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The American Society of Dowsers Volume 51, Issue No. 2-3 – Spring/Summer 2011

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President’s Comments by Sandee Mac.................................................... 8Water for Humanity Water for Humanity News by Steven G. Herbert ..............................11 Water for Humanity in Bolivia by Silvana Castillo..............................14Science Corner.........................................................................................19Learning About Dowsing Beginner’s Dowsing Column, Entry, #4 by Greg Storozuk..................23 Use Your Body, Listen To Your Body by Margery Bastian.................26 Pendulum Program For The Dowser by Claudia Ashton..................28 Connecting With Your Dowsing System: A Dowsing Protocol by Susan Collins ..................................................................................29 Dowse It Right by Joe Brown......................................................................31Lost and Found The Lost Wallet by Rachel Farrell .............................................................32 Dowsing and Engineers by E.E. Barnes .................................................34Water Dowser’s Workbench Determining Depth by Bruce Irwin .........................................................36 Tips From A Pro by Pauline Nobel ..........................................................39 Dowsing For Nothing At All by Bruce Irwin .........................................41The Many Faces of Dowsing Dowsing from Knowing to Gnowing by Sig Lonegren .........................43 Can You Find A Mastodon On A Pig Farm? by Susan Collins ........47 Trespassing on Lughnasadh by Jon Wolston .......................................53 A Brief History of Investigations Into The Mechanisms Of Dowsing by Steven G. Herbert ...................................................54 Is The Urge To Purge Also An Urge To Merge? by Christan Hummel ..........................................................................64 The Effect of Vocal Scanning On Brainwave Activity by Damaris Drewry, Ph.D ..................................................................68 Dowsing Health Effects Of Modern Technology by Kerry Louise Gillett .......................................................................72 Thought by Don Taylor ..............................................................................84 Dowsing With Nature by Sequoya .........................................................85Chapter Directory ................................................................................. 89

QUARTERLY DIGEST

TheAMERICAN DOWSER

DANVILLE, VERMONT

Volume 51, Issue No. 2-3 –Spring/Summer

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 simply because it cannot presently be explained is unscientific and ir-responsible. Dowsing is fact. As awareness grows, the public mind should recognize that, when based on ample training, experience, and talent, dowsing is a most useful skill, applicable to many fields of human activity. 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 sensitivity. 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.

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OFFICERS AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2009-2011

HEADQUARTERS STAFFOperations Manager: Arvid Johnson [email protected]

Bookstore Manager: Scot Foxx [email protected]/Marketing Director: Verna Beaupre [email protected]

SANDEE MACPresident

PO BOX 2217Lakeside, Arizona 85929

[email protected]

ANDY BRAY Treasurer

1577 Main Rd.West Granville, MA 01034

[email protected]

CAROL GADER53 Summit Ridge Drive

Keene, New Hampshire 03431603.357.4699

[email protected]

TIPI HALSEYPOB 181

Thetford, Vermont 05074802.785.4978

[email protected]

BRUCE IRWIN223 Athol Rd.

Athol, New York 12810518.623.3772

[email protected]

BILL BONNELL Vice President

481 Lonesome Pine TrailLancaster, Virginia 22503

804.462.5518(h) 804.462.0220(w)[email protected]

MARTY CAIN Secretary

PO Box 1047Black Mountain, NC 28711

[email protected]

KEITH SCHAFFER1490 Schoffers

Birdsboro, Pennsyvania 19508610.689.5164

[email protected]

ATALA DOROTHY TOY 418 Horne St.

St. Charles, Illinois 60174630.443.9101

[email protected]

ADHI TWO OWLS655 E. Posey Rd.

Airville, Pennsylvania 17302267.884.4252 (cell)

[email protected]

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THE AMERICAN DOWSER Joya Pinkham Clark [email protected]

FALL © 2007 Volumes 47 ~ NO. 4

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ASD Bookstore: 802-684-3826

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

Fax:802-684-2565

THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS, INC.Headquarters and Bookstore Contact Information:

The American Dowser

HEADQUARTERS STAFFOperations Manager: Arvid Johnson [email protected]

Assistant to the Operations Manager: Scot Foxx [email protected]: Stephanie Gadapee [email protected]

OFFICERS AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2007-2009GEORGE WELLER

President POB 473

Derby Line, Vermont 05830 819.876.2528

[email protected]

BRUCE IRWIN Treasurer

223 Athol Rd. Athol, New York 12810

518.623.3772 [email protected]

BESS CUTTER Vice President 800 Dryden St.

Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462 757.335.2100 cell [email protected]

ATALA DOROTHY TOYExecutive Secretary

418 Horne St.St. Charles, Illinois 60174

630-443-9101 or 847.651.1758 cell [email protected]

BILL BONNELL 481 Lonesome Pine TrailLancaster, Virginia 22503

804.462 .5518 (home & fax after six rings) 804.435.0531 (work)

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WILL CLARK 26 South Main St #242

Concord, New Hampshire 03301 603.225.6438 or 603.340.2966 cell

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MARNA EHRECH POB 958

Shelburne, Vermont 05482-0958 802.985.8378 Fax: 802 985 9385

[email protected]

TIPI HALSEY POB 181

Thetford, Vermont 05074 802.785.4978

[email protected]

KEITH SCHAFFER 1490 Schoffers

Birdsboro, Pennsylvania 19508 610.689.5164

SHEILA WILLIAMS 44 Union St.

Keene, New Hampshire 03431 603.357.4875 home 603.352.0157 work

[email protected]

© Volume 51, Issue No. 2-3 - Spring/Summer 2011

THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS, INC.Headquarters and Bookstore Contact Information:

PO Box 24, Danville, VT 05828 www.dowsers.org Phone: 802-684-3417 [email protected] Fax: 802-684-2565 ASD Bookstore: 802-684-3417

GEORGE WELLERPO Box 473

Derby Line, Vermont 05830819.876.2528

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ASD TRUSTEES EX-OFFICIO(PAST PRESIDENTS)

* ROBERT S. PLIMPTON Storrs, CT

* GALEN O. HUTCHISON Brandon, VT

* DONALD BOYER Riverton, VT

* GORDON MACLEAN So. Portland, ME

* JOHN SHELLEY, JR. Lewiston, ME

* NORMAN LEIGHTON Portland, ME

* T. EDWARD ROSS St. Davids, PA

* PAUL J. SEVIGNY Danville, VT

* DWIN A. GORDON Portland, ME

GREG STOROZUK 5719 W.26th Ave., Edgewater; CO 80214

303.274.4158

JIM PERKINS 1023 Cooper Dr., Ashland, OH 44805

419.289.6607

* HAROLD MCCOY Fayetteville, AR

GORDON BARTON 49 Grindstone Ave., Box 6, Winter Harbor, ME 04693

207.963.5801

* JOAN MCFARLANE Auburn, CA

WALTER WOODS 27 Myrtle Drive, Oroville, CA 95966-5510

530.533.3986

E.W. (TONY) GEHRINGER1443 Westgate Dr. #9, Kissimmee, FL 34746

505.541.4565

LEROY BULL 16 Belmont Square, Doylestown, PA 18901

215.348.8286

* BARRY A. SMITH San Jose, CA

BILL NORTHERN POB 986, Warsaw, VA 22572

804.333.4802

TIPI HALSEY POB 181 Thetford, VT 050074

802.785.4978

GEORGE WELLER POB Box 473, Derby Line, VT 05830

819.876.2528

* DOUGLAS (MAC) MCILWAIN Peebles, OH

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ASD REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS Updated April, 2011

Two of the nine regions have been renamed,

and eight states have been shifted into new regions. See page 89 for details, and check website for new updates.

NORTHEAST

Sally Holvey-Slifer1343 Lang Home Newton Rd.Lang Home, PA 19047610-294-9027• [email protected]

SOUTHERNTo be filled

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

MIDWEST To be filled

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

NORTHWEST Gary Damelin8855 1/2 NE Beech St.Portland, OR 97220503-253-1797 • [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]

NATIONAL VPGeorge WellerP.O. Box 473Derby Line, VT 05830819-876-2618

REGIONAL VP-AT-LARGEBruce Irwin 223 Athol Rd.Athol, NY 12810518-623-3772 • [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL VPLeroy Bull16 Belmont Square, Doylestown, Pa. 18901215-348-8286 • Fax: 215-345-4925 [email protected]

See page 98 for regional details, and check the ASD website for the latest updates.


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ASD is a non-profit, educational and scientific Society with member-ship open to all interested persons. Fiscal year starts June 1st, and the annual convention is held in the Summer.

One purpose of ASD is to assemble all manner of dowsing theories, ideas, techniques, applications, instrumentation, experiences, etc. for study and evaluation. THE AMERICAN DOWSER attempts to present a representative cross-section of this highly diverse and often clashing material. Views expressed in THE AMERICAN DOWSER are the personal views of the writers, carrying no weight nor authority beyond this, and the publication of those views herein shall not be construed as indicative of concurrence or approval, in any manner, by ASD. THE AMERICAN DOWSER is a wide-open forum where the full range of dowsing thought may be freely presented for thorough examination.

NOTICE TO MEMBERSHIP FROM BOARD OF TRUSTEESASD STATEMENT OF POLICY ON HEALING

***Whereas Authority for the existence and incorporation of ASD flows from its Articles of Association granted by the State of Vermont, which Articles cannot and do not authorize legally as a corporate purpose the practice of diagnosis or healing or their promotion or sponsorship; and whereas under Vermont Statute “Medicine and Surgery”, Chapter 23, T. 26 Sec. 1311-12 and 1314, anyone who practices medicine “by any system or method” (italics added), including those of “faith cure,” “laying on of hands” and “mind healing” (excepting practice of the religious tenets of one’s church), “shall be deemed a physician or practitioner of medicine or surgery” and shall require licensing by the State of Vermont, or be subject to prosecution, the following policy has been adopted by your Board of Trustees:***Members of the Society wishing to diagnose or heal are notified they do so not as members of ASD, but personally, and at their own risk, and subject to the interpretation of the laws of their own state and the Pure Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, passed by the U.S. Congress, which makes it a felony to diagnose or heal without a license, and with the interstate use of an instrument or device.***Defense against prosecution by a State or the Federal Government could be a consuming, costly affair, and members cannot be entitled to legal or financial support from ASD for what may be an illegal act.***Members who wish to write or talk on bodily diagnosis or treatment, on the other hand, are entitled to do so under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees them freedom of speech; in view of ASD’s position, however, they may not hold themselves out, in so doing, as representing ASD in any way, but rather as presenting a personal position.***Requests coming from a licensed medical doctor in this country should be considered in the context of applicable law, and at the member’s own risk. It is pointed out that requests originating with a doctor outside the country, who is not duly licensed in the U.S., constitutes such a risk.***The question of the legality of discussion or treatment of radiation detrimental to health turns on whether one is holding oneself out as curing disease; it is noted that it would be attempted by a prosecuting attorney to show that this was done by a system or method that was prohibited.***YOUR TRUSTEES HAVE DIRECTED THE ASD STAFF TO REJECT ALL REQUESTS OF A MEDICAL NATURE, EITHER DIRECTLY OR FOR REFERRAL TO A MEMBER OR CHAPTER, NOTING TO THE PETITIONER THAT SUCH REQUESTS MAY NOT BE PROCESSED UNDER THE SOCIETY’S INTERPRETATION OF THE TERMS OF STATE AND FEDERAL LAW.(Members may address any questions about this Statement of Policy, or any requests for additional information, to the Board of Trustees and the Counsels, American Society of Dowsers, Danville, VT 05828-0024).

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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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BYLAWS: CHAPTER XV. CODE OF ETHICS FOR MEMBERS* The Society expects that the following rules will guide the acts of its members.Section 1. Code of Ethics for Members. (a) Members shall be guided in all their relationship with the public by the highest standards of personal integrity.(b) Members shall uphold before the public at all times the dignity and reputation of the Society.(c) Members shall avoid and discourage sensationalism, exaggeration, undignified and unwarranted statements, or misleading advertisements.(d) Members shall refuse to undertake work which may be of questionable value or results without first advising as to the probability of success.(e) Members shall not willfully use or attempt to use their membership in this organization as evi-dence of their qualifications as a dowser or as a measure of ability or proficiency.(f ) Members in good standing may mention their membership in their resumes and biographies. With written approval of ASD’s Executive Committee, members may exhibit or use the name of this Society on any letterhead or stationary, on any personal or business cards, and in any advertising of a personal, business or professional nature.Section 2. Disciplinary Process. Any Member, Trustee or Officer, may be reprimanded, suspended, removed from office or lose their membership by a 2/3 vote of the full BOT if shown to be guilty of misconduct. Examples of miscon-duct would include: (1) Violating the Code of Ethics. (2) The abuse or misuse of power. (3) Personal activities prejudicial to the best interests of the Society, including placing personal interests ahead of those of the Society. (4) Slanderous remarks against another member affecting their ability to carry out their duties. (5) Any other form of misconduct not listed above.A grievance or complaint may be filed by either party to the action, or by a third party who has ob-served the action, and will be taken to their Chapter President. If no resolution can be found, it will then advance, in sequence of appeal, to their regional Vice President, the Executive VP and finally to the BOT, who will assemble as the Ethics Committee. From this point on, the BOT and Ethics Com-mittee terms are interchangeable.(a) If the grievance or complaint is brought by a member not associated with a chapter, they will start the process with their region’s RVP.(b) If a party to the grievance chooses not to participate at any level of the process, the process will go forward without their participation.(c) Responsibilities of the BOT in such matters: (1) Should a crisis situation arise, the entire Board will be notified. A majority vote of a quorum of the BOT may take any and all actions necessary to contain or address the problem, in the best interests of the Society, until a full board meeting may be held, regardless of any inconsistency between this action and these bylaws. Such actions shall be limited to responding to the immediacy of the crisis, and nothing more. (2) A Trustee who is the subject of charges shall not participate or vote in the BOT deci-sion and the vote will be adjusted accordingly. (3) Charges against a Member, Trustee or Officer and all related evidence will be offered in written statements under oath to the President for review by the Trustees. A written statement submitted to any person or group in this process shall be considered taken under oath. If it is found that a statement is false, the person or persons submitting the false statement will immediately lose their membership in ASD by a majority vote of the BOT. Notification of the dismissal will be made in a timely manner. (4) After receipt of complete written statements under oath from Complainant and De-fendant, the President will distribute said copies to the full BOT (Ethics Committee) for evaluation. The BOT will make and record their decision by a 2/3 vote, including disciplinary actions, within 30 days. That decision will be expeditiously communicated to all parties involved. This decision is final and not subject to further appeal. (5) Anyone whose membership has been terminated by expulsion may reapply for Mem-bership after two (2) years provided any sum owed to the Society under Chapter IV Section 3 by such applicant be first paid in full. The BOT will then review the application and vote its acceptance or denial. If denied, the applicant may reapply again after another two years. Any Member, Trustee, or Officer removed from their position due to an ethics violation and wishing to hold office again at any level must first gain approval of the BOT by a majority vote.

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The American DowserGUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSIONS

1. Content of articles should be about or related to dowsing and how the ancient art can help improve life, whether it’s in your own backyard or around the globe.2. In the subject line of all email submissions, include the word Submission and the Author and Title of Your Article (i.e., Submission: Smith, How To Dowse). 3. Submit your manuscript in Microsoft Word, font Times New Roman, and font size 12.4. We encourage you to digitally submit manuscripts, photographs, and art as email attachments. Send them to: [email protected] or [email protected], or if you’re using mail, to: Editors, PO Box 24, Danville, VT 05828. 5. Include appropriate captions for photos. All artwork must be con- verted to .jpg or .tif format and be at least 300dpi (dots per inch). Use original art whenever possible.6. When submitting an article published in a newspaper or magazine, you must attach to the article a permission release from the publisher permitting ASD to reprint it.7. All submissions should be spell-checked and thoroughly proofread before you send them.8. Submissions which are not used in one issue will be held for consid- eration in subsequent issues.

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•Spring/Summer

2011 Editor

Sybil Carey Managing Editor:

Sybil Carey

TheAMERICAN DOWSER

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WPRESIDENT’S COMMENTS

by Sandee Mac

ell… as predicted, aren’t we all living in a fast-changing world right now? How very, very blessed we are to have the remark-able skill of dowsing to navigate these waters–smooth or turbulent, but always exciting. As dowsers, I believe we are at the nexus and can ride the crest of the wave of these remarkable times. We have the skills, the perspectives, the training, the discipline, and the consciousness to not only help ourselves, but to be a guiding light to so many others. I have often compared us to the old traditional shamans and medicine people found in all indigenous cultures. Just consider these similarities and see if you don’t agree. Generally speaking, like shamans, dowsers:

• are very spiritual (not necessarily religious);• can access information from other dimensions;• can communicate directly with the Earth, the hidden kingdoms, and things others might consider non-living;• can access past, present, and future time;• use very simple tools;• work in service to the people or community as a whole;• serve where the priests have failed to connect us with Source;• work with the forces of nature, not to control them;• are gifted or trained by mentors;• work from an “outside the box” conventionality;• take personal responsibility for their work; and• don’t care if others think they are crazy!

