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1. Dowsing Explained. 2. Geomancy Explained 3. How did I discover dowsing & geomancy? by Alanna Moore.
1. DOWSING EXPLAINED Dowsing is an ancient technique for finding things and solving problems. Also known as divining, it has been villified by the Church in times past because it empowered practitioners to gain knowledge independent from officially recognised divine channels and gain intuitions with enthusiam (from 'entheo', meaning enfused with the god within). Subsequently dowsing was technically illegal in the UK up until The Witchcraft Act was repealed in 1958. Despite an official abhorrence of the craft, the European countryside bloomed with the abundance endowed by divined underground water sources. Mineral wealth was also divined. An engraving from the 16th century book 'De Re Metallica' shows dowsers (such as in the illustration) at work seeking veins of mineral ore and the industrious miners that followed in their footsteps. Dowsing is about harnessing and amplifying natural innate senses and abilities, such as electro-magnetic reception. The same senses that animals rely on for finding direction , food, each other. Senses which make us vulnerable to the bombardment of tv and radio waves, the radiation from huge power lines and household appliances. Is it no wonder that the status quo still clings to the old view of dowsing-as-heretical? Perhaps this explains why Dick Smith and his Sceptic Association cronies are so hell bent on devising new ways of making dowsers look like idiots? With dowsing vindicated Smith's gadgetry customers may be thinking twice about how much radiation will be delivered to them by their toys. Nobody really wants to be irradiated, given a choice. Most people aren't aware that many of the energies detected by dowsers are measureable with various scientific instruments. For instance over a geopathic zone (where concentrations of energies from the Earth impinge on our health). Above underground water streams various nasty vertically rising emissions can be detected, including microwaves and positive ionisation. A tv or radio moved onto such a zone will have impaired reception. A baby put in such a zone will cry and sleep poorly. People might argue with the reasoning, but have nothing to lose in moving tv/baby to another location. This often solves the problem instantly. Perhaps the sceptics of the world are just practising denial based on a fear of the unknown. At any rate the Sceptic's Association practise of testing dowsing ability (only according to their own rules) at regular so-called 'Dowsing Challenges' is just plain rude. Dowsers are advised to steer well clear of these farcical events. Sceptics are probably not aware that years ago in the USA master dowsers were tested scientifically. Their sensitivity to electro-magnetic radiation has, in some cases, been found to be far greater than the best magnetometer available. Dowsing-friendly scientists dub the art the bioresonance method, because our inbuilt magnetic receptors resonate with energies of the Earth or a living organism. Changes to optimum energy levels can be monitored by dowsing and this can help us to detect problem areas both in the energy body of the Earth and in ourselves. Some energy healers incorporate dowsing strongly into their modalities, because the healing potential of a correct diagnosis is so powerful. (Doctors are lucky to get their diagnoses correct 50% of the time, it has been claimed!) And healing energy can be transferred to someone in need with the assistance of the dowsing pendulum. So dowsing may not only be an affront to the
sceptic brigade, but also medical authorities worried about their
own livelihood. What is the mechanism of dowsing? Dowsers can divine problems anywhere in the world, as distance poses no barrier to ability. (Our own minds are the main creators of limitation in life.) Map dowsers can find water at the other side of the world, from a sketch on paper; health dowsers solve a medical question from a photo. One explanation is that we can get in touch with our higher self when dowsing. Our higher self has infinite abilities to access information (such as the etheric Akashic records of Indian tradition). Despite not having a clear theory about what is happening when we are distant dowsing we get results. That is what most concerns the down-to-Earth dowser fraternity. (And do any of us really know what is happening when we switch on a light and electricity does its thing?) When dowsing we access an altered state of awareness whereby we become more receptive to energies. It is a 'state of lucid awareness', as brainwave researcher Maxwell Cade would put it. Alpha and theta waves come to the fore when dowsing and, as they assist us in self-healing and creativity, this state of mind can be very empowering for us. Dowsing demands that we be in an interestingly ambivalent state of mind keen but relaxed, deeply focussed but lightly mellow, yearning for answers but not attached to the result. It takes rigorous mental discipline to be a master dowser. As we start to practise dowsing we program into our subconscious mind its mechanical techniques. Eventually our dowsing becomes enhanced when we start having spontaneous intuitive flashes/feelings, often of a highly individual character. We are, in fact, training ourselves to express and harness our own intuition, (our 'gut feelings'/hunches) and to have it on tap when required. Intuition is the composite blend of all our senses, inner knowings and empathies, and it can be controlled by our higher selves. How is it done? The strength and vitality of the rotations of the pendulum can be an indication of inherent energy levels and blockages. Don't be put off by people who say "Your hand is moving!" at this point. A strongly rotating pendulum will certainly make your hand move. When this happens the comments of sceptics can undermine dowsing confidence and ruin results. That's why it's best practised alone in a non-hostile environment. Don't give the sceptics satisfaction! To discover your own innate dowsing ability you might like to try the following exercises. Firstly find something like a heavy pendant to be your pendulum. A quartz crystal being ideal. Have about 6" of string to swing freely, with the rest wrapped securely around the index finger of your writing hand. Now give it a kickstart and physically make it swing in an up and down oscillating movement. If you always keep it moving you can get results very easily. Now bring the moving pendulum over the palm of your other hand and will it to rotate in response to the body's energy field there. If you get a nice steady series of rotations that's great! You are now ready to progress onto more energy dowsing such as detecting strong points, fields and flows of energy in the environment. But soon you will want to start asking questions, because dowsing leads you to discover all sorts of wonderful things! Once again you need to impart clear mental programming for this. Will the pendulum to oscillate again and then to rotate, first clockwise, then anti-clockwise several times. As long as you keep going back to the neutral oscillations in between rotations it is easy for the rotations to develop in both directions. Now you can either choose the standard formula (right-handed/clockwise rotation = yes, etc) or ask the pendulum to indicate which is to be your yes and no. What to practise on? Dowsing is such a fabulous adventure where known and unknown worlds interface and we are opened to new ways of looking at life. As an intense exercise in concentration it can be a useful focussing device for when people feel lost in their life. Dowsing practise can impart great personal clarity and healing and, in its geomantic form, where environmental energies are detected, avoided or enhanced, can bring greater harmony to whole communities. There is nothing particularly divine or witchy about divining, except that it harnesses our intuition, and brings us the power of independent, creative thinking. Most dowsers are pretty down-to-earth types and strongly individual in outlook. I hope you will try some dowsing for yourself and make up your own minds on the matter. You don't have to be eccentric, but it helps!
