The Stilled Pendulum No.16

We held two dowsing events recently, both at Trellech, the rain spoiled the first one so we only covered dowsing in the Church, Glan Jones led the proceedings especially about coloured energy lines, we then gave up and retired to the Pub where a very jolly meal was enjoyed under strict Covid rules, we then had a wet drive home, there can be a lot of rain in Wales. Some of us reconvened a couple of weeks later and dowsed Terrett tump, the Harold Stones, the three stones that give the village its name and the Healing Well. The weather was better this time so we could all get outside. I think the 3 stones are part of a circle as I found energy points in a roughly circular shape to make such a circle, I used to think they were part of an Avenue, not so sure now. Glan gave his usual master class in coloured lines, not so many of us this time but it was nice to get out, we also returned to the pub, outside this time and enjoyed another meal together.

The main contributors this month are Hilary Boughton and Sue Watts-Cutler

Skenfrith We received the following email from Ann Eggleton

“Hello Jackie – I’m glad you seem to be better and out of bed! There’s so much to worry about these days . . . which brings me to the horrible man who coughed in my face at the petrol station on Sunday. I was wending my way round the maze to the pay-desk when I came face to face with him round the end of a display station, and he coughed at me. He wasn’t wearing a mask (I was). I felt the spittle hit my face. So I am in self- isolation until Sunday week – and wouldn’t ask any elderly person to come to the farm, even keeping in the open air, till I know I am free of infection.

So I cannot host anything about Skenfrith/Newcastle till the week after next. (I suppose Sunday week might be okay!)”

There are some very uncouth/inconsiderate people about sorry you were so treated Ann and hope you will be OK.

We will let members know when we can go to Skenfrith, these meetings are good because it keeps us as a group otherwise we will do nothing and slowly fade away as a Club which we wish most heartily not to do, the original idea was a picnic at Ann’s farm after dowsing we will have to check what we are allowed to do when the time comes. It may be necessary to change our name to “The South Herefordshire Dowsing and Grouse Shooting Club” when of course we will be allowed to do what we like, (Honorary President Dominic Cummings).

Hilary wrote an article in Pendulum 15 regarding why people can or sometimes cannot dowse, below is Sue Watts-Cutlers reply, please let us have more “disagreements’ or even agreements!

That’s great - let’s get a debate going. In response to Hilary’s article on whether ‘belief’ is required for dowsing, here is my own perspective

The so-called ‘Low Self’ or subconscious is quite capable of picking up water, information etc without the active participation of the ‘Middle Self’ or conscious waking mind. Basically the latter just needs to keep out of the way and let it get on with it. Hence you have Hilary’s example of complete beginners who intellectually couldn’t get their heads around dowsing working, yet got reactions all the same. This is because the subconscious is an emotionally based level of consciousness and is unaffected by passing intellectual thought

However, it becomes a different matter if emotionally based belief patterns are sent down into the subconscious. These ‘ speak the same language' as the subconscious and hence tend to get taken on board and regarded as instructions from above. If these patterns are opposed to dowsing, the subconscious will oblige by messing its dowsing up and/or feeling bad about it. So the example Hilary quotes of religious fundamentalists who have absorbed an emotional belief that dowsing is not something that God approves of will find that subtle shame, fear and/or guilt will effectively scupper their dowsing results and they won’t feel good about doing it

The role of introducing a belief that dowsing works is that of counteracting any flickers of conflicting doubt, emotions or over-rational interference which can sneak in occasionally to any dowser. However, the success of this overriding belief being accepted by the Low Self will rely on accompanying this belief with positive emotion, plus repetition. Some dowsers also use small personal rituals with ‘real' physical objects, such as kissing their favourite pendulums or carefully wrapping them in silk cloths. All three of these practices will actively encourage the subconscious/Low Self to take the dominant positive belief on board and not just to ignore it as another intellectual breeze passing over its head, as it were. In the case of a religious fundamentalist who has totally engaged with what they have been told about dowsing being evil, introducing such a positive belief about dowsing would never be easy, as it would mean overturning (or somehow reconciling) a whole body of existing established emotional belief already resident in their subconscious.

Sue

TATTWA CARDS

Tattwa cards originate from an Eastern esoteric tradition and were introduced to Western culture through the Order of the Golden Dawn. You can make these cards yourself by sticking or painting the tattwa symbols onto pieces of white card, no larger than 6 inches by 6 inches.

The symbols represent the five elements: Black or indigo egg – Spirit Red equilateral triangle – Fire Blue circle – Air Yellow square – Earth Silver crescent (or purple half circle) – Water

In addition to the basic cards, you can superimpose one symbol onto another, larger, symbol. The large symbol on the card represents the core element; the smaller symbol represents the aspect of the element. A small silver moon superimposed onto a larger black egg (effectively contained within the egg) represents the Water of Spirit. A small blue circle on a larger yellow square represents the Air of Water.

I prefer to use just one symbol at a time.

Leave one side of each card completely blank. Each card can be used as a focal point to trigger an or travel and to give access to a particular part of the astral , in other words to the qualities of the aspect of the specific element. To use a tattwa card, find a quiet place and gaze intently at the card for a minute or two. Turn the card over and gaze at the blank back. You could also move your gaze from the symbol on the card to blank white wall. Due to an optical reflex reaction, you will see the symbol appear on the blank white background. I always see a negative of the original image (as in a photographic negative). So, a red triangle on a white background would appear as a white triangle surrounded by a haze of red colour on the white wall. Close your eyes and envisage the image as seen on the wall or the back of the card. In your mind, try and enlarge this image until it is large enough to act as a portal, or gateway, through which you can walk. Step through this portal that is representative of a door to the astral plane. Your is able to leave your physical body and undertake astral travel in the Otherworlds. If the astral body leaves the physical body but remains on the physical plane, this is usually referred to as ‘astral projection’. In this case, the traveller is sometimes aware of a silver cord that attaches the physical body to the astral body. It is believed that if this cord is broken, death will follow. In astral travel, the astral body – an intermediate body of light that links the and the – leaves the physical body and travels in the astral plane. The astral body is claimed by some to be visible as a swirling mass of colours. The astral plane is not normally visible to us, but it is believed to be the true dwelling place of a person’s higher spiritual body.

Hilary Boughton