Earth Energies Group  
Cambridge - 2003

British Society of Dowsers

 

Earth Energies Group - Annual General Meeting

 

Churchill College, Cambridge - October 2003

 

 

I felt a bit of a fraud, turning up for the 70th birthday and retirement party of a man I had never met – but I was glad I did.  Although this was the AGM of the EEG, it was clearly subtitled ‘Billy Gawn stands down’.  The quiet man from Northern Ireland had led the EEG for many years and is overtly admired by all who have had the pleasure of his acquaintance.  It was fitting therefore, that the first talk of this conference was presented by the retiring president himself.

 

Earth Energies - The Complete Spectrum

 

Thankfully, Billy Gawn did not attempt to compress 20 eventful years of dowsing and thought into an hour.  Instead, we had a few seminal distillations, which left the listener to fill in the gaps.  

 

His contention that everyone has a subtly different view of the same jigsaw – that we all have an understanding of a few pieces, and from them we have to form our own picture – had the audience murmuring in agreement from the outset.

 

He then went on to try to define what we mean by Earth Energy.  After some consideration, a slide appeared with the statement that it is all of the energies detectable on the face of the earth.  This was a more profound statement than it first appeared, as he went on to explain.  The impact of sources of energy beyond the earth, such as those produced by other planets, and in particular the solar and lunar influences, were especially relevant.

 

He then asked if these earth energies could be changed or influenced in any way.  Yes, they could – by the power of the human mind.  He debated aloud the interaction of mind and matter and neatly emphasised his point by demonstrating the muscle strength experiment on a ‘volunteer’ from the audience.  Using just a small energy field created by the beam of a torch, he showed how the strength in the arm muscle of a man could be substantially reduced and then reinstated.  The experienced in the audience nodded sagely, having seen it before, but the implicit philosophical point was lost on no-one.  

 

The next point, was that not only is there an interplay between mind and matter, but between every kind of matter.  Every object, certainly any object with mass, has an attraction to or repulsion from every other object.  He showed how experiments had demonstrated the minute gravitational (?) impact of one standing stone to another – and how these changed when three stones were aligned.  He mentioned the unusual energetic impact during eclipses, when three massive objects are aligned – something I have observed for myself.  I suddenly started to think about the group in the room, their relative masses attracting each other, overlaid by their multiple auras, but Billy was on to his next point . . .  

If the planets had such an effect on each other, what effect would they be having on the minute voltages of the energy ‘grids’ that are such a vital part of human existence?  

He looked at how energy grid patterns are in practice three dimensional – forming cubes and cones rising into the ether.  At this point, I became aware that, although Billy is a deviceless dowser – in that he does not, in the main, need rods or pendulum - he does use his eyes, or at least his eye muscles as a device to ‘indicate’ the size or location of the object or force being studied.  He was asked if he ‘saw’ the forces, but he replied that he didn’t, his eyes just rested at the requested place or line.  As far as I am aware, this is a unique method of dowsing. 

 

Billy went on to look at some of the figures set into the landscape.  How everything from the chalk figures of southern England  to the Nasca lines of Peru have an underlying energy component, and that this energy was altered by the impact of the sun and moon.  So, all those folk tales about stones moving in the night might need a bit of re-interpretation!  

 

He summed up by redefining the first slide to take the view that ‘earth energies are an expression of the creative evolutionary process as they stand at a snapshot in time’.  In other words, we are dowsing the energies of creation.

 

I have to say that there were points during his talk where my mind had split into three – one part listening, one part working out a précis of notes, so that I didn’t forget what had been said, and one part mentally working on a future article of my own on the philosophical issues raised by the dowsing issues that Billy had explained.

 

Like all memorable speakers, Billy Gawn tells you what you already know, or at least what you have a general idea about, but presents it in such a way as to draw the threads together to increase your understanding.  

 

It was worth the 7 hour drive, including getting lost in Northampton, already.

 

Billy’s act was hard to follow. 

 

 

Kinesiology and Dowsing

 

Sally Smith has been both a kinesiologist and a dowser for many years. 

 

The link between kinesiology and dowsing is that the branch of kinesiology which she follows uses the yes/no question and answer method of dowsing technique, to determine the health of a patient.

 

In a step by step process, meridians are rebalanced by directing questions to the various muscles en route.

 

As with all dowsing, Sally emphasised the need for clarity of thought and concept prior to asking the questions, and for requesting permission to work at the outset of a consultation.  

 

Following on from Billy Gawn’s ‘across the spectrum’ approach, Sally emphasised the inter-relationship of all matter and that the link between the cell, the body, the biosphere and beyond should be treated as one continuous path.  

    

She stated how the dowsing approach to kinesiology enabled the practitioner to determine energy correction factors, to identify areas of stress and to establish methods of clearing that stress.  Much of this involved the removal of fears and phobias that drained energy from the body.

 

At the end of the presentation, I was not totally clear what kinesiology actually does - and felt a bit more homework on my part would have been useful – but the potential relationship between dowsing and health care was very plain, and that was the object of the talk. 

 

 

Sacred Geometry : Sacred Space

 

As an accountant whose aptitude for mathematics is not very pronounced, I have tended to keep my distance from geometry, sacred or profane.  This was a good opportunity to get to grips with it – well, some of the concepts, anyway.

 

Grahame Gardner is a great enthusiast for sacred geometry – and it showed.

 

He showed how the Greek civilisation had understood such advanced mathematics that they had been able to determine the size of the earth and the length of the year with great accuracy.

 

We discussed the work of Pythagoras, of theorem fame, and from there to the discovery and use of irrational numbers – and how this, in turn, led to the development of the gothic style of architecture – conceptually enabling man to ‘get closer to the mind of God’.    

