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QUARTERLY DIGEST

ASD Trustees & Headquarters ..........................................................................1 Regional Vice Presidents ....................................................................................2 Past Presidents .....................................................................................................3Volunteers: The Heart of ASD ...........................................................................3 President’s Message by Sandee Mac ................................................................4 Editor Circle by Managing Editor Gina Barkovitch .......................................6 Headquarters Happenings by Blair Wolston....................................................8Annual Membership Meeting Announcement ...............................................9 Convention Registration...................................................................................10 Bookstore Greetings by Jax Wiley .................................................................. 12 New Membership Application ........................................................................ 13 Reflections On Convention and Water Dowsing by Joan Nathanson.........16 Passing The Pendulum by Karen Ashley Tippett...........................................18 Locating Thought Forms by Bill Northern ....................................................27 The Energy of Chairs by Richard Benishai .................................................... 29 Doug Bane Dowses For Healing Energy Spots To Cure Cancer by Albie Barden .............................................................................................33 Color-Balancing A Room Or Garden by Marty Cain .................................. 35 The Gentle Connection That Exists Between Worlds by Terry Ross .........37 Dowsing For Critical Care by Kathryn Deputat............................................40 Dowsing Affirmations by Michelle Hicks .....................................................46 Beginner’s Dowsing Column #9 by Greg Storozuk .................................... 48 Dowsing And The Quantum Field by Doug Bennett.....................................51 Rock Dust and Paramagnetism by Steven G.Herbert ..................................58 Water For Humanity by Steve Herbert ...........................................................57Finding A Well Site In Tazania by Simon Stone .......................................... 73 Dowsing For Real Estate - Just Ask! by Holly Richardson ...........................75 Advertising Products & Services .................................................................... 78 ASD Chapter Directory ....................................................................................83

The AMERICAN DOWSER

DANVILLE, VERMONT

VOLUME 54, NO.1 Spring 2014

The American Society of Dowsers Vol. 54, Issue No. 1 – Spring 2014

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Preambleto the By-Laws of the

American Society of Dowsers, Inc Dowsing is a faculty employed with intent to expand the perceptive abilities of its practitioner beyond three- dimensional limitations. It is a most ancient, varied craft, as ancient and varied as humanity itself. Dowsing has roots, among all manner of peoples, lands, and epochs. There seems to exist an ageless natural knowledge that enables us to identify ourselves with an unknown source of being and becoming; it is of primary significance, joining earth, sea, and stars. Explanation of dowsing’s whys and wherefores is still far from satisfactory, but to refuse to explore the unexplainable sim-ply because it cannot presently be explained is unscientific and irresponsible. Dowsing is fact. As awareness grows, the public mind should recognize that, when based on ample training, experience, and talent, dows-ing is a most useful skill, applicable to many fields of human activ-ity. Spiritual pride is to be avoided by the dowser. Psychic powers, intellectual aptitudes, or physical skills are useless unless applied for the benefit of all, because they bring increased sensitiv-ity. These may properly be expressed only in an increasing aware-ness of the oneness of all life and in greater love for the whole of humanity.

Any activity that investigates, perpetuates, and expands humankind’s lore, mysteries, beliefs, traditions, and useful abilities should command at once loyalty and service. In the energizing of such activity, the power generated in and by a group of interested persons is greater by far than the sum of its numbers. Upon these concepts THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS, INC. is founded.

OFFICERS AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2013-2015

ANNETTE WEIS Co-Vice President

PO Box 3015Upper Montclair, NJ 07043-3015

[email protected] O’BRIEN

TreasurerPO Box 72

Franconia, NH 03580603.823.7002

[email protected]

BILL BONNELL 481 Lonesome Pine Trail

Lancaster, VA 22503804.462.5518

[email protected]

SANDRA ISGROPO Box 590

Stratton, ME 04982207.246.2922

[email protected]

SANDI RUELKE86 Orchard Hill

Littleton, NH 03561603.444.5494

[email protected]

RENE LINCOLNCo-Vice President2460 Lottery Road

Shrewsbury, VT 05738802.492.3743

[email protected]

LISA MCCORY Secretary

341 Macintosh Hill Rd.Randolph, VT 05060

[email protected]

MARTY CAINPO Box 1047

BlackMountain, NC 28711828.669.9900

[email protected]

KEITH SCHAFFER1490 Schoffers

Birdsboro, PA 19508610.689.5164

[email protected]

SANDEE MACPresident

PO Box 2217Lakeside, AZ 85929

[email protected]

KATE WHITEFIELD64 High Street, Apt. 7 Greenfield, MA 01301

[email protected]

ASD HEADQUARTERS & BOOKSTORE www.dowsers.org

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

Operations Manager: Blair Wolston [email protected] Manager: Jacqueline Willey [email protected]

Assistant Operations Manager: Lisa Lacoss [email protected]


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ASD REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS Updated March 2014

NORTHEAST

Sandi Ruelke86 Orchard HillLittleton, NH 03561603-444-5494 • [email protected]

SOUTHERNKaren Durham 2065 Hartford Path The Villages, FL 32162 352-753-0622

GREAT LAKES Scott Pearce264 W. Carol St.Alliance, OH 44601330-821-2988 • [email protected]

MIDWEST REGION Janet Windsor925 East Wells St.Milwaukee, WI 53202608-844-4848 • [email protected]

NORTHWEST Don BlackPO Box 296Anacortes, WA 98221360-299-2514 • [email protected]

CALIFORNIA (South)Inez Lindsey3030 Suncrest Dr. #315San Diego, CA 92116619-563-9782 • [email protected]

CALIFORNIA (North)Shirley A. Runco17063 Via PasatiempoSan Lorenzo, CA 94580510-278-3136 • [email protected]

SOUTHWEST Jeanne Gehringer3830 Yellowstone Dr.Las Cruces, NM 88011575-522-4667 • [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSLeroy Bull - Co-Chair16 Belmont SquareDoylestown, Pa. 18901215-348-8286 • Fax: 215-345-4925 [email protected]

Kate Whitefield - Co-Chair64 High Street, Apt. 7Greenfield, MA 01301978.771.9946 • [email protected]

Check the ASD website for the latest updates.

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

ASD PAST PRESIDENTSTrustees Ex-Officio

* 1961-64 • Robert S. Plim, Storrs, CT* 1964-65 • Galen O. Hutchison, Brandon, VT* 1965-67 • Donald Boyer, Riverton, VT* 1967-69 • Gordon Maclean, So. Portland, ME* 1969-72 • John Shelley, Jr., Lewiston, ME* 1972-77 • Norman Leighton, Portland, ME* 1977-80 • T. Edward Ross, St. Davids, PA* 1980-84 • Paul J. Sevigny, Danville, VT* 1984-86 • Dwin A. Gordon, Portland, ME 1986-87 • Greg Storozuk , Edgewater; CO 1987-89 • Jim Perkins, Ashland, OH* 1989-93 • Harold Mccoy, Fayetteville, AR* 1993-94 • Gordon Barton, Winter Harbor, ME* 1995 • Joan Mcfarlane, Auburn, CA* 1995-99 • Walter Woods, Oroville, CA 1999-01 • E.W. (Tony) Gehringer , Kissimmee, FL 2001-03 • Leroy Bull • Doylestown, PA* 2003-05 • Barry A. Smith, San Jose, CA 2005-06 • Bill Northern , Warsaw, VA* 2006-07 • Leila “Tipi” Halsey, Thetford, VT 2007-09 • George Weller, Derby Line, VT* 2009-10 • Douglas (Mac) Mcilwain, Peebles, OH

* Deceased

ASD PAST PRESIDENTS

VOLUNTEERS - THE HEART OF ASD

Can You Help? Contact headquarters at (802) 684-3417 or visit us on the web at www.dowsers.org. Do you have some free time and the ability to help? Please let us know! We are always looking for help in many areas: graphic design, writing, editing, interact-ing with people on the Internet, and much more!Also, inquire about our many openings in various committees, including: Historical Preservation, Membership, Publicity and Marketing, Fundraising, Grant Writing, Convention, and our new short-term Vision committee including some Chair posi-tions available.

