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QUARTERLY DIGEST

The AMERICAN DOWSER

VOLUME 58, NO. 2 Summer 2018

ASD Trustees & Headquarters ........................................................................1 Regional Coordinators ......................................................................................2President's Message ..........................................................................................3Editor's Column ................................................................................................5In Memoriam - E.W. "Tony" Gehringer .........................................................6New Board of Trustees Members ....................................................................82017 ASD Award Winners .............................................................................10What is Therapeutic Dowsing? – Roxanne Louise .......................................11Earthbound Spirit Attachments – Barbara Stone........................................14Proper Etiquette When You Visit a Sacred Site – Madis Senner ..............17Orgone Energy: The Western Approach to Using Universal Energy – John M. Thompson ...................................................................................22"Enlivened Beings Healings" Bring Healthy Release – Brenda Galloway………....................................................................…....30Go Dig It On the Mountain – Jim Kuebelbeck…………...........………..….....32A Californian Meets Michael and Mary – Dick Tippett…….......................36Water Dowsing Skills Transfer to Other Specialties – Simon Stone ............................................................................................40Dowse Into Wholemovement – Bradford Hansen-Smith ..........................42An Interview with Greg Storozuk – Nancy Nelson...................................... 49Can You Manage Your Coincidences? (Or Miracles Do Still Occur!) – Rev. Keith Smyth........................................................................................59Water Contamination, Health Risks, and Dowsing Solutions – Richard Benishai…............................................................................….63Dowsing to Get Rid of Bad Habits – Margaret VanLaanMartin.............. 67Submissions and Rights to Publish……………………………………….....……73ASD Policy: Healing Disclaimer, Code of Ethics……………………….………74

American Society of DowsersMission Statement

The American Society of Dowsers, Inc. is a scientific and educational non-profit organization whose mission is “to support, encourage and promote dowsing and dowsers in a manner consistent with the highest standards of personal integrity and behavior; to provide dowsing education and training to dowsers and non-dowsers alike to bring them to a level of proficiency they are comfortable with; and to promote and foster communication and fellowship among all persons in any way interested in dowsing.”

In line with our stated mission, Members of the American Society of Dowsers will work:

• To unite for an interchange of experiences, ideas, and good fellowship;

• To build up records of dowsing accomplishments;

• To advance the systematic and responsible use of dowsing;

• To declare and demonstrate that dowsing for water must beincluded as one means of overcoming the increasingly serious international water shortage;

• To cooperate with any professional or research groups that wish to learn about dowsing, on the basis that dowsing is an established living experience;

• To assist anyone who wishes to develop the use of any faculty for dowsing that he possesses;

• To encourage humility in dowsers about the possibility of human error in their findings.

The American Dowser Vol. 58, Issue No. 2 – Summer 2018

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PRESIDENTLee Ann Potter

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VICE PRESIDENTSandi Isgro

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ASD HEADQUARTERS & BOOKSTORE www.dowsers.org

Phone: 802-684-3417 • Fax: 802-684-2565 PO Box 24, Danville, VT 05828

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2015–2017

Bookstore: [email protected]: Lisa Lacoss, [email protected]

Digest Editorial Team: [email protected]

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ters (802-684-3417) to send hard copies to you. We now have an ASD Trust Fund that was set up formally a year ago where only a limited amount can be used each year, with the rest left to grow. The more that is in it, the more financially secure is our organiza-tion.

On a lighter side, northern New England had the best col-ors in several years this fall. “Leaf peepers” were out in full force for several weeks. Flying over the area in my small plane, it looked like the world was made up for Halloween with a carpet of reds, yellows and oranges. Last night as we were finishing work on our farm, the sunset was spectacular. It looked like the mountains to the west were engulfed in fire for a few moments. The lower sky was clear and bright red around, but not to the top of, the moun-tains. Above was an overcast cloud layer. What a beautiful sand-wich! We are blessed with a really beautiful landscape and planet on which to live.

And now a repeat from last issue, here is a pitch for ASD trusteeship. How about running for Trustee? Elections are com-ing up. Are you able to spend some time steering ASD to new heights in the future? Do you have ideas that you would like to see implemented? Then please consider running for Trustee.

Linking. Do you know of organizations that you think ASD should link web pages with? Linking can be beneficial to both organizations. Check out our website at www.dowsers.org to see where we have linked already. If you have suggestions, please send them to me ([email protected]) or to our Operations Manager, Arvid Johnson, at [email protected].

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MEMBERS-AT-LARGE:

For additional information about your Trustees, check the ASD Website:

http://dowsers.org/ board-of-trustees/

SECRETARYTo Be Appointed

TREASURER

To Be Appointed

Tick Gaudreau518-233-1290

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Marty Lucas515-480-7416

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Leedra Yablonsky845-596-8550

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Keith Schaffer610-689-5164

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Dan Arseneau802-349-561

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Mark Hurwich267-629-2189

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Roxanne Louise434-263-4337

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ASD REGIONAL COORDINATORS

NORTHWEST To Be Appointed

CALIFORNIA (North) To Be Appointed

CALIFORNIA (South)Inez Lindsey619-563-9782 [email protected]

SOUTHWESTTo Be Appointed

MIDWEST REGION Robert [email protected]

GREAT LAKES Scott Pearce330-821-2988 [email protected]

SOUTHERNCarol Gader 941-981-9478 [email protected]

NORTHEAST To Be Appointed

Northwest Region: WA, OR, ID, MT, WYCalifornia Region: CA, HI, AK, NV

Southwest Region: UT, AZ, CO, NM, TX, OKMidwest Region: ND, SD, NE, KS, IA, MO,

Great Lakes Region: MN, WI, IL, IN, OH, MI Southern Region: DC, KY, WV, VA, NC, SC, TN, MS, AL, GA, FL, AR, LA

Northeast Region: ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI, NY, PA, NJ, MD, DE

Check our website, www.dowsers.org, for current Chapter contact and program information as well

as the regional map on the home page.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSLeroy Bull

203-817-9646 • Fax: 215-345-4925 [email protected]


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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE

Welcome, dowsers! I am the new ASD President, having assumed the post on June 5, 2018. Although I have been the Vice President for the past year (and a Trustee at large for a year prior to that), many do not know much about me. I am a retired engineer, a dowser, and a medical intuitive. I was taught how to dowse for water by my mentor, Willard McKee, in

Placerville, California, in 1985. Although I had heard my grand-father talk about his experiences of dowsing, this was my first formal introduction. Since then, I have realized that I dowse for information for many things in my life -- it has become second nature. ASD completed a very successful convention at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Attendance was up slight-ly, and workshop attendance was the highest it has been since I joined ASD, with several of the workshops having between 30 and 40 attendees. Because of the proximity to New York City, several attendees drove up for the day to participate. The support staff at the college was extremely helpful. As with any new venue, it was not without issues, but we are confident that they can be resolved through our contract negotiations for next year's convention! At convention, we accepted the resignations of two of our Trustees – Annette Weis and Sandi Ruelke. Annette, who is a past President of ASD, has been a Trustee and Officer for many years. Her experience in the area of human resources will be dif-ficult to replace and her loss will be noticed. Sandi Ruelke, who has also been a Trustee for many years, as well as an Officer and a Convention Committee member, stepped down as an Advisor to the Board. Her experience, particularly on the Convention Com-mittee, will also be difficult to replace. Both will be missed.


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And just prior to convention, our President, Tick Gaud-reau, made the decision to step down as President and Treasur-er. His leadership and oversight are what encouraged the new monthly dowsing education calls that have become so popular with the membership. I would like to thank Tick for his service to ASD over the years. He has been, and will remain, a valuable asset to the Board. As a chapter president, I was exposed to some of the work-ings of ASD. I have attended convention regularly since joining and have been the vendor chair for convention on several occa-sions. Under Tick's leadership, key updates were made to the by-laws and a review of the Policy and Procedures Manual (PPM) began to bring them current. We initiated Continuing Dowser Education calls and the Mastermind series of calls, all of which have been very popular with the membership. But more work needs to be done. Although your Board of Trustees was able to find four new volunteers to serve a one-year term on the Board, additional volunteers are needed. We will be emphasizing the training of dowsers, with a well thought-out program intended to ensure we have consistency in our training with repeatable results. We will emphasize documenting the science behind dowsing and thus begin the process of gaining greater credibility among the scien-tific and legal communities. These new initiatives, as well as the work of existing committees (convention, digest, and buildings and grounds), require volunteers. Please consider volunteering in some way and consider running for a position as an ASD Trustee in Spring 2019. I look forward to hearing from ASD members and invite you to email me at [email protected] with your concerns and ideas.

Lee Ann Potter

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EDITOR'S COLUMN

As I'm pulling this edition of the ASD Di-gest together, I continue to be amazed at the depth of knowledge contained among our members. I'm reading through a few articles on topics previously unknown to me. Other articles strike home as they are close to my heart and personal dowsing and energetic practices.

We have just completed two very successful conventions – our National Convention and the West Coast Conference. The articles and photos pouring in from these events are full of excite-ment and they all have a common thread – a deep willingness to share the ideas, experience, and passion of the writers. As we work our way through summer – that season of the year most associated with "full steam ahead" – I hope you'll find a few moments to read through this edition of your Digest. You may find something that sparks a new interest, and you'll defi-nitely begin to see just how talented and wide-ranging your fellow dowsers are! And as always, I'd like to mention the heroic efforts of Joan Nathanson, who never fails to track down enough articles for each edition. It's a grueling, fully volunteer effort, and Joan makes it seem almost easy. Gratitude also goes out to the lead editors who rotate through the Digest, somehow managing their "day jobs" while compiling a professional publication. And "thank you" to the writers, without whom there would be no Digest!

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E.W. "Tony" Gehringer6 July 1921 to 4 November 2017

ASD Past President, Vice-President, and Trustee1997 Dowser of the Year

Tony got into dowsing in 1980, when, after years of be-ing strictly sailing buddies, Walt Woods amazed the former U.S. Navy pilot and geographer by dowsing away the persistent pain in his right knee. Tony was hooked and the "Walt & Tony" team was born. Tony became an expert water well, ley line, and nox-ious zone dowser. He practiced his dowsing knowledge on his California nut orchard, making it the most productive in the area. He spent the 1980s and 90s and early 2000s teaching the basics of dowsing throughout the U.S., instilling in his students all the wonder and practicality of this ancient art. Tony served as ASD president, vice-president, and trustee for many years. He also served on the ASD West Coast Confer-ence Committee and was a founding member of the Southwest Conference. He was a presenter and teacher at Mid-South, West Coast, Southwest, and Northwest Regional Conferences, National Conventions, and numerous dowsing chapter meetings through-out the country. Tony standardized the basic dowsing teaching methods throughout ASD. He directed the dowsing schools at the West Coast, Southwest, and Mid-South regional conferences

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as well as local workshops, teaching hundreds of people how to dowse. Tony was the recipient of many awards, including the 1997 Dowser of the Year Award and the 2001West Coast Conference Golden L-rod Award. Tony and his wife Jean were both very active in the dows-ing community until his stroke in 2001 and her death in 2003. They selflessly contributed beyond measure. In addition to being a great teacher, Tony was known for his crazy hats, shirts, and socks, and for being the “Raffle King.” It was best just to buy the tickets early!! Tony passed on November 4, 2017 with his daugh-ter Jeanne by his side, using her dowsing abilities to enable his smooth transition to Sky Dowser. He is now with our other great Sky Dowsers, and wouldn’t we all love to sit and hear their stories! Editor's Note: Thank you to Tony's daughter, Jeanne Geh-ringer, for writing this loving tribute to her father. Following in her father's footsteps, Jeanne is an accomplished dowser and the recipi-ent of the 2015 Dowser of the Year award.

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NEW BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEMBERS

Roxanne Louise An active dowser and pendulum dowsing instructor, Roxanne is also a nationally hon-ored hypnotherapist, Reiki master teacher, stress management expert, and author. She has been a frequent presenter at the ASD national and regional conventions. She is re-cipient of 5 national hypnosis awards includ-

ing Lifetime Achievement from the largest hypnosis organiza-tion in the world. Since 1990, she has applied pendulum dows-ing in her hypnosis practice. She is the author of 9 books and 118 articles on dowsing, self-help, mental and emotional healing, and personal empowerment. Roxanne is Founder of Central Virginia Dowsers, and Facilitator for ASD’s new Dowsing Support Tele-conference Calls. Leedra Yablonsky Leedra originally began dowsing "by guess and by gosh!” Because she was not aware of limitations, she has used dowsing for everything from locating underground water to hanging book shelves (dowsing rods make great stud-finders!). These days, she primarily uses dowsing in conjunction with several other skills and techniques to facilitate healing and conscious evolution with her clients. Her background in corporate America focused on creating simple systems and procedures in otherwise complex in-dustries (e.g., international logistics and federal regulatory com-pliance). Leedra’s goal with the ASD is to encourage dynamic growth and integrity by facilitating communication both within the organization and to the public. For more about her work, visit www.LiveBetterInBalance.com, or contact her directly at [email protected] or (845) 596-8550.


