists entirely of information. This reinforces the notion that all knowledge is available, given a bit of bent wire. As the closing sequence of 2001 informs us “All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landing these. Use them together. Use them in peace.” With those words Arthur C. Clarke destroyed any hope of a sensible foreign policy.
Dowsing, actually
In addition to information, the universe must also consist mainly of love. Ask Hugh Grant, especially at Christmas.
City of Dowsers
Loosely based on Fellini’s 1980 La città delle dowser, I have often wondered what it would be like if everybody could dowse.
Dr Joe Dispenza’s ‘Becoming Supernatural’ is based on a combination of Clear Intention (an enhanced brain) and an Elevated Emotion, as the way forward... “to begin to change a person’s biology from living in the past to living in the future. That combination of mind and matter – of thoughts and feelings – also seems to influence matter. And that’s how you create reality.”
And now we have another definition of dowsing.
Your views are sought
Letters and emails received before August 21st will appear in the next edition of LDGN, due around Sept 1st.
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Spirituality Special Interest Group
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Last month we had another encyclopaedic presentation from one of our members, Paul Syrett, who talked to us about the anatomy of the energetic body and healing. During Paul’s presentation he managed to cover many other topics that are connected and interwoven, for instance past lives and connections to the land. Thank you, Paul for your presentation and generosity in sharing some of your own journey so far.
In our August meeting Nigel Twinn talked to us about his co-authored book with Bill Kenny called ‘Fraying at the Margins, the idea of dowsing’. The book conveniently brings together many strands of this deceptively simple, innate skill in the context of the ‘Information Field’, and how we potentially have access to infinite resources.
Nigel discussed the idea of consciousness extending to everything (the seen and unseen) including possibly the corona virus. Several members shared their insights into this disease and whether it could also be ‘conscious’. Thank you Nigel for your talk.
Next time another SSIG member, Sue Watts Cutler, will be taking the guest spot.
If you would like to share your own insights and hear from others, please get in touch with Kate via Kate.tudorhall@gmail.com .
Water Dowsing
Steve Dawson
There are many different methods of Dowsing for water around the world, with regional & individual preferences. Often the very experienced dowsers just hit the field running. They swing their Rods and march over to the largest Aquifer in the field and start interrogating its properties - Job Done! - making it almost impossible to work out their methodology and how they achieved their results.
Locating deep/desert waters, especially in the Granite regions, are for advanced water diviners, but all dowsers start ‘Shallow’, tuning their affinity to potable waters.
My Methodology for Water Dowsing:
I prefer my ‘Gruyere Cheese’ method, slow and steady and highly repeatable – It’s an easy way to start dowsing and individuals can improve/expand on it later. Please read on:
Local Knowledge & Geology plus recording exactly what the Landowner requires is most important before starting any dowsing, and a written permission would be a bonus.
- Boundaries: Old, Present + Future Building Plans. Google Earth look for Parch Marks.
- Old Buildings, Electrics, Water Pipelines, Sewers, Drains, Septic Tanks & Animal Pits.
- History of nearby houses and their water supplies + history of floods.
- Provenance: Where’s the waters coming from, going to, if known.
- Quantity of waters required = Size of downhole pump + power & water storage.
The more information gained before dowsing the better. If you can get a Geological Map of the area even better as this will help locate a good & steady water supply. If the water below is ‘Confined or Restricted’ this could become a serious problem for the landowner right in the middle of a drought period.
Up to 90% of this Project will be Homework, finding out as much information about the local area as possible. Drive around the area & walk the fields, nature may give you an answer before even getting your rods out + Google Earth Maps going back to 1945.
Most of the Land in the UK will have water below, think of a Gruyere Cheese /Bath Sponge, lots of different sized holes. Now if we can find an area where a lot of the larger holes (‘Veins’) meet up then this will be an area with a far greater water supply. Down in Cornwall and parts of Scotland the deep granite rocks impede water flow almost to a halt, they sometime contain areas of water (‘Lenses’) but being so confined their recovery rates are very poor. So hopefully we’re in ‘Middle England’ and standing on a huge Gruyere Cheese we just need to find the largest veins near the surface and find where they all meet up.
