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Geomantica no 13
Spring Equinox
September 2001.

The E-magazine of geomancy, Earth mysteries, environmental energies,
dowsing and Earthcare in Australia and beyond. Edited by Alanna Moore,
with contributions from some of the best dowsers and geomancers around.

Contributions are always welcomed, deadline for next issue is November 20th.
Postal address- Geomantica PO Box 929 Castlemaine 3450 Vic. Australia.

email: info@geomantica.com

 

Contents:

A Celebration of Aboriginal Dreaming in Central Australia

 

Hindmarsh Island Update

 

Agricultural radionics in the News

Archeological dowsing in northern England

Charles Curtayne - Energy Worker in Victoria

 

Meandering around Native American Mounnds

Earth Acupuncture - Experiences and Musings

 

In the Pipeline - Geomantica Projects

 

Unity with Nature Network newsletter review

 

Letters to the Editor

 

What's On- 'Stone Age Farming Workshops' and 'Sacred Alice Springs Tours'

 

In the News:

A Celebration of Aboriginal Dreaming
Alice Springs is a fascinating and unique place where Aboriginal culture is strong and sacred sites can be seen everywhere - nestled amongst modern developments and protected by law. Your editor Alanna Moore was in town to film a special event and also to document the work of Billy Arnold, a researcher/ geomancer /astrologer there.

On the weekend of September 8 ­ 9th Alice Springs hosted the biggest corroborree ever held and it was also Australia's most significant centenary of federation event of the year, according to Geoffrey Blainey, the Chairman of the National Council for the Centenary of Federation. A major reconciliation event, with a crowd of some 30,000 people watching (- more than the population of Alice!), the festival was also a celebration of the most important Dreamings (geomantic traditions) of the town ­ the Caterpillar/ Yeperenye Dreaming.

A showcase of indigenous talent, the entertainment was tempered by moving ceremonies, such as when members of the stolen generation of Aborigines (who had been removed from their families by government policies and forced to live in institutions) were greeted and hugged by local Arrente women elders. Ex-prime ministers Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser took part in the event and were honoured for their contribution towards Aboriginal land rights.

To quote the report in the Centralian Advocate of Sept 11th 2001 - 'The Yeperenye Festival was a breathtaking display of music, dance and culture. More than 1200 children carrying lanterns danced and giggled among six golden 12 metre tall caterpillars around 5 separate circular stages, representing traditional song lines.' The Yeperenye Spectacle portrayed the convergence of the caterpillars along the dreaming tracks at Alice Springs (with 5 stages in a circle connected to a central stage), the fierce battle between the ntyarike caterpillar and the iriperenye (stink beetle), the creation of the surrounding MacDonnell Ranges (a spectacular sight as the ranges were lit up by powerful spotlights), the caterpillars' transformation into cocoons and their final re-emergence as hawk moths.

John Williamson sang an emotional couple of songs with his Hermannsberg Aboriginal mate Warren Williams including 'Thousand Feet', which is about the many generations of Aboriginals who have walked around Uluru, reported the Centralian. To quote ­ 'Williams said - It is the spiritual centre of the nation ­ I felt maybe it was pretentious of me to write about a place of such spiritual significance. We sang Thousand Feet while the caterpillars representing the five mobs met together for the first time in decades, and tears were streaming down Warren's face. It is the kind of emotion that inspires young Aborigines to hold their traditions close to their hearts.'

Your editor can verify that there were many very emotional moments over that momentous weekend and an important and major act of the recognition of Aboriginal suffering and healing had occurred. It felt as if a great deal of tension had been released, and, as if to assist the purging process, the brooding skies opened up after it was all over and Alice copped some lovely rain showers.

There is talk of staging a similar festival in Alice Springs every several years to showcase indigenous culture. Clare Martin, chief minister of the new (and first time) Labor government who was in the audience 'said Labor's promise of a $10 million indigenous cultural centre could help build on the success of Yeperenye.' T he festival was recorded by the cameras of more than 30 international news teams.' (For more info on Geomantica filming done at Alice Springs see - 'In the Geomantica Pipeline'.)

In Alice Springs even the most ordinary landscape feature can have spiritual significance. Some sites, like the dingo puppy sites, are just a couple of dog sized rocks, Billy told me. There are many sacred trees around, one of which grows in front of one of the town banks, and developers face heavy fines if they destroy them. Billy showed me maps of registered sites that must be checked before development approval is given.

As a consequence of the Arrernte peoples' revealing of their Caterpillar Dreamings at the Festival we might expect greater significance being given to sacred landscapes and a better understanding of the cultural and spiritual values of the land. "They've had to go public on this sacred information to stop sites being destroyed" Billy explained. (Of course only fully initiated people are given the full story of the Dreamings, the public receives a much lower level of understandings.)

Billy has been researching the Aboriginal dreaming of the region for several years as part of a longterm research project for a book he is writing on yoga, the universe and other realities. Billy has previously spent years in the UK, researching sacred sites via meditation and yoga there. Alanna went over to Alice Springs to film some of his work.

Geomantica is organising for Billy to run 'Sacred Alice Springs Tours ­ exploring sacred Aboriginal art, dreaming and landscapes of the region' in June 2002. Participant numbers will be limited, so expressions of interest should be made as soon as possible (to info@geomantica.com)

The Story of the Yeperenye (extracted from the festival program of events)
"Alice Springs, called Mpwarntwe (pronounced ahm-barn-twa) is built on the traditional lands of the Arrernte (Arr-un-da) people. Arrernte people understand that their Dreaming, known as Altyerre (al-chair-ra), was established during the creation period and remains within the landscape around them today.

