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Winter Solstice, June 2001. dowsing and Earthcare in Australia and beyond. Edited by Alanna Moore. Contributions are most welcome, deadline for next issue is September 10th. Welcome readers to the winter 2001 edition of Geomantica The winter solstice has been beautifully celebrated in my neck of the woods, in the Goldfields region of central Victoria. On Thursday June 21st a gathering was held in the crater of young volcano Mt Franklin, as a daytime event for the first time. Another first was the inclusion of the children of the local primary school, who enthusiastically joined in the activities circle and spiral dances were a favourite. It turned out to be more successful than the organisers ever dreamed. They had been organising pagan festivals and events for some 30 years honouring the land and the seasons in the correct season! Helping people to connect to place and each other. When they started off the locals were fearful of these 'witches' and children would shun them. Now, with the joyful participation of the local kids, the event has become almost mainstream! Our local permaculture group held their annual winter solstice party on the Saturday night and it seemed that celebrations would never end, as I had moved house the day before and held my own sacred event the blessing of the new home, with the re-raising of the Python Pole (my painted Tower of Power) at an energy centre in the backyard, plus tree planting on the roadside. So it has been a magical time for me, however Geomantica is a tad late! May the rest of winter be as wonderful as the beginning! I'm off to run some workshops in NSW, ACT and Qld, so the office may be alittle neglected in July/Aug, but you can still email me. (Check out workshop listings under Events.) Blessed be to all
- a warning from the UK and Australia's Pat Coleby ABC TV screened a documentary last month from the BBC which looked at the work of one man who was determined to find out what the British Ministry of Agriculture (MAFF) could not do discover what was behind the outbreaks of 'Mad Cow Disease' and its human variation CJD. English dairy farmer Mark Purdie has now been campaigning for some 17 years as a result of his findings. Purdie was an old fashioned farmer who stuck to the old proven organic methods of cow care, while his colleagues were instructed by MAFF to indulge in highly suspect chemical usage. When there was an outbreak of tiny warble flies, which burrow into skin and irritate the cows, farmers were instructed to pour a highly toxic organophosphate chemical along the spines of their cows as a preventative. Two years after they had done this program (which Purdie refused to do) the BSE outbreaks began, with the spinal cord first affected. Purdie wisely suspected there was a link. His refusal to comply led to a court case against MAFF which he won. Pat Coleby, an expert in natural, organic animal and soil care, who lives in Maldon, Victoria, says that in her early farming days, she and all the other farmers would simply pick warble fly eggs from the cow's backs as a control method. She has been alerted to the probable link between chemical use and BSE for some time and is a colleague of Purdie's. The documentary followed the detective trail as Purdie studied
up on high level science, in order to understand scientific papers,
and also followed up on hunches that a range of questionable
modern farming practices could be the culprit. The notion that
BSE was simply a disease caused by cows eating sheep brains infected
with scrapie was too simplistic, but it obviously suited the
chemical companies. Purdie has been subject to various forms
of harassment, presumably by the chemical lobby, including having
his barn full of research papers mysteriously burnt down, his
phone lines cut at a crucial time, etc. Purdie has spent 3 years travel ling the world (at his own expense), studying places where there are inexplicable clusters of CJD eg in Colorado, Iceland, Calabria and Slovakia, where the usual one in a million incidence of CJD may reach levels of up to one in a thousand. The common link he found, after extensive testing of food, water and soil, was a high level of manganese in peoples' diet and environment. Manganese is an antagonist to copper and if levels are too high (from pollution or diet) it is taken up by prions which naturally occur in the brain, but turn destructive when copper is replaced by the manganese. The brain is then eaten away and death is the result. Manganese miners of the past often died from 'manganese madness'. Cows also were capable of overdosing on manganese when allowed free access to mineral supplements on intensive farms. So it was obvious to Purdie that there was a combination of factors involved in BSE/CJD. He has warned Pat Coleby that Australia may be next in line for outbreaks of BSE, as the same chemical treatment for flies has been used here since a few years back. The incubation period before symptoms appear has been between 2 5 years, he has observed. "What is