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From the half-yearly BSD leaflet. Everyone welcome but non-members
pay the higher rate of the two shown.

Tue 22 Jan London Lecture (after AGM)
The Medical Society of London 11 Chandos St W1
The doors will open at 17.00 for refreshments and the AGM will commence
at 17.45 followed by the lecture at 18.45.

LEY LINES & BLACK LINES Keith Foster

Keith will distinguish between these phenomena, showing "in
scientific terms" why they affect living organisms differently.
His theory is that they are not "energy" in the physical sense
but information. This lecture will be expanded into a workshop
in April (see below).

£4.00/£5.00

Thu 18 Apr London Lecture
The Medical Society of London 11 Chandos St W1
18.00 for 18.45

SO HOW DOES IT ALL WORK, THEN ? Guy Hudson
This talk will reflect the work of the Dowsing Research Group
over the last five years. Guy will put forward theories of how
dowsing works with demonstrations and interaction with those
attending.

£4.00/£5.00

One Day Spring Meeting
Sat 27 April at Regent's College, Regent's Park, London NW1
Two concurrent workshops commencing 10.00 and finishing at approx
17.00. Participants should be familiar with dowsing reactions.

NEW MILLENNIUM ALLERGIES - NO NEED TO SUFFER Anthony Wrigglesworth
Allergies are commoner than ever before, the result of our immune
system's inability to cope with and protect us from the multitude
of new substances. All allergies can be identified and treated with
safe homoeopathic remedies. Tony Wrigglesworth is a senior
consultant in professional allergy practice.

WORKING WITH LEY LINES & BLACK LINES Keith Foster
An expansion of Keith's earlier talk. He will demonstrate how
these phenomena affect people and show how a ley line can be
interrogated.

£34.50/£34.50 - lunch not included but is available in the refectory.
Apply to the BSD office for details/application form.

Weekend Apr 12 - 14 Course at Hawkwood College, Stroud, Glos on
DOWSING FOR BEGINNERS with Dr Patrick MacManaway
£185.00/£187.50 Residential single room
£166.00/£168.50 Residential shared room
£138.00/£140.50 Non-residential

Sun 9 June - One-Day Special at Hawkwood College, Stroud, Glos
SITE DOWSING with Geoffrey King (not for total beginners)
Instruments, signal patterns, depthing techniques. Attenders should have
basic dowsing skills.
£42.00/£44.50 includes lunch

Also to come:

Wed 10th July London Lecture - subject and speaker to be
announced
Venue 11 Chandos St W1

Weekend 13 - 15 September BSD ANNUAL CONGRESS at Halifax Hall,
University of Sheffield
Details to be announced in June

Weekend 11 - 14 October Course at Hawkwood College on
DOWSING & HEALTH with Michael Cook

Weekend 1 - 3 November at Edward King House, Lincoln
LEARNING TO DOWSE

Tuesday 22nd October London Lecture - subject and speaker to be
announced
Venue 11 Chandos St W1

And further ahead:
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS 2003 Aug 29th - Sep 1st 2003
to mark the BSD's 70th anniversary
Weston Hotel & Conference Centre, Manchester

For details or to book, contact:
British Society of Dowsers
Secretary, Mr M Rust
Sycamore Barn
Tamley Lane
Hastingleigh
Ashford
Kent TN25 5HW (01233) 750253
<mailto:secretary@britishdowsers.org>
<http://www.britishdowsers.org/>
(Response to emails or letters is a little sluggish but the phone works
well)
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Dan Wilson
 
 

CONGRESS 2001 BSD…¡

My usual, now firmly unofficial (there has been a Fuss), account of the
Congress. It was held over the weekend 14-16 September at the Royal
Agricultural College, Cirencester, which is a very good Gothic Revival
fake manor house on a grand scale, initiated by Prince Albert in the
1850s.

Friday afternoon 14 September
Groups Conference
Suddenly the (regional) Groups Conference has become important. There
were 29 people present, far more than previously, with at least five
Council members lacking any Group delegacy. Were we what passes for
BSD grass roots ? Possibly. President Beulah Garcin welcomed everyone
and the formalities were quickly concluded.

Michael Rust, General Secretary, gave a report on the year. There is
a new web site - <www.britishdowsers.org> - not without its teething
problems. He hoped it was an improvement on the previous one. Plans
are well in hand for the 70th Anniversary International Congress in
2003, though a venue isn't decided yet.

"Dowsing Today", the Society's journal made up into a glossy magazine,
is now well established. A coordinating editor, Peter Doye, had been
appointed to assure continuity.

Membership was roughly 8 more than last year (in 1400). Following on
earlier tutors' forums, an Education sub-committee had been formed,
headed by Mary Ison.

Guy Hudson (Dowsing Research) asked how many local groups were not
represented at the meeting. It emerged that a new group in Kent had
been overlooked and others absent were Bristol, Devon, Scottish,
Edinburgh and Sardinian. However, Al Heiss of the Chicago chapter of
the ASD was present as an observer and was welcomed.