‘As Above So Below’: Yes we’ll only be dowsing for the near surface Veins as there could be hundreds layered below criss-crossing everywhere. These larger Veins usually indicate a better layer of water below and once we’ve located the central point, the Aquifer, we can ask direct questions reference the quantities and flowrates available at depth.
The Dowsing Day
On the day arrive at the field well prepared, a good chair and foldaway table, good walking boots and plenty of sandwiches & coffee, make yourself comfortable and ready to enjoy the day, turn off the radio and telephone and make sure Mutley the dog’s happy and secured. Be prepared to take hourly breaks where you can close your eyes for 10 minutes and relax.
Orientate yourself with the field, North South East West, and prepare yourself for dowsing. Firstly walk across the field dowsing for the large Veins of water we talked about earlier. You may come across a dozen Veins in a large field, so you’ll need a method of relocating and recording them. Often it’s good to have a ‘Quiet friend’ walking alongside you, Flagging the Veins and recording their properties. (We’re only searching for the near surface Veins).
1. The width of the Vein. (Flag their centres only - ‘Quick Job’ 5 -6 Flags only).
2. Direction of Flow, you can lean the Flags with this direction, good visual aid later on.
3. The Flow rate either in gallons / litre per minute. (Bishop’s Rule, counting slowly)
4. Water Potable: Think ‘Sweet Water / Safe Water’. Lesser standards maybe acceptable for the farm animals, but try locating Potable waters where possible.
5. PH Values: Less than PH7 = Acid. PH7 = Neutral. Above PH7 becoming Alkaline.
6. Depths of the Vein, Top & Bottom. (Ask if greatly reduced in mid’ summer).
7. Von Pohl Reading: Water is a living spiritual entity and reacts to negative forces.
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Derek Woodhead using a measuring wheel for the Bishop’s Rule - measuring the Horizontal Distance.
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The Bishop’s Rule:
Most times people will just count slowly until their Rods or Crystals indicate a strong response, counting from the Top of the Vein and the Bottom of the Vein. If greater accuracy is required or you are asking a much more ‘Weighty’ question like, “At what depth will the Optimum Flow Rates be for this Aquifer “? Then pacing out from the Flag / Centre Point, away at 90 degrees and measuring the distance where your Rods indicate will give you an accurate distance.
Hopefully after Flagging out the larger Veins in the Field you’ll see a couple merging together and this could indicate a healthy Aquifer. If there’s no Veins merging this is not a problem go to the strongest Vein and walk down its length Dowsing for a central point, where other Veins come in. You’ll need to Flag out these new Veins, recording their Widths, Directions, Flowrates & Depths.
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This is an actual Flagged Out Aquifer with four Veins passing through a Central Point. The Dark-Blue line is the strongest Vein by far and came directly from another larger Aquifer in the field, where the two people are standing. Here Local Knowledge comes into play, this Aquifer though the smaller of the two found may have much better access for the Drillers and less pipework would be required for it to be installed. Giving the Client a second option is always helpful.
The Aquifer
We’ve only been following the near surface Veins, and the four Veins in the photo above that cross already surpass the water requirements requested by the landowner so hopefully this will be a healthy & productive Aquifer below.
The Well will be cemented in the ground for the first 6 – 10 metres, this prevents surface contaminants entering the structure below. So after a well-deserved break/rest period, we now need to Dowse the Aquifer for all its properties + Bottom depth and most importantly the Optimum depth for recovering its waters to surface. This is where the Bishop’s Rule, measuring out the horizontal distances comes in handy.
Optimum Flowrates should cover the whole year and you can record them in stages, 50-100 feet, 100-150 feet & 150-200 feet. Most times, especially in the UK, this should be sufficient.
Two main factors would have been established with the landowner before dowsing. Less than 20 tonnes of water recovered every 24hours, per Well, does not require an annual license (£900+), and being shallow only requires a Single Phase (Domestic 240 volts electric supply) downhole water pump.
Recording the Dowsing Day
Lots of photographs and hopefully mostly facing North, with the sun behind you this will help describing the Dowsing Project later on. The Veins can easily be named, 1,2,3, A,B, C, starting at the mostly Northerly, please record them in a clockwise direction, this will make your project highly repeatable. Last but not least an accurate GPS location taken over the Centre Point. Most people have I ‘phones these days, if you turn the Compass App’ on there’s a Lat-Longtitude readout at the bottom of the screen. Record this and it can be converted later on.
