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BSD Congress 2002 - Report 1
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BSD Congress 2002 13-15 September
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The Congress was held for the first time at Halifax Hall, Sheffield
University - a large and stately 1870s villa on the western outskirts
with additional residential blocks of ugliness inversely proportional
to their age. Generally liked by conventioneers for the food and
closeness of rooms to lectures. About 140 attended.

Friday 13th September - 1st afternoon session
Local Groups Conference
[square brackets] = understood meaning

Apols: Alan Hayday, Thamesside
Michael Guest, West Midlands

BG Beulah Garcin - President EEG = Earth Energies Group
PG Philip Garcin - Council DRG = Dowsing Research Group
MR Michael Rust - General Secretary
PM Patrick MacManaway ESC = Education Sub-Committee
- ESC & EEG, Council GS = geopathic stress
TF Ted Francis - Devon NFSH= National Federation of
JM Joan Meech - Surrey Spiritual Healers
TH Tony Hathway - Bristol
SL Sig Lonegren - Council & EEG
PD Peter Doye
- Council & 1/4 editor "Dowsing Today"
JC Jo Cartmale - DRG & EEG
JW John Wright - East Midlands
DW Dan Wilson - Ashdown

Minutes of 2001 LG conf agreed - Prop JW 2nd JC.
No matters arising.

MR: Report from the BSD. It's the wish of the International Congress
Committee that we should give you a report. We have set up this
sub-committee for the 70th anniversary of the founding of the
Society. The Congress will be held at the Weston Hotel and Conf
Centre in Manchester on Aug 29th - Sept 1st 2003 to mark the BSD's
70th anniversary.

We have been working on it for some time and hope to attract 300.
Invitations for papers have been sent across the world for papers
and the committee has invited some people [on their own account],
12 in all, from several countries, though we haven't had much
back yet from the paper invitees. We expect speakers at least
from Italy, USA, Belarus, and Pauline Roberts, one of the
"Dowsing Today" editors, from Australia. The Society will
subsidise their travel.
DW: In the international context it might be worth mentioning SIUD,
the "Scientific International Union of Dowsers", which seems to
be largely a front for respectabilizing dowsing in the Latin-
American countries where the church is hostile to it. It's
somewhat haphazardly run with a nominal base in Cuba but is a
valuable source of contacts with dowsers in the Spanish-
speaking world.

PM: Reporting for the ESC. The Council were concerned to do something
about training and a sub-committee was set up with Mary Ison
(Council) in charge and [after a year of consultations] we have
reached a third draft curriculum for a comprehensive training
program. It's flexible, modular, and can be implemented by
special-interest and local groups. It's still at an early stage
but we have quite a lot of responses [to the 3rd draft] back so
far. We hope it will strengthen the Society.
JW: Advertising ?
PM: The existing beginners' course is well subscribed as it is. We'll
let it start up slowly - we don't want to put too much weight on
it until it's [well] established.
TH: Well done. Is there to be a quality [competence] check ?
PM: We have thought about it. At least in the 1st instance [we feel]
it will be better to keep off certifying competence as long as we
can - there is the general problem of dowsing tests tending to
fail. [As it is,] it's a dramatic change in the nature of the
BSD. At present, applicants for registration have to supply
testimonials from referees. We think that is an appropriate level
of surveillance.
TH: What about the competence of teachers ?
PM: Some good dowsers are poor teachers. In Switzerland some
insurance companies will pay for a dowsed survey and as that
spreads [it is possible] we shall need certification.
DW: Yes, what is the practice anyway ? Colleagues of mine doing GS
work are in a part of the country where they follow round after
another BSD member who when he has done his GS check says that's
it. There's no rectification, which they regard as standard ! As
I know Guy Hudson who's on the Council I asked him what the BSD
would say to this and he said very forcefully it is not for the
Society to control how dowsers work.
SL: All geomancers work differently and few agree. It's an issue we
need to address.
PM: Tutors are going to need a forum to discuss "best ways". We are
very concerned about ethics without defining what it is dowsers
need to do. So the service given should match what was offered.
DW: I imagine if that member was approached he would say of course he
is putting things right, because as in Germany he just tells the
client to move their bed.
TF: We have a problem with one member, we even asked him to resign.
He took a course and thinks he knows everything. He contravenes
all the ethical rules of BSD and Devon Dowsers. [But] a lot of
dowsers who only have experience are excellent, tests don't prove
everything.
BG: Do you ask for a report from clients ?
TF: [How ?] We haven't recommended him to anyone !
MR: [In the office] we get between 250 and 300 enquiries a year and
they are sent a list of suitable dowsers in their area with a
report form [to say how things went]. We get very few forms back
but at least they have had the chance.
DW: In the Medway towns I get a lot of GS referrals via
kinesiologists. So it's natural that when the job is done the
client gets their kinesiologist to check it, which I welcome.
PD: We had a case where leaks had to be found in a canal barge and
there were [said to be] undetected leaks. If so, should the
dowser be paid ?
PM: When we give a list out, are we making a recommendation ? We are
trying to avoid [judging] competence. It would only occur if we
were politically obliged to license dowsers.
PD: So the training certificate isn't worth the paper it's written
on ?
PM: It's a statement of attendance.
SL: No dowser is 100%. I always ask for feedback. You don't do the
EEG course without doing a basic one first.
JM: NFSH applicants have to have four sponsors. I do a short course.
How [in something so flexible] can you teach one system ?
BG: You do it to fit the person - but I do start with one set of
[suggested] responses just to help it start, but allow it to do
something different.
JW: My employers gave me £1000 to go on a dowsing course. I did one
with Edwin Taylor under the auspices of an agricultural training
board in Carlisle.
BG: We are often asked why don't we teach children to dowse ? There
is a moral problem with teenagers. I think schools are definitely
out.
DW: We had this point in this conference last year. West Wales were
very happy doing it.
BG: The Society shouldn't promote it, though.
TF: [To continue my story] our member did apply to go on the BSD
Register and was turned down.

PG: I have been asked to say a few things about Council matters.
MR and Deidre Rust are planning to retire at the end of 2003 and
a big change in structure will result. The Council will take more
of a part in admin. An Administrator will be appointed, probably
to be located somewhere in the triangle Birmingham-Bristol-
Southend with two part-time assistants. We would like to appoint
an Hon Secretary and Treasurer who would take over responsibility
for a fair amount of the work MR does but as Council members.
Also [there is] a possibility of sub-committee work for non-
Council members. We are looking to a working Council and [are
working on] a job description for the Administrator and some
details of what is expected of a Council member.
JM: MR and Deidre between them are Sec/Treas/Admin with one part-
timer ?
PG: Yes.
JM: I think a Treasurer should be paid.
SL: I think it's bad for an employee to be a Treasurer. Also, the
Secretary needs to know the legal side.
PG: This situation exists in many societies. They have a board member
who takes responsibility as Treasurer.
JC: Being a Treasurer and being an accountant are two different
things. We have both [at work] and it's a different language.
PG: These are big changes. It's a big opportunity.