really frightening" Pat says "is the deadly silence since the program was screened here. Governments are still towing the line that it is just a problem caused by feeding meat products to cows which is abhorrent enough!" She has issued a warning to people who may be overdosing themselves on manganese it is found in high levels in your cup of tea! And then there is the rock dust connection. Manganese in Rock Dust Pat is concerned that rock dust usage, at levels recommended by companies selling the product, could be endangering the public's health. She strongly suggests a careful examination of mineral analyses from quarries, before selection and use of this often highly valuable product. Otherwise the exercise of caution in amounts of rock dust used is the next strategy. She believes that a quarter ton to the acre is a far safer usage rate than the higher amounts advocated by various companies, and this smaller amount can be applied annually, to help rejuvenate soils. Rock dust, especially that from the paramagnetic basalts, can have a powerful effect on soil building processes, by injecting lost minerals and energy into soil to feed the micro-organisms. It is a wonderful tool for rehabilitating degraded farmlands, when used with care. But let's not turn into 'mad cows' ourselves in the process of restoring our soils. - an interview with Tim Strachan, Sydney, in April 2001. © Alanna Moore Perched on a sandstone ridge, its rocks carved in characteristic cragginess over the aeons since the Jurassic age, is the home of Sydney geomancer Tim Strachan and his partner Ester. The Bucketty area is largely unspoilt Sydney bushland, north of Peats Ridge and Tim and Ester's property is bordered by the wilderness of Yengo National Park. A world away from the sprawling monster of a city where we were all raised, just an hour and a half's drive away. Across the steep valley before us - Mt Yengo loomed in the distance. Tim related to me the Aboriginal Dreamtime legend, that the creator ancestor stepped off the mountain and ascended to heaven from that point. In another direction viewed from the porch, Tim and Ester have occasionally seen mysterious lights in lines and triangular formations, fading and glowing inexplicably in the night sky over the rugged terrain. Perhaps there really is some kind of portal in that region. "When we first moved here from the city when I tuned into this place I could often hear the faint drone of etheric didgeridoo music, like a constant background noise. Perhaps it was some connection to the spirit of place. Now I've got used to it and have to consciously tune in to hear it," Tim said. In front of the house rocks have been laid to delineate two energy vortices, marking a pair of yin and yang Earth dragon spirals there. "The downward yin spiral is a great place for earthing meditation, while the upward yang spiral helps you to lighten up," he explained. Out the back a strong node point in the Earth's energy grid has been chosen, by dowsing, as their own sacred site. A circle of sandstone boulders rings the site and this is where the couple come to meditate and tune in to other favourite sacred sites in Australia (such as Glastonbell in the Blue Mountains) and around the world. Being a Geomancer Tim studied acupuncture at Russell Jewel's college in Paddington in 1972/3, but is not so keen on using needles, preferring to apply acupressure instead, along with a number of other energy disciplines. Over the years he found that there was always a proportion of patients who would not improve, despite their therapy. He came to understand that their healing processes were thwarted by the stressed environments they lived in. "Geopathic stress is an important health issue," he found "and cities are increasingly becoming more and more toxic, both energetically and physically". He took up dowsing to help resolve the issue and also studied the Building Biology course by correspondence from the New Zealand Institute. "I tell some people who are unfamiliar with geomancy that I practise a kind of western Feng Shui, because so many people have heard of feng shui these days" he explained. "However I feel that the gross aspects of the energy environment need to be addressed urgently for health purposes - electromagnetics, electrics, chemicals, indoor pollution, etc. Only then does it make sense to use such things as Feng Shui. I think that geomancy is much more fundamental to wellbeing and Feng Shui is merely fine tuning or window dressing for a place." "Dowsing is so useful for finding your way amongst environmental energies. But dowsing competence depends greatly on the clarity of the dowser. Geomancers all seem to operate on their own band of a spectrum and so they may or may not be able to relate to each other." "I don't believe there is such a thing as 'good' or 'bad' energy. It's more a case of whether energy is blocked or flowing, as we relate to it in acupuncture" he said. Case Studies But in other respects, he explained, some people are quite oblivious about stressful energies and prefer to stay