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

by Sandee Mac

G reetings Dowsers! Some of the activities of the last few months have remark-ably thrust us into the future as well as connected us with our original roots. It is no secret we all have been experiencing un-precedented weird weather along with lots of theories about what has triggered it. Much of the country has suffered a bitterly cold and brutal winter, yet at my home in Northeast Arizona, it has been unseasonably warm. All the big storms passed us by. In response to the drought in California and the western US, the media has come up with the idea of turning to Dowsers to seek water. What a concept!! It has spread almost like wildfire, with several TV references, YouTube coverage, radio interviews... they even came up and filmed the dowsers at our Vermont head-quarters. Overall, most of the coverage has been pretty balanced; we all tried to not only validate it as a choice for locating water and to correct the myths and superstitions, but to introduce some of the myriad uses for dowsing. Personally, I was thrilled, because it has been such a golden opportunity to further my own vision of dowsing being available to everyone. As I write this, the media is warning us of a very real pos-sibility of war or other dire situations. What if all or some of these

changes bring about major shifts in view of our world? I invite you to consider just what role dowsing could play in all of our daily lives under such circumstances and what a difference it would make to so many. Resources matter. Skills matter. As Dowsers, we have them both. We must never underestimate the value of these, and the benefit and assistance we can offer. We are organizing an outstanding 2014 National Conven-tion for you in the gorgeous green mountains of Vermont. We have a tremendous line-up of over 50 speakers, with lectures, workshops and a delicious menu of activities for everyone. The internationally acclaimed Dr. Bradley Nelson, developer of The Emotion Code and The Body Code, will be our Keynote Speaker. Susan Collins, another international Dowser from Canada, will be our Keynote Dowser. We are also launching a children's program, so round up all the grandkids and some of the neighbor kids as well to bring along! The new Terry Ross book on healing will be published and launched at this convention, so be sure to look for it. Call the office or get on the computer and reserve your space now! While you're at it, schedule in the West Coast conference in July in California and the Southeast Regional conference next spring in Asheville, North Carolina. Most dowsers love to continue learning, and what an in-credible opportunity these conferences provide for us to do so—not to mention the gift of community and camaraderie that they offer. Remember, we've got scholarships, we've got awards, and lots of volunteer slots. Come and teach, come and learn, come and be with the amazing and unique family of Dowsers. Continue to spread the word and take good care of your-selves and those around you. You are a rare and precious com-modity. You are a Dowser!

In Service, Sandee Mac

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s you read through the Digest, hopefully you’ll be plan-ning your trip to National Convention and what to donate for the Raffle, but for now, you’re reading this page. The Digest is a place we have all arrived at in whatever timeframe we’re in, which ceases to exist for the moment. The writers of this issue are at one end of the experience of writing and the readers are at the other, and these pages bring us all to-gether from nooks and crannies around the globe. And this is your adventure, the Digest, opening it as one enters a room, see-ing a child on the beach walking a seaweed labyrinth, or a woman speaking gently to a horse as if to kiss his nose, or a woman in a sari grateful for clean, accessible water for her family. Looking into the many windows or facets of this edition is an extraordinary journey to savor and linger over and practice ideas contained herein. The generosity of writers sharing their gifts and experiences overflow like a gentle river. We are an edu-cational publication and membership funds pay for these printed pages, about $6,000 each issue, which covers the layout, printing, paper and postage, domestic and abroad. The hundreds of ac-cumulated hours of member-writing and editing are a gift of the heart. And just as a heart muscle flexes and moves fluids like a river, the reader can be carried along with the words of the Digest by this movement, to be given the chance to be transported into another space with ideas and stories. Is there any greater free-dom than this? As editors, we have come to recognize and seek out ar-ticles that contain heartfulness. As an educational publication, we ask questions as we eagerly read the submissions that come

our way. “Is this work intended to educate or inspire the reader?” “Does this include enough instruction that our dowsing member is empowered to try this at home, if appropriate?” Fortunately, we now have an advertising section in the back of the Digest and if you haven’t visited it yet, please do so. We are grateful to share space with our professional advertising mem-bers, so please turn to the Digest and support them when looking to hire a professional. We also support the author’s generosity in sharing their knowledge or experience by including their biogra-phy or website. Let the author know what the article meant to you and encourage more writing. When you have a few or many extra dollars, please remember to support Water For Humanity, a non-profit business doing wonderful things ‘with heart,’ whose overhead expenses are only 4% of all raised revenue, that in itself being remarkable. I believe all of us are wisdom-carriers in some capacity even if we aren’t grey on top yet. We have dowsing stories and experiences, and it behooves us to share them, enriching our own lives and the membership community as well. So join in on the fun - the heart river that connects us all - the Digest – and share a skill, a poem, an advertisement or volunteer time. Find some way to get involved in the greater dowsing community through the Digest or Headquarters. It’s an adventure!

EDITOR’S CIRCLE

Managing Editor: Gina Barkovitch Contributing Editors: Albie Barden, Kathryn Deputat, & Joan Gallo

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reetings ASD membership! Head-quarters is a happening place! We may have been buried under many feet of snow this winter, but that hasn’t slowed us down! I enjoy answering your calls, letters, and emails and gaining the per-spectives of all of you sustaining this or-ganization. Thank you for making the investment of keeping your member-ships active and supporting ASD; you are why we exist.

Since the beginning of March, you may have noticed the increased attention that dowsing has received in mainstream me-dia. In response to that, we created a new page called, “Dowsing in the News” under our “Learn” tab at www.dowsers.org. Cali-fornia’s historic drought has been the source of this new atten-tion. The relevancy of dowsing is sure to only increase and the need for proficient water dowsers will soon be greater than ever. We will continue to educate future generations about the impor-tance of finding water through their connection to the universal source, asking proper questions and trusting intuition. I am hoping that this year’s National Convention in Ver-mont is one of the best. It will be the best one for me as it will be my first! The outpouring of energy from the volunteers and great minds that make this convention a wonderful experience for everyone is amazing to witness. We have great speakers and workshops arranged, so spread the news in your region! We have printable flyers for both our National Convention and the West Coast Conference in California this summer and will gladly email them to anyone interested in promoting them. It takes the whole dowsing community to make these events a success.

HEADQUARTERS HAPPENINGS

by Blair Wolston, Operations Manager

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We are working toward your desired outcomes. We con-tinue to be strong because you are asking the question, “Is it for the highest good of all?” Let’s continue this practice so our path will lead toward truth.

Subtle Shift

This world's silent mechanismsbring to vibrational harmonya revelation of the interconnectionof all sentient things.

I listen for the rings and answer the call.Indescribable strings of synchronicitythread through these walls, fill up this hall,and spin like chakras in us all.

by Blair Wolston

Announcement To All Members!

The Annual Membership Meeting will be held on

Friday, June 6, 2014 at 8:00pm EST at Lyndon State

College in Lyndonville, VT during our National

Convention. This meeting is open to all members

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National Convention Registration Time!