Do you see what I mean? That is precisely why I know that–with the confusion, fear, and even chaos ushering in such massive, dramat-ic change in the world on every level–we have a brilliant opportunity to not only be of remarkable service to others, but to quickly and effi-ciently teach others this priceless and precious treasure we have in our hands, minds, and hearts. Can you just imagine how much suffering

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could be reduced if more people in Japan or the Middle East were dows-ers. Won’t you just consider those possibilities alone? As I write this, we are busily preparing for the first convention of our second 50 years–i.e., our 51st Annual Convention–in the gor-geous Green Mountains of Vermont. Our keynote speaker is the in-ternationally acclaimed researcher and author of The Field, Lynne Mc-Taggart. In addition, we have an all-star lineup of over 70 speakers, teachers, and presenters. We have almost a week of informative, mind-expanding, inspiring, and fun activities. If you have never attended one of our national conventions, I can assure you it is life-changing, and I am extending to you my own personal invitation to come learn and play with us there. Remember, some scholarships are even available. Our national convention, as well as the other great regional ones, are created, organized, and orchestrated by a team of unpaid dedi-cated volunteers. They unselfishly and generously donate hundreds of hours of their own time and resources, often more than a year ahead of time, in preparation to gift us, the members, with this amazing event. Did you know that all of the teachers and presenters also serve with no financial compensation? This ASD Digest you hold in your hands is also produced by volunteers, under our dedicated editor, Sybil Carey. The Board of Trust-ees (BOT) serves on a strictly volunteer basis, often spending several hours a day dealing with ASD issues. Volunteers are the foundation pil-lars of ASD. Please take a few moments to meet and chat with some of them when you come to Vermont, or pick up the telephone and call. We really want to hear from you.

Remember that 50 years ago, our entire organization was founded by volunteers with a committed vision of teaching, sharing, and expanding dowsing for all. We not only stand on their shoulders, but so many aspects of our entire organization are based strictly on vol-unteer generosity. In many chapters, there has been one key person who has held the group together for years. Water for Humanity has served thousands in critical places on the planet to get a simple drink of clean water. Many individual dowsers demonstrate, teach, and share this gift with no thought of financial gain or notoriety. Without all of our volun-teers locally and nationally, the matrix of ASD would simply not exist. I assure you that this simple but profound concept of service to others


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versus service to self, demonstrated so humbly and elegantly by most dowsers, is absolutely the defining element in the times ahead for us, individually and collectively as a species.

On a more practical level, as I promised, we have accomplished a lot. There is a great new website up that includes the Bookstore and an exclusive Members Only section with lots of goodies. We will continue to expand and improve our site, so let us know your ideas. Hey, we’re so cool we’re even on Facebook! We always need quality articles for the Di-gest, so think about what relevant dowsing submissions you can share. We now have a Greetings Committee to connect more personally with you. We have performed a full external financial audit. Our Nominating Committee did an outstanding job of soliciting and presenting a worthy roster of candidates for you to elect to your governing body...your ASD Board of Trustees. They will be introduced and take office at our An-nual Membership Meeting in Vermont in June. Headquarters finally got much-needed new windows to get them through that frigid Vermont winter, and more improvements are in the works. Please mark your calendars to also treat yourself to other dows-ing conferences. I especially recommend the Southwest Conference in Flagstaff, Arizona this fall. The Stillmans and their dedicated team (all volunteers again) produce an extraordinary event with its own unique flavor and elements. I wouldn’t miss it for anything and would love to see you there as well. I ask you to pause, take note, and thank all (yourself included) for weaving together our beautiful tapestry of volunteers at all levels. From our very active Sky Dowsers, to each of your own individual con-tributions, this is the juice, the lifeblood, the very core of ASD. Your quiet contributions may not be celebrated with a lot of fanfare, but they do not go unnoticed. Volunteers step up, show up, and make a differ-ence. I deeply and sincerely thank you for all of the opportunities of service to this incredible organization that is you––the Members of ASD. Please let me know personally what else I might do, so together we can all make a difference.

I am Grateful, Sandee

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W ater For Humanity is an organization operating under the auspices of the ASD, with the purpose of funding water resources development worldwide (www.dowsers.org/Wfh.htm).

WATER FOR HUMANITY NEWS

A Quarterly Update From Steven Herbert

Report on WFH Committee teleconference meeting, 1/24/11: In this meeting, a total of five grants were awarded. The first went to Konditi Development Initiative International (KODI) of west-ern Kenya. This organization has already completed a dug well and a three-pair composting latrine for the girls at Konditi Prima-ry School, with current projects distributing ceramic water filters and constructing a dug well for Nyando District Hospital. The new grant provides seed money toward the construction of the second three-pair composting latrine at Konditi Primary School, this one for the boys. Metempyrion Foundation (www.metempyrion.org) which founded the Hopi Well Project in Arizona, USA, received a supplemental grant of $2,000 toward this project. Also, grants were allocated to three organizations in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. These were Society for Health, Environmental and Rural Development Project (SHERDP), awarded $1,990 for two wells, Women’s Organization for Rural Development, $2,241 for three wells, and Society for Community Development Project, $1,111 for their first well. At this meeting the WFH Committee also discussed how to improve the WFH website.

WFH Calendar/Fiscal Year-End Annual Financial Report:

Financial report for 2010: Total incoming funds from donations, and proceeds from raffle and sales were $43,346.00. This figure


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includes a total of $39,681.30 for donations alone (thus $3,664.70 from raffle and sales), of which the amount of $11,281.33 was donated to restricted funds (28.4 %, thus $28,399.97 to general funds). Total deposits plus interest of $15.32 added up to a total income of $43,361.32. Total outgoing funds were $22,169.55 for grants & projects and $744.03 in office/non-project expenses and fees for transfer of funds, totaling $22,913.58. Operating and of-fice expenses were 3.25 % of total outgoing. $213.63 was accrued as dividends from our Exxon-Mobil stock. Chapters’ participation in the WFH Adopt-a-Well program: The committee of the ASD Water for Humanity Fund is pleased to announce the participation of two ASD Chapters in its Adopt-a-Well program. The first is the Guy Snyder Chapter of PA who have raised enough money to sponsor one well with the organiza-tion Women for Women (WFW) of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. They are also well on their way to raising enough for a second well. The second group consists of a number of people who have raised funds for a well in memory of their late friend Lynn Monroe, a member of the Hudson-Mohawk Chapter of NY. This group includes several members of that chapter who initi-ated the fund, which is sponsoring a well with the organization Women’s Organization for Rural Development (WORD), also in southern India. The Water for Humanity Committee joins in ex-tending its condolences to the family and friends of Lynn Monroe, and is dedicated to seeing this fitting memorial become a reality.

Project Completion Report:Women’s Development Society - 2007

Secretary’s note: The organization Women’s Development So-ciety of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu first submitted a solicited proposal in March of 2003 requesting $4,389.30 for one bore well and hand pump in each of six villages ($732/well). Shortly thereafter they received sanction from Brother Kimpton, our agent in India at the time. In June of the same year, the com-

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mittee awarded this project a partial grant of $2,500 (enough for about three and a half wells, but they found supplemental funding to do all six wells). The project was completed and project com-pletion report submitted. In June of 2007 they were sent a check for additional wells, with the funding coming from a restricted fund donated by a single donor, and another six wells were in-stalled. This project was also completed in good faith with project completion report submitted and summarized below.

Project Completion Report: Their report describes how the well sites were located, bore wells sunk, hand pumps installed, and concrete skirt with drainage constructed. In follow up, a caretaker training was given with four members from each vil-lage participating (two women and two youth each). Three sets of tools were distributed to the caretakers. “This training was for training the volunteers on operation and maintenance of the hand pump by mending properly whenever it goes out of order. The participants were fully equipped to mend the repair of the hand pump including replacement of parts, identification of fault, etc…With a view to create awareness on water and sanitation, which was felt very necessary for the rural people was organized in all the six villages. In each village this program was organized where the Resource Persons from the Health Department and Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) were engaged. In each village, 45 to 60 persons participated in the program…(In conclusion,)…The support extended by WFH has reached the community in right time in the form of training and support. The village people are using the hand pump still in good condition. The program has been very successful…On behalf of village people and our team, I express our sincere thanks to each and every one connected with Water for Humanity Fund – USA for their help” - Surendra Ku-mar, Secretary.

Testimonials: Included with the official report were letters from two beneficiary groups, Valarmathi Women’s Self-Help Group and Setharrampath Village.


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WATER FOR HUMANITY IN BOLIVIA

by Silvana Castillo

ver the past three years, Water for Humanity has been supporting the Bolivian organization, Jaraña, with funding and training. Jaraña works in the Santa Cruz and Oruro regions on water projects for family consumption as well as for agriculture and livestock needs. I first met one of Jaraña’s members, Juan Cayoja, when I was on assignment in Santa Cruz in 2007. Whenever I travel, I ask the people I meet who are involved in water projects if they know about water dowsing. Juan was very enthusiastic about water dowsing and told me that Jaraña was the most successful organization in finding water in the region because they had one person, Don Eliodoro, who knew how to dowse. He explained that Don Eliodoro had to dowse for all the wells that Jaraña was digging, and consequently how important it is to train other members. Interestingly, this or-ganization was established and is managed by a mix of farmers, teachers, nurses, and profes-sionals. Juan inquired whether I would be able to lead a work-shop for his group, and as it hap-pened I was able to return to Bo-livia three months later and do so. They knew it was possible to find water through dowsing, but they did not know how to deter-mine depth, water quantity and quality, how to follow the path

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of the vein, etc. I was able to bring to them new insights into the potential of dowsing. They explained that their biggest challenge was to serve communities where the water was too deep, because they dug the wells by hand. Following my visit, we jointly de-veloped a proposal for buying hand-drilling equipment that was later funded by Water For Humanity. In April 2010, I was invited to return and, thanks to the support of WFH in funding my airfare, I participated in a three-day dowsing workshop organized by Jaraña, which is taking a leading role in the region in water dowsing and which wanted to share the technology with other organizations. Our purpose was to teach participants the basics of dows-ing for water as well as other dowsing applications for having a “healthy home,” such as clearing adverse energies, sacred geom-etry, ley lines, etc. I was impressed by how much they remem-bered from our first encounter and how much research they had done on their own. The workshop had thirty participants representing the different organizations working with water projects in the Oru-ro region. Four members of this very interesting group of men and women from different age groups and backgrounds were very experienced water dowsers, and they played a significant role throughout the workshop. Of course the most experienced dowser was Don Eliodoro, who is retiring as his health has de-teriorated; he has dowsed and hand-dug over 3,300 wells in his lifetime. At the beginning of the workshop, we talked about the dif-ferent ways in which the group communicate with Pachamama (Mother Earth) and what aspects of their culture represent what for their understanding of dowsing. Groups prepared improvisa-tions that showed how rich their culture is in wisdom and ritu-als. I was very inspired by what they shared during the work-shop. They are very spiritual and very connected to Pachamama.


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For example, it is the tradition of the dowsers to make an offering to Pachamama before dowsing. We could consider this part of what we traditionally know as the “permission questions.” The of-fering consists of burning a “mesa”, which is a series of figures that look like miniature tiles made of sugar. Each figure represents the intention of the offering or petition to Pachamama, such as a house, livestock, love, health, wealth, etc. The mesas are prepared by a shaman yatiri (the one who knows), and we bought one in the street market. Don Eliodoro suggested that one of the figures should be of a fish, as we are looking for water. We ended the workshop with an open discussion in which members expressed their insights on how they can apply what they learned. It was evident that dowsing was a very important technology for the area, as finding potable water is a challenge because some of the underground water is salty. The experienced dowsers mentioned they have been observing the presence of certain plants as indicators of salt or fresh water; however their findings are not consistent yet. We talked about the importance of having a clear program that includes water quality, or perhaps having a witness asking additional questions about the quality of the water, etc. At the end of the workshop, Juan and I were interviewed by the local radio station, and I had the opportunity to explain the

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work that Water for Humanity does. Jaraña is creating large ponds to be used as rainwater-catchment areas for providing water to the livestock. (See photo on previous page.) They also support the drilling of wells and the use of water for the home and for agriculture. In the brown land-

scape in the photo above one can see small green plots where the well water is used for irrigating vegetables. Greenhouses are also being promoted for the production of tomatoes, a crop that tradition-ally does not grow well in the area because of the extreme tempera-ture fluctuations during the grow-ing season. Exterior and interior views of a greenhouse are shown in the photos here and on the next page. These endeavors are received with great appreciation from the people of this region who realize the multiple benefits of these new technologies. The contribution from WFH to Jaraña has been very valu-


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able and timely. The organizations involved in the workshop are dedicated to helping communities find water and drill wells. They have embraced the funding and training received from WFH and are using these resources to expand their work to involve more people. I believe this joint initiative is a good example of how wa-ter dowsing can bring significant benefits to communities around the world. At the same time, I think there is much potential for a continued collaboration between the two. Jaraña has the infra-structure for starting a “School for Water” in Santa Cruz. When considering the previous work of WFH in Central America, it is tempting to entertain the idea of supporting a dowsing conven-tion in the south, or perhaps some of the members of Jaraña can share their knowledge and rituals in one of the conventions in Vermont. In closing, I would like to express my gratitude to the members of Jaraña and all the people from other organizations and the communities that are associated with them, and to thank WFH for their trust and for giving me the opportunity to contrib-ute to this successful partnership between them and Jaraña.

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Science CornerLOCATING THE DOWSING SENSORS BY

THE "HIGH-FREQUENCY BEAM" METHOD

Dr. Z. V. HarvaIik and Wilhelm De Boer

Ed. Note: In lieu of our regular Science Corner, we are reprinting the following article from the February 1974 issue of The Ameri-can Dowser. Harvalik’s experiment is mentioned on page 59 of Steve Herbert’s scholarly review of investigations into the mecha-nisms of dowsing.

f one assumes that the dowser reacts prevalently to electro-magnetic radiations to obtain a dowsing signal, he would obtain a dowsing signal when a high-frequency "beam" is directed toward the dowsing sensors. However, no signal would be observed if the dows-ing sensors are shielded from the high-frequency "beam" by a metal screen or foil of appropriate dimensions. (See Reference 1.) The measurements described in ref. 1) were repeated and re-fined by shortening the wave length of the 7 m generator to 5.12 m and by narrowing the effective beam angle of the 5 em generator to 100. The shielding screens were replaced by copper and aluminum foils, 5 em x 15 em and 0.02 mm thickness. The 5.12 meter wave length generator was used prevalently in these experiments. The generator was placed on a card table, the coil axes ad-justed to a horizontal position, thus exposing the dowser to the

magnetic vector of the high-fre-quency radiation.

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metal foils. Figure 2 shows the location of a foil which was placed around the waist of the dowser like a belt. (Foil di-mensions 7.5 em x 100 em). At this lo-cation only, the dowser did not obtain a dowsing signal, while at locations above and below the waist signals were observed. The waist location would indicate the horizontal plane in which the dowsing sensor would be located. Figure 3 shows locations of the metal foils, consecutively attached to the dowser's body at waist height and numbered 1, 2, 3, 4. In Experiment #1, the high-frequency beam came from the right side of the dowser thus reaching the foil before reaching the dowser's body. A signal was obtained when the dowser walked across the "beam" and when the metal foil was in position 1, 2, and 4. No signal was observed when the foil was in position 3. In Ex-periment #2, dowsing signals were obtained in all four (1, 2, 3, 4) positions since the "beam" reached the sensors before it reached the foils. Position #3 of the foil covers a slice of the dowser's body

which also contains the kidneys and the suprarenal glands. It does not contain, however, the solar plexus, the location usu-ally given in the literature as the location of the dowsing sensors. Thus, one can surmise that the dowsing sensors are in the vi-cinity of the kidneys and supra-renal glands.

When a single metal foil (7.5 cm x 15 cm) was placed on the back of the dowser's body in the location of the left or right kidney (Fig. 4), a dowsing signal was observed when the dows-er walked through the "beam" under an angle of 45° so that the

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"beam" reached the foil first before it reached the dowser's body. (Foil po-sitions 1 and 2 in Fig. 4.) The same observation was also made when the "beam" reached the dowser from the front first. However, when two foils were attached to the dowser's body (view from the back in Fig. 5), in positions 1 and 2 no dowsing signal was ob-tained when the "beam" reached the foils first (the "beam" came from the back). When the "beam" came from the front of the dowser, thus reaching the kidneys first, a signal was obtained. These experiments indicate that there must be at least two sensors (perhaps left and right kidney and supra-renal gland) exposed to the stimuli to trigger the dowsing signal.

Thus, it seems, that the dowsing sensors are in the vicinity of the kidneys and not in vicinity of the Solar Plexus. It is not excluded that the suprarenal glands contain the dowsing sensors. These glands regulate, among other functions the fluid intake of the kidneys. It is known that dowsers become

more sensitive to dowsing stimuli shortly after intake of one or two glasses of water. It could be possible that these glands also contain the dowsing sensors or some of the cellular structures in their vicinity. A further indication of the possibility of the kidneys and/or suprarenal glands being the hosts of the dowsing sensors seems to be the fact that dowsers increase their dowsing sensitivity af-ter intake of water. The accumulation of water in the kidneys’ neighborhood could serve as a concentrator of magnetic or/and electromagnetic fields around the sensors. It is known that water,


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because of its high oxygen content (oxygen being strongly para-magnetic) could act as a magnetic field concentrator. One should also note that water, because of its high dielectric constant, low molecular weight, and high electrical resistivity, would not atten-uate the penetration of electromagnetic fields to reach the sen-sors. To test above assumptions that perhaps the kidneys and/or the suprarenal glands contain the dowsing sensors, one could investigate dowsing abilities and sensitivities of persons suffering from kidney ailments, including those whose kidney or kidneys were removed by operations. If the sensors are associated with the kidneys, these persons would be poor dowsers or would not be able to dowse at all. To locate possible sensors in the brain of the dowser, a metal foil 7.5 em wide and 50 em long was placed around the dowser's head like a crown, while he was exposed to the high-fre-quency beam in total body immersion. A very weak dowsing sig-nal was obtained. Unfortunately, it was impossible to locate more precisely the sensor or sensors, probably because of the too-long wave length of the radiations used. However, some conclusions can be made: The fact that a weakening of the dowsing signal oc-curred when the dowser wore the "crown", may indicate that the brain, being the processor of the dowsing stimulus received by the sensors located in the vicinity of the kidneys, is somewhat pre-vented to conduct the signal to the hands of the dowser which in turn cause the dowsing rod to turn. There is also the possibility that an additional sensor exists in the brain. If this should be the case, a three-dimensional perception of dowsing patterns would be possible and pattern discrimination could be accomplished which would enable the dowser to program (or dowse) for specific dowsing features, such as water, minerals, etc.