Group reports, in brief:
Ashdown (Sussex/Surrey border): Small, mainly mediums and clairvoyants.
Meetings monthly. No change.
Northants: similar.
Earth Energies: 220 members - very active. (Read the EEG newsletter for
details.)
East Midlands: mainly 15 members talking. Have been on local TV and
radio, not much reaction. (President: People are usually attracted by
more subtle means.)
South Herefordshire was in wax mode, with a lot of interest in a
"decadon" (ten-sided) energy figure 140 miles across the west of
England and into Wales being plotted, and some good speakers - Sig
Lonegren, Peter Stewart talking on "direct cognition".
Dowsing Research: has sprung back into life with four meetings a year,
mainly in the Midlands, and one weekend, this year at Steyning near
Chanctonbury Ring on the South Downs. Guy Hudson (reporting) thought
there was progress in understanding dowsing and seeing how new
scientific developments matched with dowsing. Dowsing was one way into
understanding quantum mechanics. The DRG was offering an undergraduate
prize to be presented at the 2003 Congress for the three best research
projects involving dowsing.
London: a fair membership who do not turn up at meetings, so
effectively small. Mainly healers and archeological dowsers.
Surrey: Members had been threatened with closure if they did not produce
some fresh officers, with good effect. Dowsing classes were now taken
more seriously as an activity.
Sussex: 8 meetings a year, mainly talks. A talk is always followed by
an instruction session, always well attended. Usually 3 of the meetings
are outdoor, average attendance 29 indoor, 12 outdoor. Membership was
down at 65, though 41 are long term.
Wessex: have been going 15 years, now have 46 members which is down a
bit. Many of these are ex-students. Meet every 3rd Monday, excl. Aug and
Jul when an outside meeting is held. A leaflet had attracted people.
35-45 come to meetings, crop circles sometimes more. Someone on the
committee was now charged with seeing to tuition. The group had its own
web site.
West Midlands: Michael Guest ran it single-handedly: "No fights and we
get along pretty well. The deepest stratum in human nature is laziness.
I have trained people in doing nothing but they do help on rare
occasions." There were 6 meetings a year with some good talks. 170
members with attendance 45-60 at meetings. Mostly notification was by
word of mouth but a few came thanks to the web site and a local
authority list of activity groups.
West Wales: collected from south of a line between Aberystwyth and
Brecon. 124 members, a little down after a bad period with foot-and-
mouth disease preventing travelling. The group was split evenly between
healers and practical dowsers. Tuition was given in the second half of
meetings. A couple of outside visits. Some mentions in local radio and
papers.
Manchester: small now, were big once. Mainly healers. But run a stand at
Mind-Body-Spirit exhibitions which is very busy. 50-60 but meetings see
only 12 or so.

The subject of children at meetings arose and a sharp division in
outlook was evident, some groups finding them a nuisance and an insurance
liability and others regarding them as essential seed corn. (Group A:
Suppose a child got schizophrenia as a result ? Group B: How would you
prove it ? It's a risk anyway. We make the parents responsible.)

Guy Hudson: Does affiliation to the BSD mean the group is insured ?
M Rust: Only if they take the option up formally.
Someone: At what age are participants insured ?
M Rust: (silence - unsure)
John Wright (East Midlands): 18.
M Rust: Thanks, yes, that's it.
Sig Lonegren: I think kids are important. I suggest that insurance for
them be looked into.
M Rust: Will do.

Other topics:
Someone: I had a letter from a member. Says dowsing is going in the
wrong direction. Felt lost in groups - felt they were talking
of fairies. She's not getting training, only getting hearsay.
We are beginning to be armchair dowsers. I am starting a bi-
monthly meeting to do some tuition.

Steve Buckley (Manchester): We did have some interest from oil company
CEOs.
John Wright (East Midlands): We had a big article on oil dowsing in the
Liverpool Daily Post and there was no reaction whatever.
Beulah Garcin (President): We haven't had any interest from oil
companies.
Sig Lonegren (Council) Rockefeller used to choose between orthodox
exploration suggestions using intuition.

The "Water For Life" donations scheme was being expanded to take in
British involvement in the ASD water-finding programme in Honduras.
Beulah Garcin: Father James Kimpton doesn't want to leave India as he
may not be let back in.
David Dixon (Council, Honduras project): The Council has agreed I should
suggest finding water for people overseas and get BSD members
to help with drilling. There is a huge need for people who
will never be helped by government. In Honduras the govt only
provided a school to educate 6-12 year olds. Water Aid only
helps Commonwealth countries.)
Sig Lonegren: I will be happy to speak to any group, if they can put me
up.

Date of the next BSD Congress: 13 September 2002, at Halifax Hall,
Sheffield University.

Friday evening 14 September

BSD President Beulah Garcin welcomed members and especially the few
Americans who had been able to make it to Cirencester. The Congress
was being held in the shadow of the appalling events in the USA on
11th September and the anguish of those involved had been shared by
everyone as though they had been personal friends. A three-minute
silence had been observed throughout Europe today and she wished to
suggest a two-minute silence before proceeding further. This was
observed.

David Dixon - Water For Life
As part of her introduction, the President mentioned that the
Millennium Water Project had somewhat stalled as Foot-&-Mouth
Disease had prevented access to healing springs. Water-diviner and
past President Edwin Taylor had offered the use of the large supply
of water on his own estate but an investigation of the logistics of
setting up a bottling plant had shown it was too big a project for
the Society to undertake. Some bottled water firms had even gone out
of business recently. There was now a shortage of water-diviners and
the Society had ambitions for a training scheme for youngsters.

Coming to the WFL project, the Society was still supporting Father
James Kimpton in India but to meet the additional demand for the
Honduras project, would be holding a raffle and tombola during the
Congress. Dowsing the number of apples in a bowl and the name of a
teddy bear (on a masked label on its ear) was also invited.

David Dixon: this is all about water-divining. He had read the
article on the ASD "Farmer-to-Farmer" scheme, where people helped
people direct without any bureaucracy, by Steve Herbert in December
2000 and had offered to help. This was the third year of the ASD
involvement: they try and donate a complete mobile drilling rig
every year, train local dowsers and rig operators and cover all
costs themselves except for the rig, parts, air fare and local keep,
which come from the appeal. The BSD was proposing to operate on the
same basis, which amounted in cash terms to £10,000 a year.

