the free web magazine of dowsing, geomancy & Earth harmony,
in Australasia and beyond. Edited by Alanna Moore.
Welcome to the autumn edition of Geomantica, of March 2006.
It's still bloody hot... But having enough water tanks - the tanks spilleth over! So no need for meanness when I'm watering the garden. Water is such a hot topic currently! Sydney and other cities are at critically low levels.
Perhaps the Sydney Water Board should host a visit by Morad Eghbal, the American expert on 'Earth generated water'. Our rivers might give out a big sigh of relief, should we look to more subterranean flows. Sydney has it's eyes on the Botany aquifer, which is surrounded by the potential nighmare of toxic wastes from industrial areas above, after the public backlash about energy guzzling, inefficient de-salination plants. Eghbal has kindly supplied an article on 'New Water' for this issue.
There is much other great food for thought herein, tying together the subjects of Earth energies, stones, water, healing, 'art' and ritual.
Feast away!
Hello Alanna
I met you a couple of years ago attending
your wonderful workshop at
Glastonbell. I would very much like to be included on your email
list.
Just looking at your magazine online, congratulations, its fabulous.
Much joy, Z.
Hi Alanna,
I have read your Stone Age farming book several
times and after the most recent
perusal happened upon this site on the web. Thought you'd like
to see
another example of rock dust performing veggie wonders in Scotland.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/beyond/factsheets/changing8_prog3.shtml
Do you know if rock dust for human consumption is sold in Australia?
Cheers, R.
(Any fine basalt dust @ one teaspoon daily
is worth a try. Ed)
"Proposed new planning laws in Victoria wiill see Aboriginal culture heritage better protected, in the first change to cultural heritage laws since 1987. All residential and commercial developments will be subject to assessment for heritage values and planning permits will not be issued until it is known that heritage sites will not be damaged. Fines for destruction of sites will be increased from $10,000 to $150,000, and up to $1 million for corporations (up from $50,000). Local councils will organise the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Assessments."
Source: Herald Sun, Oct 19, 2005 and interne
But is it as good as it might appear? The Yorta Yorta people have responded with much criticism of this attempt to make good current rules and regs. They believe thtat it will herald a further erosion of their rights, and their response can be viewed on the internet and downloaded as a PDF file.
But, errr, as for the address - sorry, but you'll have to google it!
15 January 2006
Following the recent visit by Dr David Deeley to the 'Auria' property, north of Dowerin in the Central Wheatbelt of WA, an unsolicited testimonial for 'The Auria Project' was written.
"Plant establishment, survival and growth rates achieved by David at Auria are outstanding. It is indeed satisfying to see a practical application of mixed species and companion plantings across such a wide range of potentially commercially viable trees and shrubs. Any established research organisation would be proud of the successes observed in trials at Auria. The fact that they have been implemented by an individual farmer is truly remarkable. I would have no hesitation in recommending potential sponsors to David Kennett and the Auria Project."
(Landscape Ecologist 30 years experience in southwest WA)
From: December ORION TRANSMISSIONS
2005
As channelled by Parvati
ORION: There are several key sites in Poland where both great strife and suffering occurred, or ancient healing rituals were once performed. You have already been to many of the concentration camps from World War II. Now, let us look into ancient sacred and sites where there shall emerge more Light for healing. There, you will receive instructions to perform fire. As was the case with the caves on the outskirts of Budapest-you were guided to the caves and did not even know any caves existed there! A blessing was given to the atmosphere there when you activated the site with fire.
KARPACZ (Poland) has ancient history. Good you will be going there now.
PARVATI: Orion had often mentioned the name Karpacz in the past, before I ever knew there was such a place in Poland. Karpacz is a quaint tourist resort town in the mountains of western Poland.
So, when we were invited to give a talk on Agnihotra there, we knew we had several reasons for going. On the way, I gave a Mandala Art Therapy workshop at nearby Gajowka village, attended by over 20 women from various outlying areas. It was held it Aneta's old artistically renovated farmhouse. There we met Ela, the organizer for Karpacz talk who happened to also be a professional tourguide! As soon as we met, she informed us that there was an ancient site she wanted to take us to see in Karpacz. We looked at each other in amazement, as we had not met her before and here she was guiding us to the exact place we were sent to find!
So, we went to Saint Anne's shrine, which was a Catholic site that had been built on top of an ancient Pagan and pre-Pagan holy energy site. Beside it is a holy spring which is considered to be miraculous water. According to legend, it has healed many for thousands of years. We were preparing to do a healing fire there with the idea of activating these healing energies. When we asked where it should be done, I listened to guidance that said, 'trees hold the memories and the energies.' I related this to Ela and she led us to a majestic 600 year old tree just a few yards away. We performed the fire under that tree, and the following message was received there.)
ORION: Yes. Ancient civilizations bear great gifts to the present moment.