REFERENCE:1) “High Frequency Beams aid locating the Dowsing Sensors”, Z. V.HARVALIK The American Dowser, vol. 13, No.3, page 95

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Learning About DowsingBEGINNER’S DOWSING COLUMN

ENTRY #4by Greg Storozuk

Recap of Entries #1 – 3 Entry #1 – General overview of dowsing. Main points: Subdue the ego and start at the beginning. Entry #2 – Entering the dowsing state of mind. Simple exercises. Entry #3 – Why the ego-less state of mind is so important. very dowser knows that our skill is multifaceted and in-volves several critical aspects to properly function. This column attempts to address these in orderly stages as best as possible. Now that mental preparation has been touched upon, the next thing on the list is forming the dowsing question. Do keep in mind, however, that all aspects of dowsing work in concert with one another as a finely tuned machine. No one thing is superior to another, nor should any aspect be removed, slighted, or thought of as unworthy, lest the machine fail to function properly and as smoothly as intended. The first of the key points to be mentioned when form-ing questions is to always write your questions down. This is the step most often bypassed by beginning and sometimes seasoned dowsers as well. Why write the questions? Isn’t it a waste of time? Well…what’s the rush? If you’re in a hurry to dowse, then you shouldn’t be dowsing in the first place. A calm, balanced mind is step one, remember? As mentioned earlier, dowsing is a mental skill, and therefore it’s necessary to relax your mind before you begin. Since question formation is right at the start of the dowsing program and essential for accuracy, why not continue your dowsing expe-rience in its proper sequence? Relax. Take your time. Think out your questions logically and sequentially. Writing out your ques-tions gives you the advantage of written food for thought and a


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written record without having to rely on memory alone. A second reason for writing your questions is because the human mind is capricious, quickly changing from one thought to another. Focus is imperative in the dowsing routine; so by writing your questions down, you will be better able to concentrate only on the subject about which you’re asking questions. A third reason is that memory is fallible, and seldom, if ever, can you ask the same question for the same target structure in an identical manner. Consistency is necessary in your dowsing routine, and written questions offer that consistency. ‘Nuff said. Write your questions down…always. Once you have your pad, pencil with a good eraser, dic-tionary, and thesaurus in front of you, the next aspect of question formation is to think in precise terms of what it is you want to find with a calm, relaxed, and logical mind. If, for example, you’re searching for a site to dig a water well, dowsing for just ‘water’ isn’t good enough. If you really think about it, there are many differ-ent kinds and types of water. Exactly what are you searching for? Fresh water? (Of course!) Potable? (Naturally!) Shallow? (Well, yeah…that too.) Deep? (Preferably not!) Flowing? (Hmmm…nev-er thought about that.) Is this a constant, year round, dependable flow? Or is it seasonal? (Hmmm…now you’ve got me thinking.) Is the water flowing NOW? Or is it stagnant or unmoving as in an aquifer? Is the water cold? Geothermal? Salty? Is the fresh water you located contaminated? If so, by what contaminants? Iron? Sulfur? Coliforms? Radioactivity? Sewage? In what percentages? The more you think about your target, the more ques-tions come to mind, so the wording of those questions must be as specific as possible. Wording is critical! To use another example, many people dowse their vitamins. Would you ask, “Does my body need vitamin C?” No, of course not. This is an example of a poorly worded question. Of course the body needs vitamin C. That isn’t really the question. What should be asked are questions like, “Which brand of vitamin C is best for me? In what dosage?

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How many times a day should I take this dosage? With or without food? Is it best to take it by itself? Or is it best to take it with other vitamins? Knowing your target is another key factor in forming the proper questions. (That’s why you use a pencil with a good eraser!) The next point is to make certain that your question can only be answered by a simple yes or no. Think about all the im-plications of your search question. If the factors are many and the question is too long, asking a series of short, simple, questions is usually best, with each question covering only a single aspect of the target. For example: “Is there any potable fresh water located underground on this property that is suitable for a water well?” This question is logical, precise, short, and covers just one aspect of the final search objective (to locate a water well), and is only answerable yes or no. What I’ve done in the past–and still do to this day–is to write down what I consider to be the perfect question for my search objective using a dictionary and thesaurus for correct wording...and that pencil with a good eraser. When I’m done, I put the pad on a shelf and let it sit for three days. When I return to the question after letting it mellow, I re-read it and usually find my question isn’t as perfect as I’d like it to be; so I re-word the ques-tion until once again I think it’s perfect. Then it goes back on the shelf. This may go on repeatedly for some time (and it has!), until I’ve reached what I feel is the perfect question to add to my rou-tine. This question is precise and in a box with no opening that my active mind can penetrate to throw me off course. All the bases have been touched. All the holes have been sealed. This technique has served me well for many years, and also allows me to keep a written record for the same or similar searches down the road. The proper state of mind and asking perfect questions are crucial to the successful completion of any dowsing search.

Greg Storozuk, an ASD past president, is a professional dowser who con-centrates his dowsing in the areas of water, geopathic zones, oil, minerals, clearings, and map dowsing. He is the author of A Dowsers Series and owner of Labyrinths of Colorado.


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USE YOUR BODY, LISTEN TO YOUR BODY

by Margery Bastian

ave you ever used your body as a pendulum? We take our bodies everywhere, so why not use them as a dowsing tool? As we use our dowsing abilities this way, we will become better able to listen to our bodies and to learn more about ourselves.

To learn how to use your body as a pendulum, stand and take a deep, slow breath, then let it out easily and slowly. Ask your body (you may talk out loud or to yourself ), to show you a yes. Your body will move in a particular direction or way to indicate a positive response, and you can trust that what it has shown you is your communication with it. There is no right or wrong way, just your way. Next, ask your body to show you a no. Again, your body will move in a particular direction or way to indicate the negative response.

Now you can use your body to answer questions. What you need to remember is to ask a question in a way that will give you an accurate answer. Be specific. If you remember Mork from the Mork & Mindy show, you’ll recall that Mork took everything literally. Your dowsing system is like Mork. Lee Barnes, a dows-ing teacher from our Appalachian Chapter of Western North Carolina, reminds us how to ask a proper question. For example, if you ask, Does my car need gas today to get to a particular store?, you would probably get a yes because air is a gas and the car has enough air. However, if you ask whether your car has enough gasoline to get to the store and your gas gauge is almost empty, you would get a very different answer. You can see that asking a dowsing question in a specific way is necessary to get a correct answer.

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store. Put your hand over a melon and think about what informa-tion you want to know. The answer to Is this melon good? might be different from Is this melon good for me? Or you might want to know if the melon is ripe enough or if it has pesticides in it or if you will like the taste of it. There are so many possibilities, so frame the question that will give you the answer you’re seeking.

You may use this method on any question. Using your body instead of a pendulum or L-rod makes it easier to ask ques-tions without everyone knowing what you’re doing. So, give it a try.

American Society of Dowsers

MISSION STATEMENTThe mission of the American Society of Dows-ers shall be to support, encourage and promote dowsing and dowsers in a manner consistent with the highest standards of personal integri-ty and behavior; to provide dowsing education and training to dowsers and non-dowsers alike to bring them to a level of proficiency they are comfortable with; to promote and foster com-munication and fellowship among all persons in any way interested in dowsing; to build in America an effective, responsible body of men and women devoted to active investigation, study and application of dowsing; and to give all possible assistance and encouragement to the development of the dowsing faculty to the end that dowsing may become part of the culture of modern people.

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CONNECTING TO YOUR DOWSING SYSTEM: A Dowsing Protocol

by Susan Collins(Excerpted from Bridge Spirit and Matter with Dowsing)

1. Balance your physical body. Find a quiet time and focus your intention to balance, harmonize, and ground every aspect of your being.2. Connect to the dowsing system by saying, “In the name of God (or however you address the Divine). If it be thy will, I ask:

• To be connected with the intelligence/beneficial energies of nature;• To be connected and in resonance with divine good;• To be connected, guided, and protected by the Spirit Team;• That my dowsing be 100% accurate.

Check the tool’s signals for Yes and No.3. Forgive yourself. We cannot heal if we have not forgiven our-selves and those around us. “Creator, forgive me. I forgive myself. I forgive all those who have harmed me. I release them from my body, mind, and spirit.4. Clear yourself of nonbeneficial energies. With dowsing tool in hand, say “In the name of God, if it be thy will, I ask that the fre-quency of all nonbeneficial energies (emotions, thoughtforms, at-tachments, etc.) associated with every aspect of my being (physi-cal, mental, spiritual, emotional, and energetic) be immediately removed in all dimensions, all timeframes, all realities, and all fre-quencies, and that the energies be transformed for the best and highest good of all creation and as appropriate. (Repeat for as long as your dowsing tool shows disconnecting motion.)5. Maximize your energy field by asking:

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• That all aspects of my physical, mental, spiritual, andemotional being exist in perfect health in all dimen-sions, timeframes, frequencies, and realities. (Repeat for as long as your dowsing tool shows disconnecting motion.)

6. Seek permission to dowse. If you get a no to any of the follow-ing questions, do not proceed.

• May I dowse for __________?• Can I dowse for ___________?• Should I dowse for _________?

7. Dowse. Use the processes in steps 4 and 5 above, and apply them to the situation for which you are dowsing. Dowsing works best when you are in a state of ignorance and apathy, you don’t know the answer, and you don’t care what it is.8. Keep the question clear and literal.

• Assume nothing.• Use a chart for accuracy• Respect other’s privacy. Don’t dowse unless requested to do so.• Dowse in service for others, not for personal greed.• Never diagnose or offer medical advice unless you are a licensed doctor.

9. Created a matrix if needed. If the situation doesn’t resolve it-self within a few minutes, ask that an ever-changing energy matrix be established in the appropriate place, staffed by the appropriate beings, that will automatically adjust and transform all nonben-eficial energies as needed.10. Disconnect fully, consciously, and actively from all energies with which you have been working.11. Give thanks to all energies and beings that have assisted you.12. Communicate your results appropriately. If you are dowsing for someone else, be sure to check what results can be communi-cated to the subject for the best and highest good of all creation.

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Never discuss anything with anyone in a way that could identify the subject. Be discreet.13. Adapt this protocol to your needs by changing or adding any other words or prayers that feel right. If you don’t have time go through the whole connection process, say something simple, like “In the name of God, I ask for the appropriate energy for the best and highest good for ____________ and all creation.” It’s better to say a quick, simple prayer at the moment that it’s needed (even, “Bless you.”) than nothing at all. What you think about with emo-tion, you set in motion.

DOWSE IT RIGHT

There was a need for my dowsing,I took my pendulum out.

It was not a complicated issue,I would be successful without a doubt.

Can I, May I, Should I,All said, good to go.

The results were a failure,The pendulum did not show.Then it was back to basics,Where all searches begin.

I asked the question correctly,Then, the answer did come in.

Ask it right.Get it right.

Giving thanksTo your Guiding Light.

~ Joe Brown Newington CT

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THE LOST WALLET

by Rachel Ferrell

got off from work early and planned to meet my friend to do some shopping at a local department store, then go out for dinner. That February night was bitter cold; so after dinner, we drove back to my car which I left in the department store’s park-ing lot. I jumped out of her car to start mine, then back into hers to stay warm while waiting for mine to warm up.

The next day, after I left my house, I realized that my wallet was missing. I was sure I’d put it into my coat pocket the night before, but it wasn’t there. I searched everywhere, then I tried to dowse for it. Because I had a strong attachment to the object and I was so sure that I’d put it into my pocket, I thought I was influ-encing the pendulum to give me incorrect answers. I proceeded to return home and search everywhere, to no avail. Next I went to my friend’s house, where I searched her car, her front yard, and even her house. My parents searched for it, too. I became con-vinced that it had fallen from my pocket between jumping in and out of our cars at the store’s parking lot.

Frustrated, I racked my brain for a solution, and that’s when I thought about calling Louis to ask him to dowse for me. We asked if it fell out of my pocket–no; then if it was in the park-ing lot–no; then if someone had turned it in at the department store–again a no.

“Where was the last place you remember having it?” Louis asked me.

“At the restaurant,” I replied.

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cated I had left it at the restaurant when I paid. “Did you sit at a table or a booth?” he asked. I told him that it was a booth, and he said I needed to go back there to look because he was getting that it had fallen down into the booth.

“Is there something green there?” he asked.

“Well, I remember that the booth itself was red.” I told him.

I returned to the restaurant and, after explaining to the hostess that I’d lost my wallet, asked if I could search around the booth where we’d had dinner. Luckily no one was sitting there. I looked all around but didn’t see it, then noticed that the booth bench was about three inches out from the wall. I leaned in but couldn’t see anything in the dark space, so I kneeled on the floor and tried to fit my arm into the crack along the wall. I couldn’t get in very far and only retrieved an old receipt.

By this time, the restaurant staff and a few customers were very curious about my odd behavior, but I believed in Louis and wasn’t leaving without turning every stone! I looked back as far as I could into the crack and thought I could faintly see something back in the corner. I asked for a broom so I could reach all the way in and scoot out whatever was there, and the hostess told me that she could actually move the booth bench out.

When she did, my wallet appeared in the far depths of the corner. The hostess looked surprised, but I wasn’t because I had fully expected to find it there based on Louis’ dowsing. And it turned out that the wall and floor where the wallet had dropped were both green!

It would have lain there for years if I hadn’t had an unbi-ased dowser’s help. Thank you, Louis.

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DOWSING AND ENGINEERS

by E. E. Barnes

have been interested in dowsing for decades. Having married into a family with three engineers, I have had to deal with a lot of outright skepticism over the years, so my skin has become sort of thick. Additionally, once I was showing some students in school how the rods worked; my boss come over and said that if I wanted a career in physics, then I had better stop what I was do-ing publicly. I didn’t demo anymore on university property. A number of years back, I was visiting with a small engi-neering concern that was doing contract work for my employer. The owner, Jason, was a brilliant engineer, a rare person who had degrees in both electrical and mechanical engineering. Creative and very fast mentally, he was a meat–and-potatoes type of per-son. We were discussing our project when Jason mentioned that he was interested in expanding his lab complex and wanted to purchase the plot of land next door. The problem was that this adjacent two-acre plot perhaps had a drain issue (we were only about 50 feet above sea level), and it was important to know if the parcel of land had a buried drain (something fairly common in this part of the world) in place. The worth of the property, which had been used for Liberty ship construction during WWII, would be strongly influenced by the presence of an existing drain. I spoke up and said I might be able locate the drain pipe if one was there. Jason quickly said, “What do you need?” When I said, “Just a wire coat hanger and a pair of cutters,” his eyebrows rose up. Jason’s wife Mary said, “Barney, I’ve got to see this.” A few moments later I had a pair of L-rods, and the three of us walked next door to the property in question. The property wasn’t much to look at––just sandy soil and a few pine trees.

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I held the L-rods out in front of me and walked across the property, all the while being closely observed by Jason and Mary. Soon the L-rods opened up, and I marked the place in the sand. Jason’s eyebrows lifted further. Stone faces. Complete silence. I moved away from this point about 50 feet, repeated the test, and got another indication. I had a line. Another 50 feet further away and yet a third indica-tion was granted me. I had a true line. Now knowing where to look, I was able to see a faint trace in the ground where the soil had been disturbed. I indicated this, and we walked along this line. Neither Jason nor his wife had spoken yet. It was easy to see by their expressions that they had never seen anything quite like this before, but they were trying to deal with it. Following the line, we came to a buried storm drain grill. Sure enough, one could look through the grill and see where the drain pipe we had been following entered the wall of the drain. Buried drain verified. All three of us walked back to the lab complex. Nothing was said, but I noticed that neither Jason nor Mary walked very close to me as we returned. Once back inside the building, both of them sort of shook off what they had seen. Their expressions softened, and we continued with our discussion of the project un-derway. Neither dowsing nor the drain was ever mentioned again. I never did find out if Jason had bought the property with the drainpipe in place.

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DETERMINING DEPTH

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olks just getting their start in locating well sites have a limited knowledge of techniques used by successful field dowsers. Adopting any “fruitful” new method depends upon choices being made available for our trial and error. The an-nual ASD convention offers a pre-school plus lectures that expose one to instructors who generally offer similar tech-niques for determining both the depth and volume of water contained in any dowsed underground water source. “Cor-rect technique” is simply the one that proves accurate for you, and having exposure to several variations gives us all the op-portunity to sift through and then adopt the one(s) that have proven successful. I offer some techniques here with the sin-cere hope that other experienced water dowsers will enrich this column with their own addition to the written body of knowledge available. I’ll share my gpm techniques in a future article.