MR: Some words about Village Water [water arm of ASD 'Farmer to
Farmer' - DW] and Water For Life. They've had a successful year.
In the year 2001/2 we sent £7000 to Reaching The Unreached, which
covered 15 to 20 boreholes. The pumps in India now have "Gift
From BSD, UK" on them.
JW: Are we the sole funders ?
MR: No - RtU is a charity based in the UK but it gets a lot from
Germany. Water is only a part - there are medical services.
Village Water had one donation of £5000 and the BSD has sent
$1000. VW have realised that £10k per bore wasn't enough, so now
it's over £20k. The machinery wasn't heavy enough.

Group Reports
TF: Devon - we mostly have small meetings, often in summer with a
field trip and guest expert. Members do a little teaching in
Adult Education and we get fresh members from that.
BG: Adult Education is doing dowsing, then ?
JW: And the Workers' Education Authority.
TF: Foot & Mouth Disease did stop a lot of our events [last year].
JM: Surrey - we had around 69-71 members last year. Last year we
almost folded. The President took over from the Chair and then
threatened to leave, so we have tried to split the respons-
ibility. An elderly member agreed to arrrange the talks, but some
subjects didn't suit our members. Also the Methodist Church
decided to disagree with dowsing, so we have moved to a less
convenient location with poor public transport. So meetings have
been down. We have visited Avebury and Cirencester this year but
I think field visits work better with an outside [in both senses]
focaliser.
TH: Bristol - the good news is, lots of interest. The bad news is,
they don't join the group. Getting people to come regularly is
difficult - it seems the county groups do better here. We meet
once a month in winter, with two outside meetings per month in
summer. It is thought that dowsers are usually rather old.
BG: Dowsing is a mature years thing.
SL: EEG - is quite active, with training meetings working on the EE
curriculum. We are changing our accounting year to match the
BSD's. I am speaking to eight groups in the next 6 months.
JC: Membership is in excess of 200 and growing.
JC: DRG - fairly small. Geoff Crockford arranges the meetings and
sets up experiments for us to work at. There have been six
meetings this year. Perhaps 30 members [overall].
JC: Also [I can mention] the Water-Divining Group inaugural meeting -
11 came and 12 sent apologies.
PG: Who is running that ?
JC: I'm secretary, D Dixon the BSD rep. Geoff Crockford is supposed
to be Chair but wasn't there.
JW: East Midlands - 20 members, about 12 at meetings. [Over the next]
3 to 15 months we are planning 8 site meetings. There's a problem
finding a fixtures secretary. Practical sessions seem to be an
essential. We have had outdoor meetings at Bolsover Castle and
Hardwicke Old Hall, where Nottingham University sent along a
ground resistivity team to compare with our findings. They
weren't too rude. The problem is that having found something we
follow it, whereas they're taking readings on a fixed grid. I'm a
member of the Castle Studies group and we discuss a lot of
castles. [Also there's the problem] that archaeologists never go
very deep, compared to dowsers.
DW: Ashdown - monthly meetings like clockwork, always with 9 to 12
out of a probable base membership of about 30. [On the church
matter] we had a new vicar and were thrown out of the church hall
six years ago. We splashed out on a public video and slide show
on crop circles by Andy Thomas in a local community centre, who
also did one in a public library for Kent Dowsers which was
packed out. As Kent aren't here I might say that they are a
classical dowsing group in the Sussex mould, with regular
meetings dedicated to one aspect like map dowsing, toolless, etc.
One hugely successful gathering was at Dode Church, said to be the
only "Jedi Knight" church in England. Its village had disappeared
650 years ago in the Black Death.
PD: [report of someone being arrested for trespass near the
Whispering Knights stones at Rollright]

JW: Can I mention the long article on Stonehenge in "Dowsing Today" ?
Haven't found anyone able to read it. Totally subjective and
unverifiable.
PD: The editor who took it on did commit us. He loved it. We lost one
member because of it.
JW: I look for [dowsing] inspiration. There was little dowsing
content.
TF: I've seen two articles on Stonehenge in DT. I am trying hard to
improve relations between Devon Dowsers and archaeologists and if
anyone our way saw these articles it would kill my work stone
dead. Cecil B de Mille comes to ancient Britain.
JW: No fault was found with the subject matter. It was unreadable.

MR: Next year I am not sure there will be room for a Groups
Conference [even though] it will be going from Thursday evening
until Monday evening.
SL: There ought to be workshop space for local groups. How about
international groups ?
MR: I take note. We do have to tell the hotel the attendance a year
ahead.
DW: Don't you ever dowse it ?
MR: No.
BG: Yes, I did for Bach Flower Remedy meetings - "who will actually
come ?" - and was always right.
DW (to MR): This lady sitting next to you can help you.
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Dan Wilson

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BSD Congress 2002 - Report 2
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Friday 13th September - evening session
Doris Frankish - "Radionic Rambles"

Frankly, this talk was for everyone who knew all about radionics
already, for whom Doris's fleeting references had some meaning. To do
it justice I would need a thick tome of radionics history to write a
five-or six-line commentary after each ramble. However, let us follow
her stream of consciousness. My commentary in [square brackets].

This will be gossip and snippets. [10/10.]
Radionics goes back to ancient Egypt and last year I visited the
Egyptian Museum in Turin ... Sekmet the lion-headed woman ...
tablet stone on which they placed their hands, look ...
I had already learnt from Scottish Dowsers some details about Egypt
and radionics ... prediction using Egyptian artefacts. Turin Museum
not as helpful with info as they made out.

Egypt itself ... the Sphinx, is it older than the pyramids ? Dowse it
for yourself ... yes. Green rays from the corners of the Giza
pyramids. The ancients knew about "energy" ... maybe the Sakkara
complex was for healing ?

The temple of Rameses II reconsidered ... had someone re-energised it
? Allegedly some Americans had paid large sums to conduct ceremonies
within. The Cairo Museum disappoints from a radionics angle ...
Scottish museum has this African cow which is rubbed for an answer.