He then gave a slide (actually diascope) show of his 2000 visit to
Honduras, which was extremely clearly explained and well
illustrated. The village concerned was on granite and volcanic rock
with no aquifers, only water-bearing fissures a few inches thick.
There was insufficient pipe available to go lower than 15 metres.
On this occasion he and the local dowser (trained earlier) found two
neighbouring points and then agreed to choose the "strongest" one.

The rig consists of a petrol-driven hammer drill perched on top of
the drilling bits, steadied and steered by a thin framework about 3m
high, carefully guyed to keep it vertical. Water was pumped down the
hollow bits to force the debris up the outside of the drill and
lubricate the drilling faces. Two shallow square basins were cut in
the ground close to the rig and connected to it with primitive
channels for the outflow, the first to allow the debris to settle
out and the second to act as the reserve tank, the priming water
(from the village's rather poor washing-water spring) being brought
to site in 45-gallon barrels. A supply of small boys kept the
settling tank cleared.

The drilling bits came with five-foot extension pieces which were
added as the borehole progressed. The bits cost around £250 each and
had tungsten carbide faces which might last only one day in really
hard rock, or several days in easier ground.

In the Q&A session, there was perceptible unease about the threat to
the Indian arm of WFL if the Honduras project proved to load the
total appeal too much. DD: we can only have one fund. President: the
raffle prizes have been given without any conditions. Kate Fortlage:
we should guarantee James Kimpton a fixed sum.

Water-diviners are invited to join the project for the sheer
experience. A little Spanish is desirable. The rough breakdown for
the year's project appeal is:

One dowser's travel and living costs per 3-week visit £1k
One mobile drilling rig £6k
Machine supervisor's annual wage (if not met elsewise) £2k
Drilling consumables and contingencies £1k
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£10k
Apply, or make any donation (BSD, reg charity 2295911) to the
BSD office at:
Sycamore Barn, Hastingleigh, ASHFORD, Kent TN25 5HW
<secretary@britishdowsers.org>

Saturday morning first half, 15th September 2001

BSD President Beulah Garcin opened proceedings by mentioning that
the retiring President, Maj-Gen Bill Cooper, was being given
Honorary Vice-Presidency (applause, more than formal as he was popular).

Alan Neal - Stepping Into The Past
Lorna Sharkey introduced Alan, saying he was a full-time dowsing
teacher in the West Country.

Alan said he had become interested in dowsing through antiquarianism,
reading Alfred Watkins on leys, Scott-Elliot on dowsing and the story of
Bligh Bond who located the sites of missing parts of Glastonbury Abbey
by talking to deceased monks in the early 1900s. It worked, so what ?
Maybe time is an illusion. He was sad about the continuous destruction
of evidence of the past and that orthodoxy so readily overlooks the
ability of dowsers to relocate it.

Using slides, he talked in detail about one of the prehistoric "stone
rows" which had been lost in modern forest on Dartmoor although
photographs of it on open moor existed. Some of the stones had been
almost flush with the turf, so it had to be found by first locating
the larger terminal stones. Rods indicated where to enter the
plantation and after that it was just a matter of going ahead until
told to stop on the line of the row. The larger stones were soon
found and after that it was a painstaking slow scan up the line to
find the smaller stones, now inches under pine needle mould. Experience
showed that as the forest matured, the job became easier as the boskage
died back. English Heritage were now using dowsing to find and map many
other such features.

As he moved to lost chapels, it became evident that for him "stepping
into the past" only refers to question-and-answer - not sensing what it
had been like to be there.
---
Andrew Tresidder - Healing People and Places, Using Flower and Other
Essences

This could be described as a very good slide show of pictures of flowers
and trees used in essence treatment. When describing their effect, Andrew
used the "positive" description now usually used to clients, to avoid
upsetting them with the implied negativities the remedies address. He
is a GP working in Devon and had become interested after a flower remedy
had corrected an old back pain. He became a medical homoeopath and then
was given a set of Bach remedies by a patient and gradually got into
using them with others.

In the process his whole outlook had changed and he talked much of
philosophical discovery and the unconscious tensions behind illness.
Life was a journey which all too often was unrecognised as such.

Only three years ago he had come across Arthur Bailey's "Dowsing for
Health" and again his life had been changed. He now worked entirely
intuitively. Flower remedies were good for cleansing disturbed emotions
in places - he didn't elaborate on how this was carried out but I suspect
the therapist takes them - and really big hatreds in people were well
handled by making high homoeopathic potencies of flower remedies for
them. "Settle your own issues before you work, and keep cleansing and
grounding."

In Q&A Andrew pronounced Edward Bach's name "batch" and this was
challenged as 'Bach' was Welsh (though not a name in Welsh, more a fond
term meaning "me boy"). Someone: but he called himself that. Someone
else: he only did that because his London friends always called him that.
Saturday morning second half, 15th September 2001

Earth Energies Group session, intro'd by Jim Lyons

Hamish Miller - Intelligence Behind Earth Energies

This was a largely autobiographical ramble through the story of the
plotting of the Michael line through Europe and the belated
discovery of a female element which masked it at points - the Mary
line. These energies did not stay still but pulsed and changed at
certain times. The effect was of a greater intelligence in the
earth communicating in some way.

While mapping the lines, it became evident there were other energy
manifestations, though to start with their form was vague. Anomalous
effects on photos were common with dowsers but an American lady had
taken a series of five transparencies where an misty, upright, orange
form moved across the scene.

