Local Dowsing Group News No 36

Local Dowsing Group News : No. 37

The Rudstone

Nigel Twinn

It has taken me 68 years of this cycle, and over twenty years as a dowser, to get to this place.

Britain’s tallest standing stone in the churchyard of a quiet village in East Yorkshire is something of an enigma.

And it is remarkable that it still exists at all, when almost every other megalith for miles around has long since been felled and recycled.

At around 7.5 metres high it is, by some margin, the king pin of its genre - and not that far short of the mighty, and much bulkier, ten metre Menhir at Kerloas in western Brittany, the tallest in Europe.

Perhaps the Rudstone’s relative obscurity has been part of its salvation - nestled (if anything of this size can nestle) behind the parish church, and now somewhat incongruously surrounded by post-medieval graves.

One of the most surprising features of this monolith is the strange piece of lead capping, replaced in the modern era, which would have been an inconceivable accoutrement on just about any other ancient comparator in the UK.

Opinion is divided as to whether this heavy headgear was installed to protect the stone, which is the usual explanation, or whether it was retro-fitted to dampen down its non-physical attributes. In either case, my dowsing indicated that, apart from slightly defacing an otherwise magnificent piece of world-class construction, it is actually doing very little. Others may take a different view, and there is a strong feeling amongst many that it was an attempt to neutralise its pre-Christian power. From a 21st century perspective, attacking deep-seated earth energy currents with a lump of lead seems bizarre - but then, maybe the dead-metal was just a witness for the focus of antagonism.

Far more important is what is still very dowsable at this remarkable site. The most obvious facet is the crossing of leys, one of which also bisects the core of the church, just a few metres away. There is also a swirl of earth energy lines, which create a manifestation shaped like a flattened cog-wheel.

Perhaps a little more surprising is the confluence of three of the interplanetary grid lines, described and rediscovered by Billy Gawn, just a metre or so to the north west of the base of the stone. I found parts of the solar, lunar and jovian grids in a neat triangle. I have not come across such a tight grouping of cosmic fields of this nature at a megalith before. The solar and lunar lines both appear to clip different edges of the menhir on their way past .

Moving on to the earth grids, neither Hartmann nor Curry seem to have had much influence over the siting of the stone. However, the monolith sits squarely inside the edge lines of a crossing of the Benker grid - a Benker box, as I have come to term it, as the Benker grid dowses as being three-dimensional. Given the great size of the stone, it may even be in a double height box. Although it would be a first encounter for me, this concept does accord with some other very old standing stones. Benker boxes may well have afforded some protection to prominent megaliths such as the Rudstone - although, of course, we don’t know which ones have been removed despite their non-physical defence system!

The earliest cultures to have erected larger stone structures seem to have used different architectural guidelines to those of later societies. In Brittany, Dartmoor and elsewhere, the earliest incarnations at such places appear to have acknowledged Benker, and sometimes astronomical, information; whereas later ones seem to have switched more towards earth energies and/or Hartmann and Curry grids.

Leys, as a man-made - or at least man-influenced - phenomena, appear at all such remaining sites - bar none. However, they may not have been an integral part of the original ground plans. The incredible age of the Rudstone puts it back to the earliest phase of megalithic construction, and possibly even prior to the widespread use of farming techniques in the British Isles.

As one might expect, there are also lines of consciousness radiating from the menhir. One of these points directly to another stone which, in the gathering gloom, looked more like a broken tree stump as I walked towards it. However, it is clearly a natural and deliberately placed, piece of rock, not a broken or reused grave-marker - and right on a line of sight.

My colleague, Mike Barwell, has also found another fallen upright close to this stone, which he dowses as previously having been used as a gravestone. It may also be a remnant of a previous megalithic structure - and, potentially, of a circle of stones close to the Rudstone itself. Clearly, the ‘modern’ churchyard has been regarded and revered as a sacred space for millennia.

I am sure I have only just scratched the surface of what can be understood and decoded at this fascinating place on a brief first visit - and I hope to return to it.

Nigel Twinn, February 2020 <tavistocktwinns@btinternet.com>

Images courtesy Mike Barwell

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Coin flipping and the nature of reality

Nick Haywood

Psi is often divided into two categories . ..