Dr Albert Abrams, born in mid-1800s, described difft energy patterns
of diseases. He died 1924, methods were investigated by British
Medical Association, high praise for Abrams. Royal Society said
radionics showed high probability of efficacy but "no role for it at
present". [If you ask those hostile to radionics to read the
documents concerned, the picture they give is rather different. The
American medical establishment were in the process of suppressing
radionics as charlatanism but in England enough doctors in London
were familiar with it through clients to insist on an investigation
before the BMA went down the same legal road and this was carried out
around 1927. According to this PoV the committee would dearly have
liked to recommend suppressing radionics but they ended up with
insufficient evidence to justify it. A balanced treatment of what
must either way have been a historic development in medicine at the
time is sorely needed.]

Abrams started in radionics with a case of cancer of the lip. [The
abdomen was always percussed as part of diagnosis at the time and]
with this case the percussion became dull if the patient faced west.
Abrams experimented with [other cases and] samples of diseased tissue
held by healthy patients. A lot has been written about this.

Then Ruth Drown, a chiropractor, used blood spots for distant
diagnosis. Shortly after WW2 she was prosecuted [not overtly for
practising radionics but for practising medicine without a licence -
her "Dr" was a doctorship of chiropractic, not then authenticated in
the USA as equivalent to a medical one*] and jailed, and died shortly
after being released.

[*Dowsing this, I pick up that the prosecutors kept off radionics in
the knowledge that the defence had several days' worth of witnesses
and documents ready attesting to its efficacy, which would have let
altogether too many snakes out of the box. Another case for lengthy
study - DW]

In the UK, de la Warr was prosecuted in 1950 for fraudulent medical
practice - the celebrated "black box" case, which seemed a put-up
job. The judge remarked "a Stradivarius wouldn't produce music by
itself" and the case failed. De la Warr died in 1969. He had this
camera which produced diagnostic pictures from blood spots, but it
only worked when one particular technician put the film in.

Malcolm Rae, UK, used painstakingly precise geometric[ally patterned]
cards, flower remedies and other methods. The card pattern [truncated
radial lines inside multiple circles] was chosen to match the
"fundamental rays" of the subject, or a homoeopathic remedy or a
collection of them with the same [dowsed] pattern was used. Now about
300 Rae cards on offer ... I make rescue remedy for plants.

Elizabeth Baerlein [founder of Radionics Assocn]: "the ultimate in
radionics is a stick [dragged though] the sand".

I was delighted to be introduced to the dowsers' concept of
"shibboleths" - misguided beliefs which complicated the rules for
treating people. I have been "in contact" with Malcolm Rae to obtain
details of his boxes.

Then David Tansley, who integrated Eastern and Western principles of
subtle bodies.

(Demonstration of chakra energy detection using dowsing tools.)

Radionics fosters a belief in the afterlife. It's difficult to tell
someone has died ... the soul hangs on for a while.

The radionics course is three and a half years, then specialize.
Hair clippings are [usually] used, a history form. Determine one's
own [diagnosis] charts, include pollutants, entities, etc. Before
doing any treatment, look for entity attachments, then do a colour
balance for "tendencies". [Watch for] dangers of multiple adverse
energies.

House clearance ... I used to shout "bugger off !" [and that worked]
but was taken to task by spiritualists who said the things were lost
souls, so I now "show them the light" and they go immediately.

We all have our own way of doing things. Some work as "etheric
doctors", some work on the genes.

Cases ... a recent case involved a woman who said her daughter had
had a curse placed on her by an aboriginal woman in Australia and
committed suicide by burning herself in petrol. The mother had been
half-mad after that. Analysis showed she had psittacosis of the
brain, caught from parrots. [Maybe a clue about the daughter.]

Slide of Rae cards, showing similarity of some remedies - yarrow sim
to gold.

Cases ... man with AIDS for 13 years. [On analysis] this divided up
into 50 or 60 systems and chakras, which changed as treatment
progressed. He is now feeling a lot better and the [radionic]
picture is also better.

New ideas from New Zealand on breast cancer, there are about 30
treatments. [You get] parasites but they are a bit incidental. [You
can detect that] hair dye gets into breast tissues, toiletry
residues into the auto-immune system.

Q&A session
Q: How long does a consultation take ?
A: 20 minutes.
Q: Do you often get asked about glue sniffing ?
A: Occasionally. Amyl nitrate is a danger - but that's well known.
Q: Have you met people who are sensitive to solar flares ?
A: Yes, the remedy is homoeopathic Zingiber.
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Dan Wilson

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BSD Congress 2002 - Report 3
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Saturday 14th September - 1st morning session
Dr Arthur Bailey - Dowsing & Flower Essences
[square brackets] = understood meaning

Intro - AB was President of the BSD 25 years ago. He was aware that Dr
Edward Bach had worked by inspiration to choose his remedies and not
dowsing. Had he missed anything ?

AB: My principle is a desire for truth. I have always resonated to John
Bunyan's "Valiant-for-Truth". Truth is the only safe thing. Beliefs
are drilled into us and are not necessarily true. Some proofs in
electrical engineering are still there [only] because they got the
right answer. There are grey areas too.

Dr Aubrey Westlake [pioneering doctor dowser] used flower remedies.
Nora Weeks's biography of Bach [though] was expurgated. It was not
mentioned that Bach had a mistress just down the road from [his home
and present Bach remedies HQ] Mount Vernon. [Why not ? To know]
makes him human. Don't deify people.

Bach didn't dowse, but when I did, I came up with several [new]
flowers. Should I make the remedy the same way ? Yes, but I have
found that I prefer the [X hours leaving petals on water in] sun
method rather than Bach's boiling one.

[So I started with] 5 or 6 essences. What were they for ? Physical
problems ? No. Emotional ? Half-yes. If you don't know what question
to ask, how do you ask it ? The medical dictionary was no good. But
the essences dowsed as suitable for certain people.

Mt Vernon [were and] are not keen on dowsing [to match remedies to
people] but I think it's ideal. If you go on a person's "public face"
[such as they would give in a Bach-style interview] you can go badly
wrong. It's what they need rather than what they want that you are
looking for. What is Bluebell for ? I didn't know !

Over the years the number grew. [Then I was in a meditation class in
Paris with] John Garrie - very tough. He said: they're for an
attitude of mind, no connection to attitude of body. Bailey remedies
are about how we view the world.

If you have grown up with low self-esteem it can haunt you later on
but it can be a spur to achievement, so it's not all negative.
Flower essences can really plumb your depths, bring things to the
surface, allow change. [But] we only change when we're ready. Early
on, I could not have understood about attitudes of mind. Only when
we are sufficiently ready to see things do we have a chance to see
them.

