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Autumn Equinox March 2001 is an E-magazine of geomancy, Earth mysteries / energies and Earthcare in Australia and beyond. Edited by Alanna Moore. IT guy - Tom Graves. Contributions are most welcome, deadline for next issue- mid May. Hi folks, another season, another Geomantica. Packed, as usual, with some great reading from writers around Australia. The bad news this month is twofold. The bridge over to Hindmarsh Island, the subject of much anguish from the Aboriginal land owners and an article in Geomantica no 10, was completed this month. Also the courtcase brought by the developers against anyone who stood in their way to stop it was won (but is being appealed). Secondly - the Sceptics Association held their biggest ever 'challenge' to dowsers this month, despite several letters to newspapers warning dowsers to steer clear. The $110,00 prize money to the successful dowser was just too tantalising. Happy reading and feel free to send me your comments and stories via email, Yours - Alanna Moore.
Letter: 'Dowsing Challenge'- a Fraud In March 2001 the Sceptics Association ran another one of their so-called 'challenges' in which they make fools out of any dowsers who attempt and always fail- to find water that they have buried in bottles and pipes. This year 52 dowsers were humiliated by this very unfair, pseudo-scientific 'challenge', that was held at the Mitta Mitta Muster, on the Murray River, despite the offer of a $110,00 prize. It was another predictable triumph of the great ego of the sceptics, as it is always designed to be. There were some very good letters to the editor of the Weekly Times from dowsers warning others not to take part. I submitted the following letter, but I think they had had enough of the subject by then and it was not published. Dear Editor, Re: Sceptics Dowsing Challenge Dowsing methods have been used in many ways since time immemorial to help mankind, not the least in finding supplies of potable underground water throughout the countryside. Often the local water boring company has a water diviner on staff and there is a policy of 'no water, no pay'. It would be an expensive exercise for them if divining was a fraud, as the Australian Sceptics fanatically declare (refer article Feb 7th). It would be interesting to devise a testing mechanism to find out what makes these pseudo-academics tick. There is no scientific evidence that their brand of scepticism has any healthy, purposeful outcomes whatsoever. Seriously now, normally a dowser enters a paddock to search for underground water on undisturbed ground, and the dowser must be in a relaxed state. A far cry from the artificial and hostile environment created especially for the Sceptics' 'challenge'. The so-called 'challenge' is best described as a sad exercise
in scientific fraud. Genuine dowsers would be well advised to
leave these foolish time-wasters well alone - other than to offer
the Sceptics the The authors of this letter have, between them, some 100 years of dowsing experience and also teach people how to master the art. Any discussion is welcomed, by emailing: info@geomantica.com. Sincerely, At last comes the reply to the letter to the editor "The Plight of the 'Roos", in issue #7 (which had been mislaid by the editor until now!) Susie Rowe, from Narrandera, had written of her concerns about the kangaroo population. What with unsustainable culling quotas 5.6 million in 1999- and chemicalised pastures, they are succumbing to stress, disease and predation at an alarming rate. Gil Robertson replied: There are several things that can be done and I believe that they are better done on a small local scale than in grand all encompassing schemes. The first thing to realise is that the 'Roo populations of to-day are probably quite different from pre-settlement. Many species have been lost or markedly reduced, while others have been favoured by the spread of stock water systems and crops that have provided all year around water and food in a quantity previously unknown. So while some species are depleted others are in greater numbers that the country would normally carry. National Parks and reserves are not necessarily the answer. A Park near me has had the numbers of one type of 'Roo breed up to a point where they are putting other aspects of the environment, such as trees and grasses under stress. When numbers get to the point where there is not enough food and the damage is too great, the decision is made to cull a significant number of the more sick animals. Not a decision that those involved like to have to make. In another case, a well meant decision was made to provide watering points in several public reserves of large size, hoping to keep the 'Roos in those areas and out of the cropping land. Unfortunately over time the scrub is taking over the clearings that contained a bit of grass and the 'Roos move out at night to feed, with many getting hit on the bordering highways. I know of two private properties that seem to have a workable 'Roo haven that seems to work. On a 65 acre property they have no large animals and some natural scrub and have planted thousands of trees that are now to a useful size. They have a large Tower of Power, which seems to be an attracting to the 'Roos. The residential mob of six or eight come and lay around the tower most days and have their rest period. The property is surrounded by cropping land and they seen to stay at home and not do much visiting, although one was killed on the road a while ago. The other property is about 