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Dan Arseneau Dan earned psychology degrees from McGill University and the University of New Haven, where he discovered that aca-demics have a limited understanding of human behavior. He was a teacher in higher education, an army combat veteran, and a hu-man resources executive in healthcare. In addition to his dows-ing practice, he is a Marconics Level IV Quantum Recalibration Practitioner, an Emotion Code Practitioner, and teaches day long seminars/individual readings in Human Design. He has present-ed at Dream Barn Hollow, at the Living Water Chapter, and at the 2017 Annual Convention.

Mark Hurwich Mark has been dowsing for 10 years. He teaches clients body dowsing in a niched business coaching healers, entrepreneurs and other creatives who are “stuck.” Mark brings ASD 34 years of partner-level coach-ing and consulting experience in strategy and strategy implementation at multina-tional firms including Monitor Group; IBM Healthcare; and Towers Perrin. Mark has

a BS from MIT, MBA from Wharton, and over 1,400 hours of training in NLP, Internal Family Systems, Akashic Records Con-sulting, and similar disciplines. His work helps organizations cre-ate and execute bold visions, including building coalitions across previously adversarial groups.

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2017 ASD AWARD WINNERS

Dowser of the Year - Melinda Iverson Inn

Volunteer of the Year - Scott Pearce

Educator of the Year - Roxanne Louise

Register of Recognition/Outstanding Services Award Robert Callan and Sandra McKenzie

Legend Award (80+) - Pearl Nicolino

Paul Sevigny Award (1000+ Water Wells - John Wayne Blassingame

Outstanding Chapter - Gold Country Dowsers

Outstanding Chapter Leadership Barney Turner

Best Website - Northern California Dowsers

Best Chapter Newsletter - Sierra Dowsers

Pearl Nicolino John Wayne Blassingame


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WHAT IS THERAPEUTIC DOWSING?Roxanne Louise

While dowsing can be used for literally everything, I use it extensively to locate and clear stuck energies, both for myself on a regular basis and for my clients. Stuck energies include men-tal and emotional issues and upsets that have piled up and make dealing with current issues, staying healthy or healing if you are ill, achieving your goals, and living your life with enthusiasm and abundant vitality much more difficult. So freeing up this energy is vital to all areas of your life. It includes not just the unpleasant memories but also the negative beliefs and judgments about those events that continue to color your world and limit you in multiple ways including resolving it effectively.

How Does Energy Get Stuck?

Basically, energy gets stuck when it is unprocessed. Per-haps when an upset occurred, you didn’t know how to deal with it and therefore didn’t. Perhaps you were too young. Perhaps you didn’t have the skills or the awareness of what you were register-ing on an unconscious level. Perhaps your family, culture, or re-ligion taught you to deny and not express your thoughts and the resulting emotions. So you may have stuffed your feelings instead of quickly resolving them, thereby avoiding future issues.

On the other hand, even if you knew the importance of resolving issues and had the therapeutic skills, you may have had neither the time nor energy to do so. This frequently happens during a crisis, ill health, or overwhelm. By the time the emer-gency passes, you may be so busy catching up on other tasks that you lack interest to go back to deal with past unpleasantries.

My experience shows that after a prolonged time of con-tinual buildup of unprocessed negative emotions and the non-beneficial thoughts around unpleasant events, it becomes dif-ficult to keep such memories and feelings from resurfacing and contaminating the present. This may show up as illness, insom-


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nia, nightmares, relationship issues, increasing irritation, explo-sive bursts of anger, depression, malaise, feeling victimized, etc. In short, it can demonstrate as sensitivities and issues in any area of life.

Dowsing Can Help! When I first learned dowsing in 1990, I was given about a dozen half-circle charts and checklists. These included one chart each for positive emotions that could be blocked or needed to be increased and for negative emotions that needed to be cleared. It included checklists with names of key relationships (mother, fa-ther, brother, sister, etc.) to identify the percentage of positive and negative energy attached to each. Since I was already a hypnotherapist, I went home and within the first year made hundreds more charts and checklists for my clients and myself. This included an extensive listing of typical events (birthdays, holidays, first day of school) and activi-ties (public speaking, driving a car, balancing a checkbook,). I listed fears, defense mechanisms, addictive thinking, negative be-liefs and judgments, attitude, and issues. I included secondary gain, shadow issues, archetypes, traumas, reasons for smoking, and the physical and psychological reasons for overeating, and much more. This material eventually was published in a pendu-lum course manual, Therapeutic Dowsing & Telepathic Healing, available through my website www.RoxanneLouise.com. Once I identified what needed to be addressed, I extracted the positive learning or wisdom that could be extracted, healed or cleared the upset or limiting belief, and then finished with install-ing the positive opposite through dowsing. I also had dowsing charts for helpful therapies, modalities and activities. To process the issue, I formed a very strong, clear intent of what I wanted done, and held it while the pendulum was spin-ning. Then I checked with the pendulum that it was in fact done, or the degree to which I had been successful. If the problem was not yet fully resolved, I investigated other aspects of the prob-lem. Such aspects could be other emotions, beliefs, judgments,


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associations. For example, I might be angry at someone, but also angry and ashamed at myself, and humiliated in front of others. I might have had similar experiences with that same person and with others in the past. I may be projecting more of the same oc-curring in the future. I may as a result be avoiding seeing anyone involved lest it bring up the emotions with the memory. This practice of dowsing to locate and clear mental and emotional issues has, over time, resulted in me experiencing much greater peace of mind. Things don’t upset me as easily. I am triggered less. Dramas have receded into the past. I have overcome major challenges with some grace. And I have helped others do the same. Consequently, I fully recommend that oth-ers learn how to do this for themselves. This is so empowering as well as healing. You will be able to quickly deal with things, anytime – day or night, anyplace, on your own. And if you need additional help beyond this, you will also be able to know who and what to seek out or research.

Roxanne Louise is a hypnothera-pist, Reiki master, and dowser, who di-vides her time between private practice, teaching classes both locally and at na-tional conferences, and writing books. She is known for her ability to integrate multiple modalities for a powerful syn-ergistic effect that enables profound healing not possible with one modality alone, and in a way not previously done

by others. You can visit her website at www.roxannelouise.com.


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EARTHBOUND SPIRIT ATTACHMENTSBarbara Stone

Sometimes people feel saddled with emotional problems they cannot shake off. In some cases, they may be carrying the unresolved feelings of someone who has died and has not crossed in whole or in part into the next world. When people die, the journey into the World of Light is one in which we cannot take any baggage. Any unresolved emotions of fear, anger, helpless-ness, rage, or guilt will stay behind as a fragment of the emotion-al body and find a new home—often being inherited by family members.

Mechanics of transition We have many layers to the human biofield: physical, ethe-ric, emotional, mental, and spiritual. Each layer from the physical on up vibrates increasingly faster. When we die, the other bodies normally exit from the dense physical body and go out through the crown chakra and then up into the spiritual World of Light. Awareness of the process of death helps, and most people make this transition smoothly. But if a person is unaware of death, as in a car accident or someone who is heavily medicated with mor-phine at the time of death, the person may not realize death has come and wonder why nobody talks to them anymore. At other times, a person may not want to leave loved ones or may feel guilty and fear retribution for misdeeds in the next world. Another rea-son for staying is being attached to one’s material possessions or a home one has built and does not want to leave.

Symptoms of Spirit Attachment1. A person feels unusually tired, exhausted, and drained of energy even when getting adequate sleep and nutrition.2. A cold breeze wafts through the room when the person

enters. The chill goes right to the bones and turning up the heat does not seem to shake off this freezing feeling. Or if you are a counselor working with a client, you can’t seem to get your hands warm.


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3. Following the death of a close loved one, a person sudden-ly has severe emotional problems beyond the normal grief response. The earthbound spirits often feel confusion, emotional turmoil, and depression because they are so cut off from others, and these feelings imprint onto the people they attach to.

4. Not feeling like yourself, as if someone else is inside of you. 5. A person’s level of functioning takes a sudden, sharp down-

ward turn when the spirit attaches.6. Someone improves significantly after an electroconvulsive

therapy (ECT) treatment, and then gradually deteriorates again. The ECT shock may temporarily boot the spirit at-tachments out of the energy field. However, unless the un-derlying break in the etheric field that allowed the spirit to attach is repaired, the person will gradually pick up more spirit attachments after the ECT treatment.

Identifying the problem with dowsing Dowsing can identify these problems. Sometimes all of a person stays earthbound. At other times, the spirit splits at death and part of it goes into the Light, but the part carrying unresolved emotional feelings stays behind as a fragment of the spirit. If you suspect the presence of an earthbound spirit from the symptom list, test the following statements:

1. This person has an earthbound spirit attached. 2. A fragment of an earthbound spirit is attached to this person.3. This person’s energy field has no attachment from an earthbound spirit or fragment of an earthbound spirit.

Case Example Anne asked for Soul Detective work for several issues, in-cluding health problems, fatigue, and low stamina. For most of her life, she had felt that she had less energy and stamina than other people. Before Anne was born, her mother had a miscar-riage. Dowsing indicated that Anne had been carrying the earth-bound spirit of this older sister ever since she was born. The sister


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who was miscarried wanted to be close to their mother. She had been in their mother’s womb, and so her spirit attached to the next child who came from that womb—Anne. Honoring a person with a name is important, and this older sister wanted us to call her Christine. She felt very comfortable in Anne’s body and was not interested in going anywhere else! Trying to find a reason for her to leave, I asked Christine if Anne did everything Christine wanted her to do. Christine thought she did. Since that argument did not work, I needed to find a different motive for Christine to move on. Then I explained to Christine that their mother had not been able to carry her full term, and her spirit had left the body of her unborn fetus. Since she had no body, she had no way to take in energy, and she was in-advertently stealing energy from her sister Anne, contributing to Anne’s health problems. We talked about having Divine Mother come and take Christine into the World of Light so she would be there when their mother, now in her late 80s, was ready to make her transition. Christine liked the idea of being with her mother again and agreed to go. After the session, Anne emailed me the following: “I felt the releasing of my unborn sister and her attach-ment to my mom the most. Over the years I've noticed an attach-ment to my mom that I never understood and felt was detrimen-tal but couldn't seem to let go of. It makes so much sense that it was actually my sister's need to remain attached to my mom and not mine. What a relief to let that go and still feel a sweet love for my sister.”

Barbara Stone is an author, work-shop presenter, bilingual psychotherapist, and developer of Soul Detective protocols, which find the hidden roots of emotional problems. A licensed social worker, she holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpinteria, California and is also a musician and gar-dener.

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PROPER ETIQUETTE WHEN YOU VISIT A SACRED SITEMadis Senner

At my presentation, “The Eastern Hermetic School of Geomancy” at the 2018 ASD Conference, I spoke about prop-er etiquette when entering the woods and visiting a sacred site. Many people don't understand the impact they have when they visit a sacred area. Sadly, thrill seekers, ghost hunters, and the cu-rious have severely and spiritually damaged many ancient stone and earthen structures. The following has been adapted from my book, Sacred Sites in North Star Country: Places in Greater New York State (PA,OH, NJ, CT, MA, VT, ONT) That Changed the World.

Having a Positive Impact With Your Visit Your visit is going to impact a particular sacred space; you can either enhance a sacred space or diminish it. We leave energetic imprints of our thoughts and actions wherever we go. Positive thoughts enhance a space and fortify Mother Earth there. Negative thoughts sully the space with negative consciousness and dampen Mother Earth at the location. Unfortunately, the vast majority of sacred sites around the world don’t have a great vibe because visitors have not been respectful. When visiting outdoor locations I suggest you approach your visit as if you were visiting someone’s home. Consider bring-ing a gift to show your respect and intention -- something simple such as a flower, a piece of fruit, some tobacco. It's not so much what you bring as an expression of your intention. You want to show interest and honor the space. You can also show respect by asking permission before you physically enter a sacred site. Think of it like knocking on someone’s door before you walk in. Simply ask permission, men-tally or aloud, waiting a few moments before you enter the space.


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If you are visiting an outdoor sacred site, bring an old plas-tic bag to pick up any trash. Cleaning a space shows your concern and reinforces your intention to spiritually enhance it. Bringing a gift, asking permission to enter, and cleaning up will not only help lift the vibe of a location but can enhance your experience at the site. A sacred space, particularly one in nature, is a neighborhood that can take on a life of its own. When you show respect and concern for a space, the "community" (na-ture spirits or beings in other realms that may inhabit it) may re-veal things to you. You might experience things that you would not have if you had not shown respect. It will also help soften the attitude of "someone" who does not want you there. Remember to act in a "sacred manner" while visiting a sa-cred site by keeping your thoughts positive and focused on the divine. You are in holy space, so act accordingly. Try to be as quiet as you can at a sacred site, particularly if you are outdoors. Visually acknowledge other pilgrims and let them be, unless it is clear you both wish to talk.