You can get into deep water. I was brought up C of E and slowly
realised it was an insurance scheme. "Theology" = theo + logos =
technology of God, which is ridiculous. What do we know of God ?
I saw Blue Pimpernel growing by the side of the road and stopped.
[My wife] Christine said, this is the beginning of a new series.
She is often right for the wrong reason. There's a void between
what we call reality and a deeper one which we can only see across
[to] when we have sorted out ourselves in the first one. When you
have been there, you know it exists. That changed my way of
looking at things and [including] the essences. Depending on what
people are confronted with, they need help going in certain
directions.

Slides of flowers used in Bailey essences, [suits masked attitude
of mind:]
BLUEBELL: unworthy, rotten inside, want to leave the planet
WELSH POPPY: side-tracked, bewitched, life passing them by
HAIRY SEDGE: not living in the now but in the past or future.
This attitude affects memory.
BISTORT - need a breakthrough which is close
GRIEF - a combination of[: effect]
YORKSHIRE FOG: Release grief or sorrow, express oneself openly
WILD ROSE (Bach essence is a boiled one, this is a sun one):
heart centre, compassion
TRAILING ST JOHNS WORT: healing
SHEEP'S SORREL; bitterness. Helps to feel thankful things were
ever good
CHANGE - a combination of[: effect]
BLACK LOCUST: psychic protection (from Canada)
SPRING SQUIRREL: helps breakthrough (from Cornwall)
BLUE PIMPERNEL: helps establish links between us and creative
energies
ALMOND: the teacher/guide
WHITE LOTUS: Unity of mind/body/spirit (from Bali)

Q&A
Q: You distinguish between 'psychic' and 'spiritual' ?
A: ['Spiritual' is] not [so much of] a dead-end. [But] words
mean difft things to difft people.
Q: You mentioned you don't boil to get essences ?
A: We use sun extraction, also alcohol. Boiling gets rid of
something.
Q: Why are there not hundreds of essences ?
A: They're [originally] chosen according to [individual] need.
FUJI CHERRY was chosen for a lady having miscarriages. [It's
cumbersome to market every one separately so] it's now part
of a composite.
---
Sunday 15th September p.m. -
Arthur Bailey, Flower Essences workshop

AB: There's a problem. This is a living series. It keeps having more
children. This was the reason for the composite remedies. The
number of single essences went up to 83. One was withdrawn, PINK
PURSLANE.

[Also,] the interpretation was negative [states] rather than
positive [states]. Purslane had been associated with "wearing
blinkers" and hadn't sold. If you emphasise the positive aspect
[of the same attitude of mind] the remedy sells again - so
Purslane is back.

[There is not a positive comparison, as] Christianity has lost
its divine spark, but Buddhism has this same cast - [too
fatalistic].

So we changed all the descriptions, except for the composites
which still address negatives.

For choosing remedies, I still prefer dowsing [so dowsers don't
need the descriptions]. A non-dowser can try this: defocus your
eyes, look along the bottles and select one spontaneously.

There are now 16 composites, though some homoeopaths don't like
composites. BRACKEN has two remedies, one heat and one alcohol-
extracted. [In prescription] I don't usually go higher than
five remedies - though 'remedy' can be a composite. I did have
one client who needed ten, but I reduced them to eight and
since she was a musician, called it SYMPHONY.

Q: Could you demonstrate how you do it ?
(AB used a crystal pendulum and went along each box in turn, the
pendulum swinging fore-and-aft and giving a sharp sideways twist
when he approached a suitable bottle.)
Q: What were you asking ?
A: 'What remedy does X need at this moment ?' I can work ahead
if the period is known. If [client is] absent, I use a hair.
One woman asks every month and I work ahead.
Q: Is there a complete list of the 83 ?
A: In the handbook. The composites came up naturally and sell
better than singles.
Q: What are the instructions [to users] for [treatment remedy]
formulation ?
A: Put X drops into water - with alcohol if over three days'
intended life. We follow all the food preparation regulations.
We do supply essences in saline solution for those intolerant
to alcohol, but don't 'sell' them that way.
Q: I see you have treatment bottles ready-charged with vodka and
water. These are also available ?
A: In boxed sets of 12. We found that sending bottles out empty
resulted in the pipettes getting broken.

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BSD Congress 2002 - Report 4
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Saturday 14th September - second morning session
Water-Divining & Borehole Drilling - Clive Thompson

Intro by David Dixon - Clive always a great help when I had problems
with quantities.

CT: On the sharp end here. I find water for people for whom it's a
livelihood, mostly in the UK. Here's a peg (18" x 1" square or
460 x 25mm sq) bought from a garden centre. It's a test of my
skill [- is the water there ?]. I'm around 95% successful. You
do get mistakes and never know why.

Not enough is talked about [the] geology [of boreholes]. I'll
take you through a typical job.

I use a notebook. Client's name, number [of the job].
Pathfinder Ordnance Survey map.
Geological map. Is it water-bearing bedrock ?
Check ownerships of land.
Dowse weather ahead: do I need an umbrella ?
I don't use a Y-rod. It can do you an injury.
(Slide of tool kit, laid out for photographing:)
Hammer (5 lb)
Stake. Make this thick so it leaves a good hole in the ground if
someone or a machine removes it.
Bamboo sticks
Measuring tape (old-fashioned, cloth)
Compass
Double-V or W-rod with semi-circular disk free to swing in centre
of central arm

Clive then showed a series of demonstration slides showing the
reaction of the W-rod at a reaction line and then when right over
the water and facing along it, these being marked on lawn by stakes.
The central arm twists to 45 degrees over the reaction lines and
between them, levels out over the water.

He then showed explanatory slides of very clear and well-drawn
diagrams of operation from a BSD journal article he had done in the
early 1970s. Here he had been using a long wand or bobber and the
diagrams showed what its end would do in certain circumstances,
drawing the dowser towards the water: up and down = neutral,
vertical oval = getting near, horizontal and large oval =
this is it. His system had a single reaction line on each side of
the water.

CT: Always approach the water reaction lines at right angles.
Nobody tell me you can't dowse wearing wellingtons ! Standard
gear for me !

He closed with a series of interesting slides of boreholes being
drilled, including one immediately next to a house which coated its
roof with liquid grey mud before the water burst through and washed
it all off again. He did not say much about having to be there
during drilling to ensure the bit was going in the right direction,
but did comment that he always modified his search once water had
been located to position the borehole where possible in a convenient
place for the client to place a pumphouse. This meant comparing it
by dowsing with the first-found position for yield.
----

Dan Wilson

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BSD Congress 2002 - Report 5
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Saturday 14th September - 3rd morning session
Earth Energies Group
Sig Lonegren - Labyrinthine Ponderings

[square brackets] = presumed meaning

Jim Lyons introduced. EEG was now over 250 strong and ran regular field
trips. Anyone could attend. Group conference, coming weekend of 26-27
October, details at <http://www.britishdowsers.org/eeg.html>. Now, Sig
on labyrinths.