By now you should have received a ten page mailing to register for convention. Please call ASD Headquarters if you did not get your convention kit.

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BOOKSTORE GREETINGS

by Jax Wiley, Bookstore Manager

hank you for your continual support, which is allowing our little bookstore to grow and ex-pand, reaching customers in the far edges of the planet, from Turkey to China, India and even Abudabi! Visit us at www.dowsers.org/book-store and check out our new products section.New books highly recommended by myself and Operations Manager, Blair Wolston, are our own

published book by Terry E. Ross, a founding member and past President of ASD, titled The Healing Mind: The Way of the Dowser and Heal your Home by British Society of Dowsers Vice Presi-dent, Adrian Webber, a great guide on clearing out non-beneficial energy and creating a healthy home. We are constantly getting in new and exciting products. One of the most exciting tools I have seen just arrived - Pocket Dowsing L-Rods! They look like fancy silver pens and easily fit in a front shirt pocket extending 18” long and swivel smooth as butter. We also just received stock from Alicja’s Center of Well Being. The Mer-Isis is a beautiful addition to our pendulums and the adjustable antenna bobber is my new favorite tool. We are eagerly awaiting warm weather so we can open the big glass doors in the ASD bookstore and breath in the fresh air of little Danville. The bookstore sits in a beautiful room in a his-toric building with prisms casting rainbows throughout the store. If you’re ever driving through our beautiful state of Vermont, stop in and see us here at Headquarters, where the magic happens!

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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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REFLECTIONS ON CONVENTIONS AND WATER DOWSING

by Joan Nathanson s Convention time approaches, I recall some of my own experiences early in my dowsing career. When speakers and top-ics were finally announced, it was intriguing to see what I would be guided to explore when I dowsed my choices. My initial expo-sure to dowsing came during my search for relief from fibromyal-gia in the early 90s. With a professional background in religious education, it was also natural that I should explore how dowsing related to spiritual challenges and growth. So I was surprised at one convention in Arkansas to receive dowsing guidance to at-tend a presentation on dowsing for water wells. I was curious to discover what this “city slicker” needed to learn about dowsing for wells. Carl Bracy was our instructor, a professional dowser for water, oil and gas wells in the American West. Over the years, he had developed a very clear, multi-faceted intention for locating wells successfully. It was a pleasure to be able to learn from his expertise what the key questions were that needed to be asked to receive quick and helpful dowsing direction. Carl taught us to think, not only in terms of just where a well could be drilled on a property, but of other useful aspects. After many years, I still can recall most of the guidance he pro-vided: • Ask for the location to be as convenient as possible to a house or barn. • Ask how many feet down the water could be found. • Would there be any problems drilling through extra-hard layers of rock? • Was it potable (drinking water quality)? • Was it free of contamination from sulphur, arsenic or other specific minerals or bacteria?

• How many gallons per minute would it produce? • Would it remain useable during a drought? • Could the aquifer be moved by request to be more convenient? Since then, I have had only a few occasions to assist people in locating a good well site. What I learned, aside from the spe-cific questions however, was that it was fun to explore a field of dowsing which has very practical, obvious outcomes. If I were intending to become a professional well dowser, I would want to train with a person who had an excellent track record. I’d want to develop my accuracy so I could count on myself, and others could trust my dowsing abilities. Good drinking water has become a health concern for many in our time. It’s neat to be able to dowse whether municipal-ly-treated water is appropriate for a specific person. If not, then there are other choices and dowsing inquiries: natural spring wa-ter (specific brands), filtered water (specific brands), water stirred with special sticks containing specific crystal energies, water en-ergized as it is poured through twisted brass rings, etc. Dowsing can help us select what is best for ourselves or for a family mem-ber, friend or client. I have a number of friends with challenging environmental sensitivities. How happy I am to know that they can develop dowsing skills to make their lives easier! And dows-ing can help us to eliminate the fear of making harmful choices. It can save us a lot of money in the process.

Joan Nathanson began dowsing in 1994. She loves to encour-age dowsers to develop their skills in whichever fields they are drawn to. She recommends dowsing conventions as a wonderful opportunity for ex-panding horizons, benefitting from the expertise of others, and develop-ing supportive and energizing friendship bonds with the larger dowsing family. She can be reached at [email protected]

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PASSING THE PENDULUM

© Karen Ashley Tippett March 2014

“The wealth of a family, a community, even of a nation, is an open and curious child.”

or the past 16 years, the West Coast Dowsing Conference has been mentoring new generations of dowsers from among the children of the adult attendees. Children are naturally curious and open which makes them natural dowsers. We only need to give them the tools and some instruction in the ways to use them; they will take what we give them and find even more ways to use the tools. Do you remember when you first learned to dowse? How old were you? Where were you? Who taught you? Did your mother, father, grandparents or a friend show you? Did you take a formal class at a conference? What did you dowse for? Do you remember the first time you dowsed something and your answer checked out and was accurate? Were you wowed by it?

The First Time Everyone has a story of when they first learned to dowse. Ruth learned to dowse from a friend when she was 30. Anna read about dowsing at age 50. She followed the instructions in the book while at her family’s mountain cabin and dowsed for water. She found it, had the well drilled and the family had water at their cabin for the first time. Geologists had told her family that there was no water in her area at all. James heard Harold McCoy talk about energetic healing on the radio. This led him to Harold’s class, where he was intro-duced to dowsing. He was 58.

Barbara learned to dowse from her mother at age 10. She

continues her learning at the conferences she attends. Her oldest son, 7, is now learning, too. Luis had a massage therapist who dowsed before every session. He was curious. His therapist taught him. Robert learned from his father (who learned from his fa-ther) when he was a young boy. Dowsing is a way of life for him. Don learned from his Grandfather at age 9, and he now at age 45, has dowsed over 1,000 wells.

The Power of Story People love stories. They are the oldest form of instruc-tion. Remember Aesop’s Fables? Bible stories? There is a moral embedded in each one that we are meant to learn. Daniel and the lion with a thorn in his paw teaches us to be kind to animals, and also a bit about karma. The crow and the pitcher of water teaches us to have patience and persistence in order to reach our goals. Just as stories passed from generation to generation teach skills and values, so does dowsing when passed from generation to generation. Innate skills and values come to the forefront. Dowsing also has something very basic and vital inherent in it; learning to dowse reveals our connection to consciousness and, with that connection, a responsibility to value and respect self, others and the earth. Mentoring and teaching young people to dowse strengthens the thread of our oneness. Dowsing is our connection to energy. Children may not grasp the concept that “everything is energy” but they quickly ac-cept stories about finding things with L-rods, particularly when we take them outside and they learn that they can do it them-selves! Show them orbs in a just-taken photograph of happy peo-ple and they will eagerly grab the camera and seek out orbs them-selves. Tell them stories about when you had to choose between


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several movies that you wanted to watch, and how you used a pendulum to find out which movie you would like to see. They will want a pendulum of their own and will clamor for instruction on what to do to get it to work. That is the way that we teach. That is the way that we learn.

Ancient Knowledge Dowsing is ancient knowledge. What we know and the way that we do things is taught by experience. One generation teaches the next. Spirit has entrusted us with this knowledge. With that trust comes the responsibility to pass it on, or to hold the space for others to do so. We are not all teachers. But we can all be facilitators or mentors, ensuring that this ancient knowledge con-tinues. Some dowsing skills are common knowledge. In the con-struction industry here in the San Francisco Bay area, L-rods are known as “pipe-finders.” The knowledge of making and using them is so widespread that it isn’t questioned. It is an accepted practice. Even PG&E pipeline surveyors use them. Vintners and farmers in California also use dowsing to find sources of water as a matter of course.