Hamish showed a series of multiple-pointed stars which had first
shown up at Avebury and were then traced at various points all the
way to Cornwall (his home). A four-leaved shamrock pattern appeared
at Skelligs island where stone domes built by monks in the 500s still
stand, and forms similar to this were later found right across Europe.

Later, he had found that objects project their own patterns when laid
out on the floor. Slides showed these being plotted with coloured
tape. Such effects could not be meaningless and he felt a cosmic
intelligence must be trying to communicate.
--
Chris Strong then gave a talk variously titled
What do you mean, people can't dowse ? and: The Interaction of Senses,
Dimensions and Earth Consciousness - depending on which piece of paper
you consulted.

This was basically a musing on his experience. He works full time as a
dowser with his wife Veronika ("Stepping Stones to The Unknown") - "and
psychic advisor, but we won't go into that". Prior to this he had had
numerous uncanny escapes from injury - car and plane crashes, rioters
in Africa and snakes.

A sojourn in Ireland proved educative. A door in their converted mill
creaked open every night regardless of breezes and finally he stopped
it by shouting at it. When the well dried up their handyman suggested
the same treatment and that worked too.

A series of similar experiences with their youngest son led to an
understanding of the importance of colour when dealing with "energy".
After clearing their whole valley of past atrocities, the garden
bloomed. He finds that doing a remedy for a house clears it of
trouble as soon as it is formulated and before it is installed.
Sometimes heavy powers are involved - he was once knocked off a chair
by something invisible when he had not protected himself.

So what is going on in dowsing ? The Strongs teach toolless dowsing.
All beginners have a dominant sense. Few of us are multisensory; one
sense is always predominant - visual, touch, smell. But in all of
these there is only an acceptable "window" - we can't hear bats or
elephant signals - or even make sense of unfamiliar dialects. We
make our perceived world by processing and reset our world afresh every
day to adjust. So moving into the unseen is no more than the same.
T S Eliot: "Where nothing is, there man will find his ultimate destiny."

Why scientists can accept an infinite number of universes and then go
and deny the effects of dowsing is a mystery.

(Why is this "earth energies", though ? Answer: EE are everything, only
you mustn't say so out loud - DW)

Saturday afternoon, first half, 15th September 2001

Meet the Council
Beulah Garcin, President, invited the Council, looking edgy on a line
of chairs, to introduce themselves:
Sig Lonegren helps with the web site and is interested in getting more
dowsers into day-to-day work.
Guy Hudson is Chair of the Research Group: I get a lot of interesting
emails.
Philip Garcin: member of Finance committee, he says. (I would describe
him as having been around so long he amounts to BSD wallpaper.)
Lorna Sharkey is now a Vice-President: here to cause trouble. (I suspect
there was indeed an element of getting her inside the tent so that ...
well, you know.)
David Mizen: day job is as an editor, is a map dowser.
Mary Ison: I feel I have been here too long. In charge of the BSD's
educational programme. Represented the BSD at "opening" of the Rollright
Stones to which we had contributed (this is several thousand years too
late, surely ? - DW)
Frank Prescott: a relatively recent Council member. Farmer-dowser and
chartered accountant. Have been taking from the BSD so far, time to put
something back in. (Frank looks mean and lean: probably the ideal person
to uphold dowsing in a really savage confrontation with skeptics on TV -
DW)
David Dixon: you have heard from me already.
Michael Rust: General Secretary. (Mute, but as with Mary Ison, we had
been told to expect retirement a year ago. This appears to have gone
away - but then dowsing dispenses with time, is that not so ? - DW)

Q&A session
Q: Why does Sig want more dowsers working day to day ?
SL: In USA 95% of the wk is done by 5% percent of the membership. You
are
probably not the people I should be talking to.
Q (from me): First-time enquirers receive along with the dowser list a
form to fill in and return reporting on how the job went. How many
of these forms are returned and what use does the Society make of
them ?
MR: We get very few back. The complainers do respond more often and then
we do look into it. Dowsers themselves get very little feedback.
Q: What is the membership at present ?
MR: 1400.
Q: What happened at the Rollright Stones "opening" ?
MI: They were "opened" by Julian Richards (of the TV programme "Meet the
"Ancestors") plus the two entrepreneurs who bought it from the old
estate. Hope to find room for car park. A Bronze Age burial site has
been discovered below the White Knight stone. I went there and was
not challenged by the farmer. A notice recognises us and Hanson
Trust
and Oxfordshire Trust as benefactors.
Q: Is there vandalism ?
MI: Not as yet but we are looking to have a better fence.
SL: Are the Whispering Knights part of the group (in next field - DW)
obtained ?
MI: I don't know.
GH: Dowsing is well recognised there and you can hire rods. Vandalism
there is an extra risk at Celtic festivals and a special watch is
kept at those times. The Whispering Knights belong to an Oxford
college.
Q: It seems to be unmanned a lot. There is an honesty box when no-one
is there.
BG: There's been one for at least 25 years.
Q: What about maintainence money ?
MI: Always welcome. All contributions gratefully received. (On access,)
the Oxford college leases its land to the farmers so it's them we
have to approach.
Q: Can Rollrights be used for training ?
BG: This would be a matter for local dowsers, maybe the West Midlands
would be the group to do it.
GH: Yesterday at the Groups Conference training was seen to be a
concern. Sussex hold sessions after talks. We are especially
carefully looking at water-divining training and getting a
volunteer to do some tuition.
Jill Maguire (one of the complainers re these reports in the Dec 2000
"Dowsing Today"): An unauthorised version of this Congress appears
on the Internet - why is there not an official one ?
MR: This will be written up in DT and we hope to have the report on the
web site.
SL: "Unauthorised" is wrong. There is no authorisation required.
MR: I understand, Sig, but some meetings are privileged. Because of that
and because people think they are in privy circumstances, there is
concern.
Dan Wilson: I have been doing these reports on this little machine
(AgendA organiser), this will be the sixth year I have done it and
last year was the first time there were any complaints. The Research
Group discussed this at its last two meetings and came up with a very
workable solution, which is that as soon as anyone realises their
words are likely to go beyond the walls and wishes them not to, they
ask for what they say not to be minuted and everyone in the room with
a machine like this or a pen lays them ostentatiously down until
there is a change of subject.
BG: I think the problem was reprinting the reports in the magazine, not
their existence.
Saturday afternoon, second half, 15th September 2001
[] = DW interpretation