SL: A lot is going on. 25-26/1/03 I am doing a bit at Avebury, there
is still some room.
(started a computer "slide" show which turned into an animated one,
concerning the energies of different types of labyrinths, my notes here
somewhat sketchy. Some of this may be on SL's web site,
<http://www.geomancy.org/>)
A maze has dead ends, a labyrinth you walk the whole thing. Here's
Tully's Farm Maze, the longest in the world, 3 miles, a left brain
puzzle.
The "labyrinth" on the Tor at Glastonbury, broken terraces, can't be
agricultural terracing because is on north side as well as south, now
you see it, now you don't. (Distant night picture taken 2000 with 500
people holding candles on terraces:) Like a great liner !
Chartres Cathedral labyrinth: Dr Lauren Artress is trying to
convince
the church of its power. A classical labth like this has seven
fields
or chakras, also divides into four parts, physical/emotional/mental/
spiritual. (Computer animation) Walking the labth - you pass through
all the parts, spiritual last. [SL attracted by] Buddhist concept,
'nothing' is the 'no thing'.

Growing interest in labths in the North. There are more labths in
Sweden, Finland, Estonia than anywhere else. They've been used into
the C20th for luck. Here's Lindebacke in Finnmark, was used to bring
luck for fishing, now sea has retreated 100m. These lbths also used
to keep trolls [malign leprechauns] at bay by trapping them. A lot
of
these in the White Sea area near the Arctic Circle, sun never sets in
summer.
Fish oil stone in Finnmark. Sanu people have been there all along,
for thousands of years. Central stone with circle round it. Touch the
stone with fish oil on your finger for a good catch.

Creating a sacred space in your garden, a place to go for healing and
peace. Keep location a blend of practical and dowsing, but dowsing
uses both hemispheres, a kind of "gnowing". Find true north from
North Star (in line with end of Great Bear), other points from north
using Druid's Knot, a large circle of string with 9 knots, draw into
triangle with sides 3,4,5 knots, 3 is the N-S side (sight to N post,
place 3/4 junction knot (90 deg angle) at dowsed centre of labth to
get E & W alignment along the 4 side, all this is on the Labyrinth
Society site <http://www.labyrinthsociety.org/>. If you want to find
where the sun rises at midsummer solstice where you are, go to
<http://www.geomancy.org/sunfinder/sunfinder.html>. Or other date
such as Michaelmas - 29 September.

Q&A
Q: Don't computers interfere with natural energy ?
A: Well, don't take them into the circle !
Q: If there's a slope which can't be levelled, what do we do ?
A: The entrance goes at the bottom.
Q: What size is best ?
A: 30 feet across is good. But you can use a tiny labth mentally or
with a finger [on a plan of one].
Q: Would a labth on your property protect you ?
A: If you build a labth the energy will come.
Q: Is there any relationship between labths and crop circles ?
A: A labth is a sacred space. I don't get that energy in a CC. They
function differently and lose their energy if more than 60 people
visit. (Jim Lyons: I have been working in the Benton Castle labth
and every gravel chip was like a seedhead. You get an inverted water
vortex.)
Q: What are the extra divisions outside the Chartres labth ?
A: They're lunar discs. I don't have an opinion on them.
Q: You are going to witness the sun solstice in Norway - does the sea
level change [since the circle was built] affect the energy ?
A: I don't know yet.
----
Dan Wilson

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BSD Congress 2002 - Report 6
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Saturday 14th September - 1st afternoon session
Education project formation

MR Michael Rust (Gen Secretary BSD)
PM Patrick MacManaway [square brackets] =
RP Rene' Puddifoot presumed sense
SL Sig Lonegren (Council)
DW Dan Wilson BCMA = British Complementary
JW John Wright Medicine Association
BG Beulah Garcin (Pres) DRG = Dowsing Research Group
CT Clive Thompson
Hy A hypnotherapist member, not identified
JH Jeff Harvey GS = geopathic stress
XX "someone" unspecified ASD = American Society of Dowsers
XXa "someone" particular

PM: Thanks for attending. The 3rd draft syllabus has been responded
to by many here. We are at a consultation stage so we are eager to
get as many points of view as we can. Who has seen the 3rd
draft ? (5 hands)
SL: Can you give us an overview of the structure that is proposed ?
PM: Historically, the Society has run one-day and weekend workshops:
introductory weekends, health, site investigation and ad hoc
workshops. We are trying to establish a comprehensive curriculum
for dowsing instruction. The BSD exists to promote understanding of
dowsing and needs to extend this to the practice of dowsing, on
behalf of dowsers. [There is] the issue of EU influence - elsewhere
dowsers are restricted or licensed in certain areas. [There is]
likely to be regulation here eventually. We want to involve local
groups in some of this.