2000 acres on a peninsula. The stock have been off the land for ten years or more and the remnant scrub has spread. The population is toward a thousand and will in time be too many and I don't know what will be the outcome as the owner could not handle the decision to cull. In this case there are three types of 'Roo and one wallaby. The wallaby and one type 'Roo not known in the area. I think the best solution is to try and develop district wide planning that includes linking larger areas of habitat with corridors. This should involve Land Care Groups and as many landowners as possible. Try to site wild life corridors away from main roads and population areas. Get out into Local Government and Community Groups and become involved in the decision making. Become a friend of your local park and help improve the environment. One thing that needs to be considered very carefully is the provision of provided watering points. This can encourage a population level above that which the country can carry, with resulting road kills etc as animals are displaced. © Gil Robertson. P.O. Box 51, Port Lincoln 5606. gilrob@dove.net.au
Proposal: That there is the need for a new standard in the measurement food of a superior quality. This, yet to be named standard, would describe food that is grown in healthy, vital soil, with natural soil biota and containing a suitable range of minerals derived from naturally occurring rock, reduced to dust and applied with suitable composts and mulches. No chemical fertilisers or artificial controls of pest or weeds will be used. Folia sprays accepted in organic and biodynamic standards are included in this standard. This standard indicates that any product grown, manufactured or packaged under this standard shall be absolutely one hundred percent free of any Genetically Modified material, as well as free of chemicals and other non natural inclusions. Radiesthesia, Radionics and Homoeopathy are accepted methods of pest and weed control, optimising production and quality improvement. Some combination of Organic, Biodynamic and Permaculture is used in production, the mix for a particular site will be determined by the standard organisation. Energetic agriculture methods, including Radiesthesia, Radionics, Homoeopathy, Field Broadcasters, Energy Resonators and other broadcast devices are acceptable, if approved for that application by the standard organisation. Aquaculture will have an adaptation of these concepts, particularly as to inputs and the use of energetic agriculture. (In this sense agriculture is an all encumbering term including all forms of human husbandry.) Food produced under this standard will have a self evident quality that is superior to that provided by conventional agriculture. This will include being non attractive to organisms that break down living matter. There will be better texture and taste, along with extended shelf life. The consumer will notice that they feel more vitalized when using a diet of mostly food grown under this standard. Food producers will find a reduction in input cost under this standard, once it is up and running. Food processors and resellers with notice less spoilage and longer shelf life for foods handled under the same conditions, when compared with conventionally grown produce. In aquaculture, improved food conversion rates, reduced environmental pollution and improved shelf life will be noted. This standard encourages both vertical and horizontal integration, thus wastes from aquaculture may be composted and uses as a soil improver on a field that grows crops, part of which is directed into the production of feed for aquaculture. This standard is intended to allow small producers, small processors and small retailers to compete favourably and may involve producer's co-operative marketing or community supported agriculture. Retailers my form buying co-operatives to allow access to produce from a range of producers. Consumers may join food co-operatives or community supported agriculture groups. Producers are encouraged to produce a number of crops, preferably ones that integrate in to a property wide synergy. Where possible, a number of farmers with adjoining land would adopt this standard and become supportive on a district basis. It is noted that the greater amount of adjoining land involved, the less boundary that interfaces with conventional agriculture. I have pondered the above for several years. I think it can be made into a reality, if enough people, of good heart, can join together and leave their personal egos at the door and recognise that The Enemy, is the common one of uncaring Governments/ moral free Multinationals/ National Food Distributors and to some extent the Universities and Ag research industry. So if we can fight together to the common good, instead of between our selves, particularly if we can find common ground between food producers and food consumers, we may have a workable system that can go beyond the present boundaries and provide the structure within which we can build a new Agriculture/ Aquaculture Standard, changing forever, the acceptable terminology of food descriptions. I see this as being independent of Governments, as those of Australia, NZ, Canada, the US and the UK, have shown themselves to be acting in other than the best interests of both the food producer and the food consumer. As a simple country man, who walks barefoot on the earth, with nails worn from working the soil and an enthusiastic consumer of good food, I would have thought that the interest of these two groups are the