Sacred places can include individual trees that record the fighting stance of a warrior engaged in battle, and seemingly minor rocky features often mark a place where the ancestors rested or discarded objects. Their struggles and adventures are preserved and celebrated through song, ceremony and the maintenance of sacred sites.

The Yeperenye, Utnerrengatye and Ntyarlke caterpillars were the major creative forces for the Alice Springs area and are among the most sacred and important of all Arrernte totems. They formed the ranges that surround the Festival grounds. The Caterpillar ancestors came from many different places. They travelled from the north at Apmerrknge (Central Mount Stuart), from Urlatherrke (Mt Zeil) in the west, Atula to the east and Apwetele to the south. The Caterpillars converged at Mpwarntwe, the epicentre of Caterpillar culture, where they held pitched battles with the Irlperenye (stink bug men).

The area is rich in battle grounds, 'cocoon' sites, dance grounds and campsites used by the Caterpillar ancestors.

While the beauty and diversity of Yeperenye, Utnerrengatye and Ntyarlke ­ mere caterpillars ­ are overlooked by most Australians, the creation stories of the Arrernte people abound with drama, beauty, humour and ecological facts. They reveal, in a humble and understated way, the triumph of indigenous people as sensitive observers of the natural world. Certainly the Caterpillars of Mpwarntwe demonstrates the cross-cultural potential of Aboriginal 'mythology' to educate, inspire and uplift us all."

 

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Hindmarsh Island Update

Well ­ it's back in the news again and this time there has been a positive win, in the long and painful saga of the destruction of sacred landscapes at Hindmarsh Island, South Australia, (featured in an article in Geomantica no. 10 - summer 2000).

A $20 million compensation claim by the marina developers Thomas and Wendy Chapman was finally rejected by a Federal Court judge on August 21st, after a trial lasting 129 days. The Chapmans were suing for losses sustained when construction of the bridge from the mainland was banned by the Keating government in 1994, a decision which was later overturned in court.

Justice von Doussa was quoted by The Age (22/8/01) that "Upon the evidence before this court, I am not satisfied that the restricted women's knowledge was fabricated or that it was not part of genuine Aboriginal tradition." This was in opposition to the conclusion of the Hindmarsh Island Royal Commission in 1995, that ­ "The women's business emerged in response to a need of the anti-bridge lobby to provide something of sufficient cultural significance to warrant the making of a declaration by the federal minister." The Ngarrindjeri women had boycotted the $2.1 million Royal Commission.

So the claims of the women - that the bridge, which opened earlier this year, was being built on sacred land - have been backed up (again), potentially reopening one of the nation's longest running and most divisive legal battles.

The Ngarrindjeri women, who had supplied evidence of the area's secret cultural significance in sealed envelopes, have now demanded an apology from the Federal Government for the building of the bridge. Chief custodian of the women's business, Dr Doreen Kartinyeri, said "I hope it can prove to the world I am not a fabricator. This is a victory for all indigenous people in this country."

An overflowing courtroom erupted when a summary of the judgment was read. Aboriginal women and their supporters broke into applause. Outside the court a Ngarrindjeri woman known as Auntie Maggie said "The bloody bridge should be pulled down."

A lawyer for the women, Stephen Kenny, said that "They have forever been challenged on their beliefs, they have been called liars in other parts of the country," he said. "I believe that now Aboriginal people will try to reclaim some of that lost ground." He said that the real problem was the damage done to their integrity in their negotiations with mining companies and other developers.

Appropriate compensation would be considered, he said, but the fight wasn't about money. "It is about protecting culture and heritage and the government should look very carefully at doing something constructive for the Ngarrindjeri people" he said.

A spokesperson for Aboriginal Affairs Minister Phillip Ruddock said "There have been a number of different findings and this is another one."

The Chapmans are considering appealing the decision. (The Age 22/8/01)

For background information on the Ngarrindjeri nation I highly recommend reading 'Ngarrindjeri Wurruwarrin: A world that is, was, and will be' by the feminist anthropologist Diane Bell.

 

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Agricultural Radionics

Peter 'Huck' and Beth Shepherd are farmers on a 620ha property at Kybybolite, South Australia, who have grown grains as well as beef, wool and lambs with a minimum of chemicals for 30 years, reported the Weekly Times, August 15th, 2001.

With a regime of soil testing and balancing using the Albrecht model he has found soils improving and is able to cultivate deeper each year since starting the regime and is more friable and easier to work. He sells linseed, cereal and legume crops at much higher premiums over conventional produce, up to 1000%.

The biggest insect problem has been heliothis in linseed. "Last year we weren't challenged by heliothis ­ the year before we used a radionics machine" Huck told the reporter he has also used radionics for worm control in the sheep. "Radionics uses subtle energies and frequencies, but I am reluctant to talk about it because it makes me look like a whacker. But it does work and has huge potential. We will hear a lot more about it in the next 10 years."

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Archaeological Dowsing in Northern England

When you demolish a shed and find an air raid shelter beneath it, and beneath that you find a cobble stoned pavement ­ what to do? Brian Harrison of Roman Avenue, Chester-le-Street, County Durham, (once an important stopping off point for Roman soldiers marching from York to Hadrian's Wall), called in the local Northern Archaeological Group, as reported the London Independent of 24-7-01.

"He was sceptical when they used dowsing rods to discover there were ancient Roman remains below. But when the group dug more holes across his once respectable lawn, Mr Harrison was convinced."

The Group said that it was an exciting find, that they had unearthed a good quality cobbled area that ran next to a Roman house and fragments of pottery, flint and a ball, probably from a slingshot. They plan more excavations at the home.