This, where you are at present. was an actual site of ancient purification ceremonies involving fire, water, and contact with elementals. In ancient times, these souls were aware of all the elements of Nature and performed healing rituals daily, even hourly. Women were at the forefront.
In respect to the elders of ancient culture, we bow in reverence.
What once was so alive is now being revived by many in various traditions, breaking barriers of silence and mystery. It is a time when the power of the ancients is being activated. Your work is done now.
PARVTI: At the evening meeting held in a natural health centre,
we taught Agnihotra to an enthusiastic group of women who had
gathered from Karpasz and nearby city, Jelena Gora. At the end
of the talk, one woman announced that she was writing a book
about' magical Karpacz' and, without us ever telling anything
about what we had just experienced earlier in the day, she began
to speak.
She said, "Ages ago, before Christianity, on a group of rocks near the healing spring, women priestesses performed magical rituals for healing and prosperity on the full moon. These rituals were connected with the element of water. They created an energetic matrix and the natural spring was of healing water. However, it was not maintained. If only this place was activated (empowered), the energies would start again to be healing. If activated, the waters would once again give a powerful effect."
All this she spoke without any knowledge of what we had just done a few hours before! So, when we shared the message we'd received and the activation that had been done at the sacred spring, everyone was amazed and we all felt a deeper sense of unity. Once again, the guidance proved to be so exact. We are realizing to just follow it and go where it leads us. It's like experiencing the extraordinary Divine mystery in the ordinary everyday world.)
The Earth's north magnetic pole is drifting away from North America so fast that it could end up in Siberia within 50 years, scientists have said.
Magnetic poles are known to migrate and, occasionally,
swap places.
"This may be part of a normal oscillation and it will eventually
migrate back toward Canada," Joseph Stoner, a palaeomagnetist
at Oregon State University, told a meeting of the American Geophysical
Union (AGU) in San Francisco.
Previous studies have shown that the strength of the Earth's magnetic shield has decreased 10% over the past 150 years. During the same period, the north magnetic pole wandered about 1,100km (685 miles) into the Arctic, according to the new analysis.
The rate of the magnetic pole's movement has increased in the last century compared with fairly steady movement in the previous four centuries, the Oregon researchers said.
They found that the north magnetic field shifted significantly in the last thousand years. It generally migrated between northern Canada and Siberia, but has occasionally moved in other directions.
Story extracted from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/4520982.stm
1st published: 2005/12/12
This film series looks at geomancy in Australasia and beyond, through the eyes of dowsers and clairvoyant researchers, who provide fascinating insights, as well as demonstrating their methods of correcting stressful energies in the home.
Now complete with six approximately half hour films, the order of this series has been rearranged for a more logical unfolding of concepts. It begins with historical insights and traditions, plus people's experiences and professional techniques of geomancy, then goes on to look at landscapes across Australasia & beyond, with more detailed insights to their spiritual significance.
Part One: 'Megalithomania'
- A look at the ancient fascination with megaliths (stone circles
and big rocks) first in Ireland & England, then Australia
and New Zealand, the beginnings of Earth Mysteries research,
and how geomancers relate to rocks now. 32 minutes.
Part Two: 'Divining Earth Harmony'
- From Chinese feng shui to modern urban geomancy. Five geomancers
in Australia describe their work and Earth healing experiences,
and demonstrate methods to counteract environmental energy stresses.
39 minutes.
Part Three: 'Discovering the Devas'
- An introduction to the world of nature spirits, gods and goddesses;
including interviews with people who describe fascinating clairvoyant
observations of them; plus paintings of them; and a look at dowsing
for the devas. Filmed in Australia, New Zealand, England and
Ireland. 34 minutes.
Part Four: 'The Sacred World of Water'
- Explore the many curious characteristics of water and it's
traditionally sacred dimensions. See how people still honour
and care for it's sacred being. Find out about 'spiritual water
divining' and water rituals. Filmed in Australia, New Zealand,
England and Ireland. 38 minutes.
Part Five: 'Glastonbell Dreaming'
- An interview with Phillip Simpfendorfer, Australia's first
European geomancer; plus a look at some of the majestic sandstone
escarpment country of his 'holy land' of 'Glastonbell', in the
Blue Mountains of NSW. 35 minutes
Part Six: 'Pilgrimage to Central Australia'
- An exploration of Aboriginal Dreaming and spirits of place
around the wonderful landscapes of the Alice Springs region,
featuring clairvoyant investigator Billy Arnold, and Aboriginal
art and artists.. 40 minutes.
Purchasing details:
* Copies of single or pairs of films (1&2,
3&4, 5&6) on one DVD can be bought for $20 posted around
Australia.
* The six films on a 4 hour VHS videotape cost $65 posted around
Australia.
By Morad Eghbal, USA.
The Mystery of Water
Since antiquity, the source of water generated from deep within the Earth has been a mystery. How does one explain sources of water throughout the world that produce thousands of gallons of water per minute, often in dry areas with little rainfall or at high altitudes? There are clear examples of this phenomenon which stand out.