only ones to be considered in consideration of food standards and food labelling. Unfortunately a number of governments do no see this. Current moves by the Governments of Japan and the European Union will soon exclude many products from the above mentioned countries. I believe that it is in the best interest of progressive food producers and discerning food consumers that this standard be developed and adopted. I invite your participation in this process. Gil Robertson Principal of the Radionics Centre of Australia P.O. Box 51 Port Lincoln SA 5606 Australia Email gilrob@dove.net.au. Phone (international) 61 8 86824779, 61 8 86843698, 61 0427312401. It is now about 8 months since we moved to Bibaringa, the hilly 500 acre horse agistment property 8 km and 10 minutes drive from Canberra's parliamentary triangle. Our house is situated on the Mt. Stromlo ridge and is open to the four directions. East lies Canberra city, west is the great Australian Snowy Mountain wilderness. To the north is the university Observatory complex - from where cosmic thoughts have been woven since1904. From the south, along the Murrumbidge corridor, blow the cold high altitude arctic winds, these are called 'Shiva winds' because they enhance spiritual consciousness and so are the precursers of change. The original owner of our house used the lounge room as a home church for Christian ceremonies and bible readings. I think that these activities hindered the manifestation of the devic forces that pre owned the house site. The treed farm with its seventy pet horses, hundreds of free roaming kangaroos, and thousands of birds has remained rich in devic life. But the house had its problems - particularly an aggressive female ghost who tried to keep us away. The house problems passed when I accepted custodianship of the property from the Aboriginal dreaming man who cared for the ridge, its sites and pathways. The first to reappear was a gnome. He was easy to visit via a spiral into the ground. He told me about the wisdoms he gets from the stars, which he keeps locked in crystals and releases he senses the time is right - these flow via an underground ley into central Canberra. In time other gnome types have appeared, one even helped me write an article what is wrong with modern money. Now a air deva, a sylph, is making her home on our ridge. On windy days she becomes huge and powerful making the household hum with her energy. Its an 'off the ground' sort of feeling. Slowly the sylph has been increasing her contact with Canberra's ceremonial and mountain devas. (But she seems unable to work with the Black Mountain Deva) It is through these beings that the future of Australia and the world is being formed. For better or for worse we are part of all this. We are caught up in the creative forces. One of the things that happened recently was our involvement in the creation of a new Deva - a thought form that links Mt Corree (the local old man mountain of the Snowy Mountain wilderness) and gnomes to developing events in Canberra. Here is the story of that event. "Bubblecode" was the name of the Technomusic event. Why did we, of all people, do it? It seemed like a good idea at the time. Part of being a custodian is to make 'one's land' available to others. Who gave us the idea? Friends of son Robert, but in truth I think for a long time there has been the desire by the local landscape angels to interact with people. I now think that there was another reason. A desire by the beings, the gods, the consciousness (struggle for words) that are active in Canberra to establish contacts so that they can weave the desired future. This is a national and international scene. How? The site was easy to select. A spot much favoured by roos it had its own access gate to the Cotter Rd tourist drive. It also had an open view to Mt Corree, the wise old man of the Brindabella range. Mt Corree enjoys human contact and is easy to travel to in one's imagination. Ben was the musical director and organiser of the dance party. A week before the event he and three of his friends went to the site and started to set up. The first thing was the 4 metre high pyramid. This formed the ceremonial entrance to the site. We sat under this, faced Mt Corree and meditated. This appeared to establish a narrow ley line between the Corree and the pyramid, the ley acting as a link to the vast Snowy Mountain wilderness. In the next five days the site seldom left my mind. I visited, mediated and watched a huge Pan developing, he was international and keen to be at the party to add his touch of magic. On two afternoons I was overcome with an incredible etheric weakness and dropped off to sleep, aware that some part of me was being used to build up the site. Clearly, a ritual of some power was soon to be enacted. Interestingly, and significantly, no money thoughts were attached to the party. Otherwise people contributed of their time, skill and often meagre financial resources. I suspect that thoughts of unreasonable profit have become a way for terrible beings of greed and anger to enter into human affairs. These beings have a different game plan, they seek to drag humankind on the path of involution into the centre of the earth (what occultists call the 9th sphere). Ben and his tribe organised the generators, lights, speakers and amplifiers. He also did a little publicity for the event. The final amplifiers were analog, digital sound seemingly is less effective, being harder for the human body and nature kingdoms to read. The speakers were designed to push the musical 