Living in the Adirondack Mountain range of northern New York (Canada is a scant 90 miles away), underground rock formations trap water that has previously been pressurized near the hot earth’s core into steam. Back pressure from rainwater and freshwater lake leakage that continuously descends, in obedience to the law of gravity, ensures a steady supply that is being pushed upward towards the earth’s surface. Locally, I rarely dowse more than 300 feet in depth to intersect many of these underground streams. Over time, this 300-foot limit has become a part of my initial depth-estimating “program.” Vastly different conditions exist just one hour south of here, however. Porous shale, clay bands, extensive mineral depos-its, sulphurous aquifers, underground seepage, and alluvial plain

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run-offs all offer their separate challenges; thus, different meth-ods are needed for accuracy thereabouts, such as in the Saratoga Springs and Ballston Spa regions, where most potable water sup-ply is found at less than 150 feet. Instruct a landowner to have the driller probe any deeper, and you’re likely to drill into a mineral-ized aquifer, and ‘flush’ a good water supply! Water dowsers living in our western states would be giddy to consistently find fresh water veins at such shallow depths. I would never attempt to dowse out in our Great Plains or in Range country without apprenticing under a dowser who is native to that particular locale. “Recalibrating” my depth-estimating pro-gram would be an essential step, then, anywhere west of the Mis-sissippi. Most water dowsers know of the “Bishop’s Rule,” whereby the depth of a water vein beneath the dowser’s feet is repeated through a mild 45-degree electromagnetic signal emitted from that vein. By walking in a perpendicular line away from your posi-tion, a signal is received at the same distance away from the dows-er’s original position, which is equal in distance to the vein’s depth below ground level. This method has its limitations, though, as rough terrain features, outbuildings, and property boundaries–and even other sources of water–will often interfere. So, I have learned to simply “count slowly” in increments of feet (one foot, or ten, or fifty, etc.) while in my dowsing “search posture,” and, standing directly over the vein, I will ask for a tool response when the count has exceeded the vein’s actual depth beneath the ground surface. Having bracketed the vein’s rough depth with the first signaled response, I then reduce the incre-ment count from, say, 50 feet down to 10 feet. Then I repeat the counting process, beginning now with that previous larger incre-ment. Then, I repeat this once again, only this time counting in one-foot increments, while waiting for the dowsing tool to signal me that I’ve exceeded the vein’s depth by just one foot. However, I have learned over the years, through drilling results and trial and error, that for whatever reasons, my ‘chemis-


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try’ will not measure through clay accurately! In sharing this dis-covery with others, I’ve found several dowsers who have this exact same clay band “glitch” of their own. This realization has led me to dowse the composition of the earth between my position over a water vein, down to the vein itself. When I find that a band of clay does exist, I will dowse its width (in feet) and after doubling that amount, add that additional footage into my depth calculations! If dowsers find that their own depth programming often shows inaccuracies given the actual drilling results, then perhaps by dowsing each separate differing layer of soil composition from a previous inaccurate dowsing of vein depth, they may learn they also have a ‘blind area,’ and can then successfully recalibrate their depth-estimating approach and effectively improve their depth prediction.

Learn To Dowse! Throughout the year across America, dowsers of every de-scription come together in local ASD Chapter meetings to practice, to learn new techniques and to renew old friendships. Newcomers are always welcome and are quickly taught the basics of this valuable and exciting new skill. They learn how to find water, lost people, missing objects, minerals, oil, gemstones, remedies, better health, environmental energies and much, much more. Our dowsers range from engineers to housewives, from drillers to businessmen, from contractors to students and teachers. You name it. Anyone can learn to dowse. If you think that you or someone you know would like to learn more about dowsing, contact the nearest ASD Chapter in your state. If our nearest chapter is hundreds of miles away, call our Na-tional Headquarters in Danville, Vermont, and we’ll introduce you to one or more of our members located closer to you. Often these initial contacts are the start of something big – like a completely new chapter! We’ll be happy to show you the steps.

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TIPS FROM A PRO

by Pauline Nobel

On page 36, Bruce Irwin presents his method of determining depth. This article, reprinted from the May 1981, Volume 21, No. 2 issue of The American Dowser, offers tips from Jack Livingston. We hope other water dowsers will add their wisdom to this discussion.

ack Livingston likes to use a bobber for counting off depth and volume of water veins. When he was dowsing for the Town of Greenwich, Massachusetts, last September, he used the end sec-tion of Sterling Nelson’s old bamboo fishing pole. Jack rests the thin end on the slightly curled fingers of his right hand, hooks his little finger around the end, snugs the ex-tended fingers of his left hand up against the right just to give additional support and steadiness to the rod, and snugs his right elbow into his waist. The heavier end of the bobber hovers close to the ground over the center of the vein. The end of the bobber begins to circle clockwise indicat-ing that there’s water down there. When it begins to bob up and down, Jack starts the countdown to the top of the first vein us-ing whatever multiples he chooses – units of 1, 5, or 10 are usu-ally most suitable depending on the depth of the top vein. At the closest multiple, the bobber stops bouncing and starts circling again, briefly, before once more bobbing. The count is now in single units to get the thickness of the vein. At the bottom of the vein, the circling starts again if there is another vein down below. The procedure is repeated until there are no more veins crossing through the site. The bobber indicates this by swinging from side to side. Once I asked Jack to teach me his method, and then real-ized that Sterling’s bamboo fishing pole was up in Bernardston in the trunk of Sterling’s car.


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“Oh, that’s OK,” said Jack, nonchalantly pulling a thin 5-inch metal rod out of his pocket. “I have a bobber right here.” He pulled out one end, and the little 5-inch rod extended out to 36 inches – it was a telescoping portable replacement an-tenna of the kind you can pick up at Radio Shack or any electronic or auto supply store. Later I picked up one of these extendable replacement an-tennas at Radio Shack. They had one for $2.99 that measures 7 1/2 inches closed and 38 inches extended. Another at $5 measures only 5 inches folded, a very convenient size to carry in pocket or purse, and extends to 34 inches.

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DOWSING FOR NOTHING AT ALL

by Bruce Irwin

he room provided for my stay at the high-end Rye, NY chain hotel early this past spring cost $300 a night. “Wow,” I thought, “I’m going to be reclining in style!” The job of locat-ing water on a spacious acre abutting Long Island Sound, amid screaming seagulls, started as an adventure. Winter’s white turned to springtime greenery as I headed southward. Checking into the hotel that evening, my thoughts turned to my standing guarantee of dowsing potable water-well sites only, and here I was to be working at salt water’s edge. I’d better remember to double check that the chosen vein flows toward the shoreline!

“A 500-mile trek just to dowse a well,” I chuckled. Or so I thought…

Upon meeting the owner’s architect at the lot early the next morning, I learned that the new property owner, the presi-dent of a Fortune 500 company, was of German-Austrian extrac-tion and that he wasn’t interested in drilling a well at all. Instead, he planned to reconnect with Rye Township waterlines, just as the previous owner had. That’s all the architect knew, and I was thoroughly puzzled!

I made an on-site phone call to the CEO for clarification. He revealed that he simply wanted to insure that, for the sake of his family’s good health, no noxious energy emanations existed within the planned foundation area of the new building. Welcome to 21st century dowsing!! Water dowsing has expanded to meet additional public needs, and these include the shared awareness of how noxious energies can affect our heath.

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This property owner, having European roots, was an excellent ex-ample of this awareness. Kathe Bachler, noted Austrian health researcher, had already published her famous work, Earth Radia-tions, in which she cited several hundred cases where sleeping ar-eas, situated directly above noxious energy emanations from un-derground flowing water, were related to health issues. This new European property owner was well aware of this research, and so had requested my dowsing in hopes of not finding any noxious water vein conditions or other negative energy sources!

In addition to the absence of any water vein beneath the proposed foundation, I found no other harmful energy areas pres-ent. Energy lines, burial sites, ceremonial areas, etc., all dowsed to be clear. Although I have never received any lengthy mentor-ing in the more esoteric energy areas, just having an awareness of them and then trusting my dowsing results, has worked well for me.

I’ve always heard that in some European countries, a state-licensed dowser is required to inspect any new residential build-ing lot before construction can begin. Being that many of those countries have fully socialized health care, that they would not want chronically ill folks occupying hospital beds seems logical! Many private health insurers on the continent also have noxious energy inspection requirements.

That $300 hotel room down in Rye was no fancier than our north country HoJo’s $70-per-night single. It was reassuring that, before unpacking, when I dowsed for noxious energies in the room where I would sleep that night, the L-rods never moved.

Like the European CEO, I’d say our modern dowsing knowledge is… priceless!

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DOWSING FROM KNOWING TO GNOWING

by Sig Lonegren

The End of the Beginning y mother taught me to dowse back in the late fifties. My first experience was when she handed me a pair of wire coat-hanger L-rods and asked me to dowse for where the village water pipe came into our home. I dowsed for this pipe, found where it entered the house, then went down into our cellar and could see that the water supply pipe did indeed enter our basement at ex-actly the point where I had dowsed outside. Eureka! It worked. Around that time, the American Society of Dowsers (ASD) had been formed as an extension of a group of local Vermont old-time water dowsers who had been gathering on the Danville Green in September each year. Verification occurs for the water dowser when a driller hits the water at the exact location, depth, and gallons per minute s/he had dowsed. These veins of under-ground water are verifiable physical targets. The ability (and dare I say, the gift) to find water was so important to the survival of every community that it was the only type of this ancient art that was tolerated and allowed to get through the burning times. So it was only natural in the 1950s for me to begin by seeing dowsing as a tool to explore physical targets, and especially water, and these remained the main targets of interest in the ASD for the next de-cade. It wasn’t until the seventies that things began to change. As an expression of this, the theme at one of the ASD conventions was Dowsing: It Isn’t Just for Water Anymore! In the late sixties at a site called Calendar II in central Ver-mont, thanks to the inspiration of both my mother and master dowser Terry Ross, I first experienced the realm of intangible tar-gets. Dowsing could help me see and communicate with these realms!

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Of course, prior to the early seventies, while the ASD was mostly looking for water as well as other physical targets, there were some dowsers who were interested in things like auras and ghosts (read: intangible targets). This was certainly the case in the UK, where even as long ago as the 1930s and 1940s, mem-bers of the British Society of Dowsers (BSD) had been involved with the intangible world. I remember hearing many stories from Terry about the spirit retrieval work British dowsers did on the European battlefields after the carnage of WWII to help the shell-shocked dead move on. Even before then, in the 1920s in Germa-ny, some dowsers were looking at what they called Krebs Häuser or Cancer Houses. These were places where family after family got cancer in one particular home, but not the ones right next to it. (They found crossings of underground veins of primary water under these “sick” houses.) But in the US, even into the late seventies when I was working on my Masters Degree in the study of Sacred Space, I felt that I had to be careful when doing intangible target dowsing in public at places that I was studying. My first experience with this was when I was on a field trip with the New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA). The group entered the site, but Dr. Eleanor Ott (my other mentor, along with Terry, for my Mas-ters) and I lagged behind. I remember how we hid behind a largish standing stone and snuck out our dowsing tools, making sure that we were out of the line of sight of the rest of the group before we dowsed the earth energies there. Fortunately, as dowsing moved into the eighties, it became an accepted tool in NEARA and oth-er similar groups. For example, Ros Strong has served both as a Trustee of the American Society of Dowsers and as President of NEARA. I had the honor of being on both of these boards myself. The late 60s, 70s, and 80s were a wonderful time for people who were interested in ancient sacred sites. Archaeologists, us-ing modern techniques, could tell us a great deal about what was there, when it was built, and possible astronomical alignments. (Watch out there, boy, on that last one, you’re skating on thin aca-demic ice!) But, the earth mystery folks, including energy dows-

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ers, were more focused on exploring the non-physical aspects of these spaces.

On Gnowing I believe that there are at least two distinct and equally important ways of perceiving reality. Sadly, more and more, as we approached the end of the second millennium, those who relied on physical data for their interpretation of the past became less and less tolerant of the rest of us who were using means other than the scientific methodology to explore these ancient sites. As a result, this intuitively derived information was increasingly poo-pooed and disparaged by the scientific and academic communi-ties as irrelevant. My read on this is that they are looking at the past with only one eye open – the right eye (gateway to the left/more ana-lytical/rational brain). And at the same time, for example, here in Glastonbury in the mid-eighties, there were many New Agers who had swung to the opposite pole, viewing these prehistoric sites only with their left eye open (gateway to the right/creative/intuitive brain). It is my conviction that it is time for both sides to open both eyes, and then we can all look at the past with a clearer vision and have a more holistic understanding. I call this Gnow-ing – to use information consciously derived from both sides of the brain (ideally at the same time, or at least as quickly after each other as possible), and to value this information equally. This coming together to look at the past is still not a full reality (not by a long shot), and, it remains still looking just into the past.

The Spiritual Path I was on the spiritual path even before my first experience with the intangible realms in 1970 at Calendar II. The archaeolo-gists called chambers like this “colonial root cellars.” However, for intangible target dowsers, there has always been the implica-tion that these ancient sites were used for spiritual purposes; yet, sacred space was something that was much more researched and spoken about by all of us rather than experienced or acted upon.


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While the term water witching takes us in one direction (back to the past), another word for dowsing is divining, and it can lead us in a different direction: to the Divine. My Swedish grandfather, Ernst Lönegren, was active in the first part of the 20th century in the ecumenical movement that worked to bring the various denominations of Christianity together in Europe. I would say that I am hyper-ecumenical. I have explored numerous different cultures’ religious paths and have learned important les-sons from each of them; but I have always been leery about bring-ing in just one path to dowsing groups. The problem/reality is that we all walk different paths. It is the nature of our work. Some are very Christian. Others are Pagans, Native American, Hindu, Mythological Greeks, Spiritualists, etc., etc. It’s an old cliché that there are numerous paths up to the top of the mountain, but they all lead to the same place. It is time for those of us who seek to use binocular vision while look-ing at the past also begin using the gnowledge we have learned from our holistic look at the days-of-old, and to now use it to look more clearly into the present and into the future. The trick, when speaking to dowsers, is how to do this so everyone’s individual spiritual path is honored.

Conclusion In the past hundred years, dowsing in ancient sacred sites began by being primarily focused on physical target dowsing –– like where is the best place to begin an archaeological dig. Mean-while, the earth energy dowsers became more interested in the energies associated with sacred space, and what their patterns are. I believe as dowsers, many of us are now fully saturated with both these kinds of information about the past, and it is time for us to move on and use these special places on our planet to fo-cus more on the now and to work on our own individual spiritual growth. Dowsing has shown us the way.

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CAN YOU FIND A MASTODON ON A PIG FARM?The Mastodon Project

by Susan Collins

an you find a mastodon on a pig farm? It turns out the answer is a resounding MAYBE at Brenda Jackson’s farm near St. Thomas, Ontario. With Brenda’s encouragement, we are setting out to map dowse and eventually field dowse for the whereabouts of mastodon bones at the farm. I invite you to participate in the map dowsing portion of the project. Dowsing amplifies what the body senses, and it’s possi-ble to find mastodon bones by “zoning in” to the frequencies of those ancient animals. Map dowsing can be used to locate people and things when you can’t get there in person. A method of map dowsing is presented further on in the article, along with a series of questions for you to dowse. Please send me your results. I will collect them and use them as a basis for the field dowse in the spring of 2011. Brenda, a member of London Dowsers (a local group of the Canadian Society of Dowsers) has lived and worked her farm for years, and has always been aware that sometime, around 150 years ago, a partial mastodon skeleton was dug up near her property. Nobody knows exactly where the skeleton was found, but it is known that long ago one of its massive tusks ended up at the Niagara Falls Museum. The museum was later purchased by Toronto collector Billy Jamieson who still displays the tusk in his facility. An interesting side bar to the mastodon story is that the museum also contained several Egyptian mummies. One of the mummies was later authenticated as the remains of Pharaoh Ramses 1 which were eventually sent home to Egypt. But that’s another story. Brenda asked me to join a preliminary mastodon investi-gation at her farm in the fall of 2010. The sun had just risen when I set out for the farm on a cold November morning. Thin clouds


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streaked the western sky and by the time I was close to St. Thom-as, the clouds had condensed to a chilly, wet mist that settled over the highway, obscuring the fields on either side. Reaching the farm by mid-morning, I was greeted by an enthusiastic scramble of dogs and cats in the yard. Horses stood by ready to be saddled and ridden where needed. Brenda’s daugh-ter rescued me from the curious throng of animals, and we went inside to a room that contained more dogs as well as cages of birds and other furry creatures, some of which Brenda and her family adopted as rescue animals. The investigative team arrived over the next half hour, and we crowded around Brenda’s kitchen table, talking about the life cycle of mastodons and the likelihood of finding another skeleton

on the farm. The American mastodon (Mammut americanum) roamed North America from at least 3.75 million to 11,000 years ago. They were huge, shaggy animals standing between 2.5 and 3 me-ters at the shoulder, about twice as tall as a horse. They weighed

between 3500 and 5400 kilograms, about three times the weight of a North American car, and had long, upward-curving tusks up to five meters in length. In 2009 the Department of Earth and Environmental Sci-ences at the University of Waterloo began to investigate and re-cord the remains of mastodons and mammoths found in southern Ontario. To date, 98 mastodon, 32 mammoth, and 30 indetermi-nate proboscidea (the name of the group that includes our mod-ern elephant) sites have been recorded in Southern Ontario. The largest concentrations of the mastodon sites are along the north shore of Lake Erie. According to the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa, most mastodon remains have been found in depos-its that postdate the last glaciation period in southern Ontario,

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which means they could still be relatively intact! As we sat in Brenda’s kitchen, someone asked how paleobi-ologists usually locate bones, and the reply was that they normally wait for a call from someone, often a farmer, who has plowed up large bones and thinks to let the museum know about it. For sci-entists to go and find an unknown skeleton would be like finding a needle in haystack. They just don’t go into the field unless there is some evidence bones are there. Of course this is where dowsers can help, although to be honest, I don’t want to go looking for a needle in a haystack ei-ther. Dowsers are good at locating things they can’t see, simply by using their tools and ability to connect their conscious minds to their subconscious and super-conscious (all that is) energy sys-tem. We walked the farm, following the edges of fields and streams on the property and monitoring the natural features of the area that could have supported mastodon herds 11,000 years ago. I did a preliminary field dowse to locate mastodon remains, but before I tell you my results, I’d like your help as map dowsers to give Brenda and me the coordinates to dig in the spring. As part of the process of engaging other dowsers in the Mastodon Project, I worked with the CSD group, Spirit of Well-ness, to craft the questions that follow. For our collective results

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to be meaningful, it is best if we all ask the same questions; how-ever, if you feel strongly that there is another question to ask, then by all means include it. I would personally be very grateful if anyone with a sincere interest in this would take the time to review the map dowsing procedures given below, and then dowse the questions and send me your results. Our work could lead to a new discovery, as well as provide verification of where the other mastodon bones were dug up in the past. This is also a wonderful opportunity to dem-onstrate to the scientific community that dowsing can be part of a scientific investigation. PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN! I will have information posted on my website, www.dowser.ca, under the heading The Mastodon Project, so send a copy of this article or the weblink to anyone you think would be interested in participating. If you’d like to see a real mastodon skeleton in person, check with a large museum near you. The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto has an impressive skeleton which gives you a good sense of the size of these beasts. Sources: Royal Ontario Museum Website www.rom.on.ca; William Jamieson website: www.head-hunter.com/; Illinois State Museum www.museum.state.il.us; Canadian Museum of Nature http://nature.ca,; University of Waterloo http://earth.uwaterloo.ca; Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/.