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Technology GPS devices and cell phones are damaging to Mother Earth, so refrain from bringing technological devices with you on your visit. Electronic transmissions and WiFi can disrupt the Earth’s energy plane. And be aware that electromagnetic energy from certain highly charged sites could damage your cell phone, digital watch, and digital camera.

Welcome Circle A "welcome circle" for a sacred site is like the foyer of a home. It is where you greet your host and prepare for your en-try. A welcome circle is meant to prepare you for your visit, help maintain the spiritual integrity of a space, and hopefully improve the energy. If there is no designated area, you should still perform the actions of a welcome circle. If you are with a group, you might hug each other to show unity and friendship. The first thing you should do in the welcome circle area is clear you energy. Smokeless "smudging" will help remove any negative thoughts or other spiritual debris you may have picked up recently. Under no circumstance should you light a fire, a stick of incense, or smudge stick for smudging. The risk of a starting a fire is too great. You may wish to carry a feather with you, which you can swirl around your subtle body from head to toe. You can also use your hands, either by flicking your subtle body as if you were removing lint or dirt from your clothing or "scrub" your subtle body as if you were washing your body with a wash cloth. I often say "clean and protect" while I smudge. Think of it like removing your dirty boots before you enter a home. Con-sider leaving feather at the circle to indicate to others the purpose of the area. Stick it in the ground or in a tree to show that it was intentionally left there... The other thing you should do in the welcome cir-cle area is say a short prayer. This can be a few words of blessing, thanks, an offer of hope, or a request. A prayer will help center you, prepare you, and warm you up for your spiritual experience.


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It's good practice to spend at least 5 to 10 minutes medi-tating in the welcome circle. This will help burn off any imprints that you may have recently picked up and give you a strong spiri-tual cleansing before you enter the holy area. If you feel hesitant to spend time in the welcome circle, take it as strong warning that something is amiss and strongly consider not entering the sacred space. Performing the rites of a welcome circle in the same space repeatedly imprints that intention on the space. Over time, a strong imprint or thought form will develop, increasing the po-tency of the ritual for subsequent pilgrims. Cleansing will become increasingly more effective and preparation for entering the space will become more and more palpable. An energy vortex, what I call a natural vortex, has formed in the original Welcome Center at Gossamer Wood in Canandaigua, NY (www.gossamerwood.org) from all the meditating, praying, and smudging that has been done there.

Experiencing a Space Once you're in the space, you might meditate, pray, do a ceremony, visualize a beautiful image, or hope for world peace. You could read a book, be inspired, dream, or just be. Enjoy. Just being in the space is going to lift up your consciousness. The im-portant thing is that you have a positive spiritual or loving focus. If you are outside and have to go to the bathroom, walk very far away, several hundred yards from the sacred site. Bring a small shovel to bury and cover up any debris. You are looking to keep


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The "Prime Directive" Honor Star Trek’s Prime Directive and do disturb animals in this realm or beings in the unseen world around us. Nature spirits and beings in other realms often inhabit a sacred site. Sa-cred sites can also have a "thin veil," where communication and awareness of other realms is greatly enhanced. Be sure to respect to everyone, no matter which realm they inhabit. However, you should not go to a sacred site looking for nature spirits or try to communicate with them. Think of how you would want someone to behave if they visited your neighbor-hood. Would you want them to beep their car’s horn to announce their arrival and shout I am here? No, absolutely not. If you do see or hear something, take it as a blessing and let it be. The same with animals: let them be. If you meditate for a long time and are very still you may encounter an animal. Ig-nore it and create some noise to make it aware of you. I am a big believer that a good day in the woods is a day when you don’t see any animals.

Amp Up the Vibe These are only a few suggestions for visiting and improv-ing a sacred space. You might think of many others yourself. The most important thing is to remain positive and respectful, and to meditate, pray, or do a ceremony when you are visiting.

Madis Senner is a former global money manager turned Seek-er. He is a Keeper, watching over and spiritually cleansing/enhanc-ing several sacred sites. Sacred Sites in North Star Country, is his fourth book and available for purchase through the ASD bookstore. You can read his musings at www.mothere-arthprayers.blogspot.com.


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ORGONE ENERGY: THE WESTERN APPROACH TO USING UNIVERSAL ENERGY

John M. Thompson "Orgone energy" is one name for the life force that runs through all living forms. This unlimited and immeasurable es-sence has been called Qi, Chi, cosmic energy, universal energy, Divine energy, libido, Elan Vital, Animism, and, of course, God. Dr. Wilhelm Reich, a brilliant Austrian psychiatrist, pio-neered the use of this energy in the Western world, defining it as “the creative force in nature.” Conducting thousands of experi-ments during a 30-year period that began in the 1920s, Dr. Reich discovered ways to collect and magnify this energy. His objective was to improve the quality of people’s lives by improving the ways that energy flows through our bodies and through our work and living spaces. Recent improvements in Dr. Reich’s original formulas have made it possible to create protection devices that help people, plants, and animals become immediately stronger and more bal-anced. Other benefits provided by advanced orgone devices in-clude protection from EMFs (electromagnetic fields or frequen-cies); enhanced meditation; improved sleeping patterns; and the enhancement of water, food, vitamins, and medicines.

My First Exposure to the Concept of Universal Energy I first began to explore the concept of universal energy in 1975 when I discovered what was then called “new age” or “new thought.” Among my favorite books was Born to Heal by Ruth Montgomery, a longtime reporter for the Washington Post. This is the true story of a humble man in the Midwest whose heal-ing touch allowed a powerful energy to flow into other people, impacting most of them immediately. I was able to secure an in-terview with Mrs. Montgomery, and in the months that followed, I often pondered whether this type of “miraculous” healing was really possible and what sort of “energy” was involved.


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The answer came the following year when I went to In-dia for the first of 17 trips. There I met Sri Sathya Sai Baba, a world- renowned holy man who demonstrated complete mas-tery over universal energy and used it to heal and transform the lives of those who came under his protection. Sathya Sai Baba and his earlier incarnation, Shirdi Sai Baba, have been the sub-jects of thousands of books and are revered by millions of people around the world. Prior to his death on Easter Day, 2011, Sathya Sai revealed details about the upcoming third Sai avatar, Prema Sai Baba, including his birthplace, physical appearance, and mis-sion—ushering in a Golden Age of Peace on Earth that most of us will live to experience. In 1987, I began learning about the dangers from exposure to EMFs when I was asked to edit a book written by Dr. David Pearlmutter, a nationally known M.D. based in Florida. He was often asked to testify in court cases about the direct connection between brain cancer and cell phone use. With the dramatic ex-pansion of wireless technology during the past 30 years, our ex-posure to EMFs is now much more extensive than it was back then. It is estimated that 90% of Americans have weakened ad-renal systems due to EMFs. Because we are electromagnetic be-ings, these destructive vibrations also create stress on other parts of our bodies, especially the pineal gland, resulting in hormone difficulties and a reduction in melatonin levels, which for many people leads to difficulty sleeping. Unfortunately, most individu-als are only away from EMFs when they are out to sea or deep in the wilderness—unless of course, they bring their cell phones or other electronic devices along on the trip.

Initial Western Research into Universal Energy The first Western scientist who investigated universal en-ergy was a German physician named Anton Mesmer. Nearly 200 years ago he built the first known energy accumulators, which were made by filling wooden barrels with metal shavings. He used the energy generated by these barrels in the process of heal-ing his patients, calling it “animal magnetism.” Mesmer was also


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very active in investigating the processes of the mind, leading to the development of hypnosis, thus the term “mesmerizing.” Twenty years after Mesmer’s death, Baron Karl von Reichenbach, a noted German chemist, geologist, metallurgist, naturalist, and philosopher, did extensive research into universal energy. His energy accumulators, built with creosote, formalde-hyde, and steel, were also used in his medical practice.

Groundbreaking Work Nearly 100 years later, the work of Drs. Mesmer and von Reichenbach was taken up by Dr. Sigmund Freud of Vienna, Aus-tria. Freud believed that most neuroses are caused by conflicts between our natural sexual instincts and society’s denial and frus-tration of those instincts. He identified the physical existence of a biological sexual energy in people’s bodies and called this energy "libido." Using Kirlian photography, Dr. Freud discovered that when people have orgasms there is a visible release of a powerful energy. For a number of years, he and his associates made various attempts to capture this energy for use in healing both the bodies and minds of their patients. Freud’s attempts proved fruitless until the arrival of young Wilhelm Reich. Born on March 24, 1897 in the easternmost part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now Ukraine, Reich had grown up on a large farm operated by his father. Reich’s early interests in biology and natural science were stimulated by life on the farm; in addition to agriculture, he was involved in cattle-farming and breeding. In 1914, Reich joined the Austrian Army and served for three years until World War I ended in 1918. Wilhelm entered medical school at the University of Vi-enna, receiving his M.D. degree in July 1922. While still in school, he attained membership into the Vienna Psychoanalytic Associa-tion. At that time, psychoanalysis was a new discipline that had emerged from Sigmund Freud's insights into the causes of men-tal illness. Quickly becoming one of the most active members of Freud's inner circle, Reich began his private psychiatric practice in 1922 at Freud's Psychoanalytic Polyclinic in Vienna.


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As the years passed without success in being able to physi-cally capture the elusive orgasmic energy, Freud concluded that libido was simply an idea, a psychological energy, rather than one that could be captured and utilized. Dr. Reich, however, was con-vinced that, rather than being simply an idea, libido is a tangible, measurable energy present in all organisms. Breaking away from Freud, he dedicated himself to exploring ways to use this energy in overcoming the limitations of psychoanalysis in treating neuro-ses. Strongly opposed to the rise of the Nazi party, Dr. Reich left Austria when Hitler came to power in Germany. He went first to Oslo, Norway, where he continued his research, discover-ing certain unique organisms that emit a high frequency radia-tion which could kill bacteria and cancer cells. For Reich, this confirmed the existence of an energy that did not obey any known laws of electricity or magnetism. Because his discovery evolved from investigation of the human orgasm, and based on this ener-gy’s ability to charge organic materials, Reich named it “Orgone.” After publishing his findings, Reich was widely criticized by the medical community and by the Norwegian press. This re-jection reinforced his decision to leave Europe, and on August 19, 1939 he sailed on the last ship to leave Norway before the out-break of World War II.

The First Orgone Accumulators After arriving in New York City, Dr. Reich began teaching at the New School in Manhattan. Here he worked on perfecting the design for “orgone energy accumulators,” the first of which was completed in 1940. These were essentially boxes created by alternating layers of organic material such as fiberglass (to radiate the energy) with layers of non-organic material such as metals to reflect and amplify the radiation and direct it inward toward the center. The accumulators were eventually expanded so they could be used as healing spaces for people with physical diseases as well as mental illnesses.


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Based on his success in curing mice of cancer, Dr. Reich began experimental treatments with cancer patients in 1941, charging no fees and making no specific promises of recovery. Even though most patients showed marked improvements while sitting in the accumulators, most eventually succumbed to their diseases after returning to their normal lifestyles. This led Reich to conclude that cancerous tumors were not the disease, but rath-er physical representations of deeper, inner issues that had not been cleared. Based on this discovery, he switched his focus to the prevention of disease. Reich felt that his orgone accumula-tors could be used to help people avert these deeper issues and prevent cancer from forming in the first place. In 1942, Reich purchased a 160-acre farm in Maine and called it Orgonon, envisioning this as a permanent home for his work. In 1945, a student laboratory was built, and three years later construction began on the Orgone Energy Observatory. This facility housed an extensive laboratory, Reich's library and study, as well as outdoor observation decks to facilitate the study of atmospheric energy phenomena. By 1947, Reich's work was attracting considerable interest as orgone research expanded into new areas of psychiatry, medicine, and biophysics. One of his most significant discoveries was proving the existence of a motor force in orgone energy that is pulled from the atmosphere—a sci-entific breakthrough that presented enormous practical implica-tions. Unfortunately, a highly inflammatory article appeared in the May 26, 1947 edition of New Republic Magazine entitled "The Strange Case of Wilhelm Reich." The author challenged medical authorities to take action against Reich. Within weeks, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration began an investigation, charging that the use of orgone energy accumulators constituted fraudu-lent activity. More than six years went by before the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maine signed a Complaint for Injunction against Reich and his wife, asserting that “the alleged orgone energy…is non-existent." The defendants were ordered to cease interstate


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shipment of orgone accumulators or any written material con-cerning these “dangerous devices.” The complaint required that Reich appear in federal court to respond, but he instead sent a lengthy letter, vowing not to “appear in court as the ‘defendant’ against a plaintiff who by his mere complaint already has shown his ignorance in matters of natural science.” Insulted by Reich's letter, the judge did not accept it as a valid legal response. A Decree of Injunction was issued on default as if Reich had never responded at all. Even more oppressive than the initial complaint, the injunction ordered that all orgone en-ergy accumulators be destroyed along with all materials contain-ing instructions for their use. It also banned Reich's books that contained statements about orgone energy. Determined to continue his research, Dr. Reich traveled to Arizona, where he could experiment with his orgone cloud buster technology in the dry desert climate. While he was there, and without his knowledge, one of Reich’s assistants, Dr. Silvert, moved a truckload of orgone accumulators and books from Maine to New York City, a direct violation of the injunction. When this was discovered by federal agents, both doctors were charged with criminal contempt of court. Found guilty, Dr. Reich was sen-tenced to two years in federal prison, while Silvert was sentenced to a year and a day. Dr. Reich’s foundation was fined $10,000. While Reich appealed his sentence, the government car-ried out the destruction of his orgone accumulators and litera-ture. After all appeals were denied, Reich entered the peniten-tiary two weeks before his 60th birthday. Less than eight months later, he died of heart failure. Organon has now been converted into a museum where people can study Dr. Reich’s experiments and explore his writings, including 33 published books.