The Ain Figeh spring Syria alone supplies water for the over
one million residents of Damascus and is also the principal source
for the Barada River. A report on this spring by the World Bank
reads: The principal emergence for the spring which has been
enclosed in a structure since Roman times resembles an underground
river several meters across which flows up and out of the limestone
formation of the mountain. The total flow has averaged about
132, 000 gallons per minute."
In the 1930's, Stephan Riess, Bavarian-born mining engineer and
geologist, experienced an unexpected gush of water while working
in a mine shaft. The temperature, chemistry and purity suggested
to Riess that it must have a completely different origin than
ordinary ground water considered part of the hydrologic cycle.
Following further independent research, and building on the work
of other eminent geologists, he concluded that in various rock
strata, deep in the earth, water was continually generated under
particular conditions of temperature and pressure and forced
up in rock fissures where it could be drilled for and tapped.
Finding the answer to the mystery of these unexplained water
sources by locating and successfully drilling wells that produced
potable water became the life work and ambition of Stephan Riess.
Toward a new hydrology
Conventional hydrology speaks of a
static supply of water created once early in the Earth's history
being constantly recycled. Stephan Riess saw new additions of
water flowing vertically, from beneath the surface adding to
the hydrologic cycle. This water in turn, becomes bound up on
the surface partially in plants, sediments and subduction zones
on its way back to the Earth's mantle.
These new additions occur frequently where there is faulted,
igneous and metamorphic rock and can be intercepted to replace
contaminated supplies and provide new sources of water in arid
areas. Riess' concept of Earth-generated water adds a new dynamic
to the science of hydrology.
Water from the Trinity Springs rises under its own pressure from an isolated, ancient source through the faulted granite quartz formations of the Idaho batholith. The spring water spends time inside the Earth at temperatures exceeding 300F and surfaces at its source at 140F after traveling from a depth of many miles underground.
Ongoing research on the Trinity Springs water has revealed an interesting geochemistry and remarkable recharge/discharge and travel mechanisms for these thermal waters unlike any other water source in the region. The scientific investigation continues in laboratories specially equipped for high pressure experiments and with new techniques for isotope analysis.
Stephan Riess, through his study of mine flooding, developed
a science of locating flows of Earth-generated water. These waters
which often deposit minerals and flood out mines occur worldwide
as spectacular springs and are even more accessible by drilling
into hidden rock structure. The Riess Institute's scientific
application of petrology, mineralogy, structural geology, aerial
reconnaissance and remotely sensed data, offers "new water"
for a thirsty world.
Several active Riess wells today:
Escondido, California
Riess and his successor, Morad Eghbal,
each located several wells in the late 1970's on private property
both for the personal use of the owner as well as for the commercial
water development for surrounding towns that needed to purchase
water. These well are in operation and producing today.
Cottonwood, Idaho
The city of Cottonwood was running out of water and the traditional,
professional geologists the city had hired to find water declared
that there was no hope of success. The city then turned to Stephan
Riess, Riess immediately located two wells for them. The first
generated more than 250 gallons per minute. The second, produced
over 500 gallons pre minute. At the city's request, Riess returned
to locate a third well for Cottonwood's future expansion. This
well produced over 550 gallons per minute. All three wells continue
to supply the city of Cottonwood today.
How does the Riess Institute know where to drill for Earth-generated water?
Conventional water locators pick a spot to drill, looking for an aquifer or saturated zone in the overburden. Recently, with sophisticated satellite photography and "remote sensing," water can be found in rock using a technique called "fracture trace analysis." Large fractures are identified by satellite photography for exploratory drilling.
The Riess method uses mineralogy, petrology and structural geology
precisely to locate high pressure/low temperature hydrothermal
systems that have previously been encountered randomly by engineers
in mine and tunnel flooding incidents.
Historically, all water is believed to come only from
the hydrologic cycle. Yet, a growing body of evidence suggests
that water might be generated deep within the Earth in great
quantity. The Riess Institute at its Totten Field Laboratory,
over the last decade, has drilled, collected and tested waters
captured from great depths in a number of bore holes. Totten
well #3, at 6000 ft, known to be the deepest 4 inch cored water
research well in the continental US. Results from Totten #3 now
indicate some waters there may not be part of the hydrologic
cycle at all, but rather from deep-seated geologic interaction
within the Earth's interior.
The Riess Institute identifies the dynamics of "new"
water generation deep within the Earth's interior, which, after
rising to the surface, is added to the Earth's hydrosphere. This
vertical component of our model is linked to the horizontal
components of water distribution (i.e. hydrologic cycle and theories
of watersheds). As such, the Institute is able to obtain specific
water signatures which identify sources of waters originating
from deep within the Earth.