in a state of denial about them. He gave a couple of examples from recent consultancy work. "Last week I was working with a kinesiologist, who felt her energy draining away seriously at her practice rooms. She was having hip problems too, so the first thing I suggested was to remove the mobile phone that she kept constantly on her hip. No wonder her kidney energy was low! She didn't want to think the problem could be so simple and still carries her phone around in a bag at hip level." "Under her practice rooms I found a big stormwater drain was passing and I was able to deal with that source of energy drain. But she was very attached to her phone." "In another case, a woman at Bondi had electronic installations on either side of her bed, which was all decked in black, and she kept her electric blanket switched on constantly at night. She thought my suggestions too outlandish and was not even willing to experiment with reducing the amount of electro-stress she was exposed to." The Energy Store Tim sells ceramic beads to reduce 'Electro-smog' from mobile phones and other devices. He also produces water energisers which have the obvious effect on city water of greatly reducing chlorine odours, as well as other more subtle benefits. Well known natural animal therapist Jackie Fitzgerald recommended his water energiser to a dairy farmer near Lismore, in northern NSW. As a consequence of their drinking energised water the farmer found that his cows became less aggressive and more friendly and began to produce more milk. Dowser's holiday "The trip was like a pilgrimage for me, and great practise for my dowsing. I felt like I was reconnecting to the ancient past, like there was a re-awakening of old traditions buried deep in my psyche or genetic memory. Maybe I was there in a past life, who knows?" This year they plan to do the process again, this time following the Apollo/Athena lines that start at Skellig Michael in Ireland, cross to Mont St Michael in France, and continue on through Italy, Greece and on to Israel. "Each locality once had a snapshot of part of that energy pathway and related to it at a local level" he suggested, when I expressed some scepticism of the enormity of the concept. Aboriginal societies in Australia, after all, related to their own sections of a dreaming track in their own way and also understood that they went much further beyond their territory. Their cyclic nomadism allowed them knowledge of the bigger picture, whereas European society was much more sedentary and its animistic beliefs had very localised deities. This changed when Celtic or Roman imperialism imposed an overlay of their own great gods and goddesses. The Mary and Michael sites (the latter pertaining to hilltops) that these major dragon lines follow, while seemingly Christian, were simply another overlay of the more ancient goddess /god, yin /yang sites. I look forwards to hearing all about that trip when Tim and
Ester return.
May 2001 Britain's National Radiation Protection Board has officially recognised, for the first time, the link between exposure to electromagnetic radiation from powers sources and childhood leukemia. Eminent UK epidemiologist Sir Richard Doll has found evidence that extremely low EM fields from the power system are associated with an increase with child leukemia. A re-examination of a number of studies suggest that relatively heavy average exposures of 4 milliGauss (mG) or more are associated with a doubling of the risk of exposure for children under 15 years of age. A recent German study found an increased leukemia risk at the overnight exposure level of 2 mG and over. These exposure levels are minute compared to those allowed
here in Australia by existing guidelines. The current NHMRC's
Interim guidelines on limits of exposure to 50/60Hz electric
and magnetic fields allows people to be exposed to 1000mG at
home and 5000mG at work. Reactions to the Doll report in Australia
have varied. Health Minister Dr Michael Woolridge has adopted
a cautious approach and warns families living close to high-voltage
powerlines to keep very young children "away from the potentially
cancer-causing electromagnetic radiation" (SMH 7.3.01). UK physicist Dr Gerard Hyland has described (in the Lancet 356 pp 1833-36, 2000) how low intensity, pulsed microwave radiation can produce thermal and non-thermal effects. Thermal effects occur as a result of the body's inability to maintain homeostasis when temperature rises by one degree C. Non-thermal effects can occur as a result of similarities in oscillation between the radiation and the living organism. "The human body is an electrochemical instrument of exquisite sensitivity whose orderly functioning and control are underpinned by oscillatory electrical processes of various kinds, each characterised by a specific frequency, some of which happen to be close to those used in GSM (mobile phones ed.). Thus some endogenous biological electrical activities can be interfered with via oscillatory aspects of the incoming radiation, in much the same way as can the reception