 

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Charles Curtayne ­ Energy Worker in Victoria
© Alanna Moore August 2001

 

I visited Charles Curtayne recently in his Melbourne factory at Mentone and asked him about his work with Earth healing/space clearing and sacred geometry. Charles has an engineering back ground but is more interested in sacred technologies these days. In his one man business Tiamat Global, Charles is happily manufacturing various of his own innovative devices that he has designed and markets.

He proudly showed me the floor clamp he invented for easier floorboard laying as well as his new water distiller. A long time inventor, Charles has been on the inventors' television show three times and won prizes for his innovations. He spent five years of his life in the 1970's manufacturing special fittings and mechanisms out of brass for the Sydney Opera House, including his revolutionary magnetic door stop.

Interesting energy places
Charles has been fascinated by subtle energies for some decades now. He told me about some of the interesting energy spots that he knew of. At Mt Martha, he says, there is an obvious energy vortex within a circle of cypress trees, with the trees all leaning in towards the centre. He has gathered with others there for group meditations.

At the Sylvan Dam upper car park there is a path going uphill with half a dozen poplar trees that all eerily lean over the path. When you walk along the track there you feel off balance, he has observed.

Donnybrook Springs is a place with very disturbed energy, where he feels there could have been a past massacre ­ and massacres of Aboriginal people were very common in the past across this country. Donnybrook is an Irish slang term for a fight.

Space Clearing
Charles teamed up with an Aboriginal fellow, a didgeridoo player, for a few years in the nineties to do space clearing work. When the digeridoo is played in certain ways, Charles said, energies can be harmonised, hands-on-healing work can be amplified and entity removal is also facilitated. (Traditionally Aboriginal people would play it to soothe fractitious infants etc.)

To begin a space clearing his partner would first play the digeridoo, generating a heart beat like drone. The rhythmic tapping of clap sticks might also be used. The intentions of the people involved were a very important aspect of the process.

If an entity needed removing Charles would locate the spot where it was hanging around, by extra-sensory means. He would then talk out loud to it, mentally linking up and asking it gently to move on towards the light and loved ones.

After spirits were released in this way there would be a completely different feel and energy level in the house and Charles would find himself broadly smiling a lot. He never encountered problems performing this work, as he felt that all those lost souls were really wanting guidance and help, and, as long as he was coming from the heart, it was always a successful operation.

For the Earthbound spirits of Aboriginal people a different strategy was used, as the Aboriginal entities seemed to respond better to fire and smoke, with the energy vortex of the fire taking them up and away, in Charles's experience. So the method was to light a small fire and to ask them to come to the fire and jump into it. Often when the entities reached this point other Aboriginal spirits from all around would appear out of nowhere and join in.

One case that he dealt with, at a haunted house in Beveridge, was a good example. In the garden there had once been a stone circle and Charles asked the four resident teenagers to help by replacing the missing stones. He then made a small fire in the middle. Having discovered a female entity lurking in the mother's bedroom, a didgeridoo drone was started up and Charles began to talk to the woman, coaxing her outside and helping her to overcome her reluctance.

Eventually she made it to the fire and as she was about to step into it some one dozen other lost souls appeared and also dived in, and thus all went upwards and were gone. The teenagers were present and most intrigued, so it was a good education for them.

Sacred geometry
Charles biggest passion is working with sacred geometry. He makes special geometric shapes up to order and was told by a psychic reader that he had spent several lifetimes with this work. He first got involved this lifetime in 1987 in Brisbane. Someone asked him to make them up a pyramid shape, after which he was hooked and has produced hundreds since. Some are as tall as a house. They are all made of copper, which is often chrome plated to stay shiny (and this apparently does not detract from the energies).

Regular exposure to pyramid energy, Charles states in a brochure, causes plants and animals to grow faster and attain a higher state of health than other groups. With people brainwave activity shows a marked difference when people are inside a pyramid, for there is increased amplitude and regularity for all their brainwaves. There may be up to 2-3 times the amplitude of alpha and theta waves and higher frequencies experienced when meditating inside a pyramid. Open framed models are just as effective as enclosed ones.

In early experiments meditating inside a pyramid, Charles found that when he faced south composure came easily, while north facing meditation brought increased energy and stimulation. East or west facing meditation brought an increase in higher perceptions. And there are countless other fascinating applications of pyramid energy, such as people achieving better sleep, purification of polluted water, slower ripening of fruit etc, etc.

The star tetrahedron is another favourite shape ­ being two tetrahedron pyramids put together. This shape is a three dimensional Star of David and is also known as a Merkaba. This shape is said to be the same as the energy field around the human body. "The vibrational frequency of the planet has increased from a steady 7.83 Hz to 9.2Hz in July '96 and is expected to go up to 15 by 2012. The star tetrahedron is more resonant to this time of higher planetary frequencies than the pyramid", Charles states in his brochure.

Sleeping inside the star tetrahedron shape for half an hour each evening, Charles found that he was starting not to want to eat so much food, which he understands as being due to having filled up with so much prana/ chi/energy. He would feel light headed after 30 minutes and would get out of the Star, after which he had to take things slowly.

In an experiment in Newcastle two children with ADD were tested for their ability to concentrate on playing games on a computer screen when wired up to an EEG. After putting one child under the star shape still wired up ­ the EEG malfunctioned. Too much energy! The other child was tested, put under the Star for a short spell, and then retested. She displayed a 60% improvement in beta wave activity. The Catholic nun involved was very excited at the potential of this method.