'dooff' beat through the ground, rather than simply place it in the air. Ben arrived Friday morning in an overloaded kombi and started to set up. Persian rugs, old furniture, bales of hay, a parachute (as a tent for the electronic equipment). Also added were 50 tea candle lights inside paper lanterns, ultraviolet flouro lights, fluorescent tape, overhead projectors, more pyramids, gas burners, food and heaps of other stuff. Gradually all this was assembled to make a combined corroboree ground and Feng Shui circle. There were aspects of both designs ideas, the fire and tail of the corroboree ground and the nine fold circular division of Chinese Feng Shui. On reflection, I suspect that the lay out and the days of preliminary spiritual work that I was dragged into doing for the site were important. As the night progressed I sensed that we were inside a huge bubble and outside were the forces of hate, anger, destruction and frustration that couldn't get in. People with alcohol in their breath manifested these beings in their vapour, but the huge bon fire quickly gobbled them up. I am told that at dance parties these beings usually are present and wreak havoc. The ten techno composers each had a minimum set of about an hour. The group - of about 150 at midnight - appreciated the change in style and the slight changes in the basic dooff beat which is seemingly the base of all techno music. Boxes with slides and dials where manipulated to create new sounds. Computers with on screen dials and gadgets were used. Music was being created on the spot for the location, the event, the audience. Strange music, almost instrumental but more primitive. I let myself sink into the music and allowed it to create images in my mind. The bubble changed, it became a living sponge in which we, as people, pulsated - in and out - the primal pulse of the planet earth's water borne breathing. Images of trlavites came to mind - moving on the sandy ocean floor with the flow of the waves ... the earth's creative evolutionay force. Feelings came through my solar plexus and warmed my spine, slowly moving upwards and downwards. As the night progressed the primal rhythm tried to get up my spine and out through the top of my head. I couldn't release it. Later, techno freaks told me that dancing is needed to release the accumulated energy. My sexual energy was increased, but this was an unformed, loving thing rather than being directed at any particular person. As the party progressed more people arrived. We sat around the fire and chatted. We watched the video displays. We enjoyed the fire stick twirling, comparing artists and the flame patterns. People smoked grass and I presume took ectascy. Perhaps a percentage took LSD - and so perhaps unknowingly offering their future genetic stablity as a sacrifice to the success of the event. I think the drugs were necessary for the people involved. Nurtured by TV, locked into boxes, schooled in reduced awareness, religioned with books and unreached by initatiates how else could they step outside their entrained rational consciousness to experience the spiritual. But it was more than that. Pan used the people. As the party progressed friends spoke to friends on their mobiles and by 2 am an uncountable 500 plus people were weaving in and out of the experience. We had planned for about 100, the car park overflowed and hundreds of cars parked along the Cotter road with a police car on patrol. Uninvited the police couldn't enter the property. The party had became a happening. What happened? Pushed by the music, the planetary pulse of life flowed into all. Relaxed in the triple safety of private property, good Feng Shui and the bubble of spiritual protection - people became neuro transmitters between the devic kingdoms above and below the ground. Lots of meeting was going on. Mt Corree found its way into the ground. Old Aboriginal beings came, accepting the dooff music as if it were the stamping of a hundred feet. And there was Pan or something giving love and warmth. There certainly was peace and goodwill, but the traditional Christ? I don't think so, it all had a pre Christian somewhat sexual feel to it ... the land and the human body interacting through the spirits of form and creation. Humans and their nervous system became angels for the night. Or perhaps this is what the Christian experience is all about and we - as partakers in the post Victorian scientific culture - have just forgotten how. By 5.00 am the crowd had faded. The numbers reduced to a couple of hundred by dawn, about 50 people greeted the day by mediation on a nearby hill. Saturday remained party day. People came and went, some dozed or chatted and all were involved with the music. Little was said in words but we all knew it had been good and the deed had been done. The final musical set took place just before dusk on Saturday night. I meditated through some of this and noted that Pan had become a huge centaur, with his human body in the air and his horse body reaching deep into the ground. I have no idea what this means. A friend made the comment, "You know, the 500 people who attended the event left part of themselves behind. They are now linked to the being, the deva of the site. Spread out through Canberra they are there for the deva to use." ........... Now, weeks later, a large noticeable vortex reaches from earth to sky at the site. A narrow ley line to the Mt Corree wilderness can still be sensed. The nature of the consciousness that occupies the vortex? That's for you to judge. The event brought out the need to hug.