of a radio." This will occur at very low levels and effects will depend on the state of the exposed organism. "Thus not everyone can be expected to be affected in the same way by identical exposure to the same radiation." "GSM radiation does seem to affect non-thermally a variety of brain functions Preadolescent children can be expected to be more vulnerable to any adverse health effects than adults because absorption of GSM microwaves is greatest in an object about the size of a child's head, because of the 'head resonance' effect and the greater ease with which the radiation can penetrate the thinner skull of an infant Furthermore the immune system, whose efficacy is degraded by this kind of radiation, is less robust in children." ......... June 2001- Senate Inquiry. The report of the Chair by Democrat Senator Lyn Allison was tempered by dissenting reports from the Liberal and Labor party reports which tended to support the status quo and concluded 'no evidence of harm from EMR'. Allison's report, however, said that "Our electromagnetic radiation exposure standards are based on heat exposure, the capacity of a mobile phone to heat the core temperature of the body by 1degree C and yet a growing body of scientific evidence shows conclusively that even low level radiation with virtually no heat output, has the capacity to change and damage biological systems." Research around the world has shown that exposure to radiofrequency and microwave radiation can cause changes to cells including DNA breaks, protein shock response, changes in the movement of substances across cell membranes, changes in the blood brain barrier, oncogene change, melatonin reduction and altering of calcium ion signalling." "Animal studies have demonstrated a doubling of the incidence of cancer and embryo deformities Industry and government agencies have persistently tried to discount and discredit scientific research showing results which are unfavourable to industry, but the time has come for an honest evaluation of the risks and for government to accept that there is at least a doubt that our standards safeguard us against cancer and other health risks." Full copies of the reports are available from the internet and can be downloaded from the following site: http://www.aph.gov.au/senate_environment For more info contact EMRAA at emraa@acay.org.au or check out the website at http://ssec.org.au/emraa. By Sanderson Griffin I shall tell some more of my dowsing experiences in India, which I did all because of a promise to my mother. As it was self-funded, it was an expensive exercise, but I must say that I had a whale of a time doing it, except for that incessant heat over there. It was no wonder that the Aussie cricketers got beaten- from the sun and the grub and the stinking hot nights, that wear one down. I was feeling a bit weak at times, so I made a map of the places and I just dowsed over that to find the spot. The best spot is usually found first go on a map. So this is an account of some dowsing that I did in Andhra Pradesh in India in 1985. I had gone from Australia to Ireland to see my sister who lived in my old home and I stayed there some weeks. Whilst there I found some ley lines and visited a few Round Towers. For years I had been intrigued by the fact that any Tower I've been to always has large amounts of water (underground) in the vicinity. A stone mason that I met who was employed repairing Towers and old castles, said that there is always water running under them. He also told me that no wells were ever dug inside them. The Norsemen used to plunder the monasteries and could easily starve the monks if they holed up in the Tower during a siege. To me it is very strange that the monks were so vulnerable when they were living and sleeping over this very good water and unable to use it. Perhaps a well would weaken the foundations as the latter were usually only a couple of feet deep. Some Towers are 100' high and the fierce gale winds that some have had to withstand, especially those from the Atlantic Ocean in wintertime, amazes me. I suppose that being round in shape splits the wind no matter which quarter it is coming from. I visited the 100' high Tower at Kilkenny with my wife and her brother. The wind was really blowing a gale and cold. The centre of a ley line went through the front doorway and at the top the energy was amazing. I think that maybe the energy rays increased as they came up the walls of the Tower. Tourists there who had never seen a pendulum before watched it 'fly' completely horizontally. On my return journey I was going by air to Bombay via Dublin, London and Frankfurt. There were all sorts of delays on the trip Finally I arrived at Hyderabad airport, where I was met by Rathnam, who I had promised several months earlier in Portland (Victoria, Australia) that I would try to find drinking water for him at his village, which is about 20km from the city. All the village wells would dry up when dry spells came and water had to be trucked in. Money had been raised for him to buy a block of land and