Map Dowsing Procedure1. Use a Dowsing Protocol to connect with the best and highest good. If you don’t have one, you can use the one on page 29. 2. State clearly what you are looking for. 3. Slide a ruler slowly across the map of the pig farm (see page 52) vertically with your non-dominant hand, while holding the pendulum in your dominant hand. Ask that the pendulum give you a dowsing response when the straight edge crosses the target. 4. When your pendulum responds, draw a vertical line at

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that point. 5. Now slowly slide the ruler horizontally across the picture and ask for a dowsing response. Draw a line.6. Mark where the lines intersect. 7. Confirm the target with a yes/no dowsing response.8. If you get a no, then fine tune your search in that area (e.g., “Is it to the left of the mark?” “Is it above the mark?”) Dowsing Questions for the Project

Please take your time with these questions:1. Does the mastodon skeleton that was dug up in the St. Thomas area about 150 years ago come from the area represented by this map? 2. (If yes) Please show me the map coordinates where the mastodon skeleton was dug up in the St. Thomas area about 150 years ago. (Use map dowsing procedure above.)3. Are there any mastodon bones that can be located within the coordinates represented by this satellite photograph? 4. (If yes) Please show me what the coordinates are on this satellite image where most mastodon bones are located. 5. In the location where the most mastodon bones are, at what depth (in feet) are the bones? (Now map dowse.)

Please send me your answers either by scanning them and emailing them or giving me the map coordinates (the alpha and numeric codes at the top and side.) I've already had some submis-sions, and I plan to do a follow-up that details the overall map-dowsing results and who participated (generally, not by name). I currently have responses from Spain and England, as well as the US and Canada, and of course, the results of the field dowse. Good hunting!


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Susan Collins of King City, Ontario, is a professional dowser, author, and work-shop leader with a dynamic private practice. She is a past President and Dowser of the Year (2006) of the Canadian Society of Dowsers. Contact: 905-833-2440, [email protected]. Website: www.dowser.ca FACEBOOK: Susan Collins Dowser; Twitter: SusanDowser.

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TRESPASSING ON LUGHNASADH

This poem tells a story about a favorite summertime activ-ity of my family–berry picking on Big Squam Lake in New Hamp-shire. I was inspired by reading one of Rev. Sig Lonegren's articles about the rhythms of nature in the Celtic world, and the signifi-cance of day signs. This poem plays with the wisdom of as-ye-sow-so-shall-ye-reap.

Lulled by breeze and wave on a narrow green isthmus,a blueberry forestyields up its juicy treasure

until two nine-year-oldstorm troopers, deputized by their grandfather on the hillstart a waron Lughnasadh,the Celtic feast daywhen harvest begins:l’il sheaves of hell.

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF INVESTIGATIONSINTO THE MECHANISMS OF DOWSING

by Steven G. Herbert

n 1913, a Frenchman and biologist by the name of Armand Vire, conducted a classic series of tests with several dowsers over the subterranean tunnels of Paris. The dowsers were not only able to successfully and accurately locate the tunnels, but to precisely judge their depths as well. However, though other experiments could be cited which have been similarly impressive, the majority of incidences where dowsers have been tested under controlled laboratory conditions have admittedly given poor results. We can speculate on the reasons why. The dowser is the quintessential empiricist–for example, caring only about what works for true need–and a laboratory setting is not conducive to retrieving ac-curate information. Furthermore, such investigations, even when successful, have little effect; religion may attribute such success to a pact with the Devil, or science may ignore successes due to lack of an explanation of an underlying mechanism fitting current sci-entific theory or worldview. Therefore, it is more productive that we should be moving past debates about whether dowsing works, and focus instead on why or how it works. Nobel Laureate Charles Richet said as much when he wrote, “We must accept dowsing as fact. It is useless to work up experiments merely to prove its exis-tence. It exists. What is needed is development.” Some of the first hypotheses put forth in the attempt to explain how dowsing works included Descartes’ theory of “cor-puscular bodies”. This involved emissions by the target of tiny, invisible particles, or “subtle matter.” Another similar but com-peting theory originated with Democritoa and Epicures of classi-cal Greece. They posited that the universe was composed of tiny particles, termed “atoms,” which directly affected the dowsing rods. These hypotheses were somewhat ahead of their times, as through the centuries to the present day, theories seem to reflect

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the technologies current to the times and provide analogies to help explain the dowsing mechanism. For example, by the late 1700s, electricity, sometimes combined with magnetism, began to be proposed as a possible component of the dowsing reaction. At the turn of the 20th century, the discovery of x-rays and radio-activity gave investigators another explanation of the effect of a target on the dowser or his instrument by waves as well as parti-cles. With the advent of radio, theorists could use the analogy that a dowser needed to “tune in” to his or her target like a radio dial, to eliminate what is not being sought. With the dawn of the com-puter age, dowsers began to talk about the need to “program” his or her search, describing the dowsing process as a “search engine” to portray the way a dowser carefully discriminates in locating the exact target desired. The first attempt that we know of to actually conduct sci-entific experiments on the phenomenon of dowsing was by a 17th century Jesuit priest, Father Athanasius Kircher. By devising a va-riety of instruments made of various metals and independently testing the reactions of the dowser to a number of metals, his con-clusion was that the rod did not move of itself but rather was caused to move by invol-untary and subtle muscular movements of the dowser. We fast forward now to 1970, when physiologist and psychologist Dr. Jan Mer-ta, after visiting the annual convention of the American Society of Dowsers, decided to conduct tests to help shed some light on how dowsing works. Up until then, the de-bate had remained centered upon whether some external force worked directly upon the

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dowsing instrument, or indirectly through involuntary muscular movements in the hands of the dowser. Some felt that it might be some combination. Merta designed a test of muscular con-traction, recording movements of the carpi radialis flexor in the wrist area simultaneously with the rod. What he found was that there was a response detected first in the wrist, and then a half second pause before a movement was detected in the rod. His findings were helpful in solving a piece of the puzzle, hinting that the dowser was the initial detector. It did little, however, to tell us about the force itself, or how it acted on either hand or instru-ment. A definite explanation continued to elude investigators. A consensus began to evolve, however, that the rod by itself was not a detector of the material being searched. Nor did it interact with it. It respond-ed only when in the hand of the dowser, but if the rod pulled with a force that peeled the bark off the stick in the hands of the dowser, another force had to be in-volved. Further confusing the matter was the fact that how the rod responded de-pended on what the dows-er was looking for. Thus it would also seem that an intelligence independent of the dowser was involved, which sparked the religious debate over whether that influence was of the heav-enly or infernal realms. Still, the cause of the force which moved the rods remained a mystery.

The author demonstrates that the Y-rod moves against the resistance of the

grip, and cannot be explained by subtle muscular movements. The force that

moves the dowsing instrument is still a mystery.

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We go back now to the opening years of the 19th century, to Johann Wilhelm Ritter, considered the father of electrochem-istry and developer of the dry-cell battery, who began extensive experimentation with the pendulum. One of his observations was that the pendulum moved in repeatable patterns when held over specific materials. In France, a chemist by the name of Mi-chel-Eugene Chevreul, discovered independently the signature movements of the pendulum over corresponding materials. This seemed to give credence to the corpuscular and atomist theories which stated that all tangible objects and substances radiated out a stream of particles of the same nature. But first, Chevreul had to settle the debate over whether involuntary muscular movements affected the pendulum. Sup-porting his arm at various points from shoulder to palm, he noted that the closer the support came to the hand, the more dimin-ished the response of the pendulum. Once the palm was rendered immobile, so was the pendulum. This seemed to support the in-voluntary muscular theory, at least as applied to the pendulum. Perhaps Chevreul was unaware of the experiments of the French physician Pierre Thouvenel, a proponent of the role of electromagnetism in dowsing. Thouvenel hooked wires between the hands of his dowser subjects and the ends of their dowsing sticks, and induced a charge from a hand-cranked device to the wires. Though the dowser was not otherwise in contact with the rods, he still caused them to move. This further reinforced the greater role of the dowser over the tool. Thouvenel’s experiments were corroborated in the mid-1800’s by a Monsieur F. de Briche, who on a table constructed a suspended wooden bar over which he suspended a pendulum. Under the pendulum he would place a substance which was ex-pected to evoke a signature pattern. When the dowser placed a finger on the string in the middle of the bar, the pendulum would go into motion, even though the dowser was prevented from physically causing the motion. The role of the dowser was now established as essential.


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An Englishwoman by the name of Rutter in a similar experiment would come to the same conclusion. In Rut-ter’s experiment, the subject touched a copper sphere which held a metal arm from which the pendulum was suspended by a silk thread. Though further removed from the pendulum than was the case in the de Briche experiment, the subject was still able to cause the pendulum to move. It seemed the subjects of both experi-ments could send an energy along a pathway to the pendulum, regardless of whether that pathway was a con-ductive material or not. Rutter’s ex-periment was in turn duplicated by an Austrian chemist by the name of Baron Karl von Reichenbach, known as the discoverer of paraffin and cre-osote. Both established that the en-ergy could not be simply electrical.

Reichenbach posited that the effect was due to an energy that traveled slower than electricity and equated it to the colorful energy fields certain sensitives could see around the human body, called “auras”. His name for this energy was “odic force”, adding to a long list of names that others have given it. Most notably, later in the 20th century was Wilhelm Reich who called it “orgone.” About the same time, Professor Leonid Vasiliev in Leningrad, research-ing telepathic communication, was reaching similar conclusions about the existence of a yet unknown energetic phenomenon as-sociated with living organisms and associated carrier waves that facilitated their communication. Engineers Eugeny Simonov and Doris Tareyev, writing in the respected journal of electrical engineering Elektrichestvo,

A simulation of the de Briche experiment that

demonstrated movement of the pendulum indepen-

dent of subtle muscular movement: all materials

emit signature energies, the dowser is the receptor, and

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stated that the forces involved with the dowsing reaction could not simply be explained “as an effect of electrostatic or geomag-netic fields”. Similarly, Nikolai Sochevanov in 1978, speaking to other physicists of the Moscow Society for Natural Scientific In-vestigation, hypothesized the existence of a distinct field separate from the already known gravitational and electromagnetic fields. By now, theories were becoming a combination of physical and spiritual, the distinction of the dowser as detector or transmitter became blurred, and it was generally agreed that the energy mov-ing was of a type not wholly understood. They and other investigators further observed that the sensitivities of dowsers were sometimes far greater than the most sophisticated equipment of the time. Reaching a similar conclu-sion, Alexander Ogilvy even stated courageously in his textbook, Geophysical Prospecting Methods, “The body is a living organism plus a conductive circuit that reacts to some distortion of elec-tromagnetic or other unknown physical fields that arise around ore deposits, moving underground water, or breaks in rock layers. There is nothing mystical in this.”

One avenue of research pursued by physicist Dr. Zaboj V. Harvalik, an immigrant to the US from Czechoslavakia, was to elucidate what particular part of the body, if any, served as a re-ceptor for the wave energy of magnetic fields. A particular alloy given the name of “Mu-metal” was known to have the ability to block magnetic field effects. With this, Harvalik determined that the dowser could indeed be blocked from being a receptor. Find-ing that aluminum could also be an effective blocker, he tested the bodies of dowsers in action with progressively smaller and

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smaller screens until he had isolated two areas. Those two areas he determined were the adrenal glands and the pituitary gland, the former being the horizontal sensor and the latter the verti-cal sensor. Together the three points, he postulated, allowed the sensing mechanism to locate the source in space. Another important study of the early 1970’s would take this investigation further into the realm of the mental and spiri-tual. Dr. C. Maxwell Cade of London was a physicist and biologist, but also was a black belt and judo master, as well as a forty-year practitioner of yoga. He and his associate, Mr. Geoffrey Blundell, an electronics expert, redesigned an electroencephalograph to measure the activity in each hemisphere of the brain simultane-ously. Whereas the human brain normally vibrates between 0 and 60 cycles per second (Hertz), Dr. Cade focused on the range 0 to 38 Hz. Each frequency range is associated with a corresponding state of consciousness. What is termed the Beta range (13-30 Hz), for example, characterizes a normal waking state. The Alpha level (8-13 Hz) typifies a resting state common in reverie or daydream-ing. Theta (4-7 Hz) is expected during dreaming sleep; and Delta, the lowest frequency, (1/2 to 4 Hz) corresponds with the state of dreamless sleep. The two men quantified the signal’s amplitude in microvolts. Cade and Blundell’s tests went on for six years and in-volved over 3,000 people. The results were published in a book Dr. Cade coauthored with Nona Coxhead, The Awakened Mind – Biofeedback and the Development of Higher States of Awareness (1979). The subjects ranged from beginning students of medita-tion to accomplished yogis, psychics, and healers. Asymmetrical brain activity was common in the waking state with much more symmetry evident at lower frequencies. It was crucial, they found, to the mastering of higher states of consciousness, to develop the ability to conceptualize in mental images. Mastery of meditation produced a characteristic profile with smaller peaks at Beta and Theta, high Alpha, and no Delta. This pattern was also characteris-tic of the psychics and healers. There was some variation with the

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length of time this state could be maintained. Those most adept showed the greatest stability, even when going about normal daily activities. This type of person typically lived “a life whose primary focus is joy, happiness, and gratitude for being alive, along with a deep concern for the welfare of others.” Psychiatrist Dr. Edith M. Jurka would take Cade and Blundell’s testing a step further. At the 1982 annual convention of the American Society of Dowsers, Dr. Jurka tested seven master dowsers. In each, with some variation, she found the same pat-tern as was characteristic of the most adept meditators…with a surprise. The master dowsers showed a stronger Beta peak and an additional high peak in the Delta range. This pattern, Dr. Jurka surmised, is due to the dowser using normal consciousness to for-mulate the search and operate the instrument, while using mental imagery to visualize the target while in the service of others, and most importantly, to reach out with another aspect of conscious-ness toward a Higher Level of Mind and Spirit for answers to the questions. Finally a mechanism was now emerging to explain the

Dr. Jurka’s research showed how abstract information can be accessed from a deeper and higher level of Mind. (See References.)


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dowsing of intangible targets and abstract information. The cumulative research over centuries of countless ex-periments has produced certain conclusions.

1. There is a coincidence of reaction in the dowser’s hand with a movement of the instrument, the former occurring a fraction of a second before the latter. But it does not necessarily follow that one causes the other. The theory of minute muscular contractions causing the movements of the tool doesn’t hold up, as a forked stick can move with great force against the resistance of the dowser’s grip. A pendulum can be moved even when the cord is immobilized between the weight and the dowser touching the end of the cord. However, the dowser must be in some way in contact with the instrument. The tool can be caused to move, but it was even more significant to discover that a non-conducting material will work as well. Therefore, it would appear we are truly dealing with energies not yet understood and not limited to the electromagnetic. Likewise, the force that moves the in-strument is as much a mystery as ever, but it is evident from this and the fact that a dowser’s search can be so precisely refined that an intelligence is involved external to the dowser, or at least to the dowser’s ego.

2. All things emit signature energies, whether organic or inorganic. There are certain organs of the body which function as receptors of energies. The adrenals and pi-tuitary glands are examples, at least for electromagnetic energies. Physiological reactions or somatic cues can take the place of the dowsing instrument, which is not a receptor in itself but at best a “read-out device”. The auric field of a person can be a receptor of information or a sensor of energies, and this is why good auric health and a properly functioning chakra system is of primary importance for accuracy in dowsing. Furthermore, a

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person can resonate or reach out with the energy field to the target. Neither physical, energetic, mental/intuitive/psychic, or spiritual theories alone can give the whole explanation for the phenomenon of dowsing. The truth likely is some combination of all of the above.

3. There are different levels of dowsing, and at each level the various mechanisms operate differently with respect to each other. The ability to dowse seems to be innate in all humans, at least with respect to water dowsing, even if the ability needs to be unblocked, induced, or cultivat-ed with practice. A regular practice of meditation is ex-tremely beneficial to keeping one spiritually in tune for dowsing, as are exercises to balance the communication between the two hemispheres of the brain. Especially at the higher levels, it is important to maintain oneself as a pure and open channel for accessing higher levels of Mind and Spirit.

REFERENCESBird, Christopher, The Divining Hand: The 500-Year Old Mystery of Dowsing, New Age Press: North Carolina, 1979.Harvalik, Z. V.: “Signal Sensitivity Determination of Dowsers,” The American Dowser, Vol. 10, No 4, p. 172 (1970).Jurka, Edith, “Brain Patterns Characteristic of Dowsers: As Mea-sured on the Mind Mirror,” American Dowser, 1983, February 23(1):5-11

Steve Herbert is a 26-year member of the American Society of Dowsers and has served for 14 years as Secretary of the ASD’s Water for Humanity Fund. He is an earth scientist, transpersonal anthropologist, internation-al development worker and writer. Steve offers his services domestically as a dowser of water and earth energies. The above article is excerpted from a book in progress on applications of dowsing to agriculture. He can be reached at (603) 616-7872 or [email protected].

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CIS THE URGE TO PURGE ALSO AN URGE TO MERGE?

by Christan Hummel

leanliness is next to godliness. We’ve all heard these words, especially when our mothers were trying to get us to clean our rooms. But surely that doesn’t mean to suggest that a clean kitch-en counter or bedroom makes one more holy? Or does it?

Could this dictum have been referring to an inner clean-ing? Is there a spiritual dimension to clearing the excess baggage in our space, whether it be the inner space of our consciousness, our thoughts, emotions, and old habits, or the outer space of our environments?

