Earth Energies Group  
Aston Clinton - 2008

 

British Society of Dowsers - Earth Energies Group

Spring Meeting 2008  

Green Park, Aston Clinton, Buckinghamshire

 

Ley lines and energy enigmas, sunshine and snow.  You just never know what will turn up next at an EEG meeting.  With a sizeable turnout of experienced members and a healthy smattering of newcomers, this seemed to be an ideal weekend for sorting out all those pesky differences in character and terminology of the various energy phenomena we encounter each time we dowse.   

 

The first session, by Doris Frankish, scythed into any misconceived complacency in the audience by concentrating on how a significant proportion of unpleasant social events - from the run-of-the-mill murder to spontaneous human combustion - seem to occur in straight lines.  She explained how differently coloured lines had different impacts on those living with them, and all but some types of green line seemed to be worth avoiding. However, with energy healing, these colours could be changed towards the more benevolent end of the spectrum. Doris produced a map of the UK, showing some of the more prominent lines, which had the inhabitants of Hull, Wrexham and other ‘places of the damned’ urgently seeking reassurance that they were not about to burst into flames.  

 

The work of Von Pohl into cancer clusters in the 1930s, and the grouping of children with certain types of learning difficulties, were cited as further evidence of this phenomenon.

 

The session was serious, startling and stimulating – and laced with dry Geordie good humour - but bordered on the slightly surreal when Doris undertook a real time stress surgery for anyone willing to call out their home address, or the name of a loved one for whom they felt concern.  

 

The excellent and personal examples drawn from her home town of Whitley Bay were most convincing and quite disturbing.  Doris shares with many of the best dowsing speakers the ability to set off a conceptual earthquake, in the manner of a gentle stroll to the shops.  This was an ideal curtain raiser, but generated in many the need to recourse to a stabilising British cup of tea.  

 

The rest of the day was given over to a series of presentations by Richard Creightmore.  Richard’s monumental task was to explain the various different types of Earth Energy, without leaving all and sundry scratching their heads.  To do this, he started by putting the UK experience in a global context - describing how similar energy phenomena have been sensed and used throughout history by cultures as diverse as the Chinese (dragon veins and Feng Shui) and the native Australians (songlines in a sacred landscape).    

 

Richard based his sessions around the EEG’s Encyclopaedia of Terms.  This brief tome (originally compiled in 1996, with subsequent revisions) was the result of the heroic effort of Billy Gawn to establish some sense of linguistic commonality throughout the dowsing world.  With seemingly no two dowsers agreeing on anything entirely, the need to be able to at least state and comprehend what we each sense is increasingly important – but if the communal language conveys some shared understanding, some of the dialects are still pretty strong. 

 

With lines that are either natural and/or man-made, energy that is produced by geology and also by human or other consciousness and a cacophony of different terms for a bewildering range of seemingly similar sensations, there is a lot to take in for a new dowser.  Add to this the burgeoning awareness of the dowsing population and the perception of energy appears to be a spectrum that is both widening and fragmenting all the time.  Modern dowsing is still a young ‘discipline’ and each new rediscovery raises new issues to be addressed – scientifically, socially, philosophically and linguistically.

 

Richard emphasised the need to clean up damaged and contaminated lines of various types by addressing problems at the nodal points.  People asked how a line or a node could be so cleaned – but this is not a procedure that is easy to explain in few words and deserved a dedicated weekend to itself. 

 

We ended the day wandering through the car park to give our theoretical knowledge some practical exercise, by sensing the enigmatic Michael and Mary energies streaming through the grounds of Green Park.

 

Richard hoped he had raised more questions than he had been able to answer – and I feel he got his wish.    

 

The final part of this most enjoyable weekend was a site visit to Berkampstead Castle.  This is a classic site for group dowsing, with a layer upon layer of recorded, and unrecorded, history to investigate and interpret.  We found remanences from the Neolithic right up to modern times, with the Druidic, Roman and Norman periods featuring strongly. 

 

Our host, Geoff Crockford, together with his colleague Nigel Hughes, have used this and other local sites to develop a new scientific approach to the verification of dowsing by sensing residues in the soil, samples of which can then be excavated in a conventional manner.  However, I am unable to give too many details of this process as it will be the content of their forthcoming book on the subject, which sounds as if it will be a cracking read - and will doubtless be available via the BSD shop in the not too distant future.  

 

Geoff’s descriptions of dowsing the massacres that had taken place on the castle site over the centuries, most notably during the period where the Romans were displacing their Iron Age predecessors, were probably a little graphic leading up to Sunday lunch, but the information he has gleaned in this context by dowsing for underground residues was impressive indeed.  His use of an extensive mobile archive of witness material for this purpose is the hallmark of a seasoned professional.

 

As ever, many thanks to Maria Hayden for the excellent organisation of  a most rewarding event which, from the animated discussions I overheard in the dining hall and the pub, clearly gave those attending a good deal to think about.     

 

 

                   Nigel Twinn

 Tamar Dowsers, April 2008