Recent Discoveries that Enhance Reich’s Work While Dr. Reich had succeeded in accumulating orgone energy, it was another Austrian, Karl Hans Welz, who developed the first devices capable of actually generating life force energy. Calling his devices "Orgonite,” Welz mixed organic and non-or-


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ganic matter, but found improved success by using small particles instead of layers. In recent years, other cutting-edge researchers have im-proved on Welz's designs, most importantly by adding crystals. Acting as amplifiers, crystals allow energy to flow and radiate. When crystals are compressed, an electric charge is generated, creating the piezoelectric effect. By placing organic crystals and inorganic metals together in a resin that shrinks as it dries, pres-sure is applied to the crystals, creating a charge that is then di-rected out of the device through the metals. The more pressure placed on the crystals, the more powerful the flow of energy. The most advanced orgone energy generators are cre-ated by combining metals and gemstones with a wide variety of crushed crystals and then adding tachyon powder to broaden the spectrum of benefits. Since direct sunlight greatly enhances the curing process, superior orgone protection devices are made in warmer climates. Much smaller than Reich’s original accumula-tors, modern devices can be small enough to wear, fit in a pocket, or attach to a cell phone.

Groundbreaking Implications of Tachyon Energy Tachyon energy is the focus of groundbreaking research by Gabriel Cousens, M.D. and David Wagner, which was first pub-lished in the early 1990s. Briefly stated, tachyons are subatomic particles that travel faster than the speed of light. These particles attract the highest level of universal energy and make it accessible to the physical body. Tachyonization is a technological process that increases the quantity of tachyons, permanently changing the quantum properties of physical matter. Since this change oc-curs at the subatomic level, an object’s chemical composition is not altered. Not to be confused with a particular form of energy, Tachyon is the first energetic structure that emerges out of non-structured, formless energy. Not limited to a certain frequency, tachyon cannot be measured in the Hertzian frequency spectrum. Rather than being a certain type of energy, it includes all energy potential within itself.


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In addition to our physical body, we have several energetic bodies. Energy flows constantly from the highly refined realms (the causal and super causal realms) and moves down through the astral, etheric, and electromagnetic levels before finally mov-ing into the material realm, our physical bodies. Unfortunately, blockages in our subtle body systems prevent tachyon energy from flowing freely into and through our physical bodies. Since many diseases are created by blockages in our subtle bodies, tachyon technology presents a safe, natural way to help our systems move back to full energetic health and balance. When energetic balance is obtained, the physical body follows. We can become supercon-ductors for tachyon energy by allowing it to flow through all the layers of our subtle bodies. This is where Orgone generators can play a crucial role. Wilhelm Reich saw the mechanistic and mystic worlds as two sides of one reality, and orgone energy as the bridge between the two. This spiritual aspect makes orgone even more difficult to fully research and understand. We can prove that it exists and that it works, but no one has managed to figure out exactly how it works so consistently and so profoundly. We only know that it does. Today, Reich’s work lives on in the lives of those who ben-efit from Orgone Energy generators. Now in my 73rd year of liv-ing on planet Earth, I greatly appreciate the many ways Orgone Energy had enhanced my life, not the least of which are clearer thinking and significant improvements in both my golf and tennis games.

John Thompson began his career in 1968 as a CPA specializing in taxa-tion. His spiritual journey began in 1976 with the first of 17 trips to study the en-ergy masters of India. That same year he was introduced to meditation, reflexol-ogy, Breath of Fire, and Touch for Health, which are integral aspects of his holistic healing and energy practice.


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Brenda Galloway Have you ever wondered why some days you just wake up out of sorts, reacting negatively to events through the day? Or have you wondered what is keeping you from being, doing, and having all that you want in life? Underlying stresses or energetic blocks are often the root cause of distress in our lives. The more energetic blocks, the more difficult it is for us to function and be fully alive, aware, inspired, and enthused. Energetic blocks to free-flowing energy affect us all and prevent us from living life to the fullest. Whether these distur-bances originate in our genetic code, from unaddressed emotion-al unrest, or even through our observations and experiences of life, parked stress in our physiology causes imbalances in our bio-computers. When this occurs over and over, we end up having thousands of energetic blocks interrupting our body, mind and spirit, blurring out awareness of what is and what can be. It takes a huge amount of energy to keep holding these blocks in the sub-conscious and to keep them away from our conscious mind. Since we often are unaware of how or when blocks came to exist in ourselves, it is natural to want to know the story. Yet studies have shown that bringing up past traumas can in itself re-traumatize. Fortunately, kinesiology – also known as muscle test-ing, and a form of dowsing where strength and weakness become the “yes” and “no” markers – can easily be used as a biofeedback tool to communicate with the deeper memories of the body. Mus-cle testing can identify blocks, even in the subconscious, without adding more stress to the person’s experience. With blocks iden-tified, the reduced function of the body, mind, and/or spirit can then be addressed. Once specific blocks are identified, statements, charac-teristics, and states of being that are possible without the block-ages are discovered. “Enlivened Beings Healings” easily clear the energetic state that activates through the process. Clearing the


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blocks renews emotional and physical balance, restores energy flow, and paves the way to higher wellness. New choices of how to deal with stress become available so that the same problems don’t come back to haunt again and again. Being free of energetic blocks allows energy to flow on all levels, enlivening our beings. The more enlivened you are, the more inspired you become, the more you accomplish, and the more rewarding your life will be. You become more in love with life and more in love with others! The cumulative benefits of En-livened Beings Healings are truly transformational.

Brenda Galloway, who innovated the Enlivened Beings Healing tech-nique and facilitates the online heal-ing membership, EnlivenedBeings.com, was a presenter at the 2018 West Coast Dowsers Conference, June 29-July 2, teaching those attending how to easily identify and clear these energetic blocks. She has been in private prac-tice as an energy healer and traditional naturopath since 1989, and has com-pleted tens of thousands of healings on

all levels for her clients. Brenda also offers classes in healing mo-dalities and muscle testing. She can be reached by email at [email protected], landline phone, 510-537-9598, or through her website, assistingyourwellbeing.com..

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GO DIG IT ON THE MOUNTAINJim Kuebelbeck

“You guys did what? You're kidding me! You bought a piece of property on top of a mountain in Colorado and you're planning to build a house up there? Are you serious?” Those were the first thoughts that entered my mind some months ago when one of my daughters called to tell me that she and her husband had just purchased a seven-acre plot of land high up in the mountains near Evergreen, Colorado. Before I had a chance to respond, she said to me, “Dad, you have to see the place. It's beautiful. The scenery is absolutely awesome!” “So this is right on the top of a mountain?” I asked. “Yes, but there's a tarred road almost all the way to the property," she said. “What do you mean by almost?” I asked. “Oh, it's just a short distance from the tarred road,” she said, “and the rest of the road is gravel, but it's a good road.” “So you're telling me it's up high on a mountain? How close is it to a town? What kind of a water supply do they have? Is there city water up there?” “Well, Dad,” she said, “that's what I want to talk to you about. There are only a few homes in the area and they all have water storage tanks in their homes because it's hard to find a lot of water up there. But no, there is no city water up there.” I asked what kind of wells these other homeowners have and she told me that the wells in the area near their property are six or seven hundred feet deep and produce only a gallon or two a minute; but with a large storage tank, they say they never have a problem. Then she added, “We know there's a problem finding a good water source there. The realtor told us about that right up front. But because of that, before a building permit is granted, anyone building a home up there is required to drill a well and then a building permit is issued only if the well produces at least one gallon per minute. I think the banks and mortgage compa-nies came up with that requirement.”


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I couldn't believe my ears! In a modern home, relying on one gallon per minute definitely seemed to me to be a disaster waiting to happen. I asked what they were going to do with their property if they couldn't find a good water supply and that's when she dropped the second little surprise on me! “Dad,” she began, “that's why I'm calling you. We want you to come out to Colorado to find us a good water supply. We'll pay for your flight out here. We just talked to a well driller and he suggested that we try to find a good water dowser because a lot of dry holes are drilled in this area and that would put the odds in our favor. I told him about you, and he said he had heard or read about you somewhere and was certainly willing to work with you.” I told her that maybe they should just pick a place to drill and take their chances. “Dad,” she pleaded, “you never tell people to drill at random! We want you out here!” “Just how high up on this mountain is your property?” I asked. “Well, Dad,” she said, “it's about 7,500 feet!” Good God, I thought, and they want me to try to locate water where maybe there isn't any? I told her we'd think about it, but this was one time I had some serious misgivings about travel-ing out of state and offering judgment about an underground wa-ter source – especially to my own daughter! After talking to my wife Carol, we finally agreed to travel to Colorado and try to help them. Arriving at their proposed building site, it was quite evi-dent that “top of the mountain” was in no way an exaggeration. The property was located on what appeared to be a narrow penin-sula jutting away from the top of the mountain, with three sides of the property dropping down steeply toward the mountain valley far below. The only possible area on which to build was limited to a small area. I suddenly wished I were back home in my work-shop! That not being the case, I had no choice but to see if I could find something rather than nothing. To my surprise I did manage to locate what I thought might be a live water flow beneath the surface, but I had never worked in the mountains before and I had


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some serious second thoughts about giving advice under these circumstances. (Minnesota doesn't have mountains.) After seeing some of the local sights, we left Colorado three days later, not knowing if dowsing in the mountains would be considered as successful as dowsing in other parts of the coun-try, and flew back to Minnesota. Three days later we received a call from one excited daughter and son-in-law, telling us that the greatest well had been drilled on our selected site. “The well is producing over 25 gallons per minute,” she practically screamed! The driller told them it was one of the best wells he had ever drilled on the mountain, and then added, “You have so much water you could sell water to all of your neighbors!” Their near-est neighbor has a well that yields only one and a half gallons per minute. Our daughter and son-in-law came back to visit recently and told us that their neighbor had approached them and asked if they might somehow be able to tap into their water supply if there were ever a wildfire on the mountain! Unbeknownst to that neighbor (who wasn't home at the time we were out in Colora-do), I had dowsed around his property in the area where they had drilled their deep, marginally productive well, but found noth-ing that I would have selected as a site to drill a good water well. Needless to say, our daughter and son-in-law are now very happy people, as are we!

Jim Kuebelbeck has located more than 4,000 wells, working with professional well drillers, land developers, realtors, home builders, contractors, farmers, and others in both the private and public sector. He and his wife work as a team, traveling to sites throughout Min-nesota and the Midwest, primarily in Central Minnesota where under-


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A CALIFORNIAN MEETS MICHAEL AND MARY

Dick Tippett I took a “family roots” trip to Cornwall, where my Tippett ancestors came from long ago. I wanted to visit the places where they lived, see the land and the culture where they were born and grew and worked -- their homes, and churches, and burial plac-es. My brother PA had already researched our family roots, but I wanted more. I wanted to know the energies of the land from which my family came. Cornwall is a land of ancient peoples and well-developed cultures dating before Neolithic times. An email to Grahame Gardner (thank you so very much, Grahame) provided me the contact information for John and Jill Moss. John is a professional dowser and a tutor for The British Society of Dowsers and Jill runs a publishing business, Penwith Press, which focuses on dowsing and earth energies. Together they run a local dowsing group, Trencrom Dowsers. Penwith Press (www.penwithpress.co.uk) is much more than just a publishing company. Its site is an incredible resource for accessing tools, maps, and all manner of earth energy-related events across ancient Cornwall and well beyond. John is very ac-tive through the Cornish Ancient Sites Protection Network (he is chairman of CASPN) in preserving the ancient sites. John and Jill also run guided tours of the ancient sites. An email to them resulted in two days of exploration of Neolithic, Bronze Age, and later stone circles, holy wells, villages, and hill-top meeting places. We were beyond thrilled! As we travelled, it became stunningly clear that the people who inhabited this area in those early times appeared to live with-out fortifications of any kind. Think about that: they were very much in touch with, understood, and made use of the energies of the earth, and they lived in peace with all of the people around them.