In fact, the two are intimately connected. The thoughts we think do not disappear after we have finished thinking them. Ac-cording to the occult literature of C.W. Leadbeater, Annie Besant, Madame Blavatsky, Alice Bailey, and others of the Theosophi-cal lineage, every thought we think creates a form on the mental plane. If nothing is done to them, these forms stay in our auras, conditioning our reactions to events, and creating a filter through which we see and interpret “reality.” I say “reality” because quan-tum physics has acknowledged that there is not One Empirical Reality that we are all perceiving universally, but instead that “re-ality” is continually morphing to the perceptions of the observer. WOW!

So if we are carrying around old thoughts of “Mommie didn’t love me.” or “Daddy can’t be trusted.” or “Life is a struggle.” or whatever emo-mental baggage is still stuffed away in the inner closets of our consciousness, then the “reality” we perceive is fil-tered through this lens, and we experience a self-fulfilling proph-ecy: abandonment, lack of support, not feeling loved or valued for our worth. On and on the story of our internal creation goes as it projects out upon the movie screen of our lives.

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So, cleanliness is next to godliness. Can it be that we are gods in human form; and that to know that as our “reality,” we must first clean the lens of our internal cameras which are pictur-ing the individual realities we experience? Would we then see the godliness of others and the world around us as well?

It is said that when an aspiration begins to reach the world-ly existence of mundane life – food, survival, procreation, and ful-filling our desired nature – it initiates a response from our own soul, the first connection each of us has to the Godhead. Once that response is activated, a downpour of spiritual light descends into our personality vehicles and our outer lives as the soul goes to work purifying the lower vessel to make it ready to receive the downpour of higher vibrations.

Is it possible that this process works in reverse as well? That as we clear our own internal and external temple spaces, we ready them for the influx of the divine light, allowing it to flow within us more readily?

If it is true that this happens in our own lives, then would it not also apply to our home environments as well? According to Denise Linn, author of Creating Sacred Space: “Not only can your home help to strengthen and heal you, but your home can be a template of harmony within which you and all who enter can be invited to step up to a higher level of spiritual frequency.”

As we clear the physical clutter of our homes, do we open the space for more light and life energy to flow into our lives and dwellings? Feng shui experts would say yes, as would many a professional organizer; but what about the occultist? Is there a basis for making these kinds of connections? Thinking about the concept of thoughtforms, according to clairvoyants, dowsers, and psychics who are attuned to such things, thoughtforms are said to also linger in our environments–not just for a few days, months, or years, but indefinitely until they are destroyed or transmuted by a higher frequency!! WOW, again! So does that mean that if


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my apartment complex is on the site of an ancient Indian burial ground or massacre, that my environment is swimming in the as-tral soup of that earlier experience? In a word: yep!

Hence the need for clearing ceremonies which are found round the world from the Catholic Church to the Maori in New Zealand. Every culture has one, regardless of their different forms, and they are all addressing the same problem: the ancient thoughts and vibrations left over from the past which are still im-printed in our current space. So, what kind of “cleaners” do we use for such situations? Spiritual Ajax? Etheric scrubbing bubbles?

The methods and techniques are varied and diverse, but all have intention as a common theme. Whether you use lemongrass oil, or chant a mantra, or do a sacred dance, if the intention is to use the higher vibrations to transmute and transform the energies from the past, then the objective is met—with one very impor-tant ingredient needed first: we must first be that higher vibration we choose to imprint into our space. The transformational power doesn’t lie in the stick of incense or the rattle or drum or the laby-rinth. These are the tools and vehicles through which we channel our higher vibrations and intentions into our space. So we must first be in touch with our own soul essence, the spark of divinity which exists in each and every living thing; and from that point we project a part of that divine essence into our space. This is the transforming element.

If, then, it is true that this process which works for our own auras also works for our homes, then would it not follow that it is possible to clear the planetary miasmas and collective pain of humanity which is still lodged in the gridlines and sacred points of the earth? As above, so below is the basic Hermetic law that af-firms the holographic nature of the universe: what works at the level of the microcosm also works for the macrocosm. In fact, for the last 13 years, I’ve been privileged to be part of a grassroots network around the world which has been applying these prin-ciples to strategic areas of the earth to clear them of their past

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imprints of violence, abuse, and destruction. The result has been an influx of light and life into these sacred points and the network of light that surrounds the planet. In the communities where this work has been done, the “cleaning” that ensues has taken the form of decreased incidence or severity of pollution, crime, and earth-quakes, and even balancing of distortions in the weather! Is it pos-sible that global warming has as much to do with our carbon foot-print as with our etheric one? Could it be that the “earth changes” predicted can be mitigated as we clear our earth of the karmic imprints of the past?

My experience with this suggests that we do have a co-creative role in what transpires on this planet as she, a living, conscious being, readies herself for the descent of the higher vi-brations entering into her body. To do so, she too is clearing the debris, sometimes through the “earth changes” we are witnessing. However, if assisted through our co-creative efforts first, then a more gentle transition becomes possible.

I would invite you to take the time to go within and see on what levels you are ready to be clear of the past—for cleanliness is next to godliness!

Christan Hummel is the author of the Do It Yourself Space Clearing Kit and is an international lecturer and workshop leader. She has presented before the Gatekeepers Conference in the UK and at the British Society of Dowsers, as well as at both Canadian and American dowsers conferences and at Feng Shui schools and conferences interna-tionally. She has taught thousands around the world how to create sa-cred space in their homes and cities through connecting with the divine in nature and ourselves. Visit her at www.earthtransitions.com

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THE EFFECT OF VOCAL SCANNING ON BRAINWAVE ACTIVITY

by Damaris Drewry, Ph.D

e all have a unique Vibrational Signature, a matrix of fre-quencies that can be activated using sound, light, aromatherapy, homeopathy, and intent. Since the mid-80s, I have used my speak-ing and toning voice to help other people reclaim the right and the power to heal themselves physically, emotionally, and spiritu-ally.

Because of my lifelong interest in the power of the human voice to transform and energize body, mind, and spirit, I conduct-ed an experiment in 1999 to explore the relationship between the vocal resonation of an individual’s fundamental frequency and the body’s natural tendency to return to a state of health (homeo-stasis). This study accepts, as given, numerous studies that dem-onstrate relationship between homeostasis and theta brainwave frequencies.

This pilot study traces the changes in brainwave activity during an individual’s experience of resonance with his/her fun-damental frequency. In 2008, I became aware that the vocal scan-ning technique I’ve developed is actually a form of ‘deviceless’ or ‘body’ dowsing: I deliver to another person’s body a crystal-clear, laser-like sound that generates a standing wave that is capable of initiating a head-to-toe vibration when the body resonates with the specific frequency I am generating. I scan about one-and-a-half octaves from high to low. Because sound is a pressure wave, the body will reject what it does not require, and “pull” frequen-cies with which it resonates. The study focuses on brainwave changes when resonance is achieved. In his book, Spiritual Dowsing: Tools for Exploring the In-tangible Realms, Sig Lonegren discusses Terry Ross’s seven lev-

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els of dowsing. In Level Five, the dowser initiates change. He is no longer a passive viewer but can determine the problem and channel energy in such a way as to affect a change on someone or something outside of himself. In Level Six, the dowser not only can halt the condition of dis-ease, but can produce a healing change in the condition. In my experience, the vocal scanning technique is an example of Level Five. Level Six occurs when spo-ken words, combined with intent, transport a person or group backward or forward in time to accomplish healing in ways the conscious mind can’t imagine. I use this technique to clear dam-aging patterns passed from generation to generation.

Abstract of Pilot Study Twenty individuals (10 male and 10 female) ranging in age from 10 to 62 were tested in ten-minute trials with a typi-cal arrangement of EEG electrodes attached to forehead and left/right temporal regions, and a ground on the wrist. The re-searcher made it clear to the one professional singer and 19 non-singers that singing was not the goal of the experiment, nor was vocal quality impor-tant. Several participants were familiar with meditation and chanting; most were not. The trial consisted of a two-minute resting baseline (see Figure 1), followed by the researcher us-ing her voice for two minutes in a clear, controlled, focused “oooo” tone to vocally scan the participants’ back between the shoulder blades. As soon as each participant felt a head-to-toe resonant vibration in response to the specific frequency emitted by the re-searcher’s voice, they signaled by raising a hand, and the exact time was recorded (see Figure 2). For the next two minutes, the partici-pants were asked to join with the researcher in matching that note

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(frequency). During the next two minutes, the par-ticipants were “sounding” without the researcher (see Figure 3). The final two min-utes were resting and silent. Brainwave frequencies be-tween 0-30 Hz were visually charted in real time. Results showed for 18 participants an almost total hemispheric synchronization by the third minute; brainwave frequen-cies dropped from beta (15-30 Hz) to theta/delta (averaging 3-5 Hz) by the third minute. Two

individuals reported tran-scendental/peak experienc-es of extraordinary personal and spiritual meaning. All reported feeling more calm, focused, and energized than when they began. This ex-ploratory pilot study sug-gests additional research to discover more about physi-ological (biofeedback), spir-itual, emotional, and mental benefits of this particular type of toning (vocal scan-ning that creates a head-to-

toe vibration).

REFERENCESBanquet, J. (1972). EEG and meditation. Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 33, 449-458

Figure 2. At the moment a head-to-toe vibration was felt (2’ 42”)

Figure 3. Participant sounds his own fundamental frequency with-

out researcher (5’ 19”)

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Berendt, J. (1983). The world is sound nada brahma: Music and the landscape of consciousness. Vermont: Destiny Books.Cade, M., and Coxhead, N. (1979). The awakened mind: Biofeedback and the development of higher states of consciousness. New York: Dell.Green, E. (1993). ISSSEEM Annual Conference Proceedings. Monterey, CA.Hirai, T. (1960). Electroencephalographic study of Zen meditation. Psy-chiatric Neurology, Japan, 62, 76-105.Jovanov, E. (1999). On the methodology of EEG analysis during altered states of consciousness. Consciousness: Scientific challenge of the 21st century. United Nations.Krippner, Stanley (Ed.). (1997) Advances in parapsychological research vol. 8. North Carolina: McFarland & Company.Motoyama, H. (1964). Differences between ESP and mental calculation viewed from electroencephalic change. Journal of religious philosophy, 3, 1-10.Naparstek, Belleruth. (1997) Your sixth sense. San Francisco: Harper.Osis, K. & Bokert, E. (1971). ESP and changed states of consciousness indicated by meditation. Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 65, 17-65.Rao, K.R., & Feola, J. (1979). Electrical activity of the brain and ESP: An exploratory study of alpha rhythm and ESP scoring. Journal of Indian Psychology, 2, 118-133.Satyanarayana, M., Rajeswari, K.R, Rani, N.J., Krishna, C.S., Rao, P.V. (1992) Effect of Santhi Kriya on certain psychophysiological parame-ters: A preliminary study. Indian Journal of Physiological Pharmacol-ogy, 2, 88-92.Thomaevi, Jovanov, Rakovi, Ukovi, Stanojlovi, and Car. (1998). EEG correlates of healer/healee states of consciousness. Institute for biologi-cal research, Center for multidisciplinary studies, Belgrade, Yugoslavia (29), 142-148.

Damaris Drewry, Ph.D, can be reached at [email protected] or 520-326-0307. Her website is www.HumanVoiceInEnergeticHealing.com or www.BeyondTalkTherapy.com She is the incoming President of the Tuc-son Dowsers chapter.


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DOWSING HEALTH EFFECTS OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY

by Kerry Louise Gillett

n three occasions in the first half of 2010, a Northern Cali-fornia dowsing group called Dowsers Doing Good Deeds (DDGD) got together to use dowsing to find out how modern technology is affecting our health and wellbeing.

One of the topics DDGD researched was digital signals, which these days is the dominant signal used to distribute elec-tronic information, such as through the Worldwide Web, televi-sion cable systems, and cell phones. We also explored the health effects of microwave ovens, cell phone towers, cell phones, and WiFi, where electromagnetic radiations are taken to a new level as human beings concentrate the power, modify the frequencies, and alter the wave forms of electrical currents.

This article shares with you the findings of DDGD gained through group dowsing. For those of you who would like the short version, here is a brief summary.

Summary of Findings

Microwave Ovens There are some natural forms of microwaves, such as those from the sun, that do not create health problems for us. We are referring in this article to human-generated mi-crowaves such as those used in modern tech-nology, which we found do cause problems for people and the planet.

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At the very least, heating and cooking food in a microwave oven decreases the food’s nutritional value 60 to 90%. At its worst, it turns otherwise healthy components of food into carcinogens and harms the air molecules that are in the oven chamber when it is on. All microwave ovens leak to one degree or another. Degen-eration of human health can occur from ingesting microwaved foods as well as from being exposed to microwave radiations.

Digital Technology and Cell Phone Towers Digital Signal Processing is a way of breaking up data so that massive amounts of it can be sent through a cable. Before digital signals were used to transfer electronic information, ana-logue signals were used. When one looks at a comparison of the waves formed by the two, as shown in the curved line in the image below, the analogue is rounded and wavy; digital, illustrated with straight lines in the chart below, is sharp and jagged. In addition to other problems discussed later in this article, when digital sig-nals go through our bodies, the jagged nature of their pulses is more irritating to our nervous systems than signaling processes formerly used by the general public.

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Cell phone towers use digital signals as well as microwaves to transmit all the information we send and receive on cell phones. Our dowsing found that both the frequency and wave form of mi-crowaves and the digital signals they carry cause health problems in human beings.

Cell Phones and WiFi WiFi stands for Wireless Fidelity. It is a brand name, and there are other brands, but we’ll use the term WiFi in this article for all wireless transmissions.

WiFi transmissions are sent over the air-waves via devices that are called access points. Cordless landline phones, baby moni-tors, remote internet connections (such as Apple’s Airport), and remote controls are examples of modern devices that work cord-lessly via WiFi signals being shot through the air. When you have WiFi in your house, it is like having a small cell phone tower in your home.

Cell-phone messages are transmitted through the air via cell phone towers. When a cell phone is on and held to the head, it is like placing a tiny, low-powered, unwalled, activated microwave oven there; plus, the user is getting zapped by digital signals. All of this is potentially bad for human health. We recommend that cell-phone users use a headset so that the phone is not placed di-rectly to the head and, further, that they place the phone itself at least two centimeters away from their body when it is in use.

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which tears apart and deforms cells and molecules. These muta-tions occur not only in the food and water inside the oven, but also in the air in the oven chamber; and every time a person opens the door of a microwave oven after heating food in it, mutated air molecules are released into the air that we breathe. We found that it is in the best interests of all concerned to stop using microwave ovens, period.

Our dowsing found that emissions of harmful electromag-netic radiations continue for two and a half hours after a micro-wave is used and then turned off, even if it is unplugged after use.

Some physical problems that can be caused by eating mi-crowaved foods and from being frequently exposed to microwave are: changes in the blood; cancer, leukocytosis; breakdown in sys-tems of digestion and elimination; deterioration of the life-energy field (aura); degeneration of the nervous system; brain damage; immune system deficiencies; loss of hormonal balance; and brain-wave and psychological disturbances, including, loss of memory and ability to concentrate, decreased intellect, emotional instabil-ity, sleep disturbances, and passivity.

In addition to the above problems, the psychoneural re-ceptor components in the brain become more vulnerable to mi-crowave transmissions that can artificially affect our behavior – commonly called brainwashing, or what we might call e-brain-washing. DDGD found in 2003 that scientists have indeed used modern technology to send mood-altering signals via cell phones and the Internet. If you’d like more information, our dowsing found all of the following articles to be accurate: http://curezone.com/foods/microwave_oven_risk.asp.

Digital Signals and Cell Phone Towers When a person is ill-affected by digital signals, they are harmed through disruption of the electrical circuitry of the brain and nervous system. This electronically generated signal conflicts with and disturbs the natural electrical balance of the body. Digi-


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tal signals mix with the natural electrical signals in our bod-ies, creating a kind of crosstalk that is confusing and difficult for us to deal with mentally and physically. Digital signals also disturb the electrical “ner-vous system” of the planet.

Regarding cell-phone towers, the farther away one is from a cell-phone tower, the less likely its emissions will cause bad health effects; but as soon as a person puts a cell phone to their head, they’re getting zapped full force.

An abbreviated list of physical problems caused by exposure to digital signals and emissions from cell phone towers includes: increased cancer risk in many forms, especially breast cancer; and unhealthy changes in blood levels of seratonin and melatonin, causing defects in brain messaging, alterations of mood, sleep ir-regularities, immune system problems, headaches, poor memory, mental excitation, confusion, anxiety, depression, appetite distur-bance, and listlessness.

Cell Phones and WiFi Cell-phone radiations can cause benign and malignant tu-mors in the area of the head where the phone is held.

Individuals with a weak or diseased heart are advised to never use a cell phone and should not work or live in an environ-ment that has WiFi. Regarding WiFi, our most interesting dowsing finding related to a phenomenon called “modulation.” Many scientists have focused on the possible problems related to what is called

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the thermal effect of microwaves – the fact that microwaves cause heat and can, thus, cause burns. This we know is true. Beyond that, there are nonthermal effects caused by microwave frequen-cies. When you add Digital Signal Processing to the microwave carrier wave, as WiFi does, the combination morphs into an ad-ditional signal, an additional frequency, known as modulation. It is this modulation that induces the widest variety of biological reactions. From my research, however, I gleaned that scientists who accept the existence of modulation and have documented its effects still don’t know why it causes so many health problems. We decided to investigate that unknown in our dowsing, and we found the following.

To understand how cell phones and WiFi work with digital signals, let’s take an example of your sending a simple text email message to a friend, either by phone or by computer. When you hit the “Send” button, the data in the email that you recognize as words and numbers is broken up into data fragments, and each fragment of information is in turn translated into a numerical (digital) computer code which is sent through the air for WiFi, the telephone lines if using a modem, or cable if you have a cable system. When it reaches your friend’s receiving device (computer or phone), the device reassembles the data into the recognizable form of words and numbers that your friend can read. The same happens with music, images, and movies that are sent through these devices. What we found is that, even though human eyes and ears don’t pick it up, our internal electrical and nervous sys-tems register and react to this massive cacophony of electro-noise that is whizzing back and forth. WiFi, cell phones, and cell-phone towers are the biggest offenders because the data is moving through the air and, consequently, through us if we are in range.