Mary Ison introduced Guy Hudson, scientific advisor to the BSD.

Guy Hudson (Jill Bruce, Jim Lyons) - Dowsing the Informational Field

Guy started by describing what goes on in Dowsing Research Group
meetings. "We're not the same as other groups and don't really publicise
what we do. We have intense discussions and pull each others' viewpoints
apart." There are five meetings a year plus a weekend away, Beeston
Castle in 1999 looking for Richard II's lost treasure, and Nash near
the South Downs this year. "It's very open. What is discussed is not
published as it's work-in-progress and people prefer to publish their
own work." He had Jill Bruce with him who comes from a background to
do with spirit - she knew a lot about the aura, much of which fits
what Jim Lyons will be saying from the sacred geometry angle.

JB: All my family see the aura but I was 35 before I realised seeing it
wasn't universal. An aura is [a perception of] the subtle energies
to do with your body and its structure is leading to a better
understanding of how it relates to health. There are seven bodies
with the chakras coming through to one more body for each starting
at the base.

About 3 years ago I realised I was seeing definite geometric shapes
in the aura. They seem to be symbolic of the karmic lesson the person
is going through. >From a healing point of view this gives you an
insight into the person's situation.

The shapes I see are these, with their apparent relevance:
(Notes taken down in the dark, so there may be slips - DW)
Circle - integrating in general
Two circles overlapping - evolution from within. The person has a
lot of self-evaluation to do.
Triangle, equilateral - a trial in which the subject seeks harmony
in many issues.
Square - looks outwards. The inner self is being cracked open and the
person needs to reconcile their inner self and the outside world.
Pentagon - peace. Microcosm of man in macrocosm of the whole.
Unworldly people show this. These people are unstable with respect to
good and evil.
Hexagon - karma developing, as a spiral out of 3 squares contained
within a circle. Complete unity. It signals what I thought was the
voice of God until I met the DRG; now I call it the information from
divine realms.

As an example JB showed a slide of a typical "severe migraine" aura and
gave a long description of the apparent shapes that emerged from it.

Jim Lyons: Jill comes from the right-hand end of this and I come from
the
left. I see dowsing as a bridge between science and spirituality.
What we are doing is in the middle ground. The idea of the aether
lasted until the 18th century when we had the reductionist view,
where the mind was discarded as anything important. Now science has
been revolutionised by quantum mechanics and is in turmoil. If I
dowse the aura of this plastic disk (demonstrating) I get the first
body at 2.72 feet. If I spin the disc the aura moves out to ... 13 ft
and the object is affecting everything else. The aura of a magnet
goes out to 20 ft maybe. A magnet has spinning atoms. Look at the
disk again and we get more rings further out, getting closer
together. Ratio of adjacent ring separation is 0.891 - the semi-tone
in music. Similar ratios obtain in the wavefronts of the wake of a
ship. It's like a reaction-diffusion process - thoughts come back at
us slightly adjusted.

It's beginning to look as though space is a super-large computer.
Maxwell's original electromagnetic theory matches dowsing patterns
closer than his later ones. [I have to guess this as I didn't
hear it too well:] resonance and consonance are difficult to judge
without professional knowledge of the mathematical side.
-----
Mary Ison: We are running over time so will have to hold one of the
ten-minute talks over.
----
Two (of three) Ten-Minute Talks
Frank Prescott intro'd:
Arthur Hamlin - Deviceless Dowsing Develops Definition

AH: This talk is about spiritual beliefs and behaviour. [I became
interested in] trying to get hands to move for dowsing. Intent
is vital to enhance dowsing. I developed involuntary movements,
becoming a spectator drawing unseen energies. Using pencils you can
train yourself to move your hands spontaneously and get them to draw
the size and shape of unwanted energies. It works well to start with
with people close to you then you move out to others. [Uses
spontaneous movement to enable and augment healing.] Get the most
advanced person you can invoke or imagine to work your hands. It's a
matter of tuning and reaching out.

AH is a religious healer, heavily into protection and obtaining
permission.

---
Mary Ison then intro'd Dr Diana Samways, who had gone to the trouble of
circulating notes on her talk, so I don't have to guess at all at the
content.

Dr Diana Samways MBBS - Dowsing Brainwaves & "The Mozart Effect"

DS: I am an escaped Dr from the world of the pill fairy and the
pharmaceutical angel and if those doesn't work, cut it off.

She had been a standard GP for some years when she took an interest in
allergies and moved into environmental medicine. Here pharmaceuticals
are not used and the holistic outlook prevails. She does dowse, but
except in geopathic stress work doesn't rely on it too heavily. In her
copy, she says;

However, for years some health professionals have been, unknowingly,
practising a form of dowsing (without instruments) when using medical
diagnostic skills. I became aware of this after joining the BSD and
attending a local group.