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They did not live in isolation. Trade between Scotland, Ireland, the west coasts of what are now Wales and England, the Cornish themselves, and much of what is now Spain, Portugal, Brittany and the Mediterranean all flowed around and across this tiny peninsula. They prospered from the trade and from their mining, fishing, and farming. Traders came and went since their prosperity was known throughout the ancient world, and still no one came to raid them. They lived in peace. Our introduction to holy wells came at Carn Euny. We did not dowse the well yet it was apparent to me that the water in this and another well that we visited (Trencrom Hill) is denser than “everyday” water. It also absorbed more readily into our bodies when we drank it. As well as being a village from the Neolithic times into the Iron Age, Carn Euny also appears to have had a cer-emonial site. There is a fogou (Cornish for "cave") approximately 66’ long that leads to a circular chamber, or room very similar to the kivas of our southwestern Native Americans. (There are no truly native American peoples. We are all immigrants; some just got here sooner than others. DNA testing indicates that some of the kiva builders actually came from the area of the world now known as Afghanistan.) From there we were introduced to stone circles and to the Michael and Mary energy lines. This, my first experience, was literally stunning. We visited Boscawen-ûn. The stone circle is not visible from the parking area; it is concealed by brambles, scrub trees, and brush down in a hollow, surrounded by what ap-peared to my organic farmer’s eye to be very happy, fertile fields. I discovered that these fields lie well within the energy field of Boscawen-ûn itself. I sought to find the outer edge and ran into time constraints at a one-mile diameter. The energy field had not appreciably diminished at that distance! The stunning features of Boscawen-ûn are the almost me-tre-square block of white quartz at the western side of the circle and the angled standing stone in the centre, which points to the northeast. I had never seen anything like this ring and was over-


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whelmed by the energy within it. I did not expect the feminine energy that flows from the quartz block to the (very) phallic stand-ing stone, which sits over a blind spring. The Mary line flows into the site, flows through the standing stone, turns, and exits. There are other energy lines there as well; Broadhurst and Miller report them in The Sun and the Serpent.

I was so overwhelmed by my first exposure to these ener-gies that I simply did my best to absorb the experience. I could easily spend a day at Boscawen-ûn, dowsing the energies there and mapping and experiencing both them and the male-female stone arrangements for myself. There is energy flow within and between the ring stones as well, and it would be fun to plot any monthly or seasonal changes. Lastly our guides pointed out that the stones were faced (flattened or concave) on the inner surface to reflect sound (and likely also energy) back towards the centre of the circle. Fascinat-ing! We were taken to one of the ancient hill forts (or enclo-sures), which actually seemed to be more of a meeting place for people than places of protection and battle. At one location fur-ther down, the Mary energy was so clear and strong that I literally had to stop and bathe in it. It is so soft, so loving, so gently power-ful. We travelled to Chapel Carn Brea, known as the "First and Last" hill (walking uphill in a driving sleet storm) that was a com-


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plex of barrows and powerful energies as well as a hilltop beacon. The energy from the early Neolithic long barrow there stopped me from walking in that area – I didn’t know why until our guides told us about the burials there. These hills are fascinating places. Imagine, if you will, a chain of bonfires on sites such as this stretching across the entire country, announcing the solstices and other significant events, and the wonderful energy that the peoples’ reaction to those fires must have created and transmitted up and down the alignment of these hills. Our two days of guided travel only scratched the surface of what there is in ancient Cornwall to experience and learn -- the accumulated geokinetic and geomantic knowledge of millennia. I heartily suggest that you contact the Mosses at www.dows-ingplace.co.uk and arrange your own tour. You will find their knowledge bottomless, their fees more than fair, and the energy of the sites amazing. We’ll be going back in a year, far better pre-pared to really “see” what it is we’re being shown! Richard Tippett is a construction manager by profession and the program/speaker planner and coordinator for the ASD’s West Coast Conference. He is fascinated by earth energies, the ap-parent ability to communicate with these energies, and the effects that they have on all life.

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WATER DOWSING SKILLS TRANSFER TO OTHER SPECIALTIES

Simon Stone Although dowsing for water has been my focus for many decades, a few years ago a relative in Dublin who was research-ing his ancestry asked me if it would be possible via dowsing to find the burial place of an ancestor. I used a 1:400,000 scale road map of Ireland, and after a short time my pendulum drew me to a spot near Blessington, County Wicklow. I asked my relative if this could be possible. As the spot was only an hour’s drive or so from Jimmy’s home, he took his car and searched in churches and graveyards in the area, but found nothing. A year later, Jimmy uncovered a family connection to that area. Returning to it, he discovered a graveyard he had missed on his first trip. This time, he located the gravesite he sought, within a mile and three quarters of the map reading I had given to him previously. About six months later, Jimmy asked me if I could use my pendulum to find out more about his Aunty Florry, who 60 years before used to visit him, his two brothers, and two sisters each week. He had prepared a list of 21 questions and plans of three graveyards to dowse. These questions included: Where was Aunty Florry’s grave? Was she an only child? If she had siblings, how many were there of each gender? Did she marry? Where had she come from? I went through all the questions with my pendu-lum, repeating this twice. When I felt reasonably happy about the answers, I gave the results to Jimmy. It took him about six months to find her grave, just a mile and a half from his home. When he was investigating, he ended up meeting a relative of his aunt, giving him an extra opportunity to gather information about her. The location I had dowsed was actually that of Jimmy’s grandmother, who had taken Florry under her wing and helped her. Although I was about five yards out on the actual site, we


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learned that Florry had visited the grandmother’s grave often, and it was a focal point for her. As a young girl, she had moved to Dublin from Derry in Northern Ireland and had no family of her own. As for the 21 questions, I was wrong on only one of them. Had Jimmy sent me the plans of the fourth graveyard at the begin-ning, I might have found Aunty Florry’s actual grave there before he searched. While I haven’t pursued dowsing for gravesites and still prefer to focus my work on water dowsing, I was happy to give a hand, and pleased to learn first-hand that dowsing skills can be transferred in searching for other kinds of information. Simon Stone was awarded the British Society of Dowsers’ Talbot Award for his extensive service in water dowsing in the Republic of Ireland and beyond at its convention in 2014. Now retired, he has been organizing the data and testimonials he gathered about his most interesting dowsing challenges, and systematizing the methods he has used for a reference book for both new and more experienced dowsers. Simon may be reached at [email protected].

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DOWSE INTO WHOLEMOVEMENTBradford Hansen-Smith

We all dowse when seeking unseen information, testing for the depth in our experience, searching out the invisible of our lives. This is what mind does. Folding circles has become a form of dowsing, a way to look for what I do not see; to uncover prin-ciples I don’t know, an order that supports the feelings I have and images I draw, giving substance to assumptions I make, and to guide where I err. As a sculptor I began to explore geometry, how things worked in space. Mathematical extrapolations had little meaning until I traced them back to origin, figuring I could un-derstand by knowing where they come from. Everything led back to the circle. We could not have discovered what we have if it were not in the circle in the first place. How can I know that and by what method is there to directly understand that this must be so? R. Buckminster Fuller folded four paper plate circles three times each and joined them together with hairpins, forming the spherical vector equilibrium. Seeing what he did, I knew all ge-ometry could be demonstrated by folding circles and later saw the same for mathematical generalizations. Intuitively, it had to be that way. Folding the circle was more direct and practical than drawing pictures and projecting movement not in the images. The circle we use means nothing yet suggests everything. It is the in-between that has caught my interests.

There is nothing more whole or more complete than the sphere. Fuller also folded the spherical octahedron and icosado-decahedron to complete the three primary divisions of spheri-cal symmetry. He explored the dynamic movement of geometry mapping divisions over the spherical surface giving, practical use to what, up to that time, was static, axiomatic, and developing abstract formulations for theoretical imagining. I knew there was far more to folding circles than what Fuller had shown; the ques-tion was how to go deeper and show just a little bit of everything


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that is there. The circle being the only comprehensive, self-refer-encing, self-organizing form grabbed my attention and has held me for almost 40 years.

The circle image generates nothing so we construct what we can. The origin of the circle we call the center only because we use the compass to draw it. Observing both ends of the compass as they rotate 360° at the same rate and same time, show two of an endless round of concentric circles: the larger we call the circum-ference, the smaller circle is called a center point. The circle has no center; there are endless circles going into and out from them-selves. Each circuit is a unique path of dynamic energy, relative to the circles that bound them. The compass draws an idea, prevent-ing us from seeing the nature of sphere/circle unity and keeping us from recognizing that the circle is its own center. It has been said that God is both the center and circumference. That said, there is then only individualized God experience between the in-finite self and personalized consciousness.

The sphere is the only form I know that demonstrates this concept about unity. Compression along any axis transforms the sphere to a circle disc without losing unity; nothing is added or taken away, the volume is constant, remaining always inacces-sible. Any spherical axis in compression forms a uniquely indi-vidual circle disc from an infinite number of possibilities. Each circle folded in half creates an individual diameter unique to the folder. This becomes an endless and principled process of diffus-ing information all moving at 90° towards fulfillment of source. By simply thinking I was folding the circle in half, I was unable to see what I was doing and missed the in-forming process. To begin with, there are four individual spherical patterns of movement in this one fold. The act of folding creates a rotational axis for each half (360°x 2 =720°). Each half rotates in both directions (720°x 2=1440°). This one fold reveals primary quantum entanglement where all possible reforming and informing of the circle happens in this spherical envelope generated in a single movement, which we experience only as 180° movement from flat to flat without realizing the extent of what has happened.


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Folding starts with imagining in my mind two points on the circumference, then touching them together and creasing the fold. This generates two more points at the end of the diameter at 90°, half way between the two imaginary points. My mind is dowsing a process to bring unseen information to the surface. The medium is a paper circle; the agent is mind that brings to my consciousness an energetic experience telling me to pay attention to what I do, which far exceeds what I think I am doing.

The traditional radius/diameter concept about any given circle gives proportional continuity to the circumference, where the diameter is the full measure of the circle. The radius is a num-ber concept one-half the diameter, measured from a fixed “center” to the circumference. Yet I see the circle as its own center being infinitely larger and smaller, concentrically self-contained lines in parallel. How does one fix the boundary of a relatively small circle and call it center? The internal measure will be greater than the external measurement making the radius from the circumfer-ence longer than any measurement across (a labyrinth is a good example). Given the radius is longer than half the diameter, a hyperbolic warp is created in the circle plane.

My experience with the circle tells me old concepts about geometry need to be reexamined, updated to reflect present ex-perience. Collectively, we have experientially and conceptually evolved, no longer being where we used to be. For clarification I have redefined geometry as "Wholemovement," understanding the earth (geo) is spherical, the sphere being whole, and measur-ing (metry) is about movement. Wholemovement is a realization of what has been, what is, and all potential from now forward, outward and inward; anything less than the unimagined is short of being whole.

I look for patterns of relationships that are revealed within the circle by folding to unfold what is there. Movement aligned with the circle reveals the same patterns of organization observed in vibrating particles, atomic configurations, electro/chemical ac-


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tions, the forming of nebula and galaxies, and in all aspects of perceived reality in living and non-living systems. Alignment of each part to the whole is what makes any of this possible. This is not the “sacred” of geometry; all geometry is the same whether in church or in school, or observed in the beauty of nature. These patterns of alignment are the mechanics of how I see the physical world manifest by intelligence unseen forces of spherical origin. What is sacred is attitude, the breadth of wisdom, high levels of experience that bring forth spiritual presence, a love for the ideals about truth, beauty, and goodness of creation, the wonderment of both seen and unseen reality of the lives we live.

There are seven principle qualities I have identified in spherical compression. They are inseparable, observed in that first movement and in the first fold of the circle that is reflected in all subsequent reformations. This compressive deformation from sphere to circle is primary before all else; it is first. These seven aspects of initiation start with the whole, through movement in division of duality formed, to triangulation where every part is consistent to the movement and inner-dependent to the whole. This action of compression is principle to and functionally inher-ent as unity of life unfolding. Spherical compression is to com-passion as embracing is to the whole.

The first five qualities can be identified as the mechanics of how things happen. The last two are about relationships and are why the first five are necessary. Forming a structural and sus-tainable generative relationship between two is always three; the third component is conscious awareness of mind towards what is greater. Even in drawing, the compass rotation is the third aspect, the first movement that reveals two circles. Two halves of the folded circle is inseparable from the act folding.

The inverse of our favored parts-to-whole perspective is a whole-to-parts realization. Parts-to-whole will always fall short, there will never be enough parts to make a whole anything. Start-ing with the whole provides infinite parts to be observed where


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endless connections can be discovered for ongoing refining and realigning towards evolving greater sensitivity to individual awareness about our experiences with the unseen.

The first fold of the circle is four points in space, two vis-ible and two invisible that reveal four individual open tetrahedra simultaneously within four spherical patterns of movement. In this fold of one whole in two parts, 1:2, the outflow is 3:6, 4:8 and 5:10. Of these, the 3:6 symmetry is primary, an equilateral tri-angle grid from which the other two can be formed. All symme-tries are the same sequence of folding chords to differently angled proportions. Folding each level of each grid has unique qualities for reforming that come together in an octave, and then to higher frequencies that are unattainable without some experience with the lower frequencies. With each triangle grid 3, 4, and 5 diam-eters are divided into 8 segments by 7 creases of division.