Our bodies are made to interpret whatever information they are exposed to. Even though we cannot see or hear it, this fragmented, numerically codified mass of data passes through our energy fields, and our brains and nervous systems try to make sense of it. The combination of the huge volume of data, the dis-


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orienting fragmentation of the data, the mix of disparate types of information, and the fact that it is in a code that is foreign to us, creates an overload that damages – or “burns out” – our nervous systems over time. Imagine being in a closed room where three different movies and ten different types of music are playing, a hundred people are talking over one another, all in a foreign lan-guage, with all of this stimuli broken up into fragments that come in, not in sequence, but in a jumbled mass and at a loud volume. This is an example of the kind of challenge your nervous system deals with when hit by a WiFi stream.

Some health problems related to both cell-phone use and WiFi exposure include cancer, brain aging, brain damage, leakage through the brain barrier, early-onset Alzheimer’s, senility, DNA damage, sperm die-off, disruption of the body’s electrical fields, heart arrhythmias, heart stoppage, and exhaustion and fatigue.

In addition, the normal WiFi we find in the modern home can cause headaches, difficulty breathing, and blurred vision.

Children suffer a higher risk factor from cell phone and WiFi emissions than adults.

The next section on page 79 suggests various methods of protection, but the modulation feature warrants a more detailed explanation here. When given more than one thing to focus on, under normal circumstances the human nervous system will most readily accept the stimuli that it is most familiar with or what is dominant or most demanding in its environment. Just as our eyes can be damaged by too much light and our ears can be damaged by noises that are too loud, our nervous systems can be damaged by the effects of WiFi and cell-phones. However, if a human be-ing adopts protective measures and healthy habits that prevent further damage to their nervous systems, it is possible to recover to good health.

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this electronically relayed data. Different people can experience the same “cure” from different types of music; but classical music kept coming up in our dowsing with a unanimous yes as 98% or higher protection for everyone who would otherwise suffer from “electro-data overload.” We found that most people who are ex-posed to WiFi signals will still absorb 95% of the modulations, even if they’re listening to music in general or have some other distracting stimuli around them. There is something, however, about classical music that grabs the nervous-system’s attention and holds it in a positive way so that the modulated digital waves are ignored by our internal senses and, thus, become harmless.

These invading energies are subtle energies; and we can cure ourselves of the effects of this electro-data overload by clear-ing the chatter from our minds and balancing and fortifying our spiritual energies with meditation, for example. However, with-out some kind of protection and cleansing rituals, these energies will cause physical and mental stresses on those of us who have more exposure than our physical, mental, and spiritual faculties can overcome.

Some health problems caused by the modulation phe-nomenon are Alzheimers, brain damage, leakage into the brain cavity, Parkinsons, disruption of the electrical system in our bod-ies, heart arrhythmias and other heart problems, and imbalance between the right- and left-brain hemispheres.

If you’d like more details, our dowsing found all of the in-formation in the following article to be accurate: February 2010 GQ Magazine, “Warning: Your Cell Phone May be Hazardous to Your Health”; http://www.gq.com/cars-gear/gear-and-gad-gets/201002/warning-cell-phone-radiation

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found that keeping exposure low, using effective protective de-vices, and using the cleansing and clearing techniques described below can help prevent health problems to ourselves as individu-als and assist our bodies in reversing damage caused by modern technology. We found, however, that we as individuals can have little effect in preventing or reversing the deformation of air mol-ecules by microwaves or the disruption of Mother’s Earth’s elec-trical/nervous system caused by the widespread use of these tech-nologies.

All of the healing and protective modalities listed below came through our dowsing as effective for most people most of the time. We encourage those of you with dowsing skills to dowse what is the best way for you.

1. Psychic and Spiritual Protection. DDGD found that some indi-viduals can revitalize microwaved food and can avoid the bad ef-fects of the new electromagnetic radiations through self-applied psychic shields and prayers.

2. Magnet Therapy. Use of magnet therapy can rebalance a body that is disturbed by microwaves.

3. Protective Devices. The devices in this section are those that individuals in our group had experience with and had brought to the meetings to have tested through dowsing.

– Q-Link, Rejuvenizer, and Bioshield: We found that wear-ing these will protect the wearer from the ill effects of the new technologies, but wearing them for a long period of time (sev-eral hours) can disturb the autonomic nervous system within the body. We suggest that you dowse how they will affect you person-ally. They are not self-cleaning, so they can accumulate negative energies and need to be cleared periodically (see clearing section below) to remain effective.

– EnergySignatures: These work like prayers that are being con-

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tinually sent into the divine consciousness. They are available as jewelry or cards to be worn or carried on the body for personal protection from harmful manmade energies anywhere we travel, but you will be just as protected if you print out a copy of those shown below. Carry Auspicious Journey in your pocket or put it anywhere within three feet of your body. Affix Divine Protection onto devices like those that carry WiFi, digital signals, or microwaves. It has the added benefit of implanting healing energies into the energy streams sent out by our modern technology devices.

Auspicious Journey Divine Protection

The DDGD group found that they are self-cleaning. They soften the effects of the modulation frequency, transforming the harmful elements into a soft cloudlike mass that actually soothes the nervous system rather than jarring it.

4.Cleansing Baths. Soaking in an Epsom salt bath for 20 minutes a day, a minimum of six times a week is an excellent way to rebal-ance the body’s electrical system, to leach out toxins in the body, and to assist in reversing problems related to all EMR exposure. Adding hydrogen peroxide and/or baking soda strengthens the


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curative effects of the Epsom salts. My personal recipe is: 1 cup of Epsom salts, one cup of hydrogen peroxide, one cup of baking soda to a full bathtub of warm or hot water. Many people need two cups of Epsom salts per bath for it to work well. Frequent bathing in Epsom salts can cause loose bowels; so I’d recommend starting with two cups, and lessen the amount if need be. Salts can dry the skin; so some people rinse off in the shower with plain water after the bath.

5.Plants That Help Us Clear The Air. We did not as a group dowse on plants, but I personally add the following information about plants that are the most helpful at clearing the ill-effects of mi-crowaves and that can nullify the adverse effects of digital signals: • Dracaena “Janet Craig” (Dracaena deremensis “Ja- net Craig”) • Dracaena “Warneckei” (Dracaena deremensis “Warneckei”) • Jade plants; Money plants (Crassula ovata) • Mother-in-law’s tongue; Snake plant (Sansevieria Trifasciata Laurentii) • Peace lily; Mauna Loa (Spathiphyllum Sp.) • Philodendron, Elephant ear; Spade leaf (Philoden- dron domesticum or Philodendron hastatum) • Syngonium; Arrowhead vine, White butterfly, Goosefoot (Syngonium podophyllum) • Tulip (Tulipa gesneriana)

Curative-Device Clearing Methods Here are a couple of ways to clear devices that are not self-cleaning. • Shake It Out. My brother Tim’s favorite method of clearing devices is to hold the device firmly in one hand, and – with firm intention to clear the device – give the device three sharp shakes. • Tap-Water Method. This method works great for clearing the person as well as the device. Go to a metal faucet. Turn on the cold water. While holding the device with the four fingers of one

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hand, place the thumb of the same hand on the metal faucet. Po-sition the hand so that the thumb is touching the metal up top while the fingers are held downward, with the water running over the fingers and the device. Do this for about 20 seconds. I like to hold an L-rod in the other hand and ask that I be given an af-firmative when the clearing is finished. To cleanse just yourself of negative energies, do the same thing, but without a device in your hand. If you focus on the process, you can actually feel the “dirty” energies draining out of your body as the water runs over your fingers.

And with that, I wish you all the best of health.

Contact Kerry at (415) 382-1917, or http://www.KerryGillett.com

Notice of Annual Membership Meeting

The Annual Membership Meeting of the American Society of Dowsers

will be held in the Alexander Twilight Theater

at Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, VT, at 8:00 PM, Friday, June 10, 2011.

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n August of 1999, I presented a two-day Balance and Well-being seminar at the ASD Annual Convention. One of the subjects was thoughtforms, and I provided some background information before describing how to clear non-beneficial thoughtforms. As I was completing this overview, a member of the class, Stephen Turner, stood up and said, “I have a poem about thought, would you like for me to recite it?” A resounding Yes followed. This beau-tiful poem is presented below:

–Don Taylor

THOUGHT

I believe that thoughts are thingsendowed with bodies, breath, and wings

and that we sent them forth to fillthe Earth with good results or ill.

That which we hold as our most secret thoughtspeeds to the Earth’s remotest spotand leaves its blessings or its woes

Like tracks behind it as it goes.

Author Unknown

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ODOWSING WITH NATURE

by Sequoya

ne fall I put in a small garden bed for garlic at my relatively new home and, inspired by a brilliantly sunny warm spell the fol-lowing April, decided to plant lettuce seedlings between the ro-bustly sprouting garlic. Before transplanting the tender starts, I considered the importance of offering something to the deer oth-er than my unprotected young plants. When I first started grow-ing food, I used to fence my gardens, quarter-acre expanses of delectable vegetables growing in heavily enriched soil. But these physical barriers came into question after encountering a small neat plot enclosed by a gated chain link fence along a road I infre-quently traveled.

The garden was strikingly reminiscent of a zoo or kennel with caged vegetables, and I’d occasionally catch sight of a cap-tive human inside tending the plants. Subsequently, I haven’t been able to fence my growing vegetables, an audacious attitude for one hoping to grow succulent greens in the creature-filled forest where I now live.

When Native Americans lived in villages throughout this upstate New York region, their orchards and vegetables grew bountifully. After the Revolutionary War, this area was settled by veterans, paid in square-mile tracts for wartime services. Work-ing the land as intensively as tractor-less farmers could manage, they clear-cut the thick forests without chainsaw or bulldozer, plowing land suitable for field crops and grazing the rest. The thin soils and steep slopes quickly eroded to the point where numer-ous farms were abandoned. The settlers’ farming practices rap-idly depleted the soil which had previously produced abundantly; the Native Americans whose villages had been burnt down by the wartime soldiers had grown corn so tall that a man on horseback would be hidden, according to a soldier’s journal. A far cry from


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the knee-high crop that grew my first gardening year in this area.

Adding literally tons of compost along with other soil amendments to those earlier gardens, I eventually grew vibrant-ly healthy vegetables, magnetically attracting local wild critters. I was willing to share, but groundhogs don’t know how. Rabbits would only take a few bites out of each cabbage; groundhogs would mow long beds of lettuce so low to the ground that they had no chance of recovery. Vigilantly maintained fencing kept out most of the smaller animals, although it didn’t completely deter the deer.

Around this time I learned that it’s possible to converse directly with nature without much difficulty. In the early 1960s, three people in northern Scotland found themselves unexpect-edly unemployed. Moving to a trailer park in the seaside village of Findhorn, they started growing vegetables organically, hop-ing to survive. One of the two women started sensing messages from intelligences associated with specific plants. Heeding the suggestions, the dry sandy soils near the Arctic Circle soon bore forty-pound cabbages and other extraordinary produce. These intelligences known as ‘devas’ caught the world’s attention. The community flourished and today is a popular education center.

A growing number of people have expanded on these prac-tices as they’ve opened to their own relationship with nature. The most well-known in the United States may be Machaelle Small Wright of Perelandra. Through books and workshops, she’s of-fered solid techniques for conversing with the appropriate mem-bers of nature, with the goal of discovering holistically balanced solutions for any project or situation from gardening to personal health to designing a business. The devas, which are universal, hold (and alter) the blueprint of nature, and it is the nature spir-its which are associated with a specific area that implement any changes to be made on the subtle energy plane. Developing such a co-creative partnership with nature, you’ve invited into a team of exceptional wisdom to assist you.

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I find some of Machaelle’s methodology a bit awkward but, over the years of practicing the fundamental techniques, my own system has emerged. Conversing with these intelligences, whom I may have never otherwise known, has blossomed into a dynamic relationship in which answers to my concerns and inspired ideas simply emerge through my subconscious. I recognize the source of these insights by their flavor; nature spirits have a unique and unmistakable perspective.

While renovating the small cabin where I now live, I’d easi-ly lose track of my tools in the crowded construction site. I’d name the item aloud, and my gaze would immediately be drawn to it as if there was a light shining behind it. Appreciating the nature spirits’ support, I’d give thanks and keep working. And I’m sure that the nature spirits and devas were involved with the incident of the pinks. Their name truly describes them, tiny five-petalled flowers such a vibrantly rich pink that they seem to shout to me as they hide in the surrounding tall grasses. I rarely see more than two or three flowers growing in one area at a time, but I recognize and welcome them wherever they show up. After a few years here I noticed that a large patch of pinks had appeared by my habitu-al parking spot, right by the driver’s side door. I am certain they hadn’t been growing there before. Getting in or out of my vehicle, this living bouquet of pinks flowering through late autumn was there to greet me. Not as convincing as forty-pound cabbages, but this is my ongoing partnership, not a display to catch the world’s attention.

It’s easy to develop one’s own personal communication process. Once connected with the appropriate intelligences, to-gether you can adapt the actual practice as needed. Interestingly, the biggest challenge is forming questions worded so that a sim-ple yes or no answer will mean what you think it does. The classic example of problems that arise is demonstrated by the answer to the question, “Will it rain today?” Yes, it will, somewhere on the planet. If the question was, “Will it rain in my town today?” you might get a different answer.


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I’ve applied co-creativity to multiple aspects of my life with phenomenal results and have taught others all aspects of this process. Back at my big gardens those many years ago, concerned about potential deer damage, I opened such a conversation. Re-ceiving an impression of two salt licks, one in the garden’s vicinity and the other by an overgrown area the deer frequented, I gladly purchased two large blocks of salt and set them out. And the deer stayed out of the garden for the rest of the season.

Come late fall, after an abundant harvest, the only veg-etables still in the ground were a hundred or so cabbages waiting for the root cellar to sufficiently cool down. One November day I found the entire patch completely denuded of their tough outer leaves with the heads themselves totally untouched. The deer had saved me hours of work trimming those leaves and hauling them to the compost pile.

After leaving my homestead, I had smaller gardens and experimented with other methods for discouraging nibblers. But here in the forest, I continue providing a salt lick for the deer, which fills me with the image of inviting the neighbors over for cocktails but not for dinner. I hope at some point to plant a stand of alfalfa for them, which will also feed the soil and provide me with a tea herb. The deer will get the lion’s share.

© Soaring Spirit 2009, 2010. Excerpted from The Magic of Nature, published by Soaring Spirit Earth Stewardship Foun-dation. The author is an avid dowser, specializing in geomancy. Please see www.SoaringSpirit1.org for more information.

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ASD CHAPTER DIRECTORYUpdated April 2011

Thank you for contacting headquarters to update or correct your chapter information!

ArizonaCity/Town: GlobeChapter Name: The Globe DowsersContact Person: Jo Ellen DavisPhone: 928- 425-9448Email: [email protected]: The meetings are the first Wednesday of the month at the Globe-Miami Chamber of Commerce Build-ing, at 1360 N. Broad St., at 7pm. This chapter does not meet in June, July or August.

City/Town: PhoenixChapter Name: Phoenix Life ForceContact Person: Louise JohnsonPhone: NoneEmail: [email protected]: No set schedule, announce-ments will be made in advance. E-mail to place your name on the list.

City/Town: PrescottChapter Name: Prescott Area DowsersContact Person: Michael GreenupPhone: 928-308-2753Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the first Sunday of the month at 1:30pm, at the Prescott Public Library.

City/Town: SedonaChapter Name: Verde Valley ChapterContact Person: Michael Krokosz or Audree JuhlinPhone: (Audree) 928-646-6733Email: [email protected] or [email protected]: www.arizonadowsers.com Meetings: Meetings are usually the third Sunday of the month (except June, July and August) at 2:00pm, at the St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 100 Arroyo Pinon Dr.

City/Town: TucsonChapter Name: Tucson DowsersContact Person: Marge HeftyPhone: 520-885-1100Email: [email protected]: www.tucsondowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are the first Satur-day of the month, September through May, at 1:00pm, at Unity of Tucson, 3617 N. Camino Blanco. Check web-site above for current information.

ArkansasCity/Town: FayettevilleChapter Name: Fayetteville ChapterContact Person: Allie WujcikPhone: 479-839-8185Email: [email protected]: Call for details.


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California

City/Town: Corte Madera or San FranciscoChapter Name: Golden Gate DowsersContact Person: Karen AshleyPhone: 415-564-6419Email: [email protected]: Meetings are the third Satur-day in September, November, January, March, and May, from 1:30pm to 5pm, at different locations. Please email to find out where we will be meeting next. After the meetings, we often go out for a no-host dinner with the guest speaker.

City/Town: EurekaChapter Name: Humboldt County ChapterContact Person: Marty RossPhone: 707-768-3665Email: [email protected]: There are no set dates or times for meetings. Occasionally this chapter offers basic dowsing classes; call or email if interested.

City/Town: Fountain ValleyChapter Name: Orange County ChapterContact Person: Keith SpencerPhone: 714-847-7150Email: [email protected]: There is no set schedulefor meetings. This chapter has severalmeetings a year and usually announcesthem about thirty days in advance. Call or email to place your name on the list. Meeting locations vary.

City/Town: OrovilleChapter Name: Gold Country DowsersContact Person: Sharron HopePhone: 530-534-3516

Email: [email protected]: Meetings are the first Satur-day of the month at 1pm, at the Oro-ville Church of Religious Science. This chapter meets about four times a year, so please contact for which months the meetings will be. There are also group field trips that the public is welcome to join, so contact if you are interested in finding out when these trips are.