In her talk she didn't expand on this interesting remark and there was
no time for questions. How do health professionals dowse (rather than
use clairvoyance) without knowing they are ? I've a good mind to phone
her and find out.

She finds that something sufficiently disturbing in the consultation
wrecks the quietness of mind necessary to dowse. A hyperactive brother
of a child patient reduced her to using left-brain logic, which
fortunately proved sufficient.

Most of her talk was on the subject of brain rhythms and the
entrainment effect of different kinds of music. Entrainment is the
natural resonance effect that can make similar clocks in a room
sufficiently close in pendulum rate to lock together and keep
identical time indefinitely - discovered as long ago as 1665.
Nuns all menstruate together, apparently.

Much experimentation has shown the types of music which induce a
relaxed or meditational state - the "Mozart effect". Conversely
some pop music seems designed to induce anger and a link has
been shown to serial killings in the USA.

Much of what she had to say about entrainment of brain rhythms
between people was very familiar to me from the Mind Mirror
experiments in which I took part over twenty years ago, in which
healer and _unwitting_ subject could be 200 miles apart and still
entrain. Yet she made no reference to these and illustrated her
talk with plain electro-encephalograph patterns which only clearly
show fundamental frequencies and are far less revealing than the
Mind Mirror's spectrum analysis which displays everything of
interest and is especially good at identifying profound healing
states and balance between left and right brain. Perhaps the wheel
keeps on having to be reinvented - or the Mind Mirror, still
available, is a shade expensive.

Addendum

> However, for years some health professionals have been, unknowingly,
> practising a form of dowsing (without instruments) when using
> medical diagnostic skills. I became aware of this after joining the
> BSD and attending a local group.
>
> In her talk she didn't expand on this interesting remark and there was
> no time for questions. How do health professionals dowse (rather than
> use clairvoyance) without knowing they are ? I've a good mind to phone
> her and find out.

I have now written to her and it seems she really meant: "intuited" -
which is really something much broader.

I also raised the question of the Mind Mirror, which reveals much more
than an EEG machine about what is going on in someone's mind, and she
proved well aware of it. In fact she uses machines of any sort very
little in her work, as (of course !) brain patterns can be dowsed.

Saturday evening - 15th September
An informal meeting for dowsing tutors was held in the students' Tithe
Barn common room to discuss education policy. This had to be relocated
thanks to noise (not from students, but conference attenders).

Passages in [square brackets] are DW guesswork at what was meant.

Mary Ison chaired.
MI: We started by looking at NVQs (National Vocational Qualifications)
around 1993 and found they would need 1 for every region. So we
gave that up and went for establishing core curricula which the
Soc would provide at different levels. Also the question of
qualifications arose. BSD is only interested in terms of
advertising itself and getting members [i.e. not in becoming an
examining body].
Geoff Crockford (Dowsing Research): You have to know what you're
trying to teach and who it's going to benefit. There are different
markets. Surveying, engineering, archaeology, science, whatever.
Jeff Harvey (Kent): It [accreditation and self-regulation] is vital
for healing [where] we are under pressure.
(Discussion inaudible: DW complains - change of venue to quiet area of
dining room.)
DW explained some correspondence he had had with Michael Rust in Nov
2000 (which MI seemed not to know of) where he had raised the
question of writing an NVQ which a client wanted, in which he had
touched on the self-regulation moves under way in the healing
organisation world. MR had responded asking for detailed info
which DW had then given. Since then he had looked into the poss-
ibility of writing a NOS (National Occupational Standard) for
medical dowsing, which was simpler than it sounded, since there is
no requirement to set working methods, or the beliefs or working
hypotheses that dowsers used in their work.
GC: Dowsing for drains is a specialist thing. A general day doesn't
leave them with a skill they can use.
MI: Specialist tutors will not be easy to find. As soon as you
specialise you thin the classes out a lot.
GC: You want to insert dowsing into ordinary tuition on agriculture
[or whatever the discipline is].
??: Oil engineers would welcome it.
(Argument abt acceptance by oil companies, who either don't use
dowsing or admit they do, out of commercial secrecy, skepticism of
shareholders and extreme hostility of company geologists to anything
which might cut geologists out of the loop).
Paul Craddock (Wessex): Who wants to come to dowsing courses - the
public. That's where the demand is. With me it takes 12 weeks
[of evening classes]. [I start with "deviceless" and] 80% of my
students have never touched tools. [To do courses in adult
education] teachers have to be qualified as teachers.
??: What sort of people do you get ?
PC: All sorts. From 8 to 80.
??: Do any want to use it professionally ?
PC: Not at all. They have no idea of its applications.
MI: Do you want a qualification ?
??: Yes. It has to be credible.
Tony Owen (West Wales) Farmer Giles doesn't need that.
Arthur Hamlin (Congress speaker): No. [This is running before you can
walk.]
GC: (tells story of borehole where water proved to have far too much
iron in) So the dowser was incompetent. There is a need for qual-
ifications.
TO: We teach it as a hobby at present.
MI: We're getting into too much detail here. We need to know who can
train in X [discipline].
John Wright (East Midlands): PC is saying you need a qualification in
teaching.
MI: Do you want us to know about specialist dowsing teachers ?
Several people: No.
PC: Ask known teachers for their syllabus.
GC: Ask the users what they want.
Several people: No ! They don't know !
MI: If we approved syllabuses we have no way of knowing you are
actually using them.
TO: If the BSD were involved, they can monitor sessions.
MI: How do you feel about a core syllabus ?
AH: A minimum two-thirds is fine.
GC: Dan's way [he is referring to non-specificity of a NOS] is the
[neutral] output. The Society would want the use of colour,
witnesses, [you name it].
MI: I'm looking for some structure, please ! Are one-day courses to
whet appetite [the way to go] ? If so does it suggest a syllabus ?
PC: I have one of my own.
MI: Most organisations would require monitoring. The Soc would have to
do that to approve a course.
JW: There is no external demand.
PC: There is almost a waiting list.
JW: Nothing around Nottingham.
MI: ... It's 10 pm.
XX: I did Stroud [one-day course] and half that lot would not stay
with dowsing.
MI: [What about] follow up, then ?
$$: Have a local group hook them.
MI: Or more follow-on courses.
GC: It's a major weakness, the Soc not having them - they could be
done over a weekend.
Several people: No, a weekend costs too much.
DW: The Soc appealed for tutors' basic syllabuses a year ago. Have you
got my syllabus, then ?
MI: Without looking, I wouldn't know.
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(??, XX and $$ were unidentified participants.)

