Dowsers Society of NSW Inc. Newsletter October 2019 Vol 31 Issue 10

Dowsers Society of NSW Inc. Newsletter October 2019 Vol 31 Issue 10 Table of Contents 2 October 20th, 2019 - Nila Chambers 3 From the Editor 4 Ley Lines and Landscape Geometry 13 Dowsing Down Under Conference Program 17 Weather Prediction by Dowsing 19 The Magic of Focus 22 Ionisation over Underground Water Veins 23 Be Careful of What you Ask 24 International Dowsing Conference Update 25 Library News 26 November 17th, 2019 - Paul Fenton-Smith Views expressed in articles are the opinion of the individual writer only, not necessarily the collective view of the Society. Speaker for October 20th, 2019 Nila Chambers - The Power of the Intuitive Self - We all have within us the power of the intuitive self, and it is ready and waiting to guide our lives. Nila knows this first-hand because intuition recently saved her life, and led her on a healing journey that was both challeng- ing and magical. She received guidance in the form of messages, signs, symbols, dreams, visions and visitations etc. Nila is now passionate to help others unlock or develop the intuitive self as a guidance system for life. She was shown that if we all developed this faculty as we have developed the intellect, the world would quickly be transformed. In this talk Nila will briefly outline her recent experience, then she will facilitate group discussion and if time permits, get the group in- volved in an intuition development exercise. Nila is the author of ‘The Gift of Intuition: guidance on a healing path.’ Nowadays she is a facilitator of groups, workshops and retreats and is a psychic intuitive. Nila has a master’s degree in comparative religion, an honours degree in psychology and various teaching qualifications. Nila’s website: www.nilachambers.com Page 2 Dowsers Society of NSW – October 2019 From the Editor nfortunately the speaker advertised for last month, the Prince of UHarmony, was not able to attend and instead we had Bianca De Reus presenting on animal communications. You can always refer to our website for final speaker’s information, as sometimes we have changes of speakers. Our website (www.dowsingaustralia.com) is updated as soon as we know of a speaker, or speakers change, so you can refer to it before meeting. You will find a centre page in this newsletter, which is designed to be de- tached, with all the details about the Dowsing Down Under Conference, including the timetable, location and parking information. Remove it and bring it with you if you wish. We have an interesting article about ley lines. I was fortunate to meet Hamish Miller during a trip to Cornwall to explore the ley lines that he had mapped around the southern tip of Cornwall. He initially explored the Michael line, gradually building an understanding how the line worked. Basically it would go from church to church favouring either the top of rocks or the hollow in the earth. At one point he realised that a second line was present at crossing points, the Mary line, favouring rivers and springs. He eventually became so good at tracing the lines that he travelled all the way to Israel following the Apollo and Athena lines, which he discovered crossing the Michael and Mary lines at Mount St Michael in Cornwall. He actually gave me all the maps he had drawn of his explorations. This allowed us to go to specific spots, generally hidden in the vegetation in fields and creeks and find these elusive spots. It was quite exciting to discover these hidden spots and bask in the lovely energies. Until next time, François Dowsers Society of NSW – October 2019 Page 3 Ley Lines and Landscape Geometry By David Adams Reprinted from British Society of Dowsers - December 1978 he existence of ley lines is not only a matter of great dispute but even Tamong ley hunters, a matter of widely varying interpretation. Ley lines started off as alignments noted by archaeologists as long ago as the 1820s, became old straight tracks, astronomical charts and UFO guide- lines, and recently have been seen as either some sort of energy grid or part of geometric landscape designs, or both. When Alfred Watkins put together his own interpretation of the alignments of prehistoric sacred sites in the 1920s, there seemed no explanation other than that the lines were ‘trackways’. Moreover, there seemed to be no way to prove the existence of these ley lines, as Watkins called them. Even in the 1960s, when there was a resurgence of interest in Watkins' work, the evidence was a Alfred Watkins mixture of map work and mysticism. Then came what at least some of us would consider corroboration of the straight lines on the map: Ley lines could be dowsed. There are, of course, those who will not accept dowsing, but if you do (and obviously we all do here) then here was the proof that was needed. What's more, the fact that ley lines could be dowsed opened the door to fresh speculation on just what these strange straight lines could be. Guy Underwood showed that ancient sites could be dowsed. Tom Leth- bridge carried out his own unique investigations. And people like John Williams were finding dowsable‘ ’ energy in