Passing on Our Skills Do you enjoy talking about and showing others how to dowse? Or are conferences and chapter meetings the only place that you freely share your dowsing knowledge? Now is the time to go beyond the boundaries of our own community and be public with our knowledge. There are far, far more of us than we gener-ally realize. Let’s start with teaching our children. A good place to be-gin is at chapter meetings and conferences.

The West Coast Dowsing Conference Youth Program The Youth Program at The West Coast Dowsing Confer-ence is open to all children of conference attendees. There is no charge for them to attend. The program runs concurrently with

the three days of the conference. The teachers are drawn from our pool of conference speakers and the school is managed by a credentialed education professional. The students learn to use pendulums, L-rods and bobbers. They learn to apply dowsing to various activities: reading auras, getting “yes-no” answers, learning the effects of negative and pos-itive energies on people, plants and animals. They learn to use L-rods to find buried treasures. At the beach, they build a labyrinth out of seaweed, dowse to find clams and sand crabs, and build sandcastles. In the cafeteria, they dowse the food selection to see what their body wants. They learn to energize their food and water for optimal nutrition. In classrooms, they work hands-on with various speakers who, over the years, have taught them to talk and listen to their favorite pet, experiment with sacred geometry, even bend spoons. They have learned Feng Shui for keeping their rooms in order at home (the parents love this), and a bit of astrology for themselves, friends and family. They have learned about magic boxes and miracle journals and have made both for themselves. In the forest, they learn to see faeries and divas. They learn to talk and listen to tree spirits and to the forest elementals, and bring back messages. They build faery houses. They sit in the enormous oak tree by the school with respect and love and


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learn to feel the energy of oak. The oak returns their energy in the forms of knowledge and love. You too can start a Children’s Dowsing program in your area. To learn more on how to create a youth program, contact Karen Ashley: [email protected] or 415-564-6419

Stories from Past Conferences What we can teach and expose our children to is limitless. The lessons can be profound. At each conference there are stories told and miraculous learning experiences. Each children’s’ con-ference is unique, and takes on a consciousness and an energy of its own, based on the teachers who present that year. Just as the conference for us “big kids” does. Denise heard about our youth program on the radio. She came and brought her two grandsons, aged 7 and 12. They were obviously a bit sad, a mother in rehab. Their grandmother (their guardian) loved them dearly and wanted them to learn something that would shift their perspective and attitude. Dowsing did just that! They both learned, got so into it. The smiles and “aha!”s were worth everything. Four months later, we learned that they were teaching their friends in school to find water lines and to see divas at the beach!

Samantha made her dream journal and decorated it with feathers and jewels. She learned how to clear energy and to focus intent on her wishes and dreams. She wanted a dog “so much!” Mom and Dad had said “no way” for years. When she returned to the conference a year later, she had her dog, and her Mom and Dad loved the dog too! The children were taught to use dowsing to check the en-ergy level of trees and plants and to talk to them. Several old oak trees stand outside the youth program meeting room. The dowsers all love the oaks and sit in and be-neath them and meditate there, and the children love to climb in them too. One year, three of the girls were sitting and talking on a large branch of one of the trees. They came to us to report that, using their dowsing skills they had talked to the oaks. The oaks told them that the boys had been mean to them (the oaks), kick-ing them and carving into them, and that it very much hurt. The girls wanted us to confront the boys in the program about their meanness. We were a bit shocked that the boys in the program could be guilty of such behavior. We brought the whole group together to talk about what the oaks had said. Talking among the group and asking more dowsing questions revealed additional information. The “boys” were “big boys,” college boys from the university. As a group, all the children wrote a letter to the university explaining what they learned and asking the university to protect the oaks. They learned many lessons from the oak experience and just out of their own curiosity about using dowsing:1) Ask the right question. Ask more questions based on the answers that you get.2) Don’t assume anything.3) Trees have feelings.


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4) They can change things for the better.Takeaways

The takeaways for the children are enormous. They can be open and talk with their parents. They learn understanding, appreciation and respect for all things. They begin to understand the way that the Universe really works. They have a new set of skills that they can show their friends. Jason taught his friends to find leaks in a sprinkler system. Cathy used her dowsing during exams when she was unsure of an answer (and her grades im-proved). Dawn now talks with her cat and her spirit guides. Parents in turn can give them support and confidence in their dowsing, and can support them when they return to the world of non-dowsers. Their new skills can and sometimes will be treated skeptically by their classmates or friends, just as ours are. That skepticism does not change the fact that their new awareness and skills will benefit them for the rest of their lives. Some children come back year after year. The program provides a place for them to receive support and validation for what they already know and experience. They are safe, to talk about auras, the nature spirits and the divas that they see, and to know that they are not weird, because other children and adults see them too.

It Is Now Time Remember how and when you learned to dowse, and how wonderful it was? Would you have liked to have that experience when you were young? We all have the ability to mentor or show a young person how to dowse. It opens up a world of possibility to them, and the experience and energy of dowsing remains with them throughout their lives. It is now time to pass the pendulum to our young ones, who are so ready to receive it. From the children: “This is like a real Harry Potter school!” From the parents: “I wish I had something like this when I was a kid.” “I’m glad that I can bring my son here.” “I want to come to the kids’ program!” Please, take what we do and use it as a template for your group. Invite people to bring their children and grandchildren to selected chapter meetings. Offer to teach dowsing in a school or summer camp. Sit with your own children, grandchildren, even your friends’ children and show them what you do. Volunteer to teach a child at a chapter meeting or a conference. Hold the positive thought-form and the space for passing the pendulum to the next generation. Your help is both want-ed and needed. It gives great joy and pleasure to watch children learn to dowse and to see the smiles on their faces and hear the squeals of joy when they discover that it really works!

Karen Ashley Tippett has been dowsing for 35 years. She uses dowsing and the ‘Intuitive Kinesiology’ she developed for her work in the Healing Arts. She is founder of the Children’s Program at the West Coast Dowsing Conference, is Chairperson of the West Coast Dowsing Conference, and Chapter Leader for the Golden Gate Dowsers. Along with Dick Tippett, she co-authored, “Dowsing for Prosperity”. She was elected Dowser of the Year in 2013. Contact Karen Ashley Tippett: [email protected], 415-564-6419

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ASD WEST COAST DOWSING CONFERENCE

Santa Cruz, CA, July 3-7, 2014 “Dowsing for Everything”

…it’s dawn-to-dusk dowsing!

Keynote speaker Alan Handelsman

• Basic School with Dick Tippett and Gladys McCoy• Advanced with Joey Korn, Susan Collins, Richard Feather Anderson

Come join us for learning, camaraderie, fun and adventure!

• Half-day and full-day workshops this year!

• Youth Program July 3-5 for children & teens• Over 60 Conference speakers on a wide range of topics!