Sunday morning - 16th September
Extra session, Ten-Minute Talk displaced from Saturday
Mary Ison on dowsing in Syria: a slide show.

Notes taken in the dark, so beware.

Roman walls seem to be more predominant running east to west.
She mostly dowses:
Objects and their dates
Water
Burial sites
Trading routes
Thresholds, holy or unholy.
Is the archaeologist correct ?

Damascus:
Dowsing must be discreet in Arab places
Mosque was originally Temple of Jupiter

Aleppo:
One of the oldest cities in the world
St Paul got his sight back in this street
Try and find holy presences -
So looking for Christian and Roman influences
There is always water involved in a holy place
This mosque has a [ex-]Christian element - very unusual
The holy water here is on the Moslem side
Now no Christian presence

I am more familiar with Roman sites, but Roman sites in Syria are
enormous
Like to dowse at entrances and doorways - they would have been much
used
More sense of timelessness in Syria than elswhere
Strong footwear required
These cities often sacked and pillaged so there are a lot of
cultures to detect
Here several levels have been excavated, so can be dowsed at actual
levels
Tombs inside houses - a lot of them
Watercourse - kind of aqueducts [narrow walls with gravity channels
in the top]
Large underground cistern - Roman - three of them

Syria has a lot of basalt and Turkey is using water which wd normally
flow into Syria, so trouble ahead

Andara (sp ?):
Great atmosphere and presence
Tel - is a blancmange shape with flat top
Felt very nervous - site to do with Baal

Palmyra:
Oasis city - was a cosmopolitan city
Tried to get to high point and look down on ruins
Most unusual - pre-Hellenistic, a main trading position
Couldn't find the main spring
Main street is curved
Try to find a crossing point when dowsing. Lots of temples, Greek
and Roman
The temple of Baal still had a presence

A Crusader castle
- not easy to dowse, 11th century, never conquered, easy to get lost,
had to dowse my way out

This was a strange talk, rather like one given by a friend using the
slides who didn't dowse and had been told what to say. There was
nothing at all in the way of personal insights or discoveries, or
time-travelling impressions ("it smelt of dried pee and incense, and
they were eating barbecued dogs whole like corn on the cob" -
insertion courtesy DW) or even very much in the way of curiosities
learnt from guidebooks. Mary is also one of those lecturers who sets
out on an X-Minute Talk firmly expecting to be permitted 2X and maybe
even 3X. She concluded at 19 minutes after rushing some slides through
in ... what can I say ? ... a ruffled manner.

Sunday morning - 16th September
Workshops on the following subjects were offered:
Guy Hudson - The work of the Research Group
Andrew Tresidder - Flower Essences
Alan Neal - Archaeological Dowsing
Hamish Miller and Ba Russell - Cosmic Consciousness
Christopher and Veronika Strong - can anyone dowse ?

I had reason to attend Guy's session as the grapevine said Peter
Stewart, who does in 20 minutes what it used to take the CIA three
months to achieve in getting people into "direct cognition", would be
speaking and I wanted to hear the latest edition. This did not,
however, happen until the "second sitting" which is provided so that
people can do two workshops.

So - The Dowsing Research Group, or the Informational Field/er,
Thing

Guy started by explaining the current shared picture of existence as
an informational field, or if even that is too rigid for something
outside time/space realms, informational something. Doobry ? (Jim
Lyons: Matrix !) Matrix. Whatever.

Do you remember the Bishop's Rule ? How you found the depth of water
down by walking along until you got a 2nd reaction and that was the
depth ? And how if the space was a bit small and the water was several
hundred feet down, the dowser foreshortened - "scaled" - the search by
deciding to walk one tenth or one hundredth the depth before getting
the 2nd reaction ? (Guy somewhat complicated the description for
non-science people by describing a logarithmic scaling - i.e. if you
had no idea whatever about the depth, you decided that if the water
was 10 feet down, you got the reaction at 10 ft, if it was 100 down at
20 ft, 1000 ft down at 30 ft and so on. Count the noughts. He didn't
mention that if you got a reaction at 15 feet you had to use a log
table - or go to ordinary scaling again and walk the number of tens of
feet the water was down.)

The scaling shows that dowsing is a mental thing. A mind field is
telling us where the water is. So it's not the sought thing affecting
the tool, it's something global affecting us. We're calling this the
Informational Field/Doobry/Thing/Matrix/Whatever.

Guy then invited Jim Lyons to sketch in what he had been doing with
sacred geometry and Jim gave a roughly 15-minute slide show of
patterns that had come up for attention, together with the uncanny
behaviour of some "chaotic" modes of choice where apparent randomness
suddenly disappears over a certain range of inputs, and certain
"golden" numbers and ratios that crop up again and again in the plots
of natural phenomena - "Pi"= 3.1416, "psi"=1.6180, "delta"=4.6692.