By David Kennett, Western Australia. There is no doubt in my mind that our farming methods are killing us, I ask you to look at the evidence. We live in an age where we have an extraordinary amount of knowledge and information, but this does not mean we know everything. We have more and more exotic diseases in humans and animals. Why? The simple fact is, we are not getting the nutrition the body needs to heal itself. Every single atom and molecule of our bodies comes from what we eat so if there is something lacking in our food, it is inevitable that our bodies will suffer. Contaminants can be equally harmful. In Europe during the Second World War, people were remarkably healthy. Everyone was under enormous stress, not knowing how many days they had to live, yet the incidence of heart attacks and strokes was considerably less than today. Obesity was virtually unknown. During those times, many people were growing their own food and practicing 'organic farming' methods, although they were not aware of it at the time. They simply took it for granted that this method, that had been passed down over generations and was in every gardening book, was the way to grow food. There was not the money to purchase artificial fertilisers, they were not freely available anyway, as the raw materials for these products were going into the production of munitions. Nor did they have herbicides and pesticides and a lot of other chemicals in the environment, though DDT was around, and we all know the damage it has done, and continued to do, long after any 'benefits' were achieved. Thus people composted, practiced crop rotation and companion planting all things we have grown away from, but can readily be re-introduced in a more informed fashion. Our farming methods have just about become hydroponic the soil supports the plants, but the nutrition is provided to the plants, artificially. There are many trace elements, however, that are simply not available in artificial fertilisers, as everything is produced for a price rather than a quality. As long as the vegetables look OK, we assume they are. How many fertilisers provide xenon or arsenic as trace elements? I suspect none or very few because science is not aware of the need for these elements in our food. How often are we being poisoned by an excess of other elements in our food? Cadmium has recently been found to be present at alarmingly high levels in fertiliser that is imported from China. These chemicals that missing or in over supply, can be the silent killers. We rely on trust that people are doing the right thing, but we simply cannot let people carry on poisoning us as a result of their ignorance. We have to re-examine our methods. It is now scientifically acknowledged that transmutation of
elements is a reality and that plants have the capacity to make
certain elements available for other plants. It is common knowledge
that legumes 'fix' nitrogen in the soil, but how many are aware
that other plants fix xenon, arsenic and a myriad of other underestimated
and misunderstood, elements for the benefit of other plants and
all the way up the food chain? Wheat should provide humans with
xenon but how can it when it is not available in the soil for
the wheat? Remarkably, when we practiced crop rotation and had
a fallow year, the weeds that grew in that fallow year provided,
through transmutation, sufficient of these vital elements for
the following four years of crops. Before we as humans can be
healthier, the food we grow has to be healthier and returning
to the well-proven methods of companion planting and crop rotation
is the only way it will be achieved. 'Big' is no longer 'good',
we have to get back to the old way of doing things, however,
with our modern technology we will be able to do this on a much
larger scale than hitherto. I strongly advise you to take serious
note of what I am saying. More information, workshops and demonstrations
that clearly confirm what I am saying are available from: David Kennett, Unit B, 28 Bouvardia Way, Greenwood, WA 6024. Phone: (08) 9448 0473, Mobile: 0427 600 024, e-mail: davidkennett@bigpond.com,
by David Kennett It is well recognised that modern farming methods, while increasing productivity, have not been without problems. Clearing land for broadacre farming in the USA brought about the 'dust bowl' and similar land clearing in Australia has brought about salinity. Now we learn that the health of the end users can be at risk, due to contaminants and poisons in herbicides, pesticides and fertilisers. We have all heard of DDT and how it has damaged the environment, possibly animals and humans, long after it's 'benefits' were experienced. There has to be a better method, and there is. Nature set up a system using biodiversity. In this system, plants grow together because they have symbiotic relationships with each other. This is now generally recognised on a minor scale, thus Acacias are planted with Sandalwood. Legumes have long been recognised as 'fixing' nitrogen in the soil for the benefits of other plants. This knowledge makes us aware of just how clever the practices of 'crop rotation' and 'companion planting' were. They were not based on science, but observations of how plants performed. Science now partly explains them. It is strongly felt by many