The 3:6 follows from 1:2, from which all reforming of the circle is generated. Each point of intersection is similar to a mu-sical note; expression is the dynamic relationships that happen between. The notes themselves have no intrinsic value. The in-terconnections between the three folded grids regulate the har-monics by which multiple circles can be joined. Regardless of what frequency or degree of reformed complexity, the circle is never less than the circle. The nature of the circle is the intelligent organization that is there to be recognized and teased into be-coming by the evolving imagination where the folder transcends all transformations. All systems energetically move through space in time to some undisclosed and inclusive purpose towards fulfill-ment of what must be unlimited potential.

Trace around each folded-over part of the circumference on the circle. This leaves a footprint showing where the circum-ference has been. By tracing every fold there emerges a web of curved lines that do not necessarily correspond to polygon place-ment of constructed straight lines. Every fold creased in the circle is a chord, a 360° rotational axis where the 2-D creases and 3-D


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reformations are inherently a small part of the curving organiza-tion of space. This volumetric entanglement appears to be an in-visible quantum field with many possible events, where when re-vealed one at a time appear to be individually separate. The circle is the compass, the straight edge, and demonstration of spheri-cal movement and transformation. If I can stay out of the way and observe the process of in-formation as it is occurring, there is much to be discovered; I am changed by the circle that does not change.

Folding circles suggest an interspatial experiential realm that higher math, theoretical physics, philosophy, and religion strive to uncover, having developed their own methods for dows-ing into the unknown. The circle reveals patterns of movement through folding that are observed in traditional form of dowsing, energetic healing and restorative practice, and towards spiritual uplift in all the forms as they are used. In this regard we facilitate our own subjective reality by how we respond to the objective context that is consistent to the greater field of consciousness. While the folded matrix with increased frequencies allows great-er transformations through endless variations of expression, the circle always remains whole. Unity can be ignored, but it cannot be taken apart, try as we may. The information I observe is where I put my attention. I did not create the circle or what it reveals; my job is to explore as I can what is there and to give evidence to the experience of my finding.

Understanding does not come from reading articles like this. Hopefully you will be stimulated to fold a circle and dis-cover some little bit of the intelligence about where we have been planted to experience a few parts of everything that is mostly in-accessible. If nothing else you will think about the circle a little differently.


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For the last 27 years, Bradford Hansen-Smith has shared his exploration with teachers, students, and home school fam-ilies. He travels internationally, working with all ages and grade levels with what he has come to call “Wholemovement,” a comprehensive upgrade in understanding the word geometry. You can contact him at [email protected] or visit his website at www.wholemovement.com.

Melinda Iverson Inn – 2017 Dowser of the Year!

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AN INTERVIEW WITH GREG STOROZUK Nancy Nelson

Greg Storozuk has been a full-time professional dowser for over 30 years. He is a past president of the American Society of Dowsers and is founder of the Mile High Dowsers, based in Denver. In addition to working for commercial clients, Greg uses dowsing to locate toxic energy grids, to rid houses of ghosts, for entity clearings and, of course, to locate water. His four book-lets for beginning dowsers (available in ASD’s store) are consid-ered classics in the dowsing field: “Asking Questions,” “Geopathic Zones and the Iron Stake Method,” “Getting Started,” and "How to Dowse a Water Well." Nancy Nelson: The idea that many people have of dowsing is that it was something done in the "olden days" to find water because people didn’t have the scientific knowl-edge that we have now. Is dowsing still relevant in a world that enjoys modern technology? Greg Storozuk: Definitely. In the modern world, locat-ing underground potable water is only one example of what can be accomplished by an experienced dowser, but the proof is what shows dowsing’s worth. Basically, dowsing is a simple “yes/no” language that anyone can learn, but it can be applied in a myriad of ways. It has evolved over the years along with everything else, but the difficulty in learning to dowse properly with consistent re-sults is to first learn the basics, and by this I mean learning Natu-ral Laws. Dowsing is a simple skill but it’s not easy to learn. At its very root is simplicity. Utter simplicity. Natural Law. Although most water wells in the U.S. are now located us-ing modern methods, people should keep in mind that using a dowser is also an option. There are three good reasons to use a dowser: dowsing is cheaper, in many instances dowsing is more accurate, and dowsers can locate viable water wells more rapidly than geologists. Of course, results will vary with the experience of the dowser.


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How so? It’s like a child wanting to be a policeman. He gets all excit-ed and acts out the part, but would you trust him with a real gun? It takes a while to get a proper dowsing education and enough experience to learn the basic skills. Many people say, “Hey… This is easy!” But nothing could be further from the truth. Especially if they expect accuracy in their applications. One example of a typical dowsing job was when a client hired me to locate a well on his property, which was at the top of a hill. Both logic and a geologic survey suggested that a person would be more likely to encounter water by drilling at the bottom of a hill – and there actually was a driller busy at the bottom of the hill when I drove by – but my client’s property was at the top. It took me less than half an hour to make a location that I told him would yield a well that would produce 90 gallons per minute at less than 132 feet. The location was on a steep rise – it was so steep that they had to dig out a level place for the drill rig to stand. Then at a depth of 110 feet they hit water that flowed at 90 gal-lons a minute. They didn’t drill any deeper because the water was flowing so fast they were afraid it would knock the rig over. The driller at the bottom of the hill, who I passed when I first went to my client’s property, drilled over 1,000 feet down and only found water that ran at half a gallon per minute. Taking the example above, how long does it take to be-come reasonably accurate at water dowsing? That depends on the amount of time spent in the field ex-periencing water dowsing. Asking the proper questions is para-mount. If you ask, “Is there any water here?,” the answer would be “Yes” because there’s humidity in the air, dew on the grass, a puppy just walked by, and so on. But it the dowser asks a more specific question, something like, “Is there any underground, live, potable, flowing water here?” The answer may be different. I should also mention that it isn’t necessary to spend a lot of money to dig a well since it all depends on the questions you ask. You could ask, “Is


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there any underground live, flowing, potable water here less than one foot deep?” in your own backyard and use a garden trowel or shovel to dig a shallow hole. It’s great practice. I understand from information I’ve found in books and on the internet that dowsing is not just for water anymore. It’s used to locate people and lost objects, to improve health, to identify geopathic energy and stress zones, and as a method for divination. Has dowsing always been used for these pur-poses, or is this something new? This is not new; dowsing has evolved with the times and has been applied in a myriad of ways. That said, most new dows-ers miss a huge part of their early dowsing education by failing to pinpoint underground water accurately. Water is essential for survival. What good is it to play hit and miss with another field of dowsing endeavor if you can’t locate something as basic as water? First things first; otherwise, it’s like not learning the alphabet be-fore trying to write a novel. But dowsing can be used for many different things. Min-ing, for example, is a traditional dowsing task. Cornwall in Great Britain has a history of mining. What few people know is that the British imported German miners who were also dowsers to help locate new mines in Cornwall. And it seems that dowsers have been used to locate mines in Germany for over 1,000 years. Dowsing is also used in archeology – I’ve done it myself. I went with a teacher friend to watch his son play a soccer game at his school. My friend told me that the remains of an old church were on the school property but no one knew exactly where they were. He knew the general location, but couldn’t find any evidence of walls or a foundation, so during halftime we walked around the property. I hadn’t brought my Y-rod so I fashioned one by taking a piece of long grass and folding it over. Within a few minutes I located all four walls of the church by dowsing – I marked them with sticks. I also marked other areas with sticks where I said he should investigate. We were back at the game before halftime was over.


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The next week my friend called me to say that he had tak-en his students to investigate the area where I had indicated the church was located. They were able to find the walls where I had marked them with sticks, and from that were able to find the cor-ners of the church. All the other places I had marked with sticks they found something from the period – a button, coins, or some-thing similar. When you are contacted by a client to dowse their house, what do you do? What are you looking for? I’m always dowsing for geopathic zones – also referred to as geopaths. There are three different kinds: natural zones, like fissures, faults and fractures; man-made zones, like electrical; and combination zones, like a telephone transformer over an under-ground water vein. The first thing I do is check the house for the Hartmann grid. The health of the house is determined by the distance between the Hartmann grid lines – the closer together the lines the less healthy the house. Once I establish the location of the Hartmann grid, I dowse for entities. Entities? Are you talking about ghosts? Is this very common? Yes, ghosts. And, yes, they’re common. Oftentimes when people die their energy remains – and this energy can maintain itself using the energy from geopaths. One problem that occurs is that these entities can transfer their energy to people who are still living. For example, a friend of mine came down with a sud-den and serious case of arthritis in both his knees and his elbows – an ailment from which he hadn’t suffered previously. I asked my friend whether anyone he knew had died recently. He became quiet, then told me two uncles of his had died a few days apart just three weeks previously; one had arthritis in the knees, the other suffered from arthritis in the elbows. I told my friend not to wor-ry, that he would be back to normal in the morning. That evening I did what I do, saw that these entities had attached themselves to him, and sent them on their way. When my friend woke up the next day he no longer suffered from arthritis – and he hasn’t since.


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All houses have geopathic stress zones of one sort of an-other. All houses? You’ve never been in a house that was free of geopaths? Actually, over the years there have been three different in-stances where I’ve been in houses that had no geopathic zones of any sort. The people who lived in these three houses didn’t know each other, but there was one thing that they had in common – they were all UFO experiencers; they had all observed, been con-tacted by or been abducted by UFOs. For example, after I dowsed one of these houses and found no geopaths, I went a short dis-tance away and started dowsing. I was about 60 feet away from the house at this point, and was able to locate the normal variety of geopathic stress zones. I started tracking one of these geopaths toward the house, and at about 50 feet away from the house it suddenly took a right angle turn. All dowsers know that geopa-thic zones are straight; these are natural lines and they don’t make right angle turns! I dowsed again with a different geopath and found the same thing – at about 50 feet away from the house the geopathic zone made a right angle turn. There were no geopathic zones near that house. That’s curious. So did the folks who lived in these houses experience UFOs because there were no geopathic stress zones, or did the UFOs manipulate the geopathic zones for their own comfort after they made contact with these spe-cific people? I don’t know, but I think the UFOs manipulated the geopa-ths since right angles in geopathic zones shouldn’t exist. Ok, do you have another memorable example of dows-ing for a non-water related issue?I was called in by a business to dowse its office building. Every-thing was fine except for one office on the bottom level – it had very strong geopathic stress indicators, and frankly, it felt uncom-fortable just to be there. I did some things to alleviate the issue, then left. I followed up with the client about a year later to see


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whether things had worked out. He told me that his company had never been able to retain the employees who worked out of that office – they always left within a few weeks of starting. A new em-ployee began work in that office a week after I had dowsed and, a year later, was still there. That was 10 years ago, and I believe that same employee is still happily working out of that same office. It seems clear that dowsing has moved beyond the sim-ple “man with a stick” method. What are some of the other tools that dowsers use today? Dowsing tools have remained relatively the same over the years -- Y-rods, L-rods, pendulums, and bobbers – but they have gotten fancier and more expensive. Some people ascribe certain meanings to certain tools, but to me it’s irrelevant. In MY world, the mind is the tool. What you hold in your hand is like a needle on a meter. It just measures what your mind says after you’ve asked a question. I’ve used plastic street sweeper bristles and tall pieces of grass folded over to make a Y-rod with successful re-sults. The material is irrelevant in my personal opinion, but if you believe it makes a difference, then it becomes so. Many years ago one of my teachers said, “Tell yourself you can dowse at anytime, anywhere, and with anything.” I then bought a $265 L-rod be-cause it worked for me. Soon after I realized I could do the same thing with a bent coat hanger or welding rod, so I now use that expensive rod as an example to show people what not to buy.

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Once again – it’s simplicity that needs to be learned, but there are some expensive experiences you have to go through first. What modern technology in use today has replaced what was previously done by dowsing? The business of locating liquids and underground anoma-lies such as water, oil, and earthquake faults has replaced the sim-ple Y-rod with very expensive and complex electronic equipment. This is a part of mankind’s technical evolution. The interesting thing though is that a good dowser can duplicate these devices’ purpose and, on many occasions, exceed them using less time and expense. I know you’re already familiar with the 10-year study by Professor Hans Dieter Betz, sponsored by the German govern-ment. The results showed that experienced dowsers had a 96% success rate at locating potable water in third world countries in which geological conditions were particularly difficult for finding water vs. a 21% success rate for geologists using “modern” meth-ods. Aside from an experienced dowser being able to locate water wells more accurately and at a lower cost than tradi-tional geologists, are there any other differences? A big difference is the type of water we look for and find. Dowsers look for “flowing water veins,” water that’s rising up from deep in the earth. Geologists, on the other hand, often fo-cus on aquifers – underground geological formations where wa-ter “pools,” generally after rainwater and snow-melt seep down from the surface. Dowsers prefer not to tap the aquifers for a couple of reasons. The first is that using water from aquifers is not sustainable; they will eventually run dry if they are oversub-scribed. The Ogallala Aquifer, which runs under parts of Kansas, Texas, Nebraska and a few other states, is an example of this. The second reason is that since aquifers have solid bottoms, they can become polluted by different things – pesticides, nitrogen fertil-izers, fracking water, and chemicals, etc. Dowsing for water ris-ing up from deep in the earth will give you a water supply that is sustainable, secure, and healthy.