Morad Eghbal, Hydrogeologist
Principal Researcher and Project
Manager,
The Riess Institute
Email: eghbal@riess.org
NOTE: Mr Eghbal is keen to come to Australia on a speaking tour this coming May, and is calling for interest to organise such. If you think that a talk would be appreciated in your area and are willing to help facilitate such an event, please contact him directly about it. Ed.
This a theory for people who practice healing by hands as crystal healing, Reiki, universal energy, etc.
In these types of healing, a very important aspect is to create a specific atmosphere for healing or positive changes in people's health. We have an important supply of energy from Mother Earth, all her energy nets - Hartman, Curry and multiple combinations; and ley lines where in the past, the people constructed churches and different kinds of monuments, some of them dedicated for healing, and of course for saying prayers with specific objectives.
Here I want to tell you about possibilities of healing work conducted over these kinds of energy bands/lines, only cleaning the bands before healing and in preference to choose bands with health energy (with levels of more than 7000 Angstroms in the Bovis scale).
The first step is to find an energy band, dowse the energy level, and if it is more than 7000 Angstroms - it is good. You may use dowsing to find edges of the band, and the direction of the energy flow inside the band.
The second step is clean this band, using a crystal quartz point around 1 inch long, which is then placed in the middle of the band over the Earth. With this it is enough to clean the energy but you may want to record special commands or program intentions inside the crystal for transmission to the energy.
The third step is to put the healing bed over
the band and the patient lying down with their head toward the
crystal, downstream from it. If you dowse the patient you will
obtain more healthy levels; and this is the atmosphere that we
want in order to start with a healing exercise.
The fourth step is practice your healing process for the time
it will be necessary. It will feel more deep and intensive.
© Carlos Palicio
Mexico City
2006
Australian Aboriginal Rock 'Art', Ritual and Songlines
By Alanna Moore, March 2006
The 'art' of petroglyphs?
In Aboriginal Australia there was no word for 'art'. Yet most people today would call 'art', the markings on stone habitually made over millenia that can be prolifically found here.
On this large, dry continent, the commonest rock 'art' motifs are cupules, circles and arcs - these being the oldest type of petroglyphs, with a pair of arcs dated to around 40,000 years of age. As well, there are tracks, abraded grooves and hand stencils.
Cupules are cup shaped depressions, also called pits, dots or hollows. Typically about 5cm/2" in diameter and 3cm/1" deep, they are found in large groups, often on steep or vertical rock surfaces at sacred sites. In one spectacular rock shelter in the Kimberleys, for example, there are thousands of cupules on the vertical walls and sloping ceiling.
Aboriginal society had the notion that the act of marking a rock by hammering or rubbing (resulting in hollows/cupules and abraded grooves) can produce wish fulfillment. This is why such markings are found at sacred sites, where ceremonies for increase and maintenance of landscape were performed.
Mythology states that the totemic spirits reside permanently at the sacred sites. Rituals are thus designed to invoke the creative powers of these nature spirits, thus increasing the population of plant or animal species associated with them.
Series of straight rubbing marks known as 'abraded grooves', were often created during rain making rituals. And animal tracks in stone were made to encourage the increase of the species depicted, as a type of hunting magic. Thus rather than being 'art', such petroglyphs are actually the "by-product of symbolic action". 1.
Observing the ritual process
Charles Mountford is believed to be the first person to record
the production and function of the pounded cupules. In the Musgrave
Ranges south east of Uluru, central Australia, Mountford described
the curiously shaped boulder that was said to be the body of
Pink Cockatoo Woman Tukalili. Mountford observed that the cupules
being created by pounding the boulder with a small stone, during
an increase ceremony held back in the 1940's.
He was told that this action "causes the release of the kuranita (life essence) of the cockatoo, with which the boulder is impregnated. This kuranita, rising into the air in the form of dust, fertilises the living female cockatoos, causing them to lay more eggs." The cockatoo being an important food source in that region.
Mountford later recorded numerous other such ceremonies that included the rubbing of rock surfaces for the purpose of increase. 1.
Cup marks in North America
Cupules are found globally. North America has its 'pit and groove'
style of rock 'art'. These are often found as exclusive groups
of isolated cupules, and the style is thought to constitute the
oldest of petroglyphs there. In Hawaii 30,000 cupules have been
recorded. In a tradition going back at least 1,500 years, each
new child born there gets a cupule created for them. 1.
Cup marks in Britain
In Britain the so-called 'cup and ring' marks of ancient rock
'art' are a misleading term. The basic primary element of rock
'art' there is the 'cup mark' (cupule). Grooves are also found.
Actual 'cup and ring' motifs are much rarer and may well signify
a later elaboration on the plain cupule. 1.
Such petroglyphs are apparently found often associated with the boundary of ancient settlements, and, being also found on religious monuments and ceramics, they may have functioned as ritual protection devices.