people that nature has the answers, if only we will open our eyes and observe the evidence that abounds. In the 'Auria Project', it is the intention of the participants to grow trees and other crops, on demonstration properties, implementing the very low cost methods of companion planting etc. These sites will provide documentation of evidence as to the veracity of the methods used that are essential before government agencies can give them their 'seal of approval'. Other people and organisations, with various, diverse skills and talents are being sought to join volunteers that include 'Men of the Trees', Charles Peaty, Forester with 50 years experience, bio-dynamic farmers, organic farmers and permaculturalists. Any expressions of interest do not constitute a commitment. Meetings will be conducted at various locations, determined by demand, to introduce people to the concepts. Interested persons can contact David Kennett, 28b Bouvardia Way, Greenwood WA 6024 or by phone on 9448 0473 or e-mail davidkennett@bigpond.com
Water Divining - Experiences in India and Australia. When my mother was elderly she pulled me up one day and said "Sandy, I'm very disappointed in you. You haven't found water like your father did and you should get into water divining." My father was a professional water diviner around the Kilcock district, near Dublin. He worked as an insurance agent who water divined as a sideline for a boring firm. He was always right with his divining, with the location and depth and volume of flow, and was a highly respected and popular man. I used to go out with him on jobs and he had taught me how to divine. When he died it was the biggest funeral attendance ever seen in the district. I made a promise to my mother on that day that the next person who asked for help in finding water, I would help them out no matter what. Later I met some Indian people (in Australia) who were involved with orphanages in southern India, who told me how they desperately needed a good water supply. So, of course, I had to go there and help out. First I went to Hyderabad, to a town called Chalkoor, and divined a well for one group there. I heard later that when all other wells had dried up, the local people from far and wide came to my well for water and it was being pumped 24 hours a day. I divined for water over several weeks around Trivandrum, the capital of Tamil Nadu. I was also asked by a Sister Stella to help find water for her Assisi Farm, which is also in Tamil Nadu. It's a 50 acre dairy farm with hundreds or thousands of coconut trees. Now her farm has three very good wells that I divined and there's no shortage of water. My dowsing helped out in other ways too. Leaks in dams There are few things worse for a farmer than a leaking dam and no guarantee that it can be found, other than by dowsing. So I thought that maybe I should tell you about two leaks in dams that I have found and fixed. One here is my own creek dam (in Victoria) that the yabbies caused. I found where the leak was in the dam wall with my rod and we did some digging and stamping and fixed it. That was 15 years ago. The dam is on a creek, it's about 8 feet deep and holds about half a million gallons, backing up about 80 160 yards up a ferny treed valley. There is a very old tree there too, burnt out inside and about six people could fit inside. My pendulum indicates it could be over 400 years old. My other experience was in India. I was staying at Sister Stella's Assisi Farm in the mid 1980's. I was asked if I could find a leak in a dam. Their Archbishop had bought a plantation when the British were kicked out, so that the priests in Trivandrum city could be self-sufficient and self supporting. Monsoons arrive there around June and water is not required until about February. He got a big dam wall built, with concrete, across a valley. It was about 25-30' high and cost some $10,000. They had fish 2' long in that dam and it covered several acres with water of at least 20' deep at the wall when full. I was driven to the problem dam to meet the old Archbishop. He told me that he had travelled quite a lot to Rome (he was of a Syrian Catholic religion that had had its ups and downs with various Popes but were in with this one). He had also spent time in Germany and the USA. Everywhere he went he sought out engineers to try to find out how he could stop the leak in the big dam, which was getting worse each year due to water pressure. He said that all he got were 'blank stares' as no-one he met could give him any help. He was genuinely distressed about the money spent and the water being lost, for by February the dam would be half empty and thousands of trees were going thirsty. Coconuts grow much bigger and have more milk with irrigation and so the price is much better. They had no boat, canoe or even a raft. By divining I found that there was a small leak at the edge of one end of the concrete wall. So what to do? I made a plan on notepaper and went over it with the rod and it moved in the centre of the dam. I then went to both sides of the approximate place and found an underground stream right below, or going very near where the leak was. There was a priest there that looked after the plantation and the men that worked there. He lived in the big house with a 20' dining