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To get an idea of how flowing water veins are created, you need to remember that gravity will pull water from the bottom of the oceans toward the center of the earth, which is hot. Heat and water together produce steam, which is a pressure. And as a pres-sure, steam seeks to escape upward, condensing into fresh water the further it gets from its source and leaving behind the heavier minerals from the sea water. As the hot water rises toward the surface, it follows path-ways already opened by other smaller sources, widening them into what a dowser refers to as a “water dome.” These domes would be the equivalent of a tree trunk, with the smaller veins being the root system. Many of these domes have been around for ages, and are considerably wide, some carrying thousands of gallons of water per minute, if not more. The fact that dowsers focus on flowing water veins is an-other reason some researchers say that dowsers are able to locate underground water. They claim the flowing water sends out an electrical charge that dowsers are able to detect, similar to the way an electrical wire can turn the needle on a compass. Maybe so, but it still doesn’t account for map dowsing. How do people become dowsers today? Do they need to have some sort of innate knack for it or can people learn it by taking a class? The first thing is to have a desire to learn how to dowse. Like everything else, anyone can learn to do something if they have the desire to learn – like paint, play a guitar, golf, etc., so that’s an important factor. The next thing, the driving force, is the strength of that desire. The stronger the better if you truly want to learn. Reading dowsing books or taking a class will get you started, but most likely there will be prejudices from the authors and instructors – just like me telling people to learn how to dowse for water first. But the main thing is to start with the basics, the simple ABCs. Read about Natural Law and learn how to think simply and logically. The next step is to experiment. Learn how to use


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dowsing tools to develop your own personal reactions to “yes” and “no” answers. It’s important to not only ask the proper ques-tions, but to ask ones that are ONLY answerable by “yes” or “no.” After that? Practice, practice, practice on simple things. Count-ing is simple and offers immediate feedback. Ask, “How many M&M’s are in this snack pack? At least 4? 5? 6?” until you get a “no” answer. But don’t open the bag yet. Instead, ask more ques-tions. “How many M&M’s in this snack pack are yellow? Light brown? Blue? Red?” Then open the bag and check your results. Playing cards are another example. Cut the deck anywhere and ask “How many cards are in this stack?” Another is to ask “Is the top card black?” and start two piles. What do you think is the most misunderstood thing about dowsing today? That dowsing is folklore or witchcraft. It’s just a natural human ability owned by everyone, which is seldom used anymore in spite of its veracity. If someone tells me they don’t believe in dowsing, I always ask, “Have you ever tried it?” “…uh no”. Then, “Have you ever read anything about it?” Another “no.” Then how can you form an intelligent opinion on something you know noth-ing about? That usually silences the skeptics. If there was one thing you could teach people about dowsing, what would that be? That while dowsing is simple, it’s not easy to become a good dowser. One of my teachers told a class of over 100 people that “If you’re not willing to take a chance, and you’re not willing to fail, then you’re NOT a dowser." His point was that experience is the best teacher. There’s no need to fear failure when you’re just practicing. Too many people are fearful of making errors. Another of my teachers told the class, “I don’t learn from my suc-cesses; I expect ‘em. I learn from my mistakes.” Good advice! The most important thing, however, is to realize how sim-ple the universe really is. People have to believe in themselves. After all, THAT is the basis of everything.


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Nancy Nelson is a retired U.S. diplomat. She is now a psychic, a channel, and a writer on esoteric issues. The articles she posts on her website are about whatever interests her (she’s retired after all!), in-cluding alternative theories in astron-omy, UFOs, dowsing, and the science behind psi phenomena. You can visit her website at www.morethanpassing-strange.com.

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CAN YOU MANAGE YOUR COINCIDENCES?(OR MIRACLES DO STILL OCCUR!)

Rev. Keith Smyth My life has been a set of very strange “coincidences.” The first was a near-death experience when I was 14 years old, on my birthday that year (1949), actually. From then on, it seemed that they just kept on happening. In 1952, as a junior in high school, I drove my Model A Ford Coupe from Tribune, Kansas to Wichita, about 300 miles. At one point, there is a pretty long hill on the road just outside of Selkirk, where my dad worked as a station agent for the Missouri Pacific railroad. I was just leaving the de-pot, when something pulled me over to the side of the highway (two lane) and I stopped. I could NOT figure out what had hap-pened. Just about then two semi-trucks came over the crest of the hill, side by side. I would have been just below that crest, doing about 50 mph, with no chance to pull over! In 1954 I was looking for work after being laid off from my job with the railroad because my eyes did not meet their mini-mum standards without glasses. I was walking to my grandmoth-er's home when, and for absolutely no reason I can explain to this day, I stopped, turned around from the corner I was standing on, and walked back about 100 feet. Just then, a car ran a red light, was Tee-boned by another car, and smacked THROUGH the traf-fic light pole I had been standing by. Yep. Makes one wonder. In 1955 I was the Air Force, stationed at Keesler AFB, in Biloxi, Mississippi. I had been sent over by the direc-tor of our department to deliver some test equipment that we had borrowed from a hanger that housed a height-finding radar school. The hanger was two stories, with a catwalk around the second floor. Several people were on the catwalk, and a lot of test equipment. The height finder was installed on the ground floor, with the feed horn and electronics even with that catwalk. The department head was standing just under the front edge of the catwalk talking to some airmen. I approached with the cart I had


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the equipment on, but before I got to the group, I was stopped – not by someone, but by something – and the group came over to where I had stopped. Just then, one of the guys on the catwalk stumbled, and knocked over a rather large piece of test equip-ment, which smacked into the floor, right where these guys had been! In September 1956, while on temporary duty to Sembach, Germany, I was on a bus, ready to ride out to the operational site, when I told the driver, “Do not start yet. Wait 15 seconds.” He turned around and looked at me rather strangely. Just then a sedan sped through the intersection, followed by two Air Po-lice vehicles, sirens and lights just starting up. He turned around, looked through the windshield and said in broken English, “How did you know?” I told him that I didn’t know how I knew, but that I just knew. He said, “We would have been in the middle of that intersection. You come home with me tonight and we'll give you a GOOD GERMAN dinner!" Two months later, in Berlin, I was on a German bus head-ing to the Army PX by the consulate and found a wallet on the floor. It had about 1500 German Marks in it and a woman's "Aus-vise," her German identification. I looked up the address on the big map of Berlin in the PX and took a bus to the English sector. I knocked on her door and when she answered, asked if she spoke English. She did not, but her daughter and son, who also came to the door, did. Through her children, she was able to describe the wallet and its contents. Satisfied, I handed her the wallet and she broke into tears. That money had been her month's pay! They insisted that I had to come to dinner the following Sunday. When I arrived, the whole family was there – children, grandparents, cousins. Well, it turned out that one of the cousins was the SAME bus driver I "saved" in Sembach! He looked at me and asked, “Are you at it again?” I was on temporary duty in Japan in 1956. Four of us went into the local village, but there wasn't much traffic because it was cold and snowy. We saw four women walking toward us and for


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some reason, I yelled out STOP at the top of my lungs. They DID stop and everyone stared at me as a huge icicle broke off the top of the building and shattered onto the street -- right where the wom-en would have been. We all stood there, looking at each other. Then the women ran up and thanked me, asking how I knew the icicle was about to fall. I finally told them that apparently I must have heard the icicle crack. That satisfied everyone, except me… I hadn’t heard a damned thing. In early 1957 (again in Germany), I went to a little hat shop. I had always wanted a fedora and found a really nice gray snap brim. I was on the corner, just after purchasing the hat. The building had survived the bombings of World War II. A group of people stood against the side of the building, out of the rain, at the corner where they could see an approaching bus. I suddenly felt panic in the pit of my stomach, and for everyone to get away from the building! Everyone jumped away from the building except for an elderly German couple – they stood there, frozen. I shoved them to the side and stepped right. About that time a huge chunk of the building's cornice, weighing about 125 lbs.', fell onto the sidewalk, right where the couple had been standing, missing me by about 6 inches. Everyone stood there with their mouths open. The bus came and we got on. And that was that. Also in 1957, two other GIs and I were walking down a street in Berlin when I suddenly stopped and looked into a store window. The other guys stopped and asked what I was looking at. I replied that I didn't know but that it must be interesting. At that moment, a bus blew a tire and the rubber smacked right through a picture window, just inches from where we were standing. If we had continued walking, the blown tire would have hit and injured the three of us! In June 2014, we were on California Highway 101, when for no reason I took an unplanned exit off the highway. Just as we exited, a semi-truck traveling beside on the highway blew a trailer tire. The huge chunk of rubber sailed right through where we would have been had I not exited!


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•Submission Deadline RemindersThe editors welcome early submissions!

Summer edition: Articles edited, proofed, and writer-approved

by September 15. Delivery – mid-October.

I have had so many of these experiences now that I just say, “Thanks, Guys. Appreciate it.” (with a mental nod upstairs) and keep going!

Rev. Keith Smyth has been an ordained minister since 1978. He is past president of the Unity Church in Palo Alto, CA. He is on the Board of Directors and is presently Vice-President of the San Jose Chapter of the ASD. He was awarded the ASD Instructor of the Year in 2016.


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WATER CONTAMINATION, HEALTH RISKS,AND DOWSING SOLUTIONS

Richard BenishaiGroundwater Contamination: Known Facts

Natural groundwater can be contaminated from chemi-cals such as arsenic and high sulphur, which dissolve out of the rocks through which it filters. Groundwater contamination also occurs when man-made products such as gasoline, oil, road salts, and chemicals seep into it, causing it to become unsafe and unfit for human use. Nitrates, frequently used in agriculture as fertilizers, are chemical compounds present in much of our drinking water. While harmless in small amounts, high levels of nitrates can af-fect humans and animals negatively. This is especially true for infants and pregnant women.

• While we cannot exist without water, it is also the number-one cause for most severe and mortal diseases.

• Without drinking it or touching it, people can experience serious health problems from contaminated under-ground water.

Underground Water Currents: Another Danger to Human Health

Groundwater is the water found underground in the cracks and spaces in soil, sand, and rock. It is stored in and moves slowly through geologic formations of soil, sand, and rocks called aquifers. When water molecules run through the sand and rocks at a speed above 3 km/hr, a number of events occur:

• The planet’s infrared radiation above an underground water current is reduced because it blocks heat emana- tions. Not a significant influence.


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• A harmful electrical field is generated above an underground water current, which decreases the level of negative ions, causing unbalanced metabolic exchanges at cel- lular levels in humans, other creatures, and plants which may be above it. This effect results in biological degenera- tion over the long term.

• The earth’s magnetic field is lowered drastically over anunderground stream. In order for all human organs, glands, and body functions to operate satisfactorily, our bodies need to be bathed in the full, 100% natural mag-netic field of the place where we live. Anything less than 100% starts an imbalance.

The first astronaut, Russian Yuri Gagarin, returned to Earth ill, as did so many after him. When these first astronauts arrived back on Earth, they experienced what was called “space sickness” – nausea, headaches, disorientation, and sleep disor-ders. At first researchers thought it was caused by their space diet and/or weightlessness, but then they discovered that the weak magnetic field in space was unable to support biological health. Thereafter, each spacecraft was fitted with a magnetic field gen-erator and the problems stopped. The major influence of underground water currents has to do with gamma rays, which are high-energy photons that origi-nate primarily from outer space. They continually bombard the earth, passing harmlessly through our bodies and continuing downwards into the planet. While these particles have extremely high frequency and can penetrate almost everything, if they en-counter an underground water current, two things happen:

• The water molecules absorb part of their energy.

• If the water is not pure, the photons bounce back at the same angle of incidence at which they hit the water.


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Diagram of gamma ray deflection by contaminated underground water. The straight lines show the flow of radiation. Note the angle of gamma radiation arrival

equals the angle of its return. Upon their return trip, the weakened photons return through the same earth and rock layers, which further slow them down. By the time they enter our bodies – also mostly water –they collide with and injure (ionize) part of our cells’ structures. Sometimes the damaged structures are DNA. This damage in time can cause cancer or organ malfunction. Gamma particles travel unimpeded through pure water. It is quantities of large-molecule contaminants that reflect them.


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Effects of Underground Water Currents: What Can Be Done?

Nothing blocks gamma rays, and nothing can be done about where water travels underground. If a house or other build-ing like a barn, a factory, or a store has been built above an un-derground current, only geobiological mediation can reduce the deleterious effects of the reflected gamma rays on the health of people, animals, or plants on those premises. I have used these techniques successfully for many years, and have taught others how to do so in several countries.

Richard Benishai is a Mas-ter Geobiologist and a registered Electrical Engineer in Israel, current-ly living in Spain. He is a member of ASD as well as several other Eu-ropean dowsing organizations, has been a presenter at ASD Conferenc-es, and has written previous articles for the Digest. His book, Mission: Mother Earth: Peace through Geobi-ology, is available for $16 US on his

website, www.geobiology.co.il. He can be reached by phone at 972-52-8382823 or 34-626-609-538, and by email at [email protected].