The West Coast Dowsing Conference is “summer camp” for dowsers, held within the wisdom of the redwood trees and vistas of the Paci� c Ocean —

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LOCATING THOUGHT FORMS

by Bill Northern

hought forms are actually real and something we can lo-cate with dowsing. Usually we need four or more people to do this. We select an area about the size of a basketball court, but any size area will do. One person is "it". That person goes somewhere nearby where they are not able to see the court or hear the rest of us. We then decide on an item we would like for the person to locate. Normally, this would be something they like. It can be anything from a can of soda to a pony, depending on the size of the area we are using. Next, we decide where we want to place it on the court. We then go to that area and all together we place a MENTAL im-age of the object in that place on the court. When everyone has a clear image of the item we have placed on the court, we disburse to another area and call the person who is "it" to come out and locate the item. We tell the person what we have placed on the court. Normally, we use "L" rods, but any tool they want to work with is fine. They will hold up one rod and ask to be shown in what direction the item is located. Sometimes a person may need to stop every few steps to ask for directions again. Some people do not like to follow directions, even from their dowsing tool. Af-ter the person has found the direction, it is time to use both rods. When the person gets to where we have placed the item, the L rods will cross. If people let their guides show them the way, they usually locate the item. If they are trying to figure out where we put the mental image they will not normally be able to locate it. Over my years of teaching this, I have had a number of interesting happen-ings.


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In a classroom environment, unless the students are to tired, we look for thought forms. Even beginning dowsers are able to locate the item that has been placed for them to find. Once a reporter was doing an interview with us, and while she was indoors, I placed a model tractor mental image in the yard. When she came out of the house, she could actually see the tractor and tell me what it looked like. Another day, in Hawaii, we were teaching some military brass. Since it was raining, we put items in a large room of the house. One man had brought a carton of diet coke with him for the lessons. While he was in another room, we placed a men-tal image of a diet coke by the telephone. When he came in, he paused for about two minutes, just looking around the room. He then exclaimed that it must be the diet coke by the telephone that we mentally placed in the room because it was not there before! Be sure to clear the thought form after every search. If you forget to clear it, the next person may find it as the item they are looking for. Bill Northern is a past ASD President from 2005-2006. He learned to dowse in 1994 at Lindon State College. His teachers were Dick Paskowski and Paul Sevigny. He was so excited about learning this new skill that he came home and sold his businesses to practice dowsing for the rest of his life. He now works mostly with animals and lives in Virginia.

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THE ENERGY OF CHAIRS

by Richard Benishai

n this article, the energy level of two types of chairs is studied. The chairs are categorized by frame material, covering and color. Different parameters are used to classify the chairs studied. These parameters are usually associated with the energy level of places or locations, but since the same parameters can be used for food or for people, why not for chairs?Let me be clear about the connection between energy and form: all bodies, all things, all forms receive cosmic energy over a wide spectrum of frequencies. The particular object absorbs this spec-trum of energies and rejects a portion. Depending on the form, negative energy can be absorbed while positive energy is rejected; in this case we are dealing with a "positive" object; or vice-versa for "negative" objects or forms.Chairs have a form and are thus subject to this law. During my observations, I noted that chairs with round (or feminine) forms are quite positive, while those with hard, straight lines or pointed ends are less positive. I also observed that color and material have a lot to do with the vibrational levels of a chair. For example, a chair made of natural material, such as wood, is more energetic than one in metal or plastic. A white chair has a higher energy level than a brown or a black chair.The parameters used for the evaluation of the chairs were units of vitality or Bovis units and vibration colors. A short explanation of each follows.Bovis units: Bovis established that all living matter has a certain vitality that can be measured. [This is also true for locations on the planet. The planet had been established at 6,500 Bovis units, then. This level went up a few years back to 10,000 and today it has leveled at 12,000. A place which measures at 12,000 Bovis


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units neither take or give energy, it is neutral.]While a chair may not be living matter, it still exhibits an energy level. A pendulum was used to measure energetic levels in Bovis units.Color Vibrations: Wave fields are generated by all vibrating ele-ments. These fields influence our health by resonating with our cells which act as oscillating circuits. The field, so created, reso-nates over the entire spectrum of colors, some visible, others not. The spectrum is further divided into electric and magnetic phases.Research has shown that a vibration color in the magnetic phase is beneficial to man, whereas those in the electric field cause harm. The colors detected for all chairs studied were all on the magnetic phase: blue (Bu), indigo (I) and violet (Vi), in their ascending or-der of energy.How do chairs influence our well-being? In order to evaluate the influence of chairs on our well-being, an experiment was done

with two types of chairs. The first type was chosen for its con-struction in plastic and metal, and for its square form. The second chair was selected for its comfortable appearance and its natural materials.The energy vibrations of each chair were measured:• The blue plastic and metal square chair has a level of 4 kb (very low)• The comfortable leather chair with natural materials was measured at 25 kb.


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The testing was done with a woman who had a 17 kb energy level. The woman sat in each chair for a period of 5 minutes. After the 5 minutes period, the subject stood and her energy level was mea-sured first immediately, then after 1 minute and finally after 90 seconds.

Blue chair testing:Start time: 16:10Stop time 16:15After 5 minutes of exposure: 7 kb energy level (a drop of 10 kb!)After 1 minute of standing: 11 kb energy levelAfter 90 seconds of standing: back to the 17 kb original level

Brown leather chair testing:Start time: 16:20Stop time 16:25After 5 minutes of exposure: 25 kb energy level (an increase of 8 kb!)After 1 minute of standing: back to the 17 kb original level

Conclusions: It is clear that certain physical parameters are the cause for this or that chair to be comfortable or not. While some chairs give us an energy boost, others rob us of our vitality. One should consider the following parameters which raise or lower thevibrations of a chair when making a purchase:

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DOUG BANE DOWSES FOR HEALING ENERGY SPOTS TO CURE CANCER

by Albie Barden t a fundamental level, most people in our culture are afraid of the natural world. Douglas Bane, an artist, sculptor, and paint-ing restorer in Orr’s Island, Maine, is not one of them. I was intro-duced to Doug through my friend, Jimmy Cornish of Harpswell, Maine, who has a portrait of himself painted by Doug hanging on his wall. Jimmy, among other things, is a story-teller, and had two stories about Doug that piqued my interest. The first was a story about how Doug, lacking fancy credentials, went looking for work years ago at the famous Hathaway Shirt Factory in Water-ville, Maine. He came as an artist, but they had no work for him to do. He noticed, however, a very tattered painting there and of-fered to restore it. When he returned with the restored painting, the owners were so surprised and pleased that several commis-sions followed thereafter. The second story was that Doug had twice cured himself of cancer, partly through his dowsing skills and ability to find energy healing spots on the land in Maine. We visited Doug at his Gun Point Cove Gallery on Orr’s Island. I was mesmerized by his work, especially by a large paint-ing of an Eskimo shaman beating an 8’ diameter hand drum. I completely avoided any discussion of his dowsing skills and can-cer cures. Months later, however, in two long telephone interviews, I was able to ask about his dowsing and cancer cures. Doug has Na-tive American heritage and he has always been comfortable in the woods, and the natural world, and in his own skin. Throughout his life, he has done his own healing, set his own bones and basi-cally avoided the mainstream medical system. When Doug was only five years old, his grandfather would sometimes wake him up at midnight and send him to the woods and tell him to “go up to the ledges and become a tree.” Doug ran free in woods, learned to dowse for water and became deeply connected with his instinc-tive and intuitive self.