standing stones, an integral part of the Ley line system. Page 4 Dowsers Society of NSW – October 2019 That perhaps is the aspect of ley lines which is of most interest to the dowser, and I believe that dowsing could be the key to unfolding the mystery of ley lines. But in recent years a slightly different interpretation has grown up, that sees ley lines as part of a mammoth pattern created by prehistoric man, a pattern designed to order the landscape according to certain principles. This landscape design, called geomancy, might seem to strip the alignment theory of its mysticism. In fact, I think it is quite possible for the ‘energy’ theory to be incorporated into the ‘design’ theory. It is generally assumed that Alfred Watkins ‘rediscovered’ ley lines while he toured Her- efordshire in the 1920s. But he arrived at his interpretation by years of study and map work, and with an extensive knowl- edge of local archaeology and classical my- thology. Watkins claims that he was the first to put forward the theory. Strictly speaking, he is right, but in fact there were many research- ers who had noted alignments. Indeed, when Watkins was a lad of fifteen a certain William Henry Black had spoken in Hereford about “monuments . marking grand geometrical lines.” “The ancients,” said Black, “covered their land with monuments having strict geometrical relationships with one an- other.” Other workers had come to the same conclusion, although they differed in their interpretations. Black thought that Roman surveyors, called ‘agrimensores’, defined their territories by laying out straight lines from a central sighting point, using standing stones, trees and mounds. Others linked the alignments with Roman roads. The most accepted view was that the alignments were to do with sunrise lines, a theory which Watkins incorporated into his ley line theory. In fact, what Alfred Watkins did, knowingly or otherwise, was produce an ‘umbrella’ theory of ley lines. Dowsers Society of NSW – October 2019 Page 5 What Watkins said briefly was that lines could be drawn which linked ancient sites such as burial mounds, earthworks, standing stones, wells, ancient churches and hilltops. In the field, these alignments could be verified by sighting points, notches in hills, field gates, and straight stretches of road and so on. The purpose, thought Wat- kins, was to enable prehistoric man to get from A to B in a straight line. Watkins envisaged surveyors with sighting staves and beacon fires reflected in ponds. The old trade tracks, like Salt Ways, were incorporated into the system - evidenced, said Watkins, by recurrent names on one ley line like White (Salt Ways), Red (Pottery Ways) and so on. Despite recent interpretations of Watkins, there was nothing remotely supernatural, occult or mystical in the Old Straight Track theory. What eroded away the Watkins system was further detailed research. It wasn't so much that the straight lines were found not to exist, but that they did - to the extent that the so-called ‘tracks’ would be found to go over precipices and across rivers. It soon became clear to ley hunters that the original Watkins theory ‘just wouldn't hold water’. The idea that prehistoric man surveyed the land and created the straight tracks by marking them with ponds, stones, mounds and hill-notches was rejected, and instead it was suggested that the straight lines already existed and the stones, mounds, etc. were situated deliberately on these lines. In other words, prehistoric man discovered the existence of these ley lines and placed his sacred monuments on them. This presupposes that the Ley lines were detectable and secondly that Page 6 Dowsers Society of NSW – October 2019 they contained some sort of energy that ancient man wanted to utilise. The irresistible conclusion was that ley lines were an energy force like the acupuncture system on the body, and that standing stones were like the needles. Now that dowsers have taken an interest in ley lines this seems to have been established, although just what this ‘energy’ is we know not. In fact, ley lines and dowsing have very much come together in a sphere known as ‘earth energy studies.’ I know some dowsers who have absolutely no interest in what were hitherto the usual pursuits of dowsers, that is to say, detecting water or minerals under the ground, and devote themselves entirely to these ‘earth energies.’ I met a lady recently who was very interested in ley lines and described herself as a dowser, and yet had not only never tried dowsing for anything other than ley lines, but had never even tried dowsing anything other than a map! The dangers here are obvious, and yet one writer on ley lines, who confesses his inability to dowse, does find that he can ‘feel’ ley lines by ‘intuition.’ It is presumed that ancient man could somehow also de- tect the lines of energy on which he put his mounds and monoliths by ‘intuition’ or a ‘sixth sense.’ It would be wrong to assume that this rather psychic interpretation of the ley line theory is the only one to stem from the resurgence of interest in the subject.

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