Local Dowsing Group News
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No. 32
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For today we have naming of parts
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inspired by Rory Duff’s recent talk to Malvern Dowsers
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A vision
While standing on a hillside in Herefordshire in 1921, Alfred Watkins experienced a revelation, and noticed the apparent arrangement of straight lines linking ancient features in the landscape.
As far as we know, Watkins regarded these as straightforward alignments, perhaps used by earlier folk as an aid to navigation.
In recent years, our understanding of these lines has shifted from them being line-of-sight, to being a surface manifestation of some kind of underlying energy
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One of the most important alignments in England, the Michael and Mary line, was explored in a book written by Hamish Miller and Paul Broadhurst in 1989 - The Sun and The Serpent. This line stretches across the country from St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall, to the East Anglian coast.
It was during the writing of The Sun and the Serpent, that Hamish and Paul discovered that in addition to line-of-sight, there are two other lines. These sinuously link some points on the straight line. One connects ‘male’ points, such as churches dedicated to Michael, and one ‘female’, such as churches dedicated to Mary.
It has taken around seventy years to move
from
Watkins re-discovery of (single) line-of-sight alignments;
to
line-of-sight,
plus
two other different lines.
During this period, Feng Shui and alternative health approaches have appeared in the west, and introduced the notion of lines which are either beneficial, or detrimental. The categorisation of lines has become more complex.
One pioneer of this categorisation is Billy Gawn, who in his ‘
Beyond the Far Horizon
’ (2012), looked in some detail at the composition of ‘energy’ lines, and discovered that they are made up of separate ‘bands’, perhaps with differing polarities. Indeed I believe that Billy’s definition of a negative line, is that of an energy line with the negative aspect to the fore.
Then we move onto the claims that some people can ‘move’ energy lines, or change them from being ‘detrimental’ to ‘beneficial’.
It is easy to forget how
recent
all these discoveries are. Something is definitely speeding up.
These thoughts were stimulated by Rory Duff’s recent address to Malvern Dowsers. His talk is too wide-ranging for me to attempt to summarise here, but I would like to draw your attention to one aspect.
Like some of the luminaries mentioned above, Rory has devoted a considerable amount of energy to creating a sophisticated typology of lines. This runs throughout his extensive work, and it is most accessibly set out in his book ‘
A Guide to Leylines, Earth Energies and Nodes
’ (£7.95 plus postage from www.roryduff.com).
Rory’s website sets out details of his training programmes, and it occurs that one way in which you could use his book, is to identify some lines for detailed study, and then apply his categorisation.
Rory Duff has been dowsing for over 35 years and currently runs the Bristol Dowsers Society. In 2012 he was awarded the Billy Gawn prize from the British Society of Dowsers for his research into Earth Energy lines.
Ced Jackson
Rory Duff writes
I have been researching Earth Energies for over 20 years and have tracked and mapped over 20,000 miles of them. I have also taught over 500 people to dowse since 2005. During my research, I have been finding more and more different types of energy lines. It soon became obvious that it was really important that everyone needed to be talking about the same thing.
To progress, a basic classification of energy lines & nodes – one that would become a basis for future improved classifications – was therefore very necessary. All sciences do this and Geobiology needs it too – This is the study of how the Earth affects life. The classification has two main divisions. Energies sourced by electromagnetism, and energies sourced by ultra-low frequency sound waves.
The signature of the movement of the energy lines, the regularity of their side to side movements - which gives them a frequency - the way their widths change and the different ways they intersect each other – all lead to a particular groups of energy lines and nodes being established as subdivisions of the initial two groups. It is only when you can clearly identify what lines you are finding, that you can begin to learn more about them. For example, the need to identify the Benker lines has long been known to be important as these can give people problems in their homes. However the newly identified Moon phase lines can lead to critical health issues if you live on one for too long.
What led to the classification has now also led to a better understanding of the science behind the lines. It has also led to the awareness of the largest and most powerful earth energy lines in the World – the Emperor Dragons. More on all this via
www.roryduff.com
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100 Light Years of Alfred Watkins
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Nearly one hundred years have passed since June 30th 1921, when Alfred visited
Blackwardine
in Herefordshire , and had his vision of straight lines, dating from Neolithic times crossing the landscape.
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Alfred spent a major part of his life developing his theory. He published a further book on leys and participated in the
Old Straight Track Club
from 1927 to 1935 (the OSTC papers are in Hereford City Museum). He was a polymath, and developed the Bee Meter, used by the RAF.
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There are rumours of a centenary celebration in 2021.
To be informed of developments,
contact
Info@CedJackson.org
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"A Radio for Talking to God"
The Ark of the Covenant was so described by one of the principal baddies in Spielberg's
"Raiders of the Lost Ark".
The tradition of concretising metaphysical processes into objects continues in Pullman's excellent "His Dark Materials", with the appearance of that advanced dowsing tool, the Alethiometer.
The series also excels when it represents one's higher self / inner thoughts / conscience / invisible friend / as one's own daemon, manifesting as a companion animal.