City/Town: ReddingChapter Name: North California DowsersContact Person: Erin Ryan or Carl BracyPhone: (Erin) 530-515-7135, (Carl) 530-335-4570Email: [email protected]: www.norcaldowsers.comMeetings: Meetings are on the first Sunday of February, April, June, Au-gust, October, and December, from 1pm to 4pm, at LuLu’s Restaurant, 2230 Pine St.

City/Town: SacramentoChapter Name: Sierra DowsersContact Person: Walter WoodsPhone: 530-533-3986Email: [email protected]: Meetings are held 3 or 4 times a year, on Sundays from noon to 5pm, at Rancho Cordova Recreation Center, Rancho Cordova.

City/Town: San DiegoChapter Name: San Diego ChapterContact Person: Inez LindseyPhone: 619-563-9782Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the sec-ond Saturday of each month, 9am- 12:45pm, with potluck lunch, at the Ocean Beach Recreation Center, 4726 Santa Monica Ave., San Diego.

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City/Town: San JoseChapter Name: San Jose ChapterContact Person: Cathy CoultripPhone: 831-336-8973Email: [email protected]: www.westcoastdowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are the second Saturday of the month except June, July and August, at the Divine Science Community Center, 1540 Hicks Av-enue.

City/Town: Santa RosaChapter Name: Sonoma County DowsersContact Person: Dianna CoulombePhone: 707-575-9237Email: [email protected]: www.sonomacountydows-ers.blogspot.comMeetings: Meetings are every other month, on the fourth Saturday; call for times and location.

City/Town: WinnetkaChapter Name: Valley of the DowsersContact Person: Katy KesslerPhone: noneEmail: [email protected] or [email protected]: Meetings are the second Friday of the month (no meetings June, July or August), at the Valley Village Community Room, 20830 Sherman Way, Winnetka. (DeSoto Exit off the 101).

Colorado

City/Town: LakewoodChapter Name: Mile High DowsersContact Person: Bo Hanson or Elaine Jay FinsterPhone: (Bo) 970-667-7724, (Elaine) 303-838-8446

Email: whisperingmoon999@ yahoo.com [email protected]: coming soonMeetings: Meetings are the first Thurs-day of every month (except July), at 7pm, at the Clements Community Cen-ter, 1580 Yarrow Street (Columbine Room-upstairs; 1 block west & north of Colfax and Wadsworth)

Connecticut

City/Town: MilfordChapter Name: Connecticut Golden Rods ChapterContact Person: Terese M. BrennanPhone: (Home) 203-874-7898 (Cell) 203-231-2080Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the third Monday of March, April, May, June, Sept., Oct., Nov., and Dec. at 7:30pm, at 23 Clinton St., Milford

City/Town: New BritainChapter Name: Gordon MacLean ChapterContact Person: Don HuschkePhone: 860-667-1873Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the second Tuesday of April, May, June, October, November, and December at 8:00pm, at 118 Abbe St.

City/Town: West HartfordChapter Name: Dick Paskowski ChapterContact Person: Stephanie NelsonPhone: 860-523-7642Email: [email protected]: Meetings are the second Tuesday of April, May, June, Oct., Nov., & Dec. at 7:30pm, at the home of Stephanie Nielsen, 16 Grenhart St.


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Florida

City/Town: BradentonChapter Name: Manasota ChapterContact Person: Ed Straight or John AmesPhone: (Ed) 941-778-6324, (John) 941-756-1787Email: (Ed) [email protected] (John) [email protected]: Meetings are the fourth Tuesday of each month except Decem-ber, from 6pm to 8pm, at the South Manatee County Branch Library, 6081 26th St.

City/Town: CocoaChapter Name: Space Coast DowsersContact Person: James KingPhone: 321-633-8158Email: jking185@cfl .rr.comMeetings: Meetings are the second Thursday of each month, at the CentralLibrary, Route 520 by the river, from 1pm to 8:45 pm.

City/Town: Palmetto BayChapter Name: Miami Dade, Broward, Monroe ChapterContact Person: Robert BarnesPhone: 786-295-7852Email: [email protected]: Held the second Saturday of the month (except Dec., Jul., & Aug.), at 8500 SW 180th St. from 1:00pm, to 4:00pm. Call for directions.

City/Town: West Palm BeachChapter Name: Palm Beach DowsersContact Person: Dorothy RobertsPhone: 561-585-1570Email: [email protected]: Meetings are quarterly; please contact for time and location.

Georgia

City/Town: Sandy SpringsChapter Name: First Georgia DowsersContact Person: Sandy NorrisPhone: 770-966-7603Email:[email protected] Meetings: Meetings are on the first Thursday of the month from 7:30pm to 9:30pm, at the Christian Church, 301 Johnson Ferry Rd.

Idaho

City/Town: BoiseChapter Name: Idaho Subtle Energy Study GroupContact Person: Warren Rekow and Frank JordanPhone: (Warren) 208-896-4908, (Frank) 209-344-9188Email: [email protected], [email protected]: Meetings are on the third Saturday from 3pm to 5pm or as ar-ranged. Location changes, so please call or email for directions.

Illinois

City/Town: Des PlainesChapter Name: Northern Illinois ChapterContact Person: Larry BirdPhone: 815-579-9356Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the second or third Sundays of February, April, June, August, October, and Decem-ber, from 1pm to 4pm. The meetings are held at The Dance Building, 1330 Webford Rd.

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Indiana

City/Town: EvansvilleChapter Name: Tri-State DowsersContact Person: Sharon Dittmar, PresidentPhone: 812-673-4232Website: http://tristatedowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are the last Thurs-day of the month, Jan. through Oct., at 6:30pm, at the Newburgh, In. Library off Bell Rd. Check our website for changes or cancellations.

Iowa

City/Town: Meetings are in different towns.Chapter Name: First Iowa ChapterContact Person: Kathy SealmanPhone: 319-345-2619Email: [email protected]: Meetings are every other month, in January, March, May, July, September, and November, from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm, at different locations thoughout the state, depending who is hosting the meeting. Please contact for more information.

Kansas

City/Town: Kansas CityChapter Name: Kansas City ChapterContact Person: Joyce TownsPhone: (home) 913-432-2070 (cell) 913-638-7948Email: [email protected]: *

Maine

City/Town: FalmouthChapter Name: Chapter of Southern Maine

Contact Person: Richard B. McKenziePhone: 207-797-6031Email: [email protected]: Meetings are the last Thurs-day of the month, at 7:30pm, at the Norway Bank on Route 1 in Falmouth.

Massachusetts

City/Town: BedfordChapter Name: Greater Boston DowsersContact Person: Susan McNeill SpuhlerPhone: 978-392-1456Email: [email protected]: www.bostondowsers.comMeetings: Meetings are on Saturdaysevery month, from 2pm to 5pm, at the First Parish Unitarian Universal-ist Church, 75 The Great Road (Route 225). Check the website for which Sat-urday of each month.

Michigan

City/Town: WarrenChapter Name: Southeast Michigan DowsersContact Person: Dan PraterPhone: 586-202-4166Email: [email protected]: www.michigandowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are usually held on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 6pm at Macomb Community Col-lege, 14500 E. 12 Mile Rd., Building M, South Campus, Warren, MI 48088.

Missouri

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Contact Person: Janet H. DunlapPhone: 314-652-8608Email: [email protected]: www.gatewaydowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are the second Saturday of the month, starting at 1pm, at the St. Louis County Library Head-quarters, Lindbergh Blvd., just south of Interstate 64/40, across from Plaza Frontenac.

Montana

City/Town: HamiltonChapter Name: Bitterroot Valley DowsersContact Person: Michael HoeflerPhone: 406-642-3630Email: [email protected]: Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month at 7:30pm, at Common Ground, 258 Roosevelt Lane.

Nebraska

City/Town: NaponeeChapter Name: Mid-River DowsersContact Person: Dwayne HeerPhone: 308-264-2746Email: *Meetings: *

Nevada

City/Town: Carson CityChapter Name: Carson City DowsersContact Person: Harry LawlerPhone: 775-882-5760Email: noneMeetings: Meeting are held at 1960 Pinion Hill; call for times and dates.

City/Town: Las VegasChapter Name: Silver DowsersContact Person: Char CruzePhone: 702-893-2051 homeEmail: [email protected]: Meetings are held monthly. Email or call for dates, times, and loca-tions.

New Hampshire

City/Town: ClaremontChapter Name: Living WatersContact Person: Carol GaderPhone: 603-357-4699Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the third Tuesday of every month except Janu-ary, and February, at 6:30pm for in-struction, and 7pm for the meeting, at the Claremont Savings Bank, but loca-tion does change from time to time, so contact to be sure.

City/Town: PlymouthChapter Name: White Mountain DowsersContact Person: Sandi RuelkePhone: 603-444-5494Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the sec-ond Monday of each month, at Unitar-ian Universalist Church on Fairground Road, at 6:30pm. Dowsing instruction and practice at 5:30pm.

New Mexico

City/Town: Los LunasChapter Name: Willow BendersContact Person: Gary PlappPhone: 505-565-1784Email: [email protected]:www.homepage.mac.com/ gplapp/lldowsers.html

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Meetings: Meetings are at 1pm, on the second Saturday of each month, at the old Los Lunas Public Health Office, RDN Bldg., 1000 Main St. NW.

City/Town: Santa FeChapter Name: Kokopelli DowsersContact Person: Angellyn RosePhone: 877-706-7397Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the second Saturday of month, except July and August. Please call or email for time and location as the chapter meets in several locations.

New York

City/Town: Ballston SpaChapter Name: Mohawk-Hudson ChapterContact Person: Bruce IrwinPhone: 518-623-3772Email: [email protected]: www.mhdowsers.orgMeetings: November, January, Febru-ary, March, April, and May meetings are held in the Cornell Cooperative Extension, on Sundays at 1pm. During the summer months, the meetings are field trips to different locations. These are also on Sundays at 1pm. December is the only month this chapter does not meet.

City/Town: BrooklynContact information to be announced.

City/Town: FillmoreChapter Name: Genesee Valley- Western NY ChapterContact Person: Fred SinclairPhone: 585-593-1759

Email: [email protected]: Meetings are held from April to November, usually on the third Saturday, from 1-4, at the Wiscoy- Rossburg Fire Hall.

City/Town: FreeportChapter Name: Long Island Society of DowsersContact Person: Margot CassaniPhone: 516-796-1836Email: [email protected]: www.longislanddowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are every third Sunday of the month from September through May (except December), at 1pm, at the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 West Merrick Rd.

City/Town: New York CityChapter Name: The Anne Williams New York City ChapterContact Person: Anne WilliamsPhone: 212-673-9257Email: *Meetings: Meeting are the last Tues-day of the month (except July, August and December), at 7pm for a dowsing class or 7:30pm for the meeting. Meet-ings are held at Studios 353, 353 W. 48th St., 2nd floor, NY City. (Subway Trains C & E to 50th St. Station.)

City/Town: Sleepy HollowChapter Name: Northern Westchester DowsersContact Person: Twink Wood or Judy RosenthalPhone: (Twink) 914-922-1559, (Judy) 914-922-1500Email: [email protected]: Meetings are about every other month, sometimes on Sunday af-ternoons, sometimes Wednesday eve-nings. Meetings are held at the Kendal on Hudson.


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City/Town: SyracuseChapter Name: Finger Lakes ChapterContact Person: Wil AlauraPhone: 315-373-0683Email: [email protected]: Every third Thursday of each month. 5pm - 6pm: Dowsing lesson and practice. 6pm - 8pm: Lec-ture. Salina Meadows Office Park, 301 Plainfield Rd., Ste 195, North Syra-cuse, NY 13212

City/Town: Walker ValleyChapter Name: Catskill Mountain ChapterContact Person: Stanley DobrowolskiPhone: 845-336-8565Website: www.wiandwellness.com (Dowsing Pages)Meetings: Please refer to website for information.

North Carolina

City/Town: AshevilleChapter Name: Appalachian DowsersContact Person: Paul BennettPhone: 828-692-6599Email: [email protected]: www.appalachiandowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are on the third Saturday of February, May, Septemberand November, at Unity Center, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Rd; Mills River, NC, 28759. For details, go to website, “Chapter Events” page.

City/Town: RaleighChapter Name: Triangle Dowsers ChapterContact Person: Ray HinnantPhone: 919-266-2326Email: [email protected]:www.triangledowserschapter.comMeetings: Meetings are on the odd-numbered months starting in January,

on the second Sunday, from 1:30pm until 4:30pm. Meetings are announced via email and posted on the website 10 days before the meeting, along with di-rections.

Ohio

City/Town: PeeblesChapter Name: Great Serpent MoundContact Person: Jim McKenziePhone: 937-587-3953Email: [email protected]: Meetings are held monthly at various members’ homes, except for when they meet at different site loca-tions. Call for time and location.

City/Town: RichfieldChapter Name: Ohio Buckeye DowsersContact Person: Jim DavisPhone: 330-431-6873Email: [email protected]: Meetings are the fourth Sunday of the month, April through November, at the Stone Garden Farm, 2891 Southern Road. Meetings begin at 12:30pm with a pot-luck lunch.

Oregon

City/Town: PortlandChapter Name: Oregon Territory ChapterContact Person: Tom and Paula LauermanPhone: 360-910-2972Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the last Friday of every month at 7pm, West Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellow-ship, 8470 SW Oleson Road, Portland, Oregon.

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Pennsylvania

City/Town: KutztownChapter Name: Berks County ChapterContact Person: Keith SchafferPhone: 610-689-5164Email: [email protected]: Call or email for meeting times and locations.

City/Town: PerkasieChapter Name: Guy Snyder Chapter of Southeast PAContact Person: Sally Holvey-SliferPhone: 610-294-9027Email: [email protected]: Are held every other month on the third weekend. Interested peo-ple can call 215-968-2897 for a meet-ing notice message or join an email no-tice list by emailing [email protected]. These are for meeting notices only, NOT for contact.

Rhode Island

City: ProvidenceChapter Name: Dowsers Rhode IslandContact Person: Neri E. DonaldsPhone: 617-803-6773Email: [email protected]: Time and Day: TBA, Lo-cation: 50 Park Row West, Conference Center, Providence.

Texas

City/Town: DallasChapter Name: North Central TexasContact Person: Bette EpsteinPhone: 214-358-3633Email: [email protected]

Meetings: Meetings are on the third Saturday every other month from Oc-tober through May, at 7pm, at 4314 West Lovers Lane.

City/Town: HoustonChapter Name: Lonestar DowsersContact Person: Gail Brittain or Vernell BoydPhone: (Gail) 713-943-3015 (Vernell) 713-826-3772Email: [email protected]: www.freewebs.com/lonestardowsersMeetings: Are the second Tuesday of each month upstairs at Central Market, 3815 Westheimer at Weslayan.

City: San AntonioChapter Name: Alamo ChapterContact Person: Rosemary LanzaPhone: 210-490,2419, 210-860-1176 (cell)Email: [email protected]: Meeting are the fourth Thursday of the month at 7pm, at the Broadway Central Market (HEB), Community Room on the second floor, 4821 Broadway.

Vermont

City/Town: DanvilleChapter Name: Danville ChapterContact Person: Pam JohnsonPhone: 802-734-2416Email: [email protected]: Meetings are the last Sat-urday of each month (except July; and November and December meetings are combined into one meeting on the first Saturday in December), at 10am, at ASD headquarter, 184 Brainerd St., Danville.


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City/Town: RutlandChapter Name: Jack O’Handley ChapterContact Person: Rene LincolnPhone: 802-492-3743Email: [email protected]: Meetings are the second Thursday of the month, at the Rutland Police Station on Wales St. There will be no meetings in June, July and Au-gust.

City/Town: ShelburneChapter Name: Chittenden County ChapterContact Person: Marna EhrechEmail: [email protected]:www.burlingtonvermontdowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are the second Saturday of the month except June, July and August, at 10am, at the Shel-burne town offices above the police station on Route 7.

VirginiaCity/Town: KilmarnockChapter Name: Chesapeake Bay DowsersContact Person: Bess CutterPhone: 757-335-2100Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the third

Saturday of each month, at 9am until noon, at the Bank of Lancaster, 432 Main St.

City/Town: Sterling area and beyondChapter Name: Knights of the Round TableContact Person: Louis MataciaPhone: 703-404-1203Meetings: Call for information about meetings of this chapter. If you are in-terested in potentially getting involved, please contact Louis.

City/Town: Virginia BeachChapter Name: Virginia Beach DowsersContact Person: R.K. GilbertPhone: 757-233-0628Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the second Saturday of each month, from 9am to noon, at 425 Peace Haven Rd., Nor-folk.

WisconsinCity/Town: Port EdwardsChapter Name: Heart of Wisconsin ChapterContact Person: Don NolanPhone: 715-887-2693Email: [email protected]: *

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, MOGreat Lakes Region: MN, WI, IL, IN, OH

Southern Region: DC, KY, WV, VA, NC, SC, TN, MS, AL, GA, FL, AR, LANortheast Region: ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI, NY, PA, NJ, MD, DE

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Affirmationof

The American Society of Dowsers

The following statement, adopted by the Board of Trustees in 2010, affirms the vision that will guide ASD into its next 50 years.

Dowsing is the skill of posing questions and receiving verifiable answers, through various, diverse modalities, regarding the par-ticular attributes of water, minerals, and other targets of interest.

We, the members of the American Society of Dowsers, consider compassion as the fundamental intention behind dowsing, and we conduct our work based on a code of ethics for the highest good of all.

We shall:

1. Remain true to our roots, by passing down and preserving the wisdom and teachings of our founding members, and by honoring the skill of locating water as the foundation upon which our society stands.

2. Provide education and compassionate mentoring for peo-ple who aspire to cultivate the dowsing skill in their quests for knowledge and service.

3. Sustain a loving and supportive community throughout the membership by promoting communication, coopera-tion, and interaction on local, regional, national, as well as international levels.

4. Study and apply advances in knowledge, new discoveries, natural principles, and new understandings of scientific en-deavors to all aspects of dowsing.

5. Grow and evolve as a society in harmony with the changes of our country and our world.

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