With a woman who came to him originally just for colour therapy, a session of sitting within the Star unleashed a healing crisis and at first her health felt much worse for a few days. But then it started to improve and she was improving after each subsequent session.

"The shape of the Merkeba was not known to the ancient Atlanteans, but this tool is now being given to us to work with. We need to understand that it is a tool of light and can only be used with divine intention" it says in Charles' brochure.

Life as a Keyline Consultant
Charles had another interesting past career that I was intrigued to find out about. He used to be the Victorian and South Australian agent for Percy Yeomans, the keyline farm plan man who was internationally acclaimed and well ahead of his time with the environmental management of farms. Charles travelled around the countryside advising people where to site their dams for best effect and how to use the chisel plough to improve soil. On one irrigation farm he remembers being most impressed to see a green haze of grass showing just 3 days after it was chisel seeded with superphosphate and lime and then irrigated.

Some 30 years ago Charles was travel ling up to the Sydney shows and 4-5 day farm schools, to which people came from all over the world. He taught the farmers how to best lay out channels and locate dams, and also lectured at Longerang and Dooki agricultural colleges. He had previously been a farmer in Benalla for a few years and with his engineering background had a perfect skill mix for the job.

One day a guy showed him how to divine water with a forked stick. It wouldn't work for him, however, until the man placed his hand upon his wrist as he attempted to dowse. He didn't use dowsing to locate dams (to place them next to springs, as many people do) because he had to place them according to the keyline system. But in his travels he met many people who had the knowledge of dowsing and he read books on the subject and developed quite an interest. Naturally - he has made many pairs of divining rods for people in his time.

Charles always follows his gut feelings and takes time out whenever he chooses. This is why he doesn't want to employ any helpers. As you can imagine ­ he greatly enjoys his work and business is good, although it can get demanding and he is determined not to over -work. I admire his intensely creative spirit and ingenuity!

Contact Charles at Tiamat Global
Ph/fax 03 9583 0751, email tiamatglobal@bigpond.com

 

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Meanderings among Native American Mounds

© Lee Barnes, North Carolina, USA. (lbarnes@primeline.com)

(Note: This article was originally published by the Earth Energies Group of the British Society of Dowsing and was kindly given to Geomantica with permission from the author.)

The earthworks and ceremonial mounds of Native Americans seem to differ
in many respects from the earthworks typical of the British Isles and
Europe. After visiting several dozen sites in eastern North America over
the last 20 years, I would like to give a brief overview of sites which
I have visited, especially ones where I have done preliminary dowsing
investigations. I desire to point out features of interest and mystery
to me. I am also asking for your suggestions on how to deepen my
investigations. I have recently discovered Sig Lonegren's excellent
Earth Mysteries Handbook and excellent website, Mid-Atlantic Geomancy. I
also just discovered the New England Antiquities Research Association
(NEARA) folks when I pilgrimaged to the 1998 American Society of Dowsers
Convention in upstate Vermont.

My interest in native American sites includes a life time interest in
native cultures and trips to sites in Mexico, mid-west, eastern north
America. I've visited numerous mounds in Ohio and Mississippi River
watersheds, including Cahokia (largest historical town in North America
prior to Philadelphia in the 1830's), Great Serpent Mound in Ohio,
Mystery Hill - the American Stonehenge in Mass., and Teotihaucam site
near Mexico City. For brevity, I will limit this article to mounds in
the southeast where I have expanded my dowsing experience and
knowledge.

There were over 150 native American tribes, in well over 1000 villages
in the southeast alone, at the time of post-Columbus contact about 350
years ago. Only in the New England region are found ancient stone
chambers, dolmens, Standing Stones, and cairns similar to those found
in the Old World. The native coastal cultures of the southeastern United
States left behind numerous and extensive shell mounds all along the
Atlantic and Gulf Coast, indicating a long period of occupation. Most of
the mounds show little evidence of ceremonial use or associated
dowseable energy lines (DELs), rather they were convenient sites to
harvest oysters and heap massive amounts of empty shells, often several
meters high over a quarter to half hectare - many were greatly disturbed
and mined by colonists as sources of agricultural liming material.

I preface this article by noting that I have only been dowsing for
Earth energies at Native American sites for about 5 years. I live
in the Southern Appalachian Mountains (southwest of Asheville, NC) where
there are numerous publicly accessible sites, dating over a
thousand-to-1500 year period before present. These sites range from
multi-layered earthen mounds, soapstone-carved petroglyphs, and massive
quartz effigies. Western North Carolina was home to several native
mound-building cultures (Southern Appalachian Mississipian Period
-1000-1550 A.D. Southeastern Ceremonial Complex- 1200-1300 A.D.), before
the coming of the last native culture, the Cherokees, around 1200 b.p.

Within a half mile of my home is a relatively small
northwest-to-southeast elongated mound, presently about 10 feet high, 40
foot wide and 60 feet long, at the intersection of a small creek,
Shelton Branch, and a larger Richland Creek in a floodplain city park.
Mounds and village sites are typically located near larger streams for
fishing and bathing, with most village sites built about 10 feet above
normal river height. Most sites in the region were adjacent to
excellent agricultural floodplains and have been damaged by later
settlers cultivating their crops. This unnamed mound has a couple of
large, cart-to-car-sized boulders, partially exposed by erosion,
suggesting that the site was chosen to accommodate these boulders. About
a mile upstream of this site is a second mound of similar size with
exposed boulders near a rare white sulfur spring long used medicinally
by native cultures.