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As an artist and art restorer, Doug handled a lot of toxic ingredients. After many years of this work, he became aware that he was developing lymphoma and decided to effect a cure. He put his paints down and headed for the woods, looking for a spot where he could heal. While certain very powerful healing spots are well known, Doug knows that healing energy spots are, in fact, everywhere quite nearby in our own back yards or the back forty acres. On my own property ten or fifteen years ago with dowsing rods in hand, I located positive energy spots suitable for a sacred fire pit and one as well for a pine needle labyrinth. At his power spot, Doug began to meditate and connect with the healing energy of the place. He coupled the healing en-ergy of the earth and his meditative retreat with mega doses of Vitamin C, assorted herbs and visualization. His incipient lym-phoma went away. After several more years of painting and toxic material handling, Doug again found his health failing with a recurrence of the symptoms of lymphoma. Once again he headed to the woods to find another healing energy power spot, which he was quickly able to find by his intuitive knowing and body dowsing. Doug now works with safer materials. He has also given up his computer. He is very clear that the principle of dowsing for water and dowsing for a healing energy spot are the same. He maintains that these healing spots are everywhere around us and that if we let ourselves become aware of these spots and spend time at them, accepting the power there. By concentrating on the energy present and getting involved with it, others can work to heal themselves. To restore a damaged painting or to restore one’s own body, a person must “eliminate all distractions” and understand that we all have the innate abilities to find and work with the healing en-ergy of power spots and the natural world. Doug’s recent works are creating 75 intricate ink drawings and oil paint-ings of Native Americans taken from photos of Wounded Knee victims. Doug’s work can be found at www.gunpointcovegallery.com

DCOLOR-BALANCING A ROOM OR GARDEN

by Marty Cain

owsing is the perfect tool for color-balancing a space. Any area can be energetically balanced by the use of sacred geometry, angels, sound and color. Color for me is the most efficient and easiest to implement. Balancing energy in a room adds a sense of peace, or calm and opens the space for creative thinking and optimum health. I begin by obtaining little stickers of the primary and sec-ondary colors: red/green, yellow/purple, and blue/orange. Per-manent color markers on white stickers work as well indoors. Spray paint is used outdoors. Usually I first obtain a reading of the energy level by letting a pendulum or L-rod swing in the middle of the space. It may not swing at all to begin with. Then choose one of the primary colors such as red. Put the red sticker on your finger and move around the perimeter until your pendulum begins to spin. When you get to the exact location [to place the sticker], the gyration will be the strongest. Once there, move the bit of color up and down until your pendulum spins to the max, which indicates the exact location. You then stick the red dot in place. This may even be behind a painting or on the edge of a doorframe. There is no real need to attempt to hide it, as a small dot is seldom noticed even in the middle of a wall. Next use its opposite color, in this case green, and do the same procedure. The second color is usually on the opposite side of the space but not always where you might expect. Once the two colors are in place, go to the center of the space and check the strength by the spinning of your pendulum. When using L-rods, you may ask for them to point to the most appropriate spot to place the color. Again, be sure to check the height as well. Your L-rod will also spin when in the center. Both tools will spin


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throughout the room indicating that the balancing has worked throughout the area. You may want to use all three opposite pri-mary colors to reinforce the effect. When in a garden environment, I basically do the same thing. Use tall poles or stakes on which to put spots of spray paint. Using L-rods, I dowse where the color needs to be for the best results, pound in the stake and then paint a spot of color at the proper height. This is done for all three sets of opposite colors. If there is a structure or tree where the stake aught to be, then paint the spot of color on that and save the stake for the next color. Once all six colors are placed, your garden will begin to thrive and there will be fewer detrimental insects as the plants become healthier. There is no limit to what you might affect when you add conscious intention to the mix. When I dowsed what might be asked for and enhanced, I received the following information: • Counter the effect of poisonous chemicals from “chemtrails” on the soil. • Discourage harmful insects.• Discourage deer and rabbits from feeding on your favorite veggies.• Discourage invasive weeds.• Help to balance the PH of the soil for specific plants.• Or anything else you might want to ask for. Never underestimate your ability or the possibility with dowsing. Experiment and see for yourself. Your garden will thank you.

Marty Cainwww.martycain.com

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THE GENTLE CONNECTION THAT EXISTS BETWEEN WORLDS

by Terry Ross [Excerpted from The Healing Mind:

The Way of the Dowser. This book is just published and available for purchase from the ASD Headquarters bookstore.]

ase No. 1568 was an eighty-four year old female resident in a distant city. She had traveled extensively in the United States and abroad, and at the time of contact had been diagnosed as hav-ing two cancers in the colon with an operation scheduled within the next two weeks. A drawing of her home was enclosed with the request for help, with a complete listing of the many addresses of her busy and successful life. The obligatory May I? Can I? Should I? questions were put to what I consider a higher consciousness on a higher plane, easily and surely, without any abrupt jumps whatsoever. The same could be said of the “reading “of No. 1568’s awareness or level of development, which was well above normal (she had written that she had led “a most interesting and 90 per-cent happy life”); of the pinpointing of five dysfunctional chromo-somes; of the clearing of no less than twenty-nine environmental conditions, past and present, that were thought to be affecting her adversely; of the dissipation of trauma from the prenatal pe-riod; of the telepathic communication and suggestion of release of stress and toxicity from the invisible anatomy and the physical body; of the suggestion of complete forgiveness of self and others extending into the timeless past; of the suggestion of total union with the specific waveform that was hers and hers alone; of the suggestion that if there was an appearance of light, either as an isolated circle or as sheet lightning, it was to be taken as a sign that healing was on the way; of the suggestion that disorder can only exist as the complement of order; and finally of the sugges-tion that the hearts, hands, and minds of her professional advi-


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sors, family, friends, and above all her self be guided according to her highest good. Upon release from the connection with all due thanks, it was seen that not only had the awareness level substan-tially increased, but indications of basic balance, including the re-ordering of the five chromosomes, had taken place. After writing her in general terms of my favorable outlook, I referred to a European case in which a uterine cancer simply dis-appeared in three weeks and the woman in question was up and about with no treatment or therapy or any sign of malignancy. I added that I expected her to be gardening soon, traveling again, and enjoying life as she always had. Six days later a letter came saying she felt “so much better,” stronger, happier, and that the doctor had said the larger of the tumors had already shrunk to the point of being operable and that the cancer had not spread. Two weeks later word came that the operation had taken place and she was “doing remarkably well,” that she was up, walking, clearheaded, and had never had any pain. Her doctors were “astounded at her remarkable and rapid recuperation and the way with which she has gotten through all this.” A series of radiation and chemo treatments were neverthe-less scheduled and were completed to the doctors’ satisfaction within the following three months. Aside from fatigue, swollen feet and ankles, and watery eyes, there were no serious side ef-fects. The doctor felt that “he got it all.” Eight months later a letter came from Case 1568 describ-ing another mishap. She had fallen and cracked her pelvis and was using a wheelchair. She was in a good deal of pain. She was also worried that the cancer might have returned. A careful review disclosed that three chromosomes had become dysfunctional and four new sites were causing environmental damage. The same re-gime, however, seemed to restore her bio-system to its original balance and I wrote her to that effect. A week later 1568 wrote that her doctor of twenty-five years said he had never heard her lungs so clear and that her

blood pressure had gone down to its usual 120/80 “after jumping quite high,” but most significant of all, to me, were the follow-ing sentences. “At 2:30 a.m.,” she wrote, “my husband and I were awake and all of a sudden this marvelous, unfocused light lit up the whole room. We have many big glass windows. It was defi-nately not a headlight or a flashlight, because it was not focused at all and spread. It was a beautiful thing, but only lasted four or five seconds, and then disappeared.” I replied, expressing delight at the state of her health and at the experience of the light, reminding her that at the end of the brief regime that had been followed, there had been a sugges-tion—an alert—to be on the lookout for light, either in pinpoint or sheet lightning form, as a sign that healing was on the way. “Sometimes people confirm to me that they have seen this light,” I wrote, “though mostly in inner vision. I would say it is given to a very few to see it externally. It is a grand thing that you experi-enced it.” Nothing I could say would better convey the gentle con-nection that exists between worlds.