In areas of large-scale ritual landscapes, petroglyphs mark the main routes into the ritual area. "Along the principal route to the Milfield Basin in Northumberland, it has been found that each major decorated rock is intervisible from the next, so that travellers are led towards this important henge complex. One of the outcrops marking the approach to Kilmartin Glen has the same unusual motif as found on the Temple Wood stone circle at the centre of the ritual area." 2.
Michael Cook has studied some of the petroglyphs from a modern dowser's perspective. Speaking about the 'cup and ring' marks that have a line radiating out from the centre, Michael said " if one puts a stave in the cup and ring mark and lines it up with the line and stands behind the staff and looks along the staff and the line there will be another site on that line, or a feature on the horizon." 3.
Then there is the British (and elsewhere) folk tradition of making physical contact with the megaliths, rock features and carvings. Kissing the Blarney Stone and rubbing the genital area of cheeky Sheel-na-gigs may well be the modern expression of ancient practices designed to release inherent rock energies in the pursuit of fertility.
The Dragon Project and other researchers (such as author Tom Graves) have noted the occasional energy rush/zap delivered from standing stones, on occasion. Particularly when they are touched at certain points with greater energetic potential, such as the fifth band of an energy vortex that is spiralling up a menhir. 4.
Perhaps the 'cup mark' is mankind's oldest global expression of connection to environment via ritual, symbolic action?
Above: Petroglyphs at Ewaninga, a sacred Rain Dreaming site near Alice Springs, central Australia.
Songlines
'Art' not being art as we know it, so the songs of the Australian
Aborigines are sung for reasons other than entertainment. Often
they are records of the creation stories of the 'Dreamtime',
and these may be kept secret and only sung during ceremonies.
I am often asked how the Dreaming Tracks /'Song Lines' may be perceived by a dowser. Having John Michell write, in 'The View over Atlantis' (5) that the song lines are Earth energy lines, is a huge oversimplification of the subject.
Songlines are mythic cycles. They express stories which articulate together across vast distances, linking neighbouring tribes into a vast whole pattern. The Songline/ Dreaming Tracks are associated with, or follow, the ancient pathways that link the sacred sites together. Sites where the great Totemic Ancestors created the landscape and then came to rest. Landscapes are criss-crossed with them and the song cycles provide people with a mind map of their country.
But just as Guy Underwood (6) found energy paths, that he called 'trackways', existing co-incidentally with old tracks, so the dowsing of Dreaming tracks as energy lines, is merely a case of finding another 'by-product of symbolic action.'
As the Aboriginal people followed the paths of their original ancestors for over 40,000 years one would expect a residuum of energy to be lingering there.
What is more important is - where do the lines and paths take us? Like a road takes us to our modern places of human focus. The road is useful, but hardly important in itself.
Dreaming paths often mark tribal boundaries and are neutral ground where anyone may journey, in tradition. The pathways take us to power centres in the land, where the creator spirits stopped to rest, and these points are marked by an unusual boulder, tree, lake or waterhole, etc. These were places that had to be regularly sung to maintain wholistic health. Millenia after millenia, the ancient songs were sung.
Seeing that Aboriginal traditions kept these pathways, songs, dances and behaviours over such a vast length of time, I think we ought to stop imposing our own cultural expectations, and try to absorb and intuit what such Aboriginal cultural treasures may offer us.
Accessing the Dreamtime
A story-of-place (if one still exists) may well be reflected
in the character of the energies of the surrounding landscape.
But we must be truly open to learn directly from nature.
I believe that anyone can transcend time and mundane reality by journeying to the Dreamtime - when we visit sacred sites, with utmost respect, and there absorb the knowledge-of-place.
The Al-cha-ra / Dreamtime is actually a 'continuing creation time'. In other words, it is the story of life in other kingdoms / realities; the story of the evolution of spirit, that is available to all who choose to attune themselves to the other dimensions of space/time.
For example, in a meditative state the spirits of place may grant you access to the 'Akashic Records' and it is possible to experience past epochs, as in clairvoyant vision, but sometimes with all the senses involved. This has happened to me, as well as others I've spoken to. One woman tells me that she often watches spirit dinosaurs hopping around her property in Western Australia.
Ley and dragon lines
Back to songlines they are associated with ancient trackways,
some of which were even built up on steep parts, or defined,
by stones placed along the sides, an example being a straight
track (in two segments) built across the top of Mt Tabletop near
Toowoomba, Queensland. 7.
Such Dreaming tracks often have linear paths, which may well be reflected above as straight energy ley ('ley line') paths in the sky. At points where these paths change direction it is said to be where Ancestor Spirits rested or created, and these are often marked by a natural landscape feature or man made rock cairn. 7 & 8.
Earth energy currents, such as dragon lines, act as highways for local nature spirits, as clairvoyant Billy Arnold observed one day. From his own vision, Billy knows that the ancient correlation of Dreaming Tracks and sites with totemic / nature spirits remains the case. Of course many sites have suffered damage in the last 200 + years since white invasion, and have been abandoned by spirit.