It took me three goes to understand logarithms at school and Jim's
talks are rather like that: I'm at the second go at present. So that
is all for now. Jill Bruce was to have been heard on visualised
shapes in the aura, but time ran out in both sittings and she remained
in reserve.

In the second sitting, Peter Stewart was reminded that he asked some
time ago in a DRG meeting, do we agree we are using the informational
field ? - and the answer was yes.

PS: I asked everyone, one by one. We make out all this is new but it's
really very old. Patanjali in 300 BC talked about "the rain-cloud
of knowable things" - the unmanifest world raining on the manifest
world. I see three 3 rain-clouds, the other 2 being conventional
science and advanced science. Imagine the "info field" as a
version of the Internet which will provide info when entered
anywhere.

There are 2 significant areas on the head, the pineal having to do
with intuition, and the pituitary which generates a shaft of
questing energy which echoes to the pineal. [This seems to be a]
Western way of gaining info and you can read it up in Besant and
Leadbeatter's "Occult Chemistry". Kundalini yoga enables you to
touch into things. They constructed a tube on the projected
energy ... a siddhi. You refine your attention to a small point.
They looked at elemental molecules and discovered isotopes before
the idea was formed elsewhere. The Western way is "Direct
Cognition", the Eastern is meditation and other techniques.

GH: So we could extend our consciousness to find water more
efficiently ?
PS: Yes indeed, some people see the quality of the water directly.

Peter taught telepathy, psychometry and remote viewing before getting
into DC. "There are levels of content - don't hand psychometry objects
from one person to another, they imprint it".
DW: Not if you take precautions. I get trainees to wash the things in
their mind and reset their condition to just before the session.
Jo Cartmale (Earth Energies): Doing psycho stuff opens your centres
and you start predicting things.
Someone: I agree - it happened to me.
PS: Right, so we come to a short practical session to close. Let us
enquire of the field a question we would like an answer to.

He then suggested a short visualisation which I only half took in as
I have my own process for this, but if I use that to get back to his
system, it went something like: imagine you are on a lonely path in
wild country. Assemble your question as you go. The path rises into
a pink mist. Dimly, you perceive a shrouded figure waiting for you on
the path. Stop, and the figure places a finger on your forehead. What
do you experience ? The answer will be within that.

Time was short, so there was little feedback from participants. But
Guy said: It was like a radio giving me odd details. And Jim Lyons
said: Everything that has happened is recorded for ever.

Sunday afternoon - 16th September

Peter Watson & John Gibson-Forty - Lines of Enlightenment

A tangled story of an enormous decadon (ten-sided figure) covering
central Wales and the West Midlands. PW and JGF are members of the
South Herefordshire Dowsers.

JGF: I met a horn player from the LSO who wanted to discuss EE (earth
energies) and mentioned a major energy pattern in the west of the
country. I spoke to Peter and we thought it would put the South
Hereford dowsers on the map. It's mentioned in John Michel's
"Dimensions of Paradise". The form was a decadon with its centre
at Ragged Stone Hill in the Malvern Hills, near the county
boundary.

Since then the SH Dowsers have begun to plot the lines radiating from
Ragged Stone Hill, Peter Watson doing one to Machynlleth in mid-Wales,
The lines wander a bit and in trying to reconstruct the slide show
they now gave of a north-north-east line to Chartley Castle near
Stafford, I find the road map doesn't allow of a straight line at all !

This line they had photographed in detail. As with Alfred Watkins's
investigations into "leys" in the early 1920s, the photos make an
interesting historical record. Significant repetitive elements are Sir
Edward Elgar and churches named St John the Baptist and All Saints.

The line went via:
Little Malvern. Near Elgar's grave.
(Q about widths)
JGF: I've measured the width and they were between 15 and 20 feet
wide, but one is 70ft wide - but they vary over a week. Sometimes
200 ft wide. It goes down after 12 noon Sunday, maybe a church
service widens it.
Holy Well at Malvern, then St Anne's Well.
Malvern Link - church of Ascension.
Old chapel at Bransford.
Churchwick - line went thro churchyard.
Elgar's birthplace
Not far from Dovecote at Wichenford
Swaleley (?) - St Mary's church
Astley - St Peter's church
Ribbesford
St John the Baptist at Wolverley (felt unpleasant)
Kinver - St Peter's church
St John the Baptist at Himley
St Bartholomew at Penn
Wolverhampton Wanderers football stadium - Elgar was a supporter
and there is a plaque dedicated to him in the manager's office

JGF: I arranged with the manager for us to go and dowse the line
before and after 1st match of season. Went in, the line was 29 ft
wide before the match, so we watched the match and the line was
200 ft wide at the end.

St Pauls at Coven
All Saints church at Bednall - the line split here and rejoined on
the far side, with a branch going off towards Stonehenge
St John the Baptist at Chartley
Apparent termination at Chartley Castle - the line did not re-emerge
on the far side. Arrangements are being made to visit.

JGF: To summarise, these lines are live. We are working on one to
Coventry and it becomes difficult to detect - maybe the war
or the development since has affected it. Are these lines laid
down by monks ? We don't know, but their character makes us call
them "lines of enlightenment".
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The President, Beulah Garcin, thanked the speakers, the admin staff,
the workshop givers and everyone else for attending. She would like
the Congress to send energy to America and all those who had suffered
from the World Trade Center atrocity and to this end, led a two-
minute silence.

Next Congress: 13-15 Sept 2002 at Halifax Hall, Sheffield University.

Ing. Dan Wilson

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