My dowsing investigations usually include a form of passive dowsing
where I walk the circumference of a site and ask my L-rods to show any
dowseable energies associated with the site. I then dowse specifically
for underground water, and dowseable energy lines (DELs). (Vague
technique, but somewhere to start.) I found background Hartmann Lines
all around the mound and four more powerful DELs extending from the top
of the mound in the traditional eastern and Mississippian Native
American culture's 'Four Directions', North-to-South, East-to-West.
These dowseable lines seem more ceremonially-created than as
pre-existing earth energies, a physical manifestation of prayers
offered to the Four Directions. There are numerous local fault lines in
the crystalline geology, but none are obviously connected with local
mounds.

Most of the ceremonial mounds in the southeast are earthen structures,
layered upon previously built mounds, often with evidence of ashes from
burned council houses between successive layers, each built with the
addition of thousands of basketfuls of earth. These mounds are mostly
limited in the Appalachian Mountains to the broader floodplains south of
Asheville - researchers suggest that there were not large-enough
populations in the smaller valleys to the north to support the labour to
build large ceremonial mounds.

Near the southern edge of the Appalachian Mountains is the famous
Nikwasi Mound at Franklin, NC, considered one of the more important
ceremonial mounds along the Little Tennessee River. The mound was
presumed to have been constructed with numerous earth layers over a much
older, primitive Earth Lodge ceremonial chamber, representing different
mound-building periods long before the Cherokees superseded earlier
cultures in the late ninth century. Early explorers, including the
colourful botanist William Bartram, describe the mound and it's town
house and surrounding village. The British Army under pressure from
colonists inching into Cherokee lands, marched on the valley in 1770 and
destroyed dozens of village sites, occupying the mound's Town House as a
field hospital, before finally burning it down, along with 1500 acres of
corn fields.

The Nikwase mound is located between two busy streets which meet at a
bridge and near the 'old ford' of the Little Tennessee River, at the
base of the county seat, Franklin. This mound was also heavily damaged
by cultivation before it was preserved as a public park. My dowsing was
limited to a quick once-over, since the site is elevated and clearly
visible to passerbys in this conservative Baptist community. Once again,
I found background Hartmann Grid lines around the mound and stronger
dowseable energy lines in the Four Directions, centered on the top of
the mound.

I have continued to find this pattern of dowseable energy lines in the
Four Directions at over a dozen additional sites in the southeast and
midwest. Larger mounds in the nearby region include Etowah, near
Atlanta, Georgia, as well as Ocmulgee Mounds in southern Georgia, and
the Kolomoki Mounds in southwest Georgia.

I have only noted two mounds in my travels that are associated with
major springs - this includes Kolomoki, a large mound complex in
southwestern Georgia and a large unnamed mound on the private commercial
attraction, Biltmore Estate, near the confluence of the French Broad
River and Swannanoa River. Kolomoki was a large ceremonial center near
the Chattahoochee River with two prominent burial mounds directly west
of the major mound. This site was built about 800 A.D. and apparently
abandoned after 1300 A.D.

Besides finding background Hartmann Lines in
the plaza between the mounds, I found an extremely powerful line between
the burial mounds and the largest mound. At the time, I had programmed
my L-rods to cross when detecting DELs, but in this case my rods
literally flew widely apart, suggesting a vastly different energy line
from those which I was familiar. This 'burial line' was about a foot
wide and, curiously, was located just a couple of feet adjacent from a
well-worn foot visitors trail between the mounds. I followed the
'burial line' by deviceless dowsing, noting an intense contractive
pressure in my chest. It was clear that other visitors avoided this line
by a few feet when walking the shortest line between the mounds.

I only know of two sites east of the Mississippi River which are
clearly archaeoastronomical. The well-publicized Mystery Hill-
Americas Stonehenge, in southern MA and our own 'Woodhenge' at
Cahokia, near present day St. Louis. Mystery Hill is a partially
restored 'tourist-trap', catering strongly to the New Agers who want
clear views of the sun on solstices and equinoxes, as well as, and lunar
maximum and minimums. The site has been initially carbon-dated to about
2000 BC.

I found extremely narrow, 1-2 cm wide DELs marking significant
solar and lunar points upon the horizon. My sense was that these DELs
were thought-forms created by people staring from a central viewing
point. The only other significant observation here was of a strong DEL
from a low, linear tear-dropped shaped wall with a powerful DEL
extending off to the northeast. This orientation was similar to that
found at several larger rock piles seen the previous day in southern
Vermont during a field trip to a private site with NEARA folks.

The regions most out standing soapstone petroglyph is named Judaculla
Rock, near Cullowhee, NC, about an hours drive southwest of Asheville.
This car-sized, soapstone boulder contains dozens of abstract animal
line-carvings and over a hundred cup-marks indentations. There is a
prominent carved groove along the images, with old photos showing
detailed sea-creatures (six-armed octopus, eel-like animals, among
others) suggesting that this was a representation of a coast line.

During my initial visit to the site, I dowsed several DELs, about eight
feet apart, apparently entering the boulder from the south, and two
radiating lines to the northwest and along the groove to the northeast.
I recently re-visited the site and determined that the parallel lines
from the south were actually part of the Hartmann Grid lines. The DEL to
the northwest ended at the beginning of the path from the visitors
parking area, suggesting that this was a thought-form created when folks
first viewed the boulder. The DEL to the northeast extended along the
groove, suggesting another thought form created by viewing along the
groove. These observations suggested to me that a more precise site
inspection form was needed to clarify first impressions!