table. I was leaving in a few days time and the priest said that the dam would be empty in about ten days time. Could I stay longer and dowse for the exact spot? I agreed that I could and did so. I was brought back when the dam was dry and the Archbishop sent his engineer with me (an Indian who had studied in the USA) and he told me to tell the engineer what he had to do to seal the leak! I found the spot in the centre, directly above the small underground stream, in solid bluestone rock. I told the engineer to get a gang of men to clean out the whole area as deeply as possible (with pick and shovels) and to refill it with concrete with a waterproofing agent in it. It worked like a charm! I was back there 3 years later and met the Archbishop again and he was a very happy man. He was a great man who planted trees by the thousands, he sadly died a few years ago. The dam was full and the small leak I had first detected was not worth worrying about! I think I got the greatest joy over that leak job than anything else I ever did! Going organic I persuaded Sister Stella to go organic. They had 200 children in an orphanage on the farm there, using all sorts of western farming ways, including DDT to wash out the dairy. One day she said she would like some compost bins and showed me a spot near the dairy and the effluent from the gas (methane) digester. She said she would give me a gang for a week. The Indians are great stone workers. In that week we got six 4' high stone walls built, enough to hold some 40 tons of compost in 4 bins. We had a card at Christmas saying that all 3 wells are still running well. The one at the farm is 360' deep and the water is 6' from the top. Other peoples' wells and the river run dry at times. So the 50 cow dairy, the calves, 25 staff and the coconuts are all benefiting. (Sister Stella has put thousands of drippers from 'my' well and gets a lot more money for the coconuts than she used to.) ------------------------------------- Sandy Griffin arrived in Australia 50 years ago this February past, as a young man from Ireland. He lives in Pakenham, Gippsland, Victoria.
and it's application to Energetic Agriculture.
We all have some boundaries, this is sometimes the edge of "our" land, be it a suburban block or rolling county acres. It may be "our" room or other retreat. This is some sort of edge, that marks that which is ours or mine and that which is not. In the workplace we tend to have a boundary, either personal or a shared group boundary. This may be a personal work space or a section which belongs to a group as separate from the other groups. On a physical level, our skin marks a very real boundary between the human organism and the rest of the cosmos. Moving out from the skin we have one or more boundaries, dependant of sensitivity, that are related to comfort zones. All of us have experienced someone being too close for comfort and we want them to move further away. City folk, used to living in close proximity, have a much more compact comfort zone than their country cousins. City folk will stand in public transport, lifts and checkout lines, touching strangers, both perfect and imperfect, but under other circumstances, they require much wider spacing. The population density of a person's home territory can be judged by how close we stand when talking. I have seen Outback folk standing nearly too far apart to hear! In some situations, such as parent/ child or lover/ lover, one may find the need to be very close. This closeness would not feel right in another situation. There are some interesting truths about boundaries. One that was a surprise to me is that a boundary zone may be much more productive that a similar area, in the same portion of land. Those of us who know something about Permaculture, will be familiar with "key hole gardening". This where a garden plot is broken up by intruding paths, which may be a key hole shape, providing much more edge than a simple geometric shape. A garden constructed in this manner is up to several times as productive as that of a simple shape. It allows several layers of boundary plants, which are much more productive simple squares, oblongs or circles. Merrick Savage of Eyre Native Seeds and one of the leading collectors of native plant seed for revegetation projects in the country, drew my attention to this. In my ignorance I asked why he collected on roadside instead of in larger tracts of land. He showed me the contrast in seed production, which is staggering. Merrick with his seed collecting, gets vastly more seed from the outer row of trees, against the road and against the farmer's fence, than from the many intervening trees. It was only by observing when on seed collecting trips, that I saw this to be so. Both the natural bush and the constructed Permaculture garden, show us the value of boundary as a place of greater productivity. Where does all this connect with Energetic Agriculture and for that matter, what is Energetic Agriculture? Energetic agriculture is the equivalent of Vibrational Healing in humans. Many if us are no longer prepared to use allopathic methods with the use of drugs and have gone over to the use of colour, crystals, drumming, chanting, laying on of hands, Reiki, Radiesthesia, Radionics or Homoeopathy, not necessarily in that