The idea is [to have] a modular program.
Introduction - a "filter feeding" program, many one-day events.
Outreach to public, then sequential weekends:
Beginners - a general introduction
then weekend modules:
Water - Health - Archaeology - Earth Energies & GS - DRG - so
anyone can take them in any order. Then:
Completion - review, trouble-shoot difficulties, ethics.
If all modules have been taken, at completion a certificate of
attendance is achieved.
Focussing on areas of further special interest, we hope there
will be further training available - EEG have a draft program
for this. Extra to this, [we would have] a dowser-tutor training
weekend - some dowsers are not good tutors. [There is a] need
for an introduction to training [techniques and] equipment.
Then we can establish a register of BSD tutors.
JW: Is there a perceived demand for this ? Who approves the tutors ?
Who approves the healers ?
PM: On demand, I believe there is. There are more and more dowsing
courses now. We feel that because of the pool we have, we are in an
ideal position to define dowsing. [At present] there is a lot of
introductory training and not much further in-depth training.
Qualifying tutors: in 30 years' time, no problem. We are already
using people whose skills we know from their presentations to the
Society. We hope to have tutors' forums and a lot of it will have
to be "grandfathered". At present we are keeping away from
certification of competence.
SL: The role of tutor classes will not be to teach how to teach X
type of dowsing but to teach how to teach dowsing in general. It's
not appropriate for us to say "you are a qualified dowser".
RP: Surely the certificate will be confused with a certificate of
quality ?
PM: It certifies attendance only. We can regulate effectiveness by
[use of] referees. Some dowsers provide an apprenticeship but not
many.
XX: How is it done in Switzerland or Germany ?
PM: I'm not well-informed on this. SL ran the ASD dowsing school for
a number of years. We get the impression that GS is taken more
seriously in Europe than here, but this may be a distorted view by
virtue of the people we are in touch with.
CT: What is your definition of dowsing ?
PM: The traditional use of [the word] "dowsing" has been extended to
mean "the distant application of an intuitive practice towards a
particular target".
XXa:"Dowsing" is, according to the BSD leaflet, "finding and finding
out".
PM: The common usage is [means] general.
CT: What is "a dowser" ?
XXa:What is "a doctor" ? It could mean anything.
PM: [It would be] inappropriate to give others the right to define
what we are.
BG: There is a concern that if we give a certificate of attendance we
might be sued, so there might be a legal aspect.
DW: Patrick has said twice this weekend that registration of dowsers
is dependent on their furnishing three testimonial letters from
different clients for each of the specialist areas of dowsing they
are applying to be registered for; but I understood that some
years ago this was changed to names and addresses of the referees
only, as there had been collusion in a healers' group.
Can MR elucidate ?
MR: It's referees only.
DW: Thanks. On [national] regulation, the BSD should be aware of what
is happening on the healers' front. In 1999 they pre-empted action
by the Government by agreeing the formation of a self-
regulatory "lead body" which approves the standards of healers'
organisations. A healer has no contact with it. If they are
approved as a member by [one such] organisation, they're registered.
Easy. The House of Lords investigation of 1999/2000 took up the
idea and presented it as their own.
PM: We aren't in any hurry.
JH: On regulation, it isn't that simple. There have to be
"probationers" and supervisors. But the healers did pick the ball up
and run with it and I was worried that we [dowsers] weren't. [A
system using] referees is legally weak.
PM: Dowsing may get to the top of the regulatory list ... but maybe
never.
RP: What's "grandfather" ?
PM: Whoever runs the first course [who therefore can't have been
trained]. Accepting people as they are [to get the system going].
Hy: In medical hypnosis, we decided to keep the name "hypnosis" and
now have levels 1,2,3 and advanced courses and even a degree
course here at the Uni of Sheffield. We started with ethics. It
sounds as though you're doing the right things.
XXb:Couldn't the BCMA be of use ?
PM: We have no desire to affiliate with other bodies.
XXb:Do you have an idea of the numbers interested in medical
dowsing ?
PM: There are a lot more dowsers than BSD members. We can judge from
attendances [at the initial courses]. It looks like time.
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BSD Congress 2002 - Report 7
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Saturday 14 September - 2nd afternoon session
Health special interest group formation

MR Michael Rust (Gen Secretary BSD)
GB Gerald Broh [square brackets] =
JH Jeff Harvey presumed sense
SL Sig Lonegren (Council)
DW Dan Wilson BCMA = British Complementary
GC Geoff Crockford Medicine Association
BG Beulah Garcin (Pres) CAM = complementary and alternative
CG Ciaran Graham medicine
Hy A hypnotherapist member, not identified
JW John Wright GS = geopathic stress
PR Peter Richardson NFSH = Natl Fedn Spiritual Healers
XX "someone" (different except XXa) CHO = Confedn of Healing Orgns

MR: Introduction - this is GB's idea, he is going to fire some ideas
at you.
GB: I am really just a messenger boy. Jack Temple suggested it to
another dowser who did nothing. Is there a need for a health
group ? What might be its aims ? There might be a tendency for us
[to rely on ourselves] to find remedies, or go to other practrs
for help when we may be in a position to help ourselves much more
than we would otherwise do. I am only here because of what Jack
has done and he doesn't use remedies any more - this is a clue
about discovery. What are your feelings about it ? Help would be
needed. I feel I am only doing a launch thing.
JH: You're not going to get away with it so easily. You appear to be
talking about using dowsing to help yourself when most people
here think of helping others.
GB: I am thinking more about dowsing in healing, not self-benefit.
JH: A lot of healers use dowsing and they don't communicate at all.
It wd support them to have the BSD supplying that role.
GB: You're a practitioner ?
JH: Yes.
XX: There seem to be 3 strands: what diagnosis/what treatment/using
dowsing as healing.
GB: It's No 3 where people are less confident.
PR: A lot of others [not just healers] are using dowsing. Presumably
you will have to approach their societies ? Would the BCMA be
any help ?
GB: I would see it as a group within the BSD.
SL: Pass round a paper to see who is interested here. [We have] a
problem in Earth Energies, house healing etc., which is that in
our third level course [of] intro/sacred space/house healing
there are a number of people who do it entirely differently.
How do you teach it ? Have 3 different tutors in one course ?
GB: Even healing has nuances. A dowser can choose the right one for
the client.
MR: How do you codify what to teach ? In radionics or psionics
[dowser doctors] they teach something and the students all find
a better way to do it. On the BCMA, when Chas Jessel was Pres
there was a lot of fear about the EEC as it was then and [the
practice of] CAM here and we attended a lot of [their] meetings.
Most of it wasn't constructive time spent, the BSD couldn't join
CHO because of [the BCMA's] denial of diagnosis and, especially,
prescription. [CHO uses a form of the BCMA Code of Conduct - DW.]
DW: In my Day 3 I [try and] touch on four different philosophies of
healing other than my own and three different philosophies of
geopathic stress treatment. But I also do guided writing so the
students can choose their own path. It's a ticket to anywhere.
GB: Why does something work for someone and not another ?
XX: [Would this include] a register of healers ?
XX: We could start by just sharing ideas.
GB: That wd need organising. We need education in why GS is
selective.
JH: There is a strong interest for a number here in this. We need a
notice in the journal saying we are forming a group. What would
people expect to find for themselves [in that] ?
GC: We need research and devt of analysis of the aura. What is
normal ? [We need the] scientific approach - use the aura
constructively. Can a dowser pick up small changes in
biochemistry ?
GB: Do we run ahead of ourselves in considering detail ? If there is
a general consensus we have a group.
BG: We cd have a day forum/symposium.
GB: There are so many aspects. How do we give confidence to each
other ?
XXa:I'm a healer so maybe I have tunnel vision. What do you use
dowsing in healing for ?
GB: You're thinking of a regional gathering: would you be an enabler
of such ?
XXa:I would be in favour of the entire medical profession being
replaced by healers. If the BSD set out to do that I would be in
complete agreement !
GB: I am deeply grateful to the medical profession !
SL: Let us get names.
DW: Plus their ideas.
GB: It needs organisation, though.
DW: It's a newsletter and a regular set of meetings, dates far in
advance - that's all.
Hy: The doctors are afraid of CAM but don't let them stop you.
CG: I support this [scheme]. We have insights into medical problems
and can share them with the profession. MS/ME/CFS patients on
healing carry healing energy into orthodox surgeries. We have a
duty to share this information.
GB: Self-help groups ? Encourage people to share ? Where do we go
from here ?
MR: The Feng Shui Society have additional meetings on Chinese
astrology onto their general meetings. Something could be tagged
onto a BSD event.
GB: All meetings to be reported in the newsletter - but not all in
London, please.
BG: There are practical difficulties using the London location we
have.
GB: Symposium: do we have a practitioner and an organiser for the
first ?
MR: [You] must thrash out a constitution first !
SL: The Council has been working on a first set of agreements with
any sub-group - membership, finance, etc.
JW: You have the present special-interest groups to learn from. Water
has happened inside a year.
GB: Water is "solid" ! Earth energies are "solid" ! Healing has no
[consensus] base. Who is in favour of going ahead ?
(Approx 20 hands raised)
PR: Study the NFSH constitution.
GB: This is a group for self-help [for dowsers]. I am inclined to
follow existing BSD groups.
----