At Rock Eagle, a stone effigy ceremonial site built in the Middle
Woodland Phase, east of Atlanta, GA., I searched for DELs associated
with the site. (The Rock Eagle, is constructed with bread-loaf sized,
pure white quartz rocks piled 8 ft. deep in the center and shaped in the
form of a eagle with arching wings, about 102 ft. from tail to head, and
120 ft. from wing tip to wing tip. Of particular interest is that these
quartz rocks are only known from a quarry site more than forty miles
distant. I found numerous DELs apparently flowing into the base of the
tail. There is a three-story viewing tower along the base of the tail,
and I was able to dowse the same parallel DELs from each of the levels,
showing me that these DELs had considerable vertical height. I was also
amazed when dowsing around the arching wings, a series of DELs radiating
in diverging directions- this was the first time I found other than
parallel lines associated with ceremonial sites.

I conclude this brief introduction to Southeastern Native North
American ceremonial sites by summarizing my basic insights - these sites
contain DELs which seem to be created by ceremony or thought-forms.
These sites almost exclusively lack standing-stone type structures and
association with underground water. These sites represent multiple
periods of development by different native New World cultural phases,
apparently lacking the complex patterns and energy flows manipulations
found by dowsers at Old World sites. Of course, these are the
observations and conclusions of just one, relatively amateur,
archeologist and dowser. Further investigations by teamed dowsers are
highly desired - do come and visit!

Recommended Reading

Jerry N. McDonald and Susan l. Woodward. 1987. Indian Mounds of the
Atlantic Coast. McDonald and Woodward Publishing, Newark, Ohio. 162 pgs.
- details 42 sites open to the public, including sites in the Southern
Appalachians with maps and short descriptions about each site.

Bert Bierer. 1980. Indians and Artifacts in the Southeast. Bierier
Publishing, Columbia, South Carolina. 502 pgs. - wonderfully illustrated
guide to southern native American cultures with thousands of drawings of
projectile points, pottery designs, historical maps of known mounds,
and a reprint of most of John Reed Swanton's The Indian Tribes and
Villages of North America.

Sig Lonegren. 1985. Earth Mysteries Handbook: Wholistic Non-Intrusive
Data Gathering Techniques. American Society of Dowsers and The New
England Antiquities Research Association. 54 pgs. - wonderful overview
of dowsing and data collection for collecting research at these sites.

Warren King Moorehead. 1979. Etowah Papers: Exploration of the Etowah
Site in Georgia. American Indian Books, Union City, GA. 178 pgs- site
descriptions, illustrations of artifacts.

William H. Sears. 1956. Excavations at Kolomoki: Final Report.
University of Georgia Press. Athens, GA. 114 pgs.- site maps, sample
pottery fragments, and tools.

 

Lee's List of Recommended Dowsing, Earth Energies and Mounds Websites

The American Society of Dowsers, http://www.dowsers.org/
British Society of Dowsers, http://www.britishdowsers.org
Earth Energies Group, BSD, http://www.geomancy.org/bsdeeg/
Canadian Society of Questers, http://www.canadiandowsers.org/
Digital Dowsing Home Page, http://members.tripod.com/~Reid_J/index.html
Dowsing Main Web Site, http://www.dowsing.com
List of Dowsing Sites, http://www.viking-z.org/adowsing.htm

Geodowser Earth Energies& Megalithic, http://www.home.earthlink.net/~geodowser
Dowsing and Geomancy, http://www.hist.unt.edu/09w-ar.htm
Intuition Network Home Page, http://www.intuition.org
Ozark Research Institute (healing), http://www.ozarkresearch.org/
Mid-Atlantic Geomancy, http://www.geomancy.org
Subscribe to the Ley Hunter, http://leyhunter.com/leyhunt/home.html
The Sacred Earth Network, http://www.igc.apc.org/sen/
SpiritWeb, http://www.spiritweb.org/

Native American Guide to Power Places, http://www.cast.uark.edu/other/nps/nadb/
Mounds Main Page, http://www.cast.uark.edu/other/nps/npsweb/MOUNDS/mounds.html
The Moundbuilders, http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/feature/builder.htm
Moundbuilder Links, http://www.ngeorgia.com/cgibin/links/moundbuilders
Archaeology Links (NC), http://www.arch.dcr.state.nc.us/links.htm
Ancient Megalithic Stone Sites, http://www.planet.net/pgeo/sites.htm
North Carolina Archaeology, http://www.arch.dcr.state.nc.us/default.htm
Society for Georgia Archaeology, http://www.georgia-archaelogy.org
Tennessee Archaeology Net, http://www.mtsu.edu/~kesmith/TNARCHNET/archpage.html
Ancient Architects of the Mississippi, http://www.cr.nps.gov/aad/feature/feature.htm
Archaeological Parks in Southeast US, http://www.uark.edu/misc/aras/southeast.html
New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA), http://www.neara.org/
Institute for the Study of American Cultures, http://www.isacnet.org
RockArtNet, http://www.geocities.com
Welcome to the Stone Circle Webring, http://www.easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~aburham/ring
Woodland Indian News, http://ascenture.net/win/
Every Ogham Thing on the Web, http://www.indigo.ie/egt/standars/og/ogmharc.html
Rock Art Links, http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/2384/links1.html

 

 

Earth Acupuncture ­ experiences & musings
© Alanna Moore Sept. '01

Ann C. contacted me one day recently about her need for a dowsing survey of her home in the Melbourne suburb of Canterbury. She was so glad to find me, as her natural therapist had given her an old interstate address for me, so she had to track me down. She had been told by two natural therapists, that, from indications gained with health/energy testing units, she was suffering from geopathic stress. Her energies and health had been dragged down after the years of living in that house.

