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Television
Pathways 33 - On Geomancy
Thursday 5th October 2000, 7:30pm: Channel
31 (Melbourne region only) .
That week's Pathways programme featured Alanna
Moore, who will be explaining about Australian geomancy. There
are scenes from a workshop session where students learn water-divining
and earth acupuncture techniques. Also discussed is paramagnetism
and Towers of Power for the farm and garden, and people with
Towers in South Australia are interviewed.
(This documentary has been repeated 3 times.)
Newspapers
Dominion Post (New Zealand) 9/11/02
'Tower of Power in Waikanae', by Kathryn Powley
Having trouble focusing your energies or getting
your garden to grow? What you need is a Tower of Power filled
with rock dust, according to a visiting Australian expert on
alternative farming techniques. Professional geomancer Alanna
Moore is at Waikanae's Saddle Creek Farm this weekend to teach
a range of what she calls 'stone-age' farming techniques, that's
methods based on stones, not ones that date from the Stone Age.
Geomancy is "understanding about the
energies of the Earth" and the means of 'tuning in' to those
energies is the ancient technique of divining. "For some
people that might sound very airy-fairy. I'm here because there
are practical applications"she said. Just as certain rocks
- such as uranium- emit harmful energies, other rocks emitted
beneficial energies that affected plant growth. "We're in
a sea of energy, as a professional geomancer it's my job to work
out what will have positive effects on people".
Her workshops include electro-magnetism, Earth
acupuncture, divining - also known as energy dowsing, water witching,
or more recently, bio-resonance- and building a Tower of Power.
A hollow tube-like Tower filled witht he right kind of rock dust
(a by-product of quarrying) and placed in the right place, could
act as an antenna to harness magnetic forces from the sun and
the moon. She said that a commercial strawberry farmer using
Towers of Power in Australia reported a 50% rise in yield. The
Towers were based on Irish Round Towers found in monasteries,
which helped monks focus their energies.
As for divining - "Anyone can do it".
Some people might take all day to learn how to get the pendulum
to swing when near strong energy fields, but they got there in
the end.. Ms Moore had experienced her fair share of rubbishing
from sceptics. She came under attack from scientists after speaking
at a conference for the opal industry in Coober Pedy, South Australia.
But afterwards many opal diggers confessed to being diviners.
About 20 people have signed up to the weekends
workshops and more are planned in the Auckland region.
Kapiti Observer (New Zealand) 18/11/02
'A Very Different Way of Life'
Drinking nutritious rock dust, Earth acupuncture
and Towers of Power - it was all happening in Waikanae over the
weekend as nine people gathered to learn about the unusual art
of 'Stone Age Farming'. Author and geomancer Alanna Moore was
in the area to teach interested gardeners and farmers how to
increase land productivity by using the beneficial energies of
rocks.
A geomancer was someone who dowsed, in other
words used crystals to track positive and negative energy flows
in the Earth and the universe, event organiser David Puddephatt
said. "Quite simply if you believe in yourself and you tune
into the world around you, you can identify these energies, that
can then become an ally for you." The frist trick for each
participant was to develop a relationship with their crystal
and learn to form questions in their mind to direct to the stone",
he said. "You hold it on a short string and then you have
to talk with intentionality in your head and ask it questions.
Depending on how the crystal reacts you read your answers."
Ms Moore used her crystal to find the perfect
site for a Tower of Power, a tall structure which the group then
erected on Saddle Creek Farm, where the event was held. These
Towers acted like a big television antenna, Mr Puddephatt said.
"The Tower is now channelling into the subtle energies of
the universe to assist the plant and animal life on the farm."
Ms Moore also used her crystal as an aid to
'Earth acupuncture'. Asking questions with intentionality she
claimed she was able to find where negative energy was built
up in the Earth. She then plunged a spike into the ground, releasing
the energy back into the universe.
But not content with talking to their rocks,
the group turned to drinking rocks. On the second day of the
workshop the group was given a teaspoonful of paramagnetic basaltic
rock dust mixed into a glass of water, Mr Puddephatt said. "The
grit stayed in the bottom of the glass, but you ended up drinking
the nutrients from the rock, similar to drinking water that had
run over glacial stone."
(Note: Geomantica doesn't necessarily endorse
everything said here!)