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Vol. 57, Issue No. 1 – Spring 201730

The American Dowser Vol. 57, Issue No. 1 – Spring 2017

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Madis Senner is a former global money manager turned Seeker. He is a Keeper, watching over and spiritually cleansing/ enhancing several sacred sites. Sacred Sites in North Star Country is his fourth book and is available for purchase through the ASD bookstore. You can read his musings at http://motherearth-prayers.blogspot.com.

To see Madis’s January 2017 presentation on charged ley lines to his Finger Lakes Dowsers Chapter, go to his YouTube channel, MotherEarthPrayers. You can also search for "Sacred Sites in North Star Country." (Editor's Note: Madis will present "Space: The Final Frontier" at the ASD Convention on June 18, 2017. He also will lead medita-tions ON a ley line. This powerful experience will charge both the line AND the attendees.)

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of transport for beings in the unseen world. Viewed as such, the theories that ley lines are used as faery paths and spirit paths, and are habited by UFOs and aliens, make sense. Similarly, many see ley lines linking like-minded institutions or places of worship, or what John Michell calls “Ley Consciousness” as an ancestral memory of alignments. Charged ley lines are rare because they have been sullied, contaminated, tainted, polluted, desecrated, and worse. Ley lines originate from Mother Earth’s Soul, from an area I call North Star Country (the Northeast of the USA, with central New York being the center.) They start out carrying Christ Consciousness, which is quickly contaminated. Sometimes they are contaminated at the get-go because most of the world is caked over with violence, selfishness, technology, etc. The longer an area has been inhabited, the greater the chances that consciousness of the land will be negative. Consciousness interacts with the consciousness it comes in contact with. So the Christ Consciousness that a ley line car-ries quickly encounters negative consciousness (space) and loses it charge. Very positive consciousness progressively diminishes and becomes more negative the farther it gets from its point of origina-tion in North Star Country. It can even become very negative. The charged ley line at Hipp Brook was special because I ex-perienced its point of origination (a Field of Consciousness). Hipp Brook was once a sacred place and has a very positive vibe. And because it is a wetland preserve, people have not spent much time there, polluting it with their actions and intentions. I believe I have encountered many charged ley lines in pow-erful Fields of Consciousness where ley lines originate. Yet the one at Hipp Brook was the line that I noticed. Perhaps that is because I needed to tell the world about charged ley lines and the potential they hold to transform and advance our collective consciousness. So I'm doing that through this article and will do so through my presen-tation at the ASD Convention.

GOLD, TREASURES, RELICS,JEWELS, and MORE LOCATED

Remotely or On Location.Map Dowser, Robert Thomason.

Call (205) 566-9988 or send Emailto [email protected]

GOLD, TREASURES, RELICS,JEWELS, and MORE LOCATED

Remotely or On Location.Map Dowser, Robert Thomason.Call (205) 566-9988 or send an

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DOWSING TO GET RID OF BAD HABITSMargaret VanLaanMartin

Dowsing is simply the ability to connect to one’s higher state of guidance -- ask questions and get answers. From a sim-plistic scientific perspective, it is the ability to access information available through the right-side of our brain (in the Western world most individuals operate almost exclusively through the left-side of their brain). So by expanding our abilities to use a greater pro-portion of our brain, whole new possibilities are available in our lives. With dowsing, we have tools to empower our lives. The key to a successful dowsing session to stop a bad habit is to be clear in your mind about why you want to quit the habit. You can use dowsing to stop biting your nails, stop drinking alcohol, and stop eating specific foods like French fries or ice cream. You can also stop bad habits like procrastinating and being late. You can even quit smoking.

I was first introduced to dowsing for habit removal at a Gold Country Dowsers meeting. They offer fabulous information about dowsing and also give people a place to practice their skills. In the meeting I attended, the speaker asked for a member of the audience to volunteer for the demonstration. The volunteer de-cided what habit she wanted removed and I could psychically see the habit being removed by using the dowsing process. I knew that this was something I wanted to offer my clients. I add to the dowsing session my energy healing and psychic abilities looking at where the habit is trapped in your body. I give you tools to re-place the habit with something positive in your space that you re-ally want. This process removes the habit energetically from your body so the habit will not easily return. I have found this to be an extremely successful process for both my clients and myself.

The first time I dowsed for habit removal for myself, I re-moved caffeine, procrastination, and being 10 minutes late to ap-


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pointments. The outcome is I am no longer 10 minutes (or more) late! The procrastination issue became something that no longer causes stress and anxiety. Before, I put off everything until I was down to the wire. Now I easily make time in my day to work on projects before deadlines. I stopped caffeine completely until about four years later when we were traveling in Portugal. I decid-ed to have coffee then because of the type of coffee and how it is served with heated half-and-half. I chose to start that habit again even when my body warned me by getting shaky and dizzy from the caffeine. In later dowsing sessions, I chose to remove french fries, ice cream, and donuts. After the sessions, I had no craving for the products and actually became ill when eating them. Then I traveled to Africa and at almost every meal we were served fried potatoes, which are french fries. Interestingly, when I came back I had absolutely no desire for french fries and have not had a single one since.

For dowsing to be most effective in removing bad habits, one must be very clear and specific about the bad habit that you want to quit. Be clear about how the bad habit has affected you physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. And you must be very clear about why you want to stop your bad habit, followed by what energy you intend to put in its place.

As an example, rather than say, “I want to remove sugar from my life," it would be better to say, “I want to remove ice cream from my life,” (but only if you really do want to remove ice cream from your life). Being specific is important. Because there is going to be a space left in your body that used to want ice cream, you will need to choose something else that you really like, that you will replace it with. Unless you are a fiend for broc-coli, even with dowsing you won’t get as good a result unless you choose a replacement you are crazy about. So choose something realistic that you can envision yourself easily enjoying.

When you were young you assimilated the life around you; the behavior patterns you observed helped you to fit into your family and society. But the family may not have been the


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best, society has changed, and the patterns may have been mis-informed. Negative situations occur in life that you may think you have overcome and forgiven, but perhaps have not. When a similar situation comes up, your anger might reappear suddenly without you even knowing why. We hang onto behaviors we are taught as children. Perhaps your mother gave you a treat when she wanted you to do something for her that you didn't like to do. Or she gave you candy to be quiet around the house or to calm you down when you were hurt or upset. As you grew older, you gave yourself treats for the same reason. And because you handle the money and the goodies, you may overdo the treats and be-come overweight. You're probably unaware that your childhood trained you to do these things.

Another way to use dowsing to interact with your subcon-scious is when you want to make a major change in your life. If you are calling on willpower to lose 20 pounds, or quit smoking, or tackle a big project, check to make sure your subconscious is in agreement. If your subconscious doesn’t want the change to happen, most likely it won’t. You will not be successful in reaching your goals unless your subconscious is open to the idea.

Any time you call upon willpower to make a change, you are using your logical, rational, conscious mind to set it in motion. You will spend a lot of time thinking about your goal, perhaps drawing up a detailed plan that you can put into action. You tell yourself, “I can do this. I will put these steps into action and I will succeed.” But there are many times when that’s not enough. It is not lack of willpower; it is a tug of war between the conscious and subconscious mind!

Understanding what is going on inside the subconscious mind is a good place to start dowsing because the process helps to remove obstacles—both to the goals we want achieve and to the intuition we want flowing in our lives. The clearer we are, the more accurate our dowsing will be. That journey starts by "know-ing thyself."


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Margaret VanLaanMar-tin is a medium, astrologer, and Reiki master teacher, and has been working as a psychic for over 30 years. She is based in Chico, CA and consults nationwide. You can reach her by email at Margaret@a g e o fa q u a r i u s c h i c o . c o m , by phone at 530-520-1900, or

visit her website www.AgeOfAquariusChico.com.

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•Susan (Boston Dowsers Pres. & WCC co-chair, etc.),

Jeannette (Nor Cal Dowsers Pres., writer, editor, & educator), Rachel (Nor Cal Dowsers web & social media master &

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WCC Conference Fun!Elspeth Winkler, Alan Handelsman, Grahame Gardner, Susan

Collins, Adhi Two Owls, Melinda Iverson Inn

Susan Collins and Lee Ann Potter at the ASD Convention


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Sandra McKenzie (Outstanding Services Award) and Scott Pearce (Volunteer of the Year)

Online Auctionto Benefit

Water for Humanity Fund Joe Ann Gelder, one of the founders of the Water for Humanity, has donated a selection of Crystals from her per-sonal collection to be auctioned with all proceeds to benefit the continuing work of the Water for Humanity Fund. Please check the website, www.dowsers.org, for more information, pictures and auction form. Tell your friends and family. This is a limited-time auction, don’t miss out on the great opportunity.

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SUBMISSIONS AND RIGHTS TO PUBLISH

The ASD is a non-profit, educational, and scientific soci-ety open to all interested people. The American Dowser, its quar-terly digest (a.k.a the Digest) is an open forum where the full range of dowsing theories, ideas, techniques, applications, and personal experiences are presented for consideration and discussion Au-thors’ views are personal, and bear no official stamp of ap-proval or acceptance by ASD As an academic journal, we do not consider articles pro-moting individuals, their businesses, modalities, or client testi-monials. Insights and stories based upon dowsers' experiences are welcome. The Editorial Team offers authors suggestions on how articles that are submitted can be interesting, clear and concise as possible. Any major changes must be approved by the authors before being cleared for publication. Published articles are also archived in the members' website. They may also be reprinted by other dowsing journals with whom we have reciprocal arrange-ment. The authors retain all other rights to their work. If an au-thor's submission has already appear in print or online, a written "permission to reprint" must be submitted. Please provide a short bio and contact information, along with a personal high-resolution head shot and any relevant digital photos. Send your manuscript and images as attachments to [email protected] with ASD Digest and your title in the subject bar. Typed or legibly handwritten submissions can be made by mail to: Editors, ASD, PO Box 24, Danville, VT 05828.

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ POLICY STATEMENT ON HEALING

Whereas authority for the existence and incorporation of ASD flows from its Articles of Association granted by the State of Vermont, which Ar-ticles cannot and do not authorize legally as a corporate purpose the practice of diagnosis or healing or their promotion or sponsorship; and whereas un-der Vermont Statute, “Medicine and Surgery,” Chapter 23, T. 26, Sec. 1311-12 and 1314, anyone who practices medicine “by any system or method” including those of “faith cure,” “laying on of hands” and “mind healing” (excepting prac-tice of the religious tenets of one’s church), “shall be deemed a physician or practitioner of medicine or surgery” and shall require licensing by the State of Vermont, or be subject to prosecution, the following policy has been adopted by your Board of Trustees:

Members of the Society wishing to diagnose or heal are notified they do so, not as members of ASD, but personally, and at their own risk, and sub-ject to the interpretation of the laws of their own State and the Pure Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, passed by the U.S. Congress, which makes it a felony to diagnose or heal without a license, and with the interstate use of an instrument or device.

Defense against prosecution by a State or the Federal Government could be a consuming, costly affair, and members cannot be entitled to legal or financial support from ASD for what may be an illegal act.

Members who wish to write or talk on bodily diagnosis or treatment, on the other hand, are entitled to do so under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees them freedom of speech; in view of ASD’s po-sition, however, they may not hold themselves out, in so doing, as representing ASD in any way, but rather as presenting a personal position.

Requests coming from a licensed medical doctor in this country should be considered in the context of applicable law, and at the member’s own risk. It is pointed out that requests originating with a doctor outside the country, who is not duly licensed in the U.S., constitutes such a risk.

The question of the legality of discussion or treatment of radiation detrimental to health turns on whether one is holding oneself out as curing dis-ease; it is noted that it would be attempted by a prosecuting attorney to show that this was done by a system or method that was prohibited.

Your Trustees have directed the ASD Staff to reject all re-quests of a medical nature, either directly or for referral, to a Mem-ber or Chapter, noting to the petitioner that such requests may not be processed under the Society’s interpretation of the terms of State and Federal law.

ASD CODE OF ETHICS FOR MEMBERS

(a) Members shall be guided in all their relationships with the publicby the highest standards of personal integrity.

(b) Members shall uphold before the public at all times the dignityand reputation of the Society.

(c) Members shall avoid and discourage sensationalism, exaggera-tion, undignified and unwarranted statements, and misleading advertisements.

(d) Members shall refuse to undertake work that may be of quest-tionable value or results without first advising as to the probabil-ity of success.

(e) Members shall not willfully use or attempt to use their member-ship in this organization as evidence of their qualifications as dowsers or as a measure of ability or proficiency.

(f ) Members in good standing may mention their membership intheir resumes and biographies. With written approval of ASD’s Executive Committee, members may exhibit or use the name of this Society on any letterhead or stationery, on any personal or business cards, and in any advertising of a personal, business or professional nature.

These guidelines have been excerpted from the By-Laws: Chapter XV, Section 1, as amended 4/16/11. Further information is available to members on the ASD Website, www.dowsers.org.

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