All true dowsers know that their own alethiometer is located a few inches behind their nose.
(But I still want one.)
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The Oasis Dowsing Rod
If
The
Revealer,
was the Rolls-Royce of dowsing instruments, then the
Oasis Rod
is perhaps more akin to the Sinclair C5. Full of good intention, but now forgotten.
Guy Underwood (1883-1964), made major contributions to dowsing, and in part this was because he was not afraid to innovate when necessary. He began dowsing when most dowsers were using a Y shaped twig. But he found it rather crude and clumsy. He set himself a challenge to devise a new kind of dowsing rod. One that was more sensitive, so that anyone might be able to use it. He thought that this might then encourage more people to take up dowsing.
He did much experimentation, based upon two theories. The first, that if one hand was less affected by the influence than the other, then the more inert one might check the action of the rod caused by the movement of the active one. The second theory was that friction might be a limiting factor.
One result, originating around 1946, was the
Oasis Pocket Divining Rod
. It is held as shown in the illustration, Figure 1. It consisted of a wire lever, or indictor (a), attached by a flexible rubber hinge (b) to a spindle, which was free to revolve in a hollow metal handle (c). The lever was pulled into tension, and into a state of unstable equilibrium, by means of a cord (d). The cord was pulled until the indicator was almost right-angles to the spindle. The “pull-point” (the place where the finger and thumb of the left hand hold the cord) had be as nearly as possible in line with the handle (along the dashed line). This put the rod into a state of unstable equilibrium, which was essential for it to rotate naturally and to increase its sensitiveness.
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It was, however, somewhat unstable and tended to waver considerably as the dowser walked. This was disconcerting to beginners, but the-wavering was easily distinguishable from the stronger and more steady movements which occurred when over, say, a stream. The disadvantage was that its movements had to be closely watched, because they were not easily felt. But it had the advantage that it did not “flick”, and have to be re-gripped, as is often the case with the twig (or even L-rods). When its equilibrium was upset, it automatically found another position of equilibrium and retained that until that also was upset. It therefore gave a continuous reading with automatic recovery. This was helpful for field dowsing, for example when marking out a stream. It also reacted to metal pipes, street gullies and even to sewers and drains. He even found that the rod worked in the hands of a particularly ardent sceptic, who had prior to this never had any success with the twig.
When walking over underground stream, the indicator went down at once on coming over a stream and moved in the reverse direction when over the “edge influences”, then went down again when crossing the parallels (in the same way as a twig). It showed some peculiarities, however, instead of merely going down over a stream, the indicator would sometimes continue its motion until it had made one or more continuous revolutions in the same direction. (Similar behaviour has also been reported by professional dowsers using sticks). Later, he found that if he stood still after entering a stream band, then the indicator would continue to rotate for a certain number of times according to the stream and then “kick back” - that is to say stop and reverse a little. Streams of identical depths gave differing revolution numbers, and so using suitable calibration, he could estimate flow rate.
The Oasis Rod as a crack, with an arm attached at a right angle to a rotating shaft, capable of converting the forward/backward movement of the hand holding the cord, into circular motion. To explain the rotation, he suggested that when the equilibrium was disturbed, the indicator would make half a revolution downwards. After this has occurred, all the thrusts were then reversed in direction, because it is a crank, and a different set of muscles is brought into tension, which are themselves affected by the stream, and a further half revolution upwards is caused. But he could offer no explanation for the astonishing stoppage of the revolution, after a certain number have taken place over a given stream. Theoretically, he thought, these should go on continuously so long as the dowser is within the influence causing them.
I thought I would attempt to resurrect this device, by making a rather crude imitation, Figure 2. Rather than wire and rubber hinge, my indicator is made from thin flexible aluminium strip, approximately 15cm long, (any longer and it tends to catch on my arm), attached to the spindle. In practice, I found that a cord length of approximately 30cm worked about right. I think the flexible joint (b) would be an advantage but makes it more difficult to fabricate. A thicker handle would make it easier to hold. Yes, it is tricky to use, one’s arms are more tense. But as for the dowsing reaction, the indicator rod clearly turns from right to left, or vice versa, quickly and clearly.
Nick Haywood
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Water Special Interest Group
Dowsing Anglia has just delivered a day of tuition in Yoxford on Water Dowsing.
I was privileged to see in advance the agenda and papers for the day, and very useful they are too, comprising a PowerPoint Presentation + Methodology + Field-Checklist.
The SIG has already picked up another six venues for Water Dowsing all over the UK, so they'll be travelling a lot next year. They travel to Groups and their expenses are minimal as they wish to promote dowsing
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Dowsing Anglia have kindly offered to make information available to other dowsers and groups on how they approach such a task
If you are interested in Water Dowsing, and ask Dowsing Anglia, they may well provide you with with useful info, and put you in touch with the Water Special Interest Group. Please contact...
Steve Dawson dowsing.anglia@gmail.com
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