build a small orphanage. Fortunately I was able to find that there was a small underground stream of water running through the block. I was also surprised to find another place in line with the stream that was probably deeper water. The spot was marked with a piece of wood driven into the ground. Digging, by hand, shovel and pick, started within a few days. The Indians liked to make a huge 'tank', not just a normal well. I do not think that it is such a good idea as large quantities of water are exposed to the sun. Sunshine kills water, the Romans knew that and they built a stone structure around wells to keep sunlight out. There was quite a lot of rock that had to be blasted with gelignite. I had to leave before any water was reached. Later I was told that they had got down to the 'stream', but when the dry weather came it did no flow. Drilling was done to find the place I had originally found and pegged, where my dowsing rod moved for water. A good supply was then found and an electric pump installed. This well supplied the village and other farms all around it a few years later when all the other wells dried up and the pump was going 24 hours every day as people queued up for water with oxen carts, trucks and women with bowls to fill. I did dowse some more places and was told that water had been found, as I was asked to go back again a few years later with a couple of Australians. By this time the house had been built, so we were able to stay there. Water was laid on at the house, even a cold shower. (The water in the well was not really cold at all.) Next morning there were several men all waiting to know if I would find some water for them. One elderly Indian man lived close to the village so I went with him and found a good stream on his land and marked the spot. That evening he came back with a billy of milk for me. We were in the main room of the house with other Indians, about a dozen. I asked for a glass and filled it with milk, then pulled out the pendulum from my pocket and swung it over the milk. It went positive and I drank the glass of lovely rich milk. They all clapped, because no one drinks milk there without boiling it first. The Indian buffalo cows give very little milk and it is very rich, much richer than Jerseys milk. A good goat would give twice as much milk. The rest of the milk I gave to the cook, and the farmer went away very happy and proud. Another man that lived about a mile away wanted a well, but he couldn't speak English, so we took along a boy who could. The man had 3 brothers and his father had died and the land was divided between them. The eldest had the house, sheds and a large well, full of water, an electric pump and 4 acres of rice growing land. The others had 4 acres of dry land with just dried up grass and the remains of a withered maize crop. The water was not shared, even with the tank full, and I felt sorry for the other two. When we got to the farm I was getting a 'feel' for the place and wandering around aimlessly when the owner arrived. He beckoned me to come over to where he stood and pointed to a small stone on the ground. He wanted to know if there was water there. I tried with my rod and it said 'yes' and he then walked to another spot where there was another stone on the ground. Was there water there too? Again the rod said 'yes'. With the boy translating I was told that on the day previously a Hindu priest had put the stones there and he had no rod or pendulum. I've read that Indians, barefoot, can 'see' the water. I would have liked to have met that priest. The owner wanted to know which spot had the most water. I said that the first place was the best and the most, and both were good for drinking, according to dowsing. John, the other Aussie, stayed longer than me. He went back about 8 weeks later to find a big crowd celebrating with great excitement the switching on of the electric pump for the new tank. These tanks can be up to 20 yards square and can be very dangerous, with no signs or fences around them. Another Indian arrived, some kind of official who had some land a few miles away with a big empty tank, maybe 30 yards square. He sent a taxi to get me when I went there. He had huge coconut palms but got no fruit. They were probably all male I was told later. I found that there was good underground water that went through the centre of this hole in the ground about 30' deep with no steps down and vertical walls on all sides. The man wondered how the spot could be found after I went away. There was another stream meeting in the centre so I got sticks put into the ground at the surface and close to the side of the hole, aligned over the streams. I heard later that he had got a good supply. We were brought to another village further on, but I was not able to find anything. Water is not very plentiful in India, like in Australia; whereas in Ireland there's bountiful supplies more or less everywhere. It was evening after that and the village people put on a dance spectacular for our benefit. It was really wild dancing and lasted for hours.