So songlines have multiple functions and manifestations. They are a part of the rich fabric of an ancient culture which maintains close spiritual links to the land to this day (mainly in the centre and far north of the country).
In fact Australian Aboriginal geomantic traditions probably constitute the oldest continuing eco-spiritual practises on the planet.
© Alanna Moore, March 2006.
References:
1. 'Rock Art of the Dreamtime', by Josehine
Flood, PhD, Angus and Robertson, 1997.
2. New Insights into Rock Art by Mike Haigh from Northern Earth
65, adapted from 'Making Sense of Prehistoric Art', Richard Bradley,
British Archaeology, Nov. 1995 pp 8-9
3. 'Dowsing Today' (BSD Journal), Vol 40 no 290, December 2005
4. 'Needles of Stone' by Tom Graves, Turnstone, UK, 1978.
5. 'New View over Atlantis', John Michell, Thames and Hudson,
UK, 1983.
6. 'The Pattern of the Past' by Guy Underwood, Abacus, UK, 1969.
7. 'In the Tracks of a Rainbow Indigenous Culture and Legends
of the Sunshine Coast' by Robin A Wells, Gullirae Books, Qld,
2003.
8. 'Aboriginal Pathways in Southeast Queensland and the Richmond
River' by J G Steele, University of Qld Press, 1984.
by Miroslav Provod
Even though there are many hypotheses about pyramids, the question about their use has remained unanswered. From my knowledge that I have gained during experiments, it seems that pyramids, like other megalithic structures, were built in order to accumulate energy. The principals and style of the experiments made is available at www.miroslavprovod.com
In the following text I'm explaining my statement on the basis of a complex of pyramids, whose parts, as well as the pyramid, are a valley cathedral, climbing path, ghost cathedral, satellite pyramid.
Approximately 1 kilometre from the valley cathedral, very close to the pyramid, there was a ghost cathedral built. Both cathedrals were connected by an object called "climbing path", which however doesn't look like a path at all. The procedure of constructing this object was started in a way that at first there was a stone surface built from the valley cathedral to the ghost cathedral. There were two and a half metres thick stone walls, which were almost three metres high, built on both sides of it. Actually, it was some one kilometre long through, which was covered by stone blocks, forming an above surface tunnel. For its construction, tens of thousands of tons of stone needed to be mined, pecked, transported and built in. Why was such a thick and heavy wall needed, when according to the static needs just a wall 90cm thick would have been enough? And why there was a tunnel instead of a path?
There hasn't been a satisfactory and logical answer to these and other similar questions. Our science lacks crucial information about the energy of water streams and other matter.
We can come empirically to the fact that energetic properties of water streams have been used throughout the history. If we put together a greater number of megalithic and holy structures that were located close to water springs and other water flows, especially within their inner bends and meanders, we find out that the choice about where to build them was not random. We find out similar facts in cases of megalithic and holy structures located above later discovered ore pockets. If these structures had to be built in places that lack energy, above mentioned energy sources were replaced by roofs with a tip, towers with metal bells, metal statues or gold-plated pyramid like structures. In many cases, like the case of pyramids, combinations of all these sources were used.
The motivation for construction of pyramid complexes could be found in other part of ancient history. There are indications that Chinese people used to trundle streams of energy on the ground in straight canals that were oriented towards the emperors' palace. These energetic corridors were knows as "dragons trails" and were used to concentrate power around the emperor and to mentally reinforce him. On some of these trails there was a transport path established. Other paths were approaching the palaces invisibly and are shown only by the use of statues and obelisks.
I'm considering the straight climbing channels that were conductors of cosmic energy as a help to the explanation for the construction of "climbing paths". The water stream is an energy source, "climbing path" is a conductor of the energy and the pyramid is a capacitor. One of the pieces of knowledge that came out of the experiments undertaken is the fact that concentrated energetic components inside the tunnel structure are by some kind of intensifying effect multiplied. Other quite substantial amounts of energy were gained by the tunnel structure from the energetic zones of the water stream, which crossed it in a few places within its one kilometre length. This is agreeing with the findings of the experiments taken through.
It is very likely that pyramids were designed for a concrete amount of energy. It was found after its completion that the energetic gain is smaller. In this case the satellite pyramid could have supplemented missing matter. I also think that the use of the pyramid was not single-purposed. Beyond the manipulation with great amounts of energy, for which I don't know the reasons, both cathedrals including the climbing path could have been used for curative purpose. In the later history we often encounter information about the cure of ill people by a few days long stay in sanctuaries. The small rooms in both cathedrals that were identified as storage spaces could have had the same purpose. We could supply the energy of the cellular membranes in this way, which is transformed by the mitochondria not only from food.
There were thousands of containers with food found in some pyramids. We could therefore assume that properties of the accumulated energy could have been used to extend the lifetime, let us say to some kind of natural conservation of food.