Dan Wilson

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BSD Congress 2002 - Report 8
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Saturday 14 September - 3rd afternoon session
"Village Water" - David Dixon

Peter Doye introduced. He omitted to explain the situation in detail,
known to most present, that Village Water is just one element of the
American "Farmer to Farmer" aid programme, where members of the American
Society of Dowsers have undertaken to provide a dowsing service for
Ecudorean villages and fund the drilling of the subsequent boreholes.
British dowsers have joined in on their own initiative, David being one
of the first.

PD: DD had been a civil engineer in the USA and Arabia and in the UK in
the South West Water Board. He has been inspired by Brother James
Kimpton [of "Water for Life" in India]. Water presents one of the
biggest opportunities for the world. The National Geographic
Magazine is featuring this scheme in its current issue.

DD: Many thanks for the second-hand books [we asked for], which are
outside on the tables and which have raised £120 so far. You name
the price, we accept it. What are left over I will take to dowsing
groups.

VW is now one year old. The distinction from "Water for Life" is that
we do the whole thing, except for the actual drilling. The article in
[Sept 2002] "Dowsing Today" sums up what has happened so far and this
is a "slide" [actually diascope] show of the latest developments.

^ = transparency
^ The two important crops in Ecuador - coffee and bananas
^ Farmer Rene and coffee plant. This coffee is sold under the Fair
Trade system and is all organic. A second crop using irrigation
is essential [to its economics]
^ Rene and Stan Jones of the South Hereford Dowsers
^ Putting sugar into wooden pots (square)
^ Group photo - the village co-operative, 26 families. The Govt gave
them this valley. It has no [surface] water. American Rotary have
now provided some extra funds to extend the existing pipe to the
school to the village centre
^ Another farmer and family. The [underground] water was too near
their septic tank and we recommended they pumped up from a
small stream
^ Hand pump made by a small firm from old car parts. Cost around
£120.
^ Hand pump in action
^ Two local people in front of composting toilet. ASD member Steve
Herbert has made these his mission [to save water] and getting them
accepted was a matter of winning over the village Presidente
[similar to UK Chairman of Parish Council]
^ Drilling rig, not one of ours. These are funded by Christian sects
and one had bought a large tract of land and were drilling willy-
nilly. The drillers explained that going down 1000 feet @ 100 ft/day
(cost $3000-$5000 per day) always gets results. We are looking for
high water, above 100 feet, to keep cost down.

I visited a company in Herts which refurbishes drilling machines and
was quoted £30k for one suitable. The same day I did a presentation
to the Canning Trust and they gave us £5k, so we have £10k so far.
Invite me to your local group and we can have a book sale or you can
sponsor/send one of your members. We need to form sponsorship
partnerships with interested parties. The British Embassy there are
into "small works" and are interested, but they subcontract
everything so can't use us.

Clive Thompson: Are you getting geological info and are you pumping
the holes dry ?
DD: In the rainy season there is tons, so it fills again. We have
geo maps but this is granite and we're looking for cracks.
XX: How do you dowse for cracks ? Map dowse ?
DD: The maps aren't reliable enough and anyway they're the wrong
scale.
Beulah Garcin: Satellite maps ?
DD: No - this is Farmer-to-Farmer, grass roots stuff.
----
Dan Wilson

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BSD Congress 2002 - Report 9
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Saturday 14 September - 4th afternoon session
Dr David Mason Brown, "Dowsing by Doctors & Patients in the Healing
of Chronic Illness, Especially in CFS/ME"

Dr Patrick MacManaway intro'd: DMB has a long career as an academic in
Edinburgh and in medical practice. Health is a major interest in the
Society.

Notes by DW: DMB is unusual amongst "psionic" (dowsing) doctors. Where
most gravitate to using homoeopathy, his dowsing has led him to a wildly
enthusiastic naturopathy. I asked him about this and he said: I am not
trained in homoeopathy. (This does not seem to have restrained the
others ! DW) We were bombarded with printed notes and a lightning
transparency presentation of his main propositions, which are very much
best gathered by going to his web site
<http://www.in-equilibrium.co.uk/> and another one
<http://www.cfs-me-com/>. A fresh set of ideas was presented about once
a minute and merited an hour of discussion, which it did not get. The
best I can do here is to quote some of his bon mots, which came in rapid
succession:

What you are tomorrow is based in what you believe, think and do today.
Denial is the process whereby individuals and cultures avoid change.

Political and religious cultures and dogmas can train the young to
their own beliefs. It took the Nazis only 46 weeks to convert doctors
into killers.

The left-brained interpreter can create explanations even though there
is no factual basis for them (Michael S Gazzanigra)

Sloppy use of English:
You make me angry = I am choosing to be angry
There are no diagnostic tests or treatments for this condition =
the speaker does not know of any diagnostic tests or conditions for it

Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you have got
(Jim Rohn)

As soon as one person can consistently turn an insight into a new skill,
everyone else is obsolete.

DMB teaches his patients to dowse their own curative path, or if they
are seriously stressed and cannot, gets them to use a relative.
"Skeptics" who block dowsing he puts on the Bodyscan 2010 which produces
responses from electrodes on the wrists. Rather than leading patients to
their own set of responses (the usual system in training courses), he
uses standard and well-known ones which are easier to induce. He treats
mainly by meditation, supplements, nutrition and a very few drugs he
trusts, notably Nimodipine ("for brain circulation"), all doses being
dowsed. The conventional doses are often far too large.

Meditation: sufferers from cancer who manage to achieve 5 hours of alpha
rhythm per day will lose it.