GEOMANCY EXPLAINED Geomancy, also known as feng shui (the Chinese version) is a science which analyses the subtle energies of nature that ebb and flow throughout the landscape, influencing health and wealth; home, garden and office alike. Every culture has ancient geomantic traditions. Modern scientists speak of Earth's geobiology. People long ago learned to avoid places that had noxious energies. Where the Earth spirit was potent or sublime they would gather for spiritual practises, later temples and churches were built there. Geopathic Stress Geomancers use their dowsing faculty to analyse Earth energy flows where buildings are to be sited, or to troubleshoot existing buildings affected by geopathic stress. One Swiss canton offers a public grant towards the cost of such a survey prior to new building work; and planning permission may not be granted until it has been undertaken. Geopathic stress zones cause irritation, poor sleep, ill health and other disturbances. They are responsible for what German people know as 'cancer beds' and 'cancer streets'. Fortunately these effects can be avoided or neutralised, using Earth acupuncture, commercial devices (see products pages) and other methods. High Tech problems The electro and magnetic stresses, radiation from the high tech environment - computors, power lines, household appliances etc - are also checked out. Some people are highly sensitive and reactive to these insidious factors. Instrumentation is used to measure radiation levels so that avoidance can be practised. 'Building biology' is also assessed, where the very fabric of our homes and workplaces can be negatively impacting on us. For instance - concrete floors and steel framed homes can magnify the effects of geopathic stress. How did I come to be a dowser and geomancer? Well it certainly wasn't in the genes/ family, we were city folk (in Sydney) and I was raised as a rationalist by atheist parents. It was a great shock to me when the world of spirit intruded into my life, causing huge paradigm shifts! Without any religious or spiritual framework to understand my experiences I had to work it out for myself - and so began a lifetime of learning about the subtle energies of life. I was going through puberty when the family moved to a lovely old farm house in Sydney. I got a neat new bedroom with pretty coloured glass in the windows. But it wasn't long before I started having weird experiences there. Like spirits coming to me at night, waking me in my sleep, and scaring the life out of me! At that point I would be frozen, unable to move a muscle. They would be showing me things, or dragging my astral body from the physical, and the like. This was something my parents would not be pleased to hear about - so I had to keep quiet about it and often dreaded going to bed. I couldn't get away from home quick enough, had left school by 16 and started roaming the world at 17. The 'nightmares' stopped not long after leaving home. My niece moved into that room and she too started having similar experiences and was a troubled teenager as I had been. (We are all the more vulnerable to psychic disturbances at the time of puberty.) A few years later, in the late 1970's when I was living in London, I was introduced to dowsing by a friend. I was blown away by it! I knew that I had psychic abilities and this was what I needed - it could help me place my intuitions on tap and in an understandable form. I threw myself into dowsing research and joined the British Society of Dowsers. Soon afterwards, as a new mother, I was disturbed that my little baby was getting a lot of fevers at night. I had some sort of vision of an energy line being in the room, dowsed that there was one there and moved his cot to the other side. The fevers went away. Any baby health problems seemed to be fairly easily sorted out with the pendulum and natural remedies, and I soon gained confidence in its use. So I returned to Sydney after several years away with an understanding of geomancy - how the energies of place affect us. Naturally I got my trusty pendulum out when Ireturned to that old bedroom back home and found a powerful energy vortex in the middle of the room. No wonder I had problems there! Such a vortex can act as a portal for spirits to come and go. Definately not suitable energy for a bedroom. All that anxiety and feeling that I was going crazy might have been avoided if we had understood the problem. But then - maybe I would never have discovered geomancy without those experiences. I certainly had felt very drawn to be in that house, back when my family considered buying it. By 1984 I had helped to found the NSW Dowsing Society, which is still going strong, and was starting to do professional dowsing and geomancy work - helping people to avoid the sort of problems that I had had in my youth. I found that I enjoyed passing on the skills to others and have been concentrating on teaching the rudiments of dowsing and geomancy in workshops all over Australia, New Zealand and lately Europe and Asia too. |