Everything I'm describing is only the first steps in the research of the energy of matter. At present time there are many people who could mark places, where the energetic components are located. But this is too little. We need to know in what significance and what quality is the energy of the given locality. The motivation for further research is the development of measuring apparatus, which would answer our questions that are related to the properties of matter in the dependence on the amount of the energy in it. We can't exclude that to reach the energetic effect of the constructors of pyramids, we don't have to use huge amounts of rocks, but we could manage with electronics and computer software.
From 'Pagan Times' Spring 2005 no 53.
Book & Film Review by Jilli Roberts of:
'A Little Geomantic Guidebook to The
Magic of Menhirs and Circles of Stone',
and 'Megalithomania' film, by Alanna
Moore
This package of Guidebook (35
pages), Python Press, and 30min
DVD, Geomantica, Australia
retails for about $24. The DVD,
Megalithomania, is the 3rd of a series of
four, the others being Pilgrimage to
Central Australia, Glastonbell Dreaming
and finally Divining Earth Harmony. But
the guidebook is apparently the first in a
series to give 'cutting edge and practical
information'. Others are planned to cover
landscape devas, healthy homes, the sacred
nature of water, and so on. A nice touch
would have been to provide a pocket in
the Guidebook design to house the DVD
for easier storing.
At the end of the Guidebook is an opportunity
to buy Stone Circle Kits from Geomantica.
This booklet is pretty short, and you may
think pretty short on information too, for
example Fairy Traditions goes on for all of
18 lines. I wanted more.
What this text does give you is a whole
corridor of open doors. Just like a
'guidebook', you are meant to go to the
destination and see for yourself: further
reading, workshops, or practical
investigation. Here Alanna gives the reader
a very basic, wrap it up in a page or two,
expansion of each 'chapter heading':
Calendars in Stone, Stones and Energies,
Modern Traditions, Stones and Healing,
Making Stone Circles. And within these
headings, she shoots over The United
States, Australia, and much of the
British Isles. If you're starting from
scratch and you've never read a history
book or archaeological website in your
life, then this package may stir your blood.
It is a timely reminder that history is
important. It's through the study of
history and pre history that we have
realised the quantity of knowledge we
have lost, and it's only through that door
that we will regain it. That knowledge
was far more sophisticated than
previously thought, more profound than
we realised, and was the deep
psychological 'glue' that held whole
communities together and pushed them
on to evolve.
Here Alanna presents to us stone circle
memories from a wide variety of
cultures, then moves on to site energies
and the art of dowsing; a little mention
of Australian Bora grounds; a little
mention of American Indian medicine
wheels; a little mention of labyrinths
around the world. Just enough to
suggest a connection, not necessarily of
communities, mass migrations, or alien
seeding. No, the link is the energy of the
stones themselves.
So....... we are given another brief
mention of circle medicine and an
important half page on the 'don't
dabble' theory (there's always a negative
hanging around a positive). Build a stone
circle in the wrong place and you may
divert the Huon River into your back
garden. So winding up the booklet with
a piece on Making Stone Circles, then
selling kits, may seem a bit foolhardy.
Only joking.
One of the doors of opportunity in this
booklet is the Reference Page, though
it's a pity it didn't include one or two
more recent archaeological texts and
websites from the last 5 years, as
palaeontologic interpretations of circles
and barrows are pretty well turning on
their heads these days. However, we
mustn't forget that, as far as I can see,
the whole point of Alanna's work is to
connect with the energy of the stone
itself, in a variety of ways, rather than
write an academic treatise about it.
The DVD
Now, not being a screen watcher when
I'm off duty, I'm not the sort to
scatter DVDs and iPods around my
living room. But I see now why
Alanna has produced her series of
DVDs and films. If you are not
available to go traipsing through the
Australian Centre with your crystal, or
visit the green lands of Albion, you
can chuck in a DVD. And then all you
have to do is go outside.
The DVD is an extension of the
Guidebook and, if you look at the
inside cover of that, there are other
DVDs and films available as well as
details of a variety of workshops.
Now, it is only 30 minutes. It starts in
lecture mode, using book illustrations
from some of the books on the
Guidebook's Reference Page. It later
relaxes into interviews and field
experiences in Britain and Australia,
including a demonstration of dowsing.
The Australian content reveals the
universality of stone energy by
including, for instance, part of an
Aboriginal meditation workshop, and
examples of rocks in a number of
Australian locations which have been
dowsed by experienced people. This
continent does have its power stones,
and by going on to research more
deeply, the reader could feel confident
that European theories in this field are
well worth pursuing in Australia.
The camera work is quite good as is
the sound quality, but it is not a
polished documentary as seen on TV.
It seems to be more of an extension
of practical workshop experience. But
by doing that, it does place the subject
matter in your own backyard. It's laid
back and friendly, and makes the
concept of sacred stones very
approachable.
I am very enthusiastic about Alanna
Moore's work. This product may seem
simple in presentation and possibly
even content, but her strength is in
her obvious passion to support an
awareness of a global land energy,
which she demonstrates admirably.