 

We studied the idea of the Vesica Pisces – two overlapping circles - which is a graphic symbol of the inter-relationship between the realms of matter and spirit, with the common section representing the ‘Logos’, often translated as ‘the word’.

 

Grahame went on to explain how much sacred geometry, later translated into sacred architecture, now called sacred space, derived from the relationship of the dimensions of the earth and the moon.  The square produced from one, relating to the circle from the other – hence to square the circle is to find the ultimate truth.

 

In architectural terms, the Aia Sophia, in Istanbul, represents perfection of the built form – so much so that the Islamic invaders not only left it unscathed, but converted it to their most sacred mosque, the dimensions of which became the template for all subsequent mosques. 

 

We were then shown how the straight lines derived from three overlapping circles would produce the pentagon, and by extension, a pentagram – and that this automatically produces a ratio, known as the Golden Mean.  

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The Golden Mean was subsequently embodied as a critical dimension of many sacred buildings of many of the world’s major religions.   

 

The Golden Mean is allegedly also represented in the structure of the ‘perfect’ human body and the relationship of the orbits of the planets.  (These bits sounded too much like Graham Hancock to me, but I let it pass!).

 

From the Golden Mean is derived the Golden Rectangle and the Golden Spiral.  Just when I thought I was goldened-out, Grahame showed the Golden Spiral in action, in nature, in the shells of sea creatures and in the structure of leaves.  

 

Thankfully someone else asked my question, in an attempt to get the focus back to the nub of the day’s tuition.  What does Sacred Geometry mean in practice?  The answer was as simple as the maths had been complicated.  A structure, be it as sophisticated and permanent as a gothic cathedral, or as temporary as a crop circle, generates – or at least attracts - earth energy.

 

As a concepts man, I felt like shouting Eureka! – but I still think Pythagoras should be strung up for cruelty to schoolchildren (only joking Py, honest)!

 

 

Royston Cave

 

Most significant sacred and/or historical sites are in massive buildings or vast open sites, bounded by the necessary evil of the institutional barbed wire.  Royston cave is, in many ways, as important as many of the better known sites, but sits in relative obscurity beneath a manhole in the main road of this Hertfordshire town.

 

Day 2 opened with a visit to a place, which had only come to my attention through its alignment on the Miller/Broadhurst Michael & Mary lines.  The previous day, I couldn’t have pointed reliably to Royston on a map, yet here I was at a quite remarkable place.

 

Originally a natural chalk hole in the ground, probably used as a shelter since prehistoric times, it was carved out into the shape of a large underground beehive hut, apparently during the period of the persecution of the Knights Templar.  Despite the attentions of Victorian graffiti artists, the walls are still adorned with recognisable KT pictures and symbols, many so clear that they can be used to accurately identify the dates of occupation.

 

Following the KT period, the cave was filled with earth and completely forgotten until its rediscovery in 1700 during works on a sewerage system.  It was painstakingly emptied to reveal the time capsule of KT concepts displayed today.

 

Previously accessed by an ingenious notched chimney, which would require initiates to descend on a rope to a wooden platform, a new entrance was dug into the cave, from the basement of the house across the road, by a Victorian entrepreneur, who could then charge pilgrims for the right to enter the site.

 

In addition to the crossing point of the Michael & Mary lines, there are other strong energies present.  In the sloping Victorian passageway no fewer than 7 bands of energy, said by others to be distinctly negative, were present.  Some women have said the cave feels overbearingly masculine, although no-one in our party could confirm this.

 

As at many sacred sites, time goes AWOL.  As it has only a small floor area, we had split into two groups, intending to spend about 20 mins each underground, before moving on.  Our group, however, were in disgrace for staying underground for over an hour – yet it didn’t seem more than a few minutes in the cave (really!).

 

Saffron Walden Turf Maze

 

The final port of call on this fascinating weekend was Saffron Walden.  As my pre-Georgian Twinn ancestors lived not far from here on the Essex/Suffolk border, I had been through Saffron Walden a couple of times, but never noticed the maze.  Even when we were a couple of hundred yards away in the public car park, it was effectively invisible.

 

The current maze - or turf labyrinth to be more precise - was built late in the 1600’s, refurbished at the turn of the last century and again in the 1960’s.  However, it is alleged to have replaced a much older structure nearby.  There were conflicting opinions as to where such a labyrinth might have been situated, and had we had a bit more time, we could have set about having a stab at finding it.

 

Although only about 130 ft across, it is the largest of its kind in the UK. 

 

Most of us walked the labyrinthine path, about a mile in all (!) - and some of us  retraced our steps, too.  It was a very meditative process, even on a sunny Sunday afternoon on a playing field full of families and children.  How much greater would be the impact of labyrinths situated on the energy spirals of quiet cathedrals, such as the one at Chartres.  

 

Having set a trend, many local families followed the cultural tourists round the path, no doubt unknowingly re-enacting the perambulations of our mutual ancestors.            

 

We were grateful for the explanations and guidance provided by local resident Jeff Saward, who is the UK’s leading expert and author on the (admittedly somewhat niche) subject of mazes and labyrinths,.

 

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Like all good weekends it asked more questions than it answered, but more importantly for me, brought together strands of thought to weave into my personal philosophical tapestry.

 

Many thanks to Billy Gawn, and subsequently David Sangwine, for their leadership, to Nenette Scrivener, Jo Cartmale and Maria Hayden for their administration and to Sig Lonergren and Jeff Saward for organising the field trip. 

 

 

Nigel Twinn, October 2003