- an Ancient Art for Today's World. © Alanna Moore An abbreviated version of this paper was presented by the author to the Second National Opal Symposium, held at Cooper Pedy, South Australia, in April 2001. Dowsing workshops were also conducted. A degree of scepticism had to be endured from the scientific community present there, but the organisers felt they had done the right thing to invite me! Editor.
A vast majority of Australia's opal miners use the ancient art of divining (aka dowsing) for helping to locate opal, but they may not be aware of its other modern applications and the work of scientists in trying to understand this natural human ability. Dowsing may be defined as the ancient art of obtaining information about the unknown, of seeking lost objects or people, and sensing unseen energies. It uses multi-sensory perception, often remote from the target, that is amplified by such tools as the forked stick, rods & pendulum. Divining, radiesthesia, water witching etc are some of the terms that refer to various forms of dowsing. Country people are familiar with the local diviner seeking underground water with twig or wire rods. These dowsers have been responsible for finding probably a majority of underground water supplies around the country. And there are countless, in fact limitless, other applications to dowsing. Naturopaths and a growing number of doctors and vets are finding
dowsing to be a helpful diagnostic aid, and in countries such
as the USA (where medical dowsing is frowned upon) the application
of a sophisticated form of dowsing to agriculture (known as radionic
analysis and broadcasting) has become increasingly popular in
the last few years. You may be surprised to learn that Albert Einstein once wrote in a letter to H G Peisach in Feb. '46: "I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing
as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According
to my conviction this is, however, unjustified. Dowsing and Mining "The first real mention of the use of the divining rod in dowsing was not published until 1430, in a German manuscript by a mine surveyor. At the time dowsing seems to have been used exclusively for mining, to find deposits of coal and ores. Agricola's classic treatise on mining, 'De Re Metallica', published in 1556, includes a detailed discussion of the subject, with a woodcut showing the various stages of divining for coal. By the end of that century further references appear showing divining to have been in routine use for many a year." In the woodcut illustration with this article, taken from 'De Re Metallica', by the German mineralogist Agricola (Georg Bauer), published in 1556, a forked twig is stripped from a tree in the background and used as a dowsing instrument by the two figures marked A. So how did I come to get so involved in dowsing? I lived in Sydney and was studying holistic health after that and found dowsing to be an amazing aid to health diagnosis. When you find out that even good doctors are lucky to get their diagnoses right only 50% of the time, there's certainly a lot of scope for complementary alternatives like this. I also enjoyed dowsing for environmental energy flows. With my newfound dowsing skills - it was like a whole new world had opened up for me. In 1984 I helped to found the NSW Dowsers' Society, after which time I turned my back on city living and moved to the country. Which is just as well because dowsers thrive better far from high-tech environments. I have been publishing newsletters on dowsing and related subjects on and off since the mid '80's and then two books, which are now out of print, because I'm updating and repackaging them. My third and latest book that's dowsing related has just come out, and it investigates the applications to eco-farming and the harnessing of natural energies to improve plant growth. (It's called 'Stone Age Farming'.) Earth dowsing has become my speciality and people hire me to come and check out the energies in their homes to see if they are healthy or not to live in. 'Sick building syndrome' is a phenomena on the rise in modern buildings and is often a case of unhealthy building materials and practices being used. In many cases where people's homes make them sick there may also be underground water flowing beneath them, and this can cause all sorts of problems. I can deal with these so-called geopathic stress zones and this can dramatically improve the inhabitants' quality of life. I've been teaching the art of dowsing that has so fascinated me to thousands of people around Australia over the last 18 odd years. My students have applied the skills to their own professions and it has opened up vast new mental horizons for them too. So it has been very satisfying work. Dowsing techniques are fairly simple and universal and it's just a matter of where you are motivated to apply them. Yes that means anyone can do it! If you choose to develop the skill you will eventually master it, I've found. The odd person who is totally dominated by rational thinking processes or emotions may have difficulty, but the average person can learn to dowse in minutes! It's such a shame that we have 'dark forces' at work in Australia, people who are hell bent on putting a dampener on dowsing. I'm referring to the Sceptics Association, who last month put on another one of their so-called 'dowsing challenges' at the Mitta Mitta Muster on the Murray River. This is a pathetic attempt to denigrade dowsers with pseudo-science. The challenge was designed so that every one of those 52 dowsers, lured by the $110,000 prize money, would fail miserably. Calls for independent parties to design