Her quiet presentation of a
spectacular subject matter is very
powerful.
Highly recommended to those new
to the subject.
by Dr Jude Currivan, 2005.
Reviewed by Alanna Moore
I would highly recommend this book, as a great introduction to the subject of consciousness and cosmos. It is well described by the blurb on the back cover, as follows.
"Pioneering science and the wisdom teachings of many traditions agree- consciousness expresses itself as energy. All energies are manifested as waves and it is from the vast and ever changing interactions of these waves of energy that the entire Cosmos, at all levels of experience, is continuously created.
In easily accessible terms, The Wave explains the profound interconnectedness and harmony of the universe and reveals its underlying principles. Powerfully combining leading edge research with the perennial wisdom of all ages, it reconciles science and spirit into a universal model of consciousness. It describes how we co-create our realities and how the cosmos affects all life on Earth. It rediscovers the ancient knowledge that birthed feng shui and astrology and perceived the harmony of sacred geometry, musics and number. It clarifies the meaning behind a multitude of metaphysical teachings and the common principles underlying the many techniques of energy healing.
The Wave offers not only an explanation of how the universe is as it is, but why the world is as it is and how we can live in harmony with it and ourselves. Above all, The Wave explains the power of love, and in marrying heart and mind, it births a creative and empowering spirituality from their union."
I'll quote one of my favourite bits. The Intelligent Heart (from page 218).
"In the 1970's physiologists John and Beatrice Lacey pioneered the understanding that the heart is able to perceive, and has inherent intelligence. They found that not only are signals sent from the brain in the cranium to the heart, which the heart considers but does not necessarily follow, but that the heart can also send signals to the brain, which the latter does obey.
And the subsequent discovery that the heart has its own nervous system, comprising at least forty thousand nerve cells, or neurons as many as are found in various sub-cortical centres of the brain has led to the recognition that a two-way bio-communication system operates between the heart and the brain.
The primacy of the heart and its innate intelligence significantly affects how we perceive and interact with the world, as was reviewed by Daniel Coleman in 1996.
Coleman noted that measurements of human IQ, which determines the quotient of intellectual and cognitive abilities, do not change significantly from childhood onwards regardless of educational opportunities and attainment. And he also found that success in life appears to depend less on IQ and more on our ability to manage and develop our emotional intelligence, or EQ.
EQ relates to self-awareness and our perception of the inter-relationships between our thoughts, emotions and actions and their consequences on others. And unlike our IQ, our EQ can continue to be educated and indeed re-educated throughout life
There is now substantial evidence that enhancing emotional intelligence and invoking the intuitive wisdom of the heart sends energetic signals to every cell of the body, re-educates areas of imbalance and dis-ease and facilitates health and well-being."
Author Jude Currivan has a Masters Degree in Physics, specialising in cosmology and quantum physics and a PhD in Archeology, researching ancient cosmologies, and has studied consciouness and metaphysics from childhood. Moving on from a highly successful international business career in the mid 1990s, she has worked with the shamans and elders of many wisdom traditions, is a healer and teacher at the College of Psychic Studies in London and a master dowser. She travels and teaches worldwide. (From the back cover also.)
'The Wave' is published by O Books, UK and
is distributed in Australia by Brumby.
by Rob Roy, 1999.
Reviewed by Alanna Moore.
"This is a book to help alchemists, dowsers, amateur archeologists and archeo-astronomers, heavy-lift engineers and backyard builders answer some of life's biggest questions" begins the book's back cover blurb.
"Rob Roy has travelled the Anglo-Celtic world to learn the hows and whys of stone circle construction. He investigates the remarkable accomplishments (many still unexplained) of his ancestors. And he examines the methods of contemporary practitioners, himself included, and presents hard-to-find information on how to move and align giant stones. Along the way he introduces us to fascinating characters and spins some great yarns about megalithic culture, old and new.
Stone Circles, filled with amazing photos and personal anecdotes, will be a welcome tonic for the imagination. Who were the designers and engineers of the ancient circles? And who are these modern revivalists of mysterious arts and techniques? What motivates them? What are their rewards?..."
There's an intriguing description of how UK stone circle maker Ivan McBeth,, together with a group of circle makers, 'chanted a stone into place'!. (page 128) You'll have to get you own copy to find out more! No doubt Amazon .com sells this book.
"Rob Roy, with wife Jaki and son Darin, has spent much of his adult life roaming the haunts of the woodland druids and the peoples of the moors. He has participated in the design and construction of several large stone circles and many small ones in North America and Europe. Rob and Jaki are founders and faculty of the Earthwood Building School in West Chazy, New York State, where the specialities are cordwood masonry, underground housing and megalithic stone construction." Rob has written several books on various building subjects."
The cover photo features the standing stones at Glenn Innes, New South Wales, Australia.
Recommended reading, 'Stone Circles' is published by Chelsea Green, USA.