Midland Express (Victoria) 18/9/01
'Alanna Shares her Earthy Energy'
Alanna Moore is a person who knows and shares
the wisdom of the stone age era with the farming community of
today. She says that certain radioactive rocks such as uranium
release harmful energies - but on the flip side, understands
that other specific rocks emit beneficial energies. These 'powers'
are now being harnessed by gardeners and farmers to increase
their land's productivity.
This month Alanna, an author and researcher
on this subject, presents a series of one day workshops in Central
Victoria, to explain the advantages of this paramagnetism phenomena.
"Paramagnetism is a natural subtle force that speeds up
biological activity and assists the building up of topsoil. The
use of paramagnetic rock dust as a cheap and long lasting soil
amendment is rapidly gaining popularity."
Alanna has been travelling across Australia
for the last 3 years teaching the age old technique of divining
and 'Tower of Power' construction and has helped to build some
70 of these paramagnetic antenna. "Feedback from owners
has been very encouraging with improved farm and garden health
and productivity, with a better quality of produce being the
general response" she said.
Alanna claims that a strawberry farmer who
uses the 'tower' technique, had once picked five rows a day,
but now needs to harvest only 2 to 3 rows daily because of the
marked abundance of fruit. She also said that the farmer was
in touch with some other commercial strawberry growers who are
also very pleased with their positive crop results due to the
'tower'.
Alanna said the improvements can be seen across
the board "Our research reveals that livestock find the
'towers' very attractive and are more contented living around
them and people also report feeling energised and healthier."
During her workshops Alanna will teach the
techniques of dowsing (also known as water divining) and construct
a 'Tower of Power'...but it seems that Alanna's energy doesn't
stop there. She is currently making a documentary film on the
subject and is also documenting legendary dowsers - recently
filming a segment on Keith (Silver) Levy in Benalla, a well known
water diviner who also specialises in detecting lost and unmarked
graves in cemeteries.
The Geraldton Guardian (WA), 2/11/01
'Radical Agricultural Technique
Discussion'
An energy researcher will visit the Mid West
this month to introduce farmers to the alleged benefits of tapping
into energy fields and using paramagnetism techniques on agricultural
properties. Alanna Moore will discuss how paramagnetism - a 'natural
force that speeds up biological activity and assists in the building
of topsoil' - could be used to aid crop growth.
She said the use of paramagnetic rock dust
as a cheap and long lasting soil amendment was rapidly gaining
popularity....
Ms Moore said most people could learn the
ability to detect energy fields and use the information to decide
what plant or crop species to grow and where to grow them. She
would also discuss the alleged benefits of a 'tower of power'
- a paramagnetic antenna believed to increase crop yields and
improve the health and wellbeing of plants and animals in their
vicinity.
Ms Moore's workshop is on Saturday November
10th (2001) at the Permaculture Research Farm, 333 David Rd Waggrakine.
The Maple Street Co-op News (Qld)
June/July 2002
'Working with Subtle Earth Energies', by Mary Meadows
"Alanna Moores workshop, held on 4 May,
was a workshop with a difference. Of the 14 participants, seven
were men - and I didn't detect any typical SNAGS among them!
I was pleasantly surprised to find that all participants were
quite comfortable usinf pendulums. In fact, some had even brought
their own..
As the workshop had been advertised as 'Stone
Age Farming', this may have been the trigger for the ratio of
men present. Participants came from Dalby, Ipswich, Eudlo, Murwillumbah,
the Darling Downs, Woodford, Peregian Beach and Conodale. Dawne
Douglas hosted the workshop in Maleny this being Alannas first
stop in a series of workshops along the Queensland coast....
We spent the afternoon testing the paramagnetic
characteristics of a variety of basalt rock dusts. (A paramagnetic
rock is one that has become weakly magnetised so as to lie parallel
to a magnetic field force.) We dowsed the basic house maps of
the other participants, testing for good and and environmental
energies. In the exercise to check the energy fields around and
through Dawnes house, we found an underground watercourse running
along one end and then we dissipated its effects with Earth acupuncture.
We finished the day by constructing a 'round
tower' for dissipating negative Earth energies, and this happened
during the only sunny part of the day. With all of those pendulums
and the paramagnetic rock working for us, what else could be
expected!"
MAGAZINES
In Touch magazine (New Zealand)
January 2003
'Dowsing with the Devas'
The presence of a legendary being, known as
the Taniwha, which interrupted road works on a dangerous section
of Highway One, caused a stir in the international media last
November, when Australian geomancer Alanna Moore was visiting.