Ann had previously got onto a map dowser in England. They had found that two large streams of underground water, running in a cross pattern under her home, were the culprit. She had done her own dowsing and found a third, smaller stream. But she didn't know what to do about it.

Ann had called in several practitioners who claimed to be able to clear the energies by mental/psychic abilities alone. Whatever they had done ­ the energies in the home were still unbearable, so it hadn't worked.

"Thank goodness I've found someone who uses the copper pipes method" (to clear geopathic stress) she said. "I'd heard about it, but couldn't find anyone who practised it."
Banging short lengths of copper pipe vertically into the ground certainly sounds very mundane ­ but is a proven technique with an excellent track record.

She didn't tell me what had already been divined. My own initial map dowsing had found large areas were geopathically affected and when I got around to visit the house I had soon located the two large streams previously map dowsed in the UK, plus the smaller one that had been missed. The energy was pretty strong and I was 'going wobbly' at times from having to tune into it. I indicated where several copper pipes were required to neutralise the three streams. As usual I was out of there within an hour ­ one wouldn't want to do this work for too long!

The other day Ann rang me out of the blue. Yes ­ things were very good now, she said, since she had finished the job and banged some pipes into place. Relief at last! Now she is planning to sell the house as it is much too big for her. All the better that the energies have been fixed up -­it should sell much more easily and not just be a case of passing on the problem. She rang to get me to map dowse a place she was interested to buy.

A short time later the fax rang and out popped the new house plan and auction notes. I mentally attuned to Ann first before dowsing to help connect me to the plan. It showed up neutral energetically at the house, and dowsing also indicated that the backyard of the property, with its bushland and waterfalls, was a wonderful spot energetically, a haven for nature spirits.

Dowsing before you take the plunge is definitely the go!

Not long after this I received feedback about two new Towers of Power. A woman, whose chakras I had dowsed over at a workshop went home after helping to build the Tower (which is not far from her home) and experienced an emotional catharsis. She was angry with everyone. After she had settled down though she noted that her life was cruising much more easily, her energy cleared. A new Tower owner elsewhere also became furiously angry with everything and everyone, and also started to experience physical elimination of toxins, with greatly increased number of (normal) stools.

Here we gain a glimpse of the potential of a Tower as a form of acupuncture for clearing energy blockages, with far reaching effects, from land to people energies. Perhaps showing how intimately connected we are to the Earth and the processes we set in place in the landscape. The results may be challenging initially, but ultimately the healing crises that are sometimes triggered after the Towers go can be the harbingers of positive change.

When we are ready for change it will come eventually, especially when graciously invited with affirmations, as we do in consecrating the Towers for the betterment of all. The Tower energies being ideally suited to such etheric programming.

The ancients used 'needles of stone' for their Earth acupuncture work. We use copper pipes and tubes of paramagnetic rock dust to improve environmental harmony. Classical acupuncture uses metal needles, which in Bhutan are only made from silver or gold, I was told by a Bhutanese man who worked for the World Health Organisation in Sri Lanka when I studied acupuncture there in 1985.

By the way - Tom Graves' classic book 'Needles of Stone' is out of print, but fortunately it is freely available as a download from www.wyrdsmiths.com . Tom talked about the way people have misappropriated the ideas in this book, in a Geomantica interview in issue 7.

(Note- This and other choice articles from Geomanticas past will be reprinted in the updated 'Divining Earth Spirit' book.)

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In the Geomantica Pipeline
Alanna Moore is currently working on producing several video documentaries and a book (when finances permit) which should interest readers and, when ready, these are to be marketed via the website and other outlets. Any help or suggestions to get these projects to fruition would be greatly appreciated!

'Paramagnetism in Sustainable Farming & Gardening' will be covering many of the subjects in the book 'Stone Age Farming'- ie sustainable agriculture, the paramagnetic rock dusts, Irish Round Towers (with footage from Ireland) and modern Towers of Powers, with a workshop segment showing construction, plus interviews with several Towers owners speaking of their experiences with them.

Filming is just about complete for this one (having taken some 2 years!) ­ it just needs editing (another learning curve!) Some decent Mac editing software wouldn't go astray!

'Understanding Australian Geomancy ­ Landscapes and People' will look at several Australian landscapes and interview people who have been geomantically connected to them. So far footage has been gathered of the Flinders ranges, plus the volcanic landscapes of northern NSW and SE Queensland, which Alanna which will be talking about; Steven Guth in Canberra has taken the camera on a geomantic tour of part of the main energy axis line running through Canberra and talks about the British tradition mindset that Australia is stuck in.

Alanna flew to Alice Springs in early September to film the big corroborree already described, plus geomancer Billy Arnold visiting Dreaming sites; and also Aboriginal cultural teaching at Peppermint Ridge Farm in eastern Victoria, where a registered site of Aboriginal significance is being used again for cultural events.

Later in the year it is hoped to get some filming done at Hindmarsh Island. (There certainly are powerful energies on that island. Alanna was told that a filmmaker had got some footage there in the past, only to go home and find all the tapes were blank! She will be checking as she goes!) It is also hoped to get some modern urban geomancers in this film, which could run to some 2.5 hours.

'Diviners in Australia' is a collection of interviews with some great divining identities around Australia, expected to run for some 2 hours. There are a lot of legendary characters out there in the countryside, many of whom are getting elderly. The project is to show them at work and immortalise their dowsing experiences and success stories. It has been such a pleasure to meet these fascinating people and record something of them for posterity, and they get a buzz out of it too!