Macro-PK effect that can be observed directly, such as table turning; and ...

Micro-PK , whose affects are evident only statistically.

In the 1970s, Physicist and Psi researcher, Helmut Schmidt began a series of fascinating micro-PK experiments, involving random number generators (RNGs). These are essentially electronic coin flippers, that produce an endless sequence of heads and tails, in a truly random manner.

In one experiment, these RNGs were used to randomly illuminate lights. Subjects were asked to guess which light would light next, then a random number was generated, and based on that number, a particular light came on. After tens of thousands of trails, highly significant results were found. The intention of the subjects had somehow influenced the RNG, using some unknown psi process.

In later experiments, he demonstrated that the results were independent of how the RNG functioned. He concluded from this, that the mind does not interfere with the mechanism of the RNG, but rather that psi works in a goal-oriented way. That is, it aims for a successful final outcome, no matter how intricate the intermediate steps, and in a manner primarily based on a subject’s intentions and mental states. If you think about that for a moment, that is an extraordinary conclusion.

In another experiment, he used the RNGs to create a series of clicks (heads), and no clicks (tails), on different tracks of a stereo tape. He played these through headphones to his subjects, who were instructed to try and increase the number of clicks that they heard on one side, over the other. To enhance the effect, the clicks were barely audible, so that he attained the subjects’ maximum attention. Rather surprisingly, the subjects succeeded in their task.

Note that the effect we are talking about here is small. The chance of any obtaining one of two outputs from an RNG is 50%. The participants could change this by just a couple of percentage points either way, but the key thing was that it was highly statistically significant, meaning that the results were extremely unlikely to have arisen by chance.

If all RNGs were equivalent, then Schmidt wondered what would happen if he used pre-recorded data in his experiments, rather than generating the data in real-time? So, he recorded the random clicks on a tape and made a copy of it. Crucially, during this process, no one listened to any of the tapes. Days later, he repeated the experiment using the pre-recorded data, playing individual sections of the principal tape to his participates, to whom of course, nothing appeared any different from the earlier experiments. Surprisingly, the subjects were able to shift the output of the RNG to the same extent as before. However, when the experimental tape and its copy were compared, both were still identical. This meant that that the subjects were not actually affecting the data on the experimental tape, something much stranger was happening earlier than that.

This apparent retro-causation violates our deeply held intuitions about how causality works. It appeared as if something had reached back in time to alter the random clicks as they are being recorded , in accordance with the intention of the subjects in the later experiment. Or perhaps that the RNG had precognitively sensed that a subject would later make a PK effort and behaved accordingly.

Schmidt then did a further experiment to see what would happen if the data had been listened to by someone before the experiment. In this case, he found that the subjects did not affect the data, it remained random. The pre-observation had fixed the data.

To explain this, Schmidt borrowed ideas from quantum mechanics (QM). QM asserts that the output of the RNG does not take on a definite form (1 or 0), but rather it exists in a curious combination of both outputs (this is the story of Schrodinger’s cat). Nature makes the final decision on the outcome of a random event, only at the time it is “observed” by a conscious observer. With this explanation there is no PK acting back into the past.

Schmidt was an exceptional researcher and his work provides extremely strong evidence for micro-PK. He took the view that psi is neither egalitarian, nor available on demand, and that testing just anybody would have the result of diluting the overall effect. Therefore, he would seek out people who reported having had anomalous experiences, together with screening participants with PK tests, all to get the best performers, a process which might take several months per experiment. Furthermore, he would create a supportive and friendly environment for the participants to work in. This presumably contributed to his considerable success.

However, there was another aspect. Schmidt was also good PK subject himself. If Psi is goal orientated and independent of the complexity of the underlying conditions, then with his desire to achieve positive results, and being the researcher in charge of the experiment, his own psi ability might have unconsciously affected the overall outcome of their experiment. This potential for the researcher to influence their experiment, has come to be known as the Experimenter Effect , and is very much a hot topic in parapsychology.

At an early stage of psi research, one could hope to understand psi by a straightforward extension of physics, for instance, as "mental radio”, or the flow of energy. But results such as Schmidt’s, which show surprising insensitivity of psi to physical parameters such as space, time, and the complexity of the task, undermine these views.