In general, Europeans have 800 different types of pollutant in their
body.
---
Sunday 15th September a.m. - workshop

Here DMB expanded on some of his methods and cases, with an effective
projection show formed by stalling a video, Living Blood Microscopy
(Jolly & O'Hara)
^ = picture
Blood of:
^ Normal 60y-old, no evidence of poluttion. Serum is clear, cells are
separated
^ Migraine sufferer, 6 attacks a week. Cells clumped, not circulating.
Serum full of gunk.
^ Same case after treatment, 1 attack/week. Clearer serum.
^ Boy of 8 with CFS, mucus-like barrier around cells, cells clustered.
Had to rest 3 times a day.
^ Same case 3m later, cells still clumped but no barrier. Getting
1 hour of school a day, one rest period.
^ A doctor, evidently affected by olive oil, cells clustered as though
have a static charge
^ Same case 3m later, cells separated, debris in serum, feeling much
better
^ Case of ulcerative colitis, diarrheoa 14 times a day, cells very
clustered, serum dark
^ Same case 3m later, serum clearer but has a fungus in it, now not
enough red cells - anaemia

Bacteria
Antibiotics kill off everything, including the beneficial gut flora
Healthy people (research on those freshly killed in road accidents)
have 4 lb of healthy bacteria.
Colonic irrigation clears out the gut for six weeks. [It's not a cure
but] it gives a good lift as part of treatment. It's what you
absorb,
not what you eat, that you are.

'Prime Directive' contains 16 beneficial organisms, superb for bowel
problems, detox'ing the blood. Energy levels go up, sleep
requirements down. PD has been cultured for 15y in Australia. They
stress them with pollutants and have found that every nation has its
own natural bowel flora. Dispensed by Peter O'Hara, naturopath in
Berwick-on-Tweed, does the Living Blood courses in London. A dowser,
most of us are.

Q: How is PD taken ?
DMB:The dosage is usually dowsed. IBS sufferers usually take it for 3m
solid, but very bad cases, on and off.

DMB finished with a series of demos on people present, going into a
number of individual ways of interpreting their condition.
Q: Do you trust patients' dowsing ?
DMB:Yes. After a bit of practice they agree with us, unless they're a
serious case.

Later the "Living Blood" video was shown to those who wished to see
the whole thing. DMB: The kit for doing this is seriously expensive.
----

Dan Wilson

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BSD Congress 2002 - Report 10
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Sunday 15th September - 1st afternoon session
Tony Hathway, "The Underground Secrets of Crop Circles"

David Mison intro'd: Tony is on the committee of the Earth Energies
Group and used to run dowsing courses before he got into CC.

TH:
It's nice to be with an audience who are sympathetic. We've had
about 100 dowsers come and look at CC and this is based on their
findings.

I come as a complete sceptic, a university lecturer. I started off
thinking it was all man-made. I was in Glastonbury with a lot of
people who were all excited about a new CC - this was Stonehenge,
2000. Nothing like it before - 150 circles or more - and they
appeared inside an hour.

How did they do that ? It took us 1 1/2 days even to survey it. If
you made the circles into metal discs you would get musical tones. I
asked one of the students if he could tell me of any fresh ones and
he did - Windmill Hill. I drove there in the early morning and spent
the whole day measuring it. It couldn't have been man-made.

In 2001 this developed with the largest CC ever seen, it was massive,
people the other end of it were dots. The press asked known hoaxers
if they cd make it and they said it was impossible - it wd need too
many people.

(Sample slides of CCs.)
(In green crop) The geometry is very precise. There are always
harmonic proportions. Surveying one is very complex. Its edges were
single stalks of wheat.
(Waffle - hatched square) Again, very fine detail.
(Pin-cushion)
(2002, complex network) Amazing. This one was too finely detailed to
walk through [without damaging it]. Look at the weave, the curves,
the sequence of lay. Where two circles meet, the stalks are plaited
together. In the middle you get intricate features and curved stalks.
(Simple pattern, radial arms with circles $$) I was interested in
this because it was under a power line. The layering was very
complex.
You get a sense of humour about some of these patterns, they have
signatures and unexplained symbols.
(6 stars in a circle) Notice one arm is misplaced. And
(5-armed flame) one of the flames is rolled in on itself.

We were at Cherill [Wilts] and said one of the fields had a crop that
was too perfect to have a CC in it - next day this
(9 triangles inside circle) appeared in it. Notice the photo has
anomalous features at the edge. When I was in the first 3-arm [$$]
circle I had a bobber [wand] with me which I pushed down into my bag
but by the time I reached the centre it had gone. Leaving at 3 pm I
came across it lying in the centre of a circle I hadn't visited.

We study CCs by dowsing and enquiry. Earth energies (EE), type of
surface, features, effects on people. How do you find a CC [ahead of
the crowd]? Some people look for energy field above the surface, I
look for water underneath. A man-made CC has neither. A real one has
the design painted in water under the surface.

(Beckhampton avenue) The CC is right on top of the avenue with no
visual clues [if you're in one part where the other parts are].
(6-flame CC touching 3 barrows at Stonehenge) This one has a line of
"ley energy" through it. Positioning it by conventional means would
be impossible. Dowsing says the shaping is done by [using] water.
Hamish Miller finds similar patterns to those found at his line
crossings at the crossing points in CCs.

There are physical differences inside/immediately outside CCs.
Radioactivity 2:1. Moisture 1:2. Mobile phones and electronic cameras
fail inside. Effects on people are very various, 13% are unaffected.
In general, calming, loving, peaceful, but with some, fatiguing or
energizing. Three of us went into a new CC (inverse pincushion) and
couldn't sleep the following night.

How are they made ? Ideas have evolved a little. 99% of dowsers can
distinguish a genuine CC. We have the following dowsed responses:
Man-made thoughts 2%
Earth thought 66%
Previous civilisations 50%
Off-planet 61%
But these are interim results because fresh ideas keep being
suggested, such as
God/Spirit 66%
(why is this different from Earth Thought ? - DW)
Another dimension (yes)
We would quite like not to know the answer, but tell us what you
think.

Q&A
Q: Why this part of England [so much] ?
A: Water seems to be the key - mostly [contained] in chalk.
Q: Timing - why in ripe crops ?
A: More spectacular ? Kinder to the farmer, less damage ? But some
CCs have occurred after the harvest.
Q: What forensic tests have been done ?
A: [Nothing formal but] I spoke to the first person who had been into
the Stonehenge CC after heavy rain. He said he was leaving a
prominent mud trail there.
====
The President, Beulah Garcin, closed the Congress with thanks to the
presenters and also for what the educators are doing for the future
of dowsing - also to the staff at Halifax Hall and the good food
provided. Thanks again to Michael and Deidre Rust for setting it all
up (acclamation).
====
ING. DAN WILSON