*T. Edward Ross II, The Healing Mind: The Way of the Dowser (Danville: ASD, 2014), 90-3. Terry Ross was a founding member of ASD and National President from 1977 to 1980. He passed away in 2000, having written but not published The Healing Mind.

“Terry was a man from another time and place. With the insights and wisdom of the ancients, he explored the world of the mind, the most powerful force on earth.” – Richard J. Fox

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SDOWSING FOR CRITICAL CARE

by Kathryn Deputat

he died, and she was dying. But I didn’t know that at first, and I’m glad for that. It was emo-tionally charged and stressful enough to navigate the process as it was. The “mass” on my beloved cat Sylvie’s x-ray was not a death sentence to me but clarity: this is what I am treating. I knew that mass could return to the Nothing out of which it came. And certainly I knew that, at almost 19 years old, it might have been her time to go and my help was not called for. But as it was, my sweet, smart, rascal-of-a life companion was not well, did not know how to get better, and had asked for my help—or so my dowsing rods indicated when I inquired. I would do all I could—and more—to assist. Every dowser knows: dowsing a personal matter with highly charged emotional content means either relying on a fel-low dowser or on blind dowsing. I was far too emotionally in-volved to be clear enough to dowse accurately under the circum-stances. And there were far too many questions I would need to keep asking repeatedly over the coming days and weeks to rely on colleague-friends to dowse them. So I took to cutting scratch pad paper up into strips and writing out the various questions as they arose. Before long I got smart and saved the papers. I organized them into piles by category: Bowels/Elimination, Appetite, Phos-phorus, Acid, Fluids, Love, and “Misc” for otherwise uncategoriz-

able questions. Overnight, in the face of a very sick cat, a damning x-ray, and a dire prognosis, I’d turned full-time hospice nurse. I went to work. Yes, the subcutaneous fluids gave us time. And the vari-ous remedies and treatments, from alternative to traditional, all helped. But in no uncertain terms could I have navigated that critically urgent and stressful time without my pendulum and L-Rods. I could not treat my dear one effectively unless I knew what she needed. I am an intuitive. And I know cats--I’ve been blessed my whole life long with extraordinary, long-lived indoor-outdoor feline companions. And though Sylvie and I in particular could read each other well, I am no pet psychic. So those stacks of ques-tions and my dowsing tools were my guide—Guidance--moment to moment, hour by hour, day upon day for the duration of the emergency—about 6 or 7 weeks all told. But responding to their directives turned me into a cat torturer in no time. Pilling, needling, poking, syringing: it broke my heart when very quickly I could see Sylvie starting to cringe, to visibly harden at the sight of me coming toward her. In a matter of days, my hands had gone from loving and welcome, to dreaded and menacing. I couldn’t take it. I had to find another way. I had learned previously from fellow dowsers a bit about “spinning” energies and substances alchemically or vibrationally


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into and out of matter using the pendulum. It was killing us both, this torture chamber we were thrown into. I had to stop. I had to take the leap, to accomplish this alchemy, or just let her be, let her die. I started with her thyroid medication. I dowsed: “Can I spin (transfer energetically) Methimazole into Sylvie effectively?” With a “Yes” response, I was off and running. I used a photograph in order to avoid having to approach or disrupt her in any way. She could lie comfortably in her cat bed, and one room away I could treat and administer as required. First, I would gather the written questions I needed answers for, fold each of them up–sometimes as many as a dozen at one time—throw them onto the floor, then push them into an arc. I faced each of them, one by one, with L-Rods in hand. “Dows-ing the energies for questions #1,” I would start. When the rods responded, I wrote Y or N or ? on a list. Sometimes I would ask, after the last question/answer, “Is this the truth?” Then I picked up the papers one by one to match my column of (mostly) Y’s and

N’s with their respective questions. Next came the spinning. I was effective, but not quick. It took upwards of 10 or 15 minutes to “extract” the “beneficial ingredients and components” from the pill, and “deliver” them to Sylvie “in the perfect quantity, gently and at the perfect pace” via the photograph. And sometimes there were multiple pills or remedies. I realized as I delivered the remedies that this method was superior to actually administering them, as this way doses could be more precise to her needs and absorption gradual rather than abrupt. I had never done energetic transfer before; I imagine with more practice (or training: I was flying by the seat of my pants) I could’ve delivered the remedies quicker. But no matter, I was so relieved that I didn’t have to torture my dear companion of almost two decades to get to her the medicine she needed, in the quanti-ties she needed, at the time she needed them. It was remarkable to approach her first thing in the morning with her usual thyroid pill covered in butter, watch her turn her nose away (nauseated), spin a Pepcid into her via the photograph, then return 20 minutes later and watch her lap up her buttery pill. The dowsing was a godsend in so many ways: “Can what’s ailing Sylvie be successfully treated?” “Will Sylvie refuse fish (flounder) broth?” (yes, so I didn’t have to prepare it) “Will Sylvie eat boiled ground turkey?” (no, so I didn’t cook it) “Would Reishi powder (or Frankincense oil or L-Glutamine, or…) benefit Sylvie today? “Can I deliver B-complex vitamins [to increase appetite] from a picture?” “Can I deliver Methimazole and Prednisone by energetic transfer together?”


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“Is this a temporary setback?” (yes, so I didn’t lose heart) “Is increased phosphorus making her not eat right now?” “Can I remove phosphorus from her system by spinning it out of her?” “Can the Spirit Doctors balance phosphorus in Sylvie today via charged water?” “Is it Sylvie’s time to pass over?” “Does Sylvie need my help passing?” I would have been so lost and so utterly distressed without a means to answer these questions. It was a tedious process, but infinitely worth it. I could come to my beloved pet with love and comfort (and the unfortunate but necessary needle once or twice a day) or even more importantly, leave her to rest and navigate her own process, unmolested. I could give her space, peace, and love. I could’ve given her that without dowsing of course, just let-ting her fade away without any assistance or intervention. But we would have lost out on the precious good weeks we had together at the end of her life had I not stepped in. That she improved, felt well enough to enjoy the outdoors even, to join me on the bed, to be comfortable enough to engage eye to eye, meant the world to me. She would have been far too sick for any of that had I not ministered to her, with the blessed help of Guidance as indicated by the dowsing tools. I engaged the help of the Nature Spirits two times distinct-ly during Sylvie’s illness by way of a Perelandra vibrational essence (EoP) transmission. I made my intention for the second transfer very clear: 2/9/12 That Sylvie be well physically, emotionally, mental-ly, all the remaining days of her life, and have a peaceful, graceful, loving passage when it is her time to go. I felt the transfer happen when I held up the spoon and spoke this, and knew it was done. The next morning, I woke to find her semiconscious. I wrapped her with my arms and my love.

I said, “Go, it’s ok. I love you…” I began to appeal to the Nature Spirits, but before I could fully formulate that appeal, she passed over.