a fairer challenge, with input from dowsers, were ignored. So the Sceptics now believe that they once again have proved that dowsing is some sort of delusion or fraud on the public. Perhaps they have never come across the water boring companies who advertise that they use water divining and have a policy of 'no water no pay'. If dowsers were so inadequate these guys would not still be in business. My introduction to opal divining So I got to spend a whole day being taken around various mines and at each I was able to pick up what had already been determined by dowsing. It was a good dowsing confidence builder. I also got to meet Aussie, an Aboriginal dowser miner who I was told is a legend. Aussie had divined for opal at his very first mine and took $600,000 worth out of it. He had lived like a king for some time but was broke when I met him, so I didn't know if it was just a tall story. But other people verified it. I watched him at work with his L shaped wire rods, picking up the same fault lines that I had found. As at Coober Pedy it is not so much the opal that is sought when divining. Rather, one's divining tool reacts to the changes in the Earth's electro-magnetism when encountering the fault lines (slides, slips) that are associated with opal occurrence. With the motivation of fabulous rewards dowsing is a worthwhile skill to develop. It is not a gift, as some people assert. Anyone can develop the ability if they are calm, relaxed and level headed about it. In fact being empty headed when you are dowsing isn't a bad idea at all. So don't be thinking abut how you're going to spend all those untold riches you imagine you'll find! Or you'll miss them! So next I'll explain something of the mechanics of dowsing. Following is some extracts from my new book which outline plausible theories about how dowsing works. Every dowser has their own theory, but there is great merit in the work of Prof.s Rocard and Harvalik, who used the modern scientific approach to understanding this ancient art. How does dowsing work? Other scientists have established the presence of tiny magnetite crystals in the heads and bodies of bacteria, honey bees, homing pigeons and fish. According to research at the University of California, whales and dolphins also use such receptors for their survival. Geomagnetic information that compared with computerised recordings of cetacean sightings has shown that, over long distances, these animals prefer to travel along magnetic troughs that run for vast distances from north to south along the ocean floor. Strandings are most likely to occur at local magnetic low points. Sharks employ a different mechanism to detect electric current and have the ability to sense it down to one hundred millionth of a volt! Living within the background of the Earth's magnetic field
also appears to stabilise the human sense of direction and timing.
Without its influence our body's equilibrium is disturbed. This
happened in the early manned space flights, after which low-level
magnetic generators were fitted in space capsules. T Edward Ross, dowser; ASD journal, Feb. 1986. Virtually anyone can become a dowser. Especially if they are
prepared to discard barriers of mental conditioning and learn
to sense through the child within. This way one relearns to experience
life afresh, directly contacting its power and mystery. Dowsers
have simply enhanced their natural sensitivity with training
and practise. Degree of Sensitivity to Electro-Magnetic
Radiation Changes in magnetic field strength patterns are markers for geological faults, veins, slides etc and so an ability to detect them is, naturally, going to give you the edge in the detection of opal bearing strata. Map dowsing You could say we are working here in the psychic realm, but then again we don't completely understand how water diviners operate either. Dowsing is a mixture of abilities at work, that are synthesized and processed by the intuitive mind. (Do we even understand how electricity works, and can we definitively explain light?...) There is a theory that the universe is like a holographic image. The 3D hologram is brought to life, so to speak, by laser light focussed on the holographic plate. If this plate is broken one finds the complete image can be generated from each piece. In other words information about the whole is contained in the parts. And this harks back to ancient wisdom that everything in the universe is connected somehowand extrapolating from that we can tap into universal knowledge from anywhere. Not surprisingly some people use dowsing as tool on
their spiritual path, and a key to psychic development. Certainly
the mental aspect of dowsing is very important and brain wave
patterns give some fascinating clues to the processes at work. However some yogis' and psychics' brain waves don't even register on the EEG, presumably because they are operating at different frequencies to the norm. The Russians have discovered a brain frequency, they call 'ultra-theta', which they say can go around the world in seconds and perhaps act as a carrier wave for telepathic communications. A sophisticated version of the EEG, the Mind Mirror registers
the action of each brain hemisphere simultaneously. For six years
Geoffrey Blundell and Maxwell Cade used the Mind Mirror to test
over 3,000 people, including yogis, psychics, meditators and
psychic healers. He found that different states of mind correspond
to various brain wave patterns. Studies with the EEC reveal that when a psychic healer is
healing they exhibit the Fifth State. This state is then induced
to the brain of the subject who is not normally capable of it.