Dowsing Project Written Up
The best way to write up this Project is to write it chronologically and ‘start 10 miles away’……..
‘Large Map, Small Map, Photo-Drawing of Field, Veins information, Aquifer information & Summary’.
Best of Luck everyone, here’s a simple Client’s Report Format below that summarises the dowsing day’s findings, but above all else don’t forget dozens of photographs please as they’re invaluable later on.
Local Brief:
‘Locate an Aquifer in Paddock 5. That can provide > 20 tonnes per day’
Name / Short History of Farm:
Agriculture / Livestock + Explain the need for extra water supplies:
Name of Landowner:
Date & Timings:
Dowsers Names:
Other Relevant Information’s:
Establish Unit of Measurements: Metric / Imperial / Cubits etc..
Orientation:
OS Map: TL. 640123 – 66123 Elevation 20 metres
+ any Landmarks especially any that will appear in the photographs.
Average Quantity – Waters
Summertime: 50 tonnes per day
Wintertime: 80 tonnes per day
‘First 20 – 30 feet will be cemented in to prevent surface contaminants entering the structure below’.
Ave: Water Resting Levels
Summertime: 20 – 30 feet
Wintertime: 10 – 15 feet
Optimum Extraction Depth
Summertime: 40 – 50 feet
Wintertime: 40 - 50 feet
Maximum Water Extraction Rates
(60% of the Sustainable Yeild)
Summertime: 1.2 tonnes per hour
Wintertime: 2 tonnes per hour
Potable – All year
Yes
PH Levels
PH. 7.1
Optimum Depth / Lpm.
60 Feet / 20 Lpm. = 30 Tonnes per day Available.
Summary :
Chronological History of Project + Results + Look Forwards
Author :
+ Where can this Report be located.
Steve also runs talks and workshops on water dowsing
Tel 07899 814264
Steve Dawson <dowsing.Anglia@gmail.com>
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Dowsing for Civil Disasters
The horrendous explosion in Beirut has prompted me to refloat the question of whether dowsing has anything to offer in such situations.
Many people, some of them still alive, will have been buried in rubble.
In some cases dowsers might be able to locate such people.
In addition to possible on-site work, exploration via the combination of aerial photos, and remote viewing, might be able to offer some assistance.
Dowsing has a proud history of international assistance on water projects, with the work of Brother Kimpton and Village Water.
In its current state dowsing is not able to offer assistance directly through its own organisations, but training could be provided to existing dowsers prior to disasters taking place, so that there were a number of dowsers with the relevant skills in place which could be drawn on by relief agencies.
Credibility would be vital
If this is of interest to you, please get in touch
Ced Jackson
Letters to the Ed.
Just to say, I am not sure that the BSD has a definable function any more, as it has been effectively moribund for so long - and well before the pandemic. Others, and especially privateers, have rushed in to fill the gaping void which, I suppose, was inevitable.
What we really do need is a regional/national/international (dare I say it, European!) umbrella group to draw like minded people for all corners of the community together - to support them, and to provide links to training opportunities across the country - and to give them access to written/digital resources, including the precious physical/digital library of dowsing related material which the BSD still holds (somewhere).
If the BSD does have a function, it is to set up and strengthen links across the country and across borders. Overseas, loads of people in many countries that I have visited envy us for having one nationally respected body - and it was a blatant act of vandalism to destroy it for no obvious purpose.
However, we are where we are - and the hubs of activity in Yorkshire, East Anglia, the South West and the West Midlands are good places to start a regeneration.
Your own newsletter is certainly a beacon of hope in the darkness, and the advent of Zoom is potentially enabling those who are interested to reach one other - strangely, in a manner that the old BSD was just starting to open up with Grahame Gardner’s podcasts.
Individuals already have decent links to dowsing groups in Canada and the USA, Australia and New Zealand. The SNR in France are always putting out feelers to me to attend their stuff in Paris, which I have every intention of doing (if and when the war is over).
If the BSD could occupy that breach between dowsers and dowsing groups across the world, both digitally and physically, then they would be doing the whole dowsing community a great service.
Parlez-vous radiesthésie anyone?
Kind regards,
Nigel
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