* It was such a gift to have some surety in the care giving process. Still, my wondering whether I’d done right by Sylvie started up almost immediately after her passing. I had many hours with her that day, with her beautiful earthly form–groom-ing and anointing her–and with her glorious spirit, before I had to drive her to the crematory an hour or so away. It was a rela-tively warm, bright February 10 in Boston, and I was finding it hard to part with our last moment together in a sun spot, me in my beach chair and she in her sleeping basket. I watched her long-haired tabby coat with its red highlights gleam and ruffle in the soft wind–as if it were alive. But the sun was starting to set, the place would close, Friday rush hour was starting up: I had to get going. I stood, took her basket—my bundle—in arms, and fol-lowed the spontaneous impluse to walk with Sylvie one more time ‘round the circle we’d walked countless times together over our 17 years here. It’s then that she let me know, that she took posses-sion, not of one, not of two, but of three “plates” of birds and flew them—phoom…phoom… phoom—crew-cut close over my head. They came out of nowhere–no hedges there that they might’ve burst from, no trees. I felt her in them, but it’s when I realized that this occurred at the very junction where Sylvie would always turn left to go get lost in the neighbor’s catnip plant that I knew. It was her. She was touched by the walk I was making. She was pleased. She was happy. She was free.

Kathryn Deputat’s work as a writer, coach, energy worker and photographer spans three decades. She is founder/sole proprietor of Claritywork, Love’s Freeway, and Boston Reiki Healing, and author of Love’s Way: Reflections and Practices. She can be reached at [email protected].


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DOWSING AFFIRMATIONS

by Michelle Hicks

ikola Tesla — “If you want to find the secrets of the uni-verse, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”

Dowsing is a way for people to read and interpret energy and all that is around them. Do not be afraid to experiment with dowsing, but always approach it with the highest intent. Dows-ing has unlimited applications. Always challenge yourself to learn and grow as a dowser. Dowsing is a way to tap into universal truths and collective energies. However, there is no greater truth than one’s own truth. Dowsing is a good barometer for what does and doesn’t feel good, and what is and isn’t working in one’s own life. Life really can be that simple. One’s own state of health is an indicator of disease in the body. When the body is at ease it is healthy. When the body is in a state of disease it is unhealthy. A number of things contribute to feelings of disease. Too much of our existence is spent thinking about what we should or shouldn’t do and trying to fulfill expecta-tions that we (or others) place on ourselves. I am submitting this sequence of dowsing affirmations as a way to bring one’s own or other’s energy into a higher frequency and vibration and into a higher state of consciousness. Begin with a dowsing protocol: Ask your dowsing tool to indicate when the release is complete. Ask your dowsing tool to give you your “yes” response when the affirmation or release is complete.• I am brave and courageous. (Repeat until dowsing tool indicates yes.)• I release shame and humiliation. (Repeat as long as dowsing tool shows releasing motion.)• I am capable and competent. (Repeat until dowsing tool indicates.)yes.).

• I release guilt and self-condemnation. (Repeat as long as dowsing tools shows releasing motion).• I am open-minded and objective. (Repeat until dowsing tool indicates yes).• I release apathy and indifference. (Repeat as long as dowsing tool shows releasing motion.)• I am worthy and deserving. (Repeat until dowsing tool indicates yes.)• I release grief and sadness. (Repeat as long as dowsing tool shows releasing motion.)• I am intuitive and wise. (Repeat until dowsing tool indicates yes.)• I release pain, illness and injury. (Repeat as long as dowsing tool shows releasing motion.)• I am loving and warm. (Repeat until dowsing tool indicates yes.)• I release fear and anxiety. (Repeat as long as dowsing tool shows releasing motion.)• I am content and peaceful. (Repeat until dowsing tool indicates yes.)• I release expectations and assumptions. (Repeat as long as dowsing tool shows releasing motion.)• I am blissful and joyful. (Repeat until dowsing tool indicates yes.)• I release anger and jealousy. (Repeat as long as dowsing tool shows releasing motion.)• I am awakened and enlightened. (Repeat until dowsing tool indicates yes.)

Close with a gesture of gratitude.

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BEGINNING DOWSERS COLUMN #9 NATURAL LAW AND DOWSING

by Greg Storozuk eeping in mind that that the ‘Beginning Dowsers Column’ is only one dowser’s opinion, this offering will endeavor to explain how dowsing works in an ethereal way versus in terms of current scientific thought, which is meager at best. In Beginning Dowsers column #7, “Dowsing: Human Communication with the Universe,” Natural Law was mentioned as being the causative realm, or the cornerstone of Creation it-self on both the macro and microcosmic scales. To amplify this conceptual way of thinking, a highly recommended book is the KYBALION, written by “Three Initiates” - and yes, the spelling is correct. The Kybalion discusses Seven Principles from a generic perspective, which when applied to the dowsing skill, become the basis upon which both the dowser and the search objective can become one. This singularity or bonding between dowser and search objective occurs through resonant communication in ac-cord with the tenets of Natural Law. The Kybalion is an in-depth, easy reading book that one can read in an hour, or in six months, depending on one’s depth of thought. If you have difficulty in any part of your dowsing routine, chances are the answer is hidden in its pages. A description of “Natural Law” is now in order. What are Natural Laws anyway? Natural Laws, (or Kybalion ‘Principles’), are immutable laws, meaning they are not subject to change. They’re the ever-present, unchanging concepts through which the entire Universe has, and is being formed, operates, and is supported by, without exception, on both the macro- and micro-cosmic scales. They’re the superglue, the steel and concrete of all things tangible and in-

tangible. Everything in the Universe is caused by, and supported by, these laws. Then one may ask, “Does this mean we’re trapped by Nat-ural Law?” Well, if you choose to view it that way, then yes, you are, since there’s no way out of it. However, viewing it that way is an emotional act of the ego. Dowsers, being human, already know that they must be in a state of mental balance in order to perform their searches accurately. There can be no thoughts of greed, anxiety, fear, or any other emotion. Once ego enters into the mind, it immediately throws the dowser out of balance, di-minishes the resonance factor, and therefore renders the process, and the search, subject to error. So rather than feel ‘trapped’ by Natural Law, change the perspective to feel ‘enveloped’ by Natural Law. This is a safe, ego-less state of mind and tends to make one think and feel as though they fit into the Universe rather than being trapped by it. The Laws are the same. Only the dowser’s perspective is different. Several keys to Natural Law are that they are always in ef-fect [24/7]; they are always in balance; and they all operate simul-taneously in a creative dance of synchronistic balance. This is why training the mind to be in a state of balance is so important, since a balanced mind is step one in any dowsing routine! Most seasoned dowsers are aware that they are working within the concept of the Oneness of All Things. This is the realm of the dowser. Finding answers to questions through dowsing is both created by, and governed by, Natural Law. Every aspect of dowsing, and, every aspect of the dowser’s search objective is sub-ject to the intricate mechanical workings of Natural Law. This long explanation is attempting to show the impor-tance of understanding the dowsing process, and, in so doing, will hopefully also show ‘how dowsing works’ – in one dowser’s opin-ion.


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The Seven Principles discussed in the Kybalion, briefly men-tioned, are:

1. Mentalism – “The ALL is MIND. The Universe is Mental”.

2. Correspondence – “As above, so below...as below, so above.”

3. Vibration – “Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates”.

4. Polarity – “Everything is dual...has poles...has opposites... yes is all the same...”

5. Rhythm – “Everything flows, has tides…the pendulum swings equally…”

6. Cause and Effect –“…everything happens according to Law…nothing escapes..”

7. Gender – “Everything has Masculine and Feminine Principles…”

Even a quick glance at the above list will conjure up men-tal pictures of how each of these Principles fits into the dowsing process. Once further explanations are read and deeper meanings become understood, a relaxed feeling of well-being may overcome you. This, too, is the resonance factor in motion on a larger scale. You may recognize some of these Principles having heard or read of them in other spiritual books. The Kybalion is approxi-mately 5,000 years old, so practically all sages and writings since that time have their roots in these words. The concepts are the same, just spoken

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