Transit New Zealand was told that it is believed
by Maori that these beings exist all along the rivers, particularly
at the bends. All Maori children are warned not to swim on river
bends because of the threat of the Taniwha,
who is considered responsible for drownings. It's like the bogeyman
or bunyip in Australia, it has been suggested.
Reactions to the story were very negative,
with many letters to the editor about 'mythological claptrap'
appearing in newspapers.Alanna Moore sent her own in, but it
was not published. So what does a geomancer think of all this?
"The Taniwha is a living and detectable
energetic force in the landscape" her letter stated "Just
as the Australian Aboriginal 'dreamtime', actually an other-dimensional
reality, enjoys official respect, so the Taniwha should have
the right to exist, rather than being treated as if it were some
kind of collective hallucination".
The Taniwha is just one of a myriad of spirits
of nature. Alanna is returning to New Zealand this month for
more dowsing research into such natural phenomena, and to show
others easy methods of attunement to the devas at several workshops.
"You don't have to be an indigenous person
to be able to detect whether you have a sacred site or Taniwha
residing in your back yard, and there are good reasons why you
should know if you do" Alanna explained.
"I'm talking about powerful environmental
energies which can make people crazy or sick if overexposed to
them. Some energies can be harnessed to make your garden grow
better and this is what I like to concentrate on, to focus on
the power of positive energy as a force for good."
Since 1993 Alanna has helped construct over
100 'Towers of Power', - carefully located pipes of volcanic
rock dust acting as paramagnetic antennas, all over Australia
and several in New Zealand over the past year. Livestock also
love them and they provide an attractive force for the devic
kingdoms as well.
"We all know that radioactive rocks,
such as uranium, emit harmful energies, but few people know that
there are other rocks that emit beneficial energies and that
these good energies are now being harnessed by gardeners and
farmers to increase their land's productivity" she explained.
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 has been rapidly gaining popularity. The huge
Australian construction company Boral, having done extensive
research and agronomy trials, are now marketing their most energetic
rock dusts.
Alanna, who has been researching subtle energies
for some 20 years and has written three books on related subjects
-her latest offering being 'Stone Age Farming- Eco-Agriculture
for the 21st Century' (2001), will be explaining the benefits
of paramagnetism at her workshops.
Alanna will also be giving workshop participants a handson
practical introduction to the assessment, harnessing or avoidance
of subtle energies in the environment, with techniques of dowsing
(also known as divining) as the primary detection method.
"There is so much illness and discomfort
from the 'sick building syndrome' and geopathic and electro-stress
in the home, that I see my work as prophylactic medicine"
Alanna says.
She will be covering aspects of building biology
in some of her courses as well as demonstrating simple methods
of Earth acupuncture to alleviate some energetic problems.
"As a professional dowser/geomancer I
often have to deal with these problems. Ideally we should be
avoiding bad energy locations for building. This principle was
well established in Germany in the 1930s, where most people know
about 'cancer beds' and cancer streets' a consequence of
exposure to geopathic stress."
A few more Towers of Power will be constructed
on Alannas March tour. The Towers have been found to increase
crop yields and improve the health and wellbeing of plants and
animals in their vicinity. Crops not only become more lush, but
also more pest resistant, while they taste much sweeter. Popular
with several strawberry farmers in South Australia, for example,
one farmer there reports a 30% increase in yields, subsequent
to the placing of a large Tower in his field.
Impressed by Workshop
(A letter to the NZ Dowsing Society Journal
March 2003-05-03)
To the Secretary
I went to Alanna Moore's 'Stone Age Farming'
workshop at Marahau, just north of Motueka, on the 18th March
and really enjoyed it. A lovely place with great people. The
highlight of the workshop was building the 'Tower of Power'.
Andreas, one of the hosts, had obtained some very good quality
paramagnetic rock dust from Germany.
Dowsing the site, checking the energy, building
the Tower, then giving it our energy, then dowsing again, was
amazing. I've never felt so much positive group energy and the
effects on our pendulums confirmed the result.
Alanna was able to point out the deva in that
area and that it was then stronger and closer to the Tower. I
was able to pick up the deva's energy and (its) presences. This
was a great experience and proved outright with an open mind
and an open heart one can truly be with the positive power of
nature."
Paul Mead, Nelson, New Zealand
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