Furthermore, the old division of psi into PK, precognition, telepathy etc, now seems redundant, they are all aspects of a single phenomenon. Overall, this suggests a need for major changes in thinking and in particular, about the nature of conscious intention. It seems that the widely held view, that consciousness emerges from physical actions within the brain, is not tenable. Instead, consciousness is beginning to appear as something as least as fundamental as space and time.

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Dowsing Anglia

Our next meeting is at Yoxford Village Hall, Saturday Feb 29th (11:00 - 13:30hrs). Ann's talking about 'Reiki for Animals' and will be using Merlin as the very large Guinea-Pig. After the break I will be giving a talk on, 'Where was The Battle of Hastings' , it's a fair way from any known / searched site in and around the town of Battle and was one of the most murderous Ambushes in English History (enough hints there). Going to be good.

Same price as usual £5 per person (free for under 18's), Teas, Coffees & Biscuits will be provided.

Obituaries

Barry Melville, who passed away last year, was practicing dowsing in Cwmbran since the 1970's.

He dowsed for water, lost objects and 'buildings which are not here anymore'. He dowsed for friends only, didn't charge and did not advertise.

He had a great interest in the Pilgrim Path leading to the Llantarnam Abbey and initiated many dowsing expeditions there with his friends from the Cwmbran Society.

He was a local dowser and not very interested in the BSD activities.

He left the Cardiff Dowsing Group six home-made and working perfectly dowsing tools, as well as interesting books on dowsing from the sixties and seventies, by not so well-known authors such as J Peterson, D Tansley, L Locker, P Beasse, J Scott Elliott, and Colonel FA Archdale.

He also left about 150 BSD old style magazines, which have now been passed to Nick Haywood for digitising. Cardiff Dowsers Group plan to investigate Llantarnam Pilgrims Path in Mr Melville's memory.

Grace & Andrew Edgar

Michael Haxeltine

"Thoughts on Subtle Energies : Trees and Spatial Planning"

I seek to demonstrate that trees are not just aesthetically pleasing and promoters of bio-diversity, but also contribute to the enhancement of our towns and cities in a number of practical, if subtle, ways. This Paper is structured into a series of related “Thoughts” each dealing with an aspect of the use and importance of the intangible benefits of trees, particularly in relation to the built environment.

For those with a healthy scepticism of evolving scientific theory, a number of simple, practical experiments are also included to substantiate the content of this treatise. You are encouraged to try them.

The health and vigour of a tree can be a bell-weather of the suitability of a site for development or recreation.

Additionally, trees interact with the subtle environment to enhance the quality of its natural energy - and in turn they are affected by that energy.

Whilst the practical application of earth energy is still an emerging science, the phenomenon has been demonstrated with sufficient replication and control for it now to be widely accepted, particularly in Germany and Russia. It is rapidly emerging from the shroud of pseudo-science and it is now becoming a discipline in its own right.

The impact of the natural energy of the earth has been demonstrated, both in the UK and throughout Europe, primarily by dowsers. The website of the British Society of Dowsers gives a suitable introduction to the subject – and I refer to a number of works which substantiate the elements of this paper in the Bibliography.

Dowsing is an innate skill, which most ordinary people can acquire with a modicum of tuition and an open mind. Once it is realised that subtle energies exist in the everyday world - and that they have a direct effect on the well-being of all living things - the importance of planting and maintaining the arboreal content of the local environment becomes increasingly apparent.

It is becoming apparent that trees have a profound input to the physical and mental health of the human population.

My paper asks more questions than it answers but I am still learning. However my hope is that you will develop the skills needed to identify subtle energies and be part of a critical mass examining the implications of these energies in everyday life and for those charged with protecting trees and the community in the spatial planning process.

I am indebted for Nigel Twinn of the BSD for his guidance in condensing my summary. Pricing via M.J.Haxeltine, 33 Reading Road, Farnborough GU14 6NH. Tel 01252 541639.

Symposium

If you are going to the BSD symposium, and are staying overnight in Worcester on the Friday evening, you are invited to join me for a sasperella in the Postal Order (PH) in Foregate Street, just next to Worcester's Foregate Street station (in the alcove opposite the bar) from 7.30pm, where the world will be set to rights.

Ced

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