order. When using agriculture in this article, I mean it in an all inclusive way, including any form of human husbandry from vegetables to forestry or aquaculture. Energetic agriculture starts with remineralising the soil. To produce healthy food, the soil needs to be what is described as Paramagnetic, which means it will be attracted to a very strong magnet. Most of the populated areas have depleted soil which is described as diamagnetic, it is repelled by a very strong magnet. The diamagnetic soil produce unhealthy food that lacks vitality. After a soil analysis any adjustment to the minerals in the soil is made. Then if the soil biota is lacking, it is reintroduced along with food. This may be a Biodynamic Compost or like soil additive. Then comes the gadgets. These may be "Towers of Power", "Cosmic Pipes", "Field Broadcasters", Radionic Broadcast Instruments or sets of "kite Coils". All of these are on the edge of alchemy and seek to pick up naturally occurring energies that support life and rebroadcast them to a plot of land, hopefully in a focused and amplified form. These energies are in the ELF end of the electromagnetic spectrum, where most things to do with life take place. Most of the significant research in this area has been the work of Dr Phil Callahan in the US. Most of these devices have some method by which additional energies can be piggy backed on the energy being broadcast. This is where it gets really interesting. See the work of Phil Callahan, Galen Hieronymus, Don Mattioda and Hugh Lovel. These additional energies may be Biodynamic Preps, Pest Cures or Agricultural Homoeopathics. They are usually placed in a Witness Chamber and will be distributed over the same area as the prime broadcast. From Dr Callahan's work we know that the shape of this broadcast is not a neat symmetrical circle, but an irregular multi-lobed shape, which becomes more odd in shape, the further one is from the equator. The size of this "footprint" is not constant and varies due to energy fluctuations and celestial alignments. The area covered by a broadcast has to do with the size and design of the broadcast device. The largest ones that have been reliably measured can cover a solid area of up to about a square mile, after discarding the lobes. Where the Concept of Boundary becomes really important is when one realises that one is unlikely to have a portion of land that neatly lines up with the footprint. Assuming we would like others to respect our boundary and that in turn, we want to respect theirs, we need a way of limiting our broadcast area to no greater than our land. An example of where ill can come of not limiting a broadcast area is where one landholder is growing grass and may want to add some nitrogen using a broadcast device. The neighbour is growing a fruit crop. If the boundary is not respected the fruit crop will be all vegetable material and little fruit. Last year I saw a vineyard that was hit with too much nitrogen and the average bunch had only six or eight grapes and was not picked, costing a whole year's production. With "Kite Coils", this is quite easy, as these work in pairs and only broadcast into the enclosed space. All the others, unless low powered on a portion of land that is bigger than the "footprint", require some form of limiting device that controls the size and usually the shape of the target broadcast area. The typical limiting device is a special witness that usually goes in the witness chamber with the other witnesses. The earliest form of this that I have found was George de la Warr in 1954 with his agricultural experiments with the "Colourscope" broadcaster. This successfully projected on to a photograph of a portion of land and the effect could be measured on that and not on the adjoining sections. Other experimenters found that a map or airphoto, either trimmed to size and shape, or with the boundary of the broadcast area clearly marked work as well. A variation at one stage one time was the use of an engraved metal plate, which represented the target and placed on the top of a "Tower" or "Pipe". A practical way of making a Boundary Witness, is to photocopy an airphoto or suitable map of the land and trim it down, leaving only the broadcast area. This may have holes cut in it to exclude areas where, say one may not want to broadcast BD Composting Preps to food storage areas. Then glue it on a fresh sheet of paper and delineate the edge of the broadcast are with a coloured line, say using a blue textra. Then along side write a suitable limiting statement, such as "The target area for this broadcast is that enclosed by the blue line. All effect with be only within this line." This can now be reduced to the size required to fit in the witness chamber, using a photocopier. Most witness chambers are cylindrical and the paper boundary witness is usually placed with the face side outward and then other witnesses, such as homoeopathic or BD Preps are placed inside it. As with all things on the edge of alchemy, intent is of great importance. At all times keep a clear idea in mind of what the function of boundary is and how you are limiting your broadcast. Copyright. Gil Robertson. P.O. Box 51, Port Lincoln SA Australia, 5606. <gilrob@dove.net.au>
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