So far on film we have Bill - who explains the commonly used system of opal divining in the remote outback town of Coober Pedy in South Australia where, he told Alanna, 90% of miners use dowsing. Bill's rods are quick to respond to the 'slips' and 'slides' under the Earth's surface below him. Some great footage of the end product too ­ fabulous opal specimens in shops and museums, including the famous Eric, the opalised pleisosoar ­ a marine dinosaur which may not actually be extinct, as Alanna will explain.

Ralph ('Silver') Levy of Benalla is another gem on film. A legendary water diviner, Silver's speciality is grave site divining. Teaming up with Leo, the local sexton who manages the cemetary records ­ Silver was able to pinpoint the location of Ned Kelly gang members who died in the siege at Glenrowan, as well as Ned's grandma. The burial locations had been deliberately kept secret, the site of Joe Byrne and Martin Cherry's midnight burial was outside of consecrated ground and it had been immediately ploughed up all around to disguise the disturbance. Thanks to Silver and Leo they now have head stones and Byrne's grave is always having flowers left on it by persons unknown.

Sandy Griffin, in Pakenham, Victoria, talks of his dowsing experiences with looking for gold, water in India and leaks in dams. We get to see him divining over his own dam, which had previously leaked before divining pinpointed the problem spot and it was mended. The dam is in a beautiful temperate rainforest gully of huge tree ferns and some gigantic gums.

It is envisaged to have another 3 or so diviners in the film, probably looking at other applications, but keeping it fairly down-to-earth, to appeal to a general audience.

'Divining Earth Spirit in Australia' ­ the updated book on geomancy in Australia, compiled by Alanna in 1994 from mostly '80's material, is also in the pipeline, hopefully coming out this summer. It will contain many of the best articles published in Geomantica in recent years.

'Divining Earth Spirit' has been a steady seller direct to the public over the years, but due to the A4 photocopy format it was never popular with bookshops. However the convenience and cost of small print runs makes another photocopy version a likelihood, as paper and printing is not cheap. And it must be paid for long before the bookshops pay up. Unfortunately staying with the photocopy format means the exposure received by being in a bookshop cannot be gained, therefore sales will be much lower. Somehow the money for a proper print job will need to be raised to get the message out to a wider audience

 

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Magazine Review

Unity with Nature Network newsletter
(allied to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in Australia.)

Jeanette Gow sent me a copy of the second edition of this small photocopied newsletter which contains material from Australia (article by Susannah Brindle ­ is there divine presence in the cockroach? and Denis Hearne ­ indigenous foods/permaculture research in Darwin) and overseas; and in an accompanying letter stated that

"Although I'm a Quaker I plan to extend interest and involvement in the Network to any person interested in spiritual ecology, no matter what their religious background.

I suspect that this newsletter is the only Australia n publication issued periodically on the subject of spiritual ecology. Friends at present read USA and UK magazines. If you know of any Australian counterparts I'd be interested in hearing about them.

As you will gather from the content the network is about the evolution of our spirituality to include all creation and expressing our beliefs through practical work."

To find out more contact Jeanette Gow, PO Box 479 Kyogle NSW 2474,
ph/fax 02 6633 52 37.

 

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Letters to the Editor

* "Carry on this important and useful knowledge for those of us who are aware of the disaster, which is inevitable, if greed is to control food production" Ion Danes, Victoria.

* "I am a retired farmer and have just returned from 3 months in Scandinavia. It was harvest time and I was astounded by the amount of growth they experience. They put it down to ground up rock dust (by glacier action and frost action). Norway has the oldest and the youngest rocks in the world" GC, Victoria.

* "Dear Alanna, Re: A Definition of Ch'i

This quote is from Manfred Porkett in an interview with Fritjov Capra in his book 'Uncommon Wisdom'

'Chi is the structured pattern of relationships which are defined in a directional way'

Regards Peter Lance"

 

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What's On?

'STONE AGE FARMING' WORKSHOPS

We all know that certain radioactive rocks, such as uranium, emit harmful energies, but did you know that there are also certain rocks that emit beneficial energies? That these good energies are now being harnessed by gardeners and farmers to increase their land's productivity?

Paramagnetism is a natural subtle force that speeds up biological activity and assists the building of topsoil. The use of paramagnetic rock dust as a cheap and long lasting soil amendment is rapidly gaining popularity. Even the huge construction company Boral has got in on the act, having done extensive research and agronomy trials, and they are now marketing their most energetic rock dusts.

Alanna Moore, who has been researching subtle energies for some 20 years and has written 3 books on related subjects -her latest offering being 'Stone Age Farming', will be explaining the benefits of paramagnetism and dowsing at talks and workshops at various venues around Victoria and Western Australia this spring and in Tasmania in December.

Alanna will be giving workshop participants a hands­on practical introduction to the detection, harnessing or avoidance of subtle energies in the landscape. Techniques of dowsing (also known as divining) will be taught, and a Tower of Power ­ a paramagnetic antenna- will be constructed.

These Towers have been found to increase crop yields and improve the health and wellbeing of plants and animals in their vicinity. A strawberry farmer interviewed by Alanna near Adelaide last year reported a massive 30% increase in yields, subsequent to the placing of a large Tower in his field. Crops not only become more lush, but also more pest resistant and taste sweeter.

Alanna's 'Stone Age Farming Workshops',
will comprise training sessions in Earth Dowsing (techniques of pendulum and map dowsing, geomancy & Earth energies, Earth acupuncture for geopathic stress, electro-stress protection etc) and Paramagnetic Gardening (learning how paramagnetism induces soil fertility, how to select rock dusts, build a simple Tower of Power, etc) at the following venues. The fee is usually $60 for a one day (6 hour) workshop and concession prices are available. Pendulums and books will be available for sale on the day.

 



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