A person's healing ability correlates with the amplitude, symmetry,
and most importantly, the stability of this Fifth State. Dr Edith Jurka tested many talented dowsers with the Mind Mirror and found that they exhibited a brain wave pattern similar to the Fifth State. The difference being that dowsers have increased beta activity (from the intense concentration involved) and also a high delta amplitude (indicating a search pattern). A few master dowsers are able to maintain this state constantly. In Jurka's understanding: "Dowsing is an expansion of lucid awareness, in essence
familiarity in communication with the Universal Intelligence".
"Bilateral brain symmetry is central to health control in general." (Dr Edith Jurka - 'Brain Characteristics of Dowsers' BSD Journal,
December 1983.)
Alanna Moore has produced a much needed, easily understood and concise book on subtle energies and their use in agriculture. "Stone Age Farming's" easy style and clear language ensures that it is as suited to the novice in the field of subtle energies as to the experienced practitioner and from the backyard gardener to the broad acre farmer. It provides a sound framework which empowers the reader to conduct their own experiments into the use of subtle energies as a means of improving their environment and enhancing plant growth
The question, "why is there a need for a book like this?" begs asking. We have all noticed that some plants grow better than others despite all of the physical, chemical and biological aspects influencing fertility being the same. The most likely reason for this difference is the influence of the fourth element of fertility, energy. We are familiar with the more obvious forms of energy necessary for plant growth, such as light and heat, but what of the more subtle forms, such as paramagnetism, Schumann Waves and Cosmic radiations. Alanna's book investigates these subtle energies and many others.
The book commences by looking at scientific research that has validated some of the effects of subtle energies emanating from simple devices to thoughtforms and dowsing. Alanna is a master dowser with many years teaching experience and her brief introduction to dowsing will quickly help the novice start experimenting with this most useful intuitive tool. This skill is absolutely necessary since most of the energies being investigated are far too subtle for the crude detection tools currently available from the scientific community. Once dowsing has been mastered, this tool can be used to verify the effectiveness of some of the suggestions presented in the book for enhancing and concentrating subtle energies as well as conducting further experiments in your own particular environment. Techniques such as Thought Form Fences and Radionics and devices such as Lakovsky Coils, Standing Stones, Crystals, Rock Dusts and many more all await your exploration.
The main portion of the book is devoted to the Irish Round Towers and their more simplified domestic versions, the Power Towers. Alanna's years of experience in constructing Power Towers all over Australia ensures that her insights into their construction and use are backed up with practical experience and years of observation. Indeed she goes into great detail on the various possible methods of construction, selecting the most suited site for construction and reasons why you may not be achieving the desired results.
Her recent trip to Ireland, specifically to extend the original research by Professor Phil Callahan on Round Towers, has revealed further insights into their positioning and properties. She introduces the subject by looking at the Myths and Legends that are a rich part of the Irish Culture and correlates these into how the Towers may have originated and their possible function. All in all, a most interesting and revealing read.
Finally Alanna presents some case histories of actual commercial agricultural enterprises that have successfully used subtle energies in their day to day operations. Proving that this is an area that warrants further study to ensure its broader application as a means of enhancing plant growth and reducing the dependence on chemicals and artificial fertilisers.
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