Tamar Dowsers Newsletter
February 2024
 

Beyond Imbolc

 

Spring certainly seems to be a comin' in - well that's the case if you look at the activities of the flowering plants and the garden birds. In the meantime, outdoor dowsing is proving to be a pretty soggy affair.

 

However, zoom has helped to keep the show on the road, and I attach below a report on our latest 5-Group offering by Trish Mills, compiled by TD member Ali Denham. Although I missed this one, I understand it was well attended, but that the administrator had to deal with a few IT gremlins (so perhaps I had good miss!).

 

What wind?

 

Ros and I were otherwise indisposed taking an off-season break on the Isle of Wight. Storm Isha blew through overnight while we were there, but being in a lighthouse keeper's cottage, designed to withstand such weather, we largely missed it, despite the incredibly high windspeed registered at the Needles meteo station, just up the coast.

 

Given that we hadn't been to the IoW for many decades, and had never actually stayed there, we couldn't miss the opportunity to have a look at some of the dowsing features described in The Spine of Albion by Gary Biltcliffe and Caroline Hoare. My summary of our experiences is also attached below.

 

Zoomed out? - hopefully not yet.

 

I was asked by the BSD to do a zoom for their periodic sessions. So, if you haven't heard it before, I gave an updated version of my Linear Landscape talk, which is now available on the British Society of Dowsers YouTube channel. I am assuming it is publicly available, but I don't know how long for. 

 

Probable date change

 

To avoid a clash of events on 21st April, or a Monday outing the day after, I am suggesting that we make our field trip to Showry Tor and Rough Tor on Sunday 28th April. I have adjusted the programme accordingly, but if there is a surge of discontent, we can reinstate it!

 

And they keep on coming . . .

 

I am pleased to be able to provide details of our next event: 

 

Dowsing at the Source of the Withey Brook

on Bodmin Moor – Saturday Februray 24th

 

 

Meet with Pete Bousfield at the Hurlers car  park at 10.15, ready to start walking at 10.30.  Although we intend to be back around 13.00, please bring something to eat/drink.

 

Even if it is fine, stout footwear and warm windproof clothing is always essential on Bodmin Moor at this time of the year.  It will take about half an hour to reach the site and we intend to be dowsing for about an hour or so.

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The Withey Brook has the best quality of water in the area, and served the communities that lived on the Cheesewring Tor and behind what is now known as the Gold Diggings. 

 

The site also has the Mary Line interacting and spiralling over into the upwelling springs, which are kept back by a rocky dyke that runs from Stowes Pound across to the Gold Diggings quarry. 

 

Pete is keen to get the input from everyone concerning the site's other dowsable features. 

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There are public toilets in Minions, which cost 20p.

 

For those who are a bit less mobile, and might need to park closer to the dowsing site, there is also a small parking/meeting place for two or three cars near Wardbrook Farm, west of Henwood 

OS grid ref. 732254 - (for which the What3Words locator is W3W///blizzard.blissful.expressed.) 

Jen Bousfield will lead another group down from there.

 

In case anyone gets lost on the day, Pete Bousfield's mobile is 07922 296557, although the signal is not good out on the moor (!)

We may well meet up afterwards to discuss our findings (and have a coffee) at:

 

http://www.minionsshopandtearoom.co.uk/tearoom/
 

Clearly, we will need to keep an eye on the weather forecast 

and I will endeavour to let everyone know

if there are any late changes to the plan.

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The Interconnectedness of All Things

Sound and The Perpetual Choirs

 

A shared Zoom talk to the Devon, Tamar, Trencrom, 

Somerset and Thames Valley Dowsing Groups

 

This talk followed on from Trish’s presentation to the Five-Group last October which was based on John Gibson Forty’s (JGF) book, “The Interconnectedness of All Things”. Whereas Trish’s theme in October was Sacred Geometry, in this presentation it was Sound, notably the human voice.

 

The backstory covers John Michell’s visionary and practical research into the Welsh triads that told of the three perpetual choirs two thousand years ago. These were based at Llantwit Major, Amesbury near Stonehenge, and Glastonbury. Each choir had 2,400 men, with 100 men chanting at any one time, 24/7, with 7,200 in total. This use of the vibratory harmonics of sound and the human voice enchanted the landscape of Britain. Author JGF contends that two other perpetual choirs were also established across Britain.

 

The story continued when JGF received an unexpected phone call resulting in him and his friend Peter Watson dowsing all 10 evenly spaced lines of the Decagon which emanate from Ragged Stone Hill, near White-leaved Oak in the Malverns. This area is also renowned for its Three Choirs vineyard, and the Three Choirs Festival which alternates between Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester and began in the early 1700s. John and Peter then went on to dowse the circumference, with the ancient Three Choirs located on its southern edge. See image above, with permission from Trish for use here.

 

JGF’s second book, ‘Forgotten Pathways’, is a gazetteer of every line and all the sacred sites they found in their three and a half years of tracking the lines, taking them as far as Stafford in the north, Glastonbury in the south, Llandovery in the west and Milton Keynes in the east.

 

Then JGF’s life was catastrophically affected by a stroke at the age of 59, and he is currently in a care home near Chepstow. John and Peter’s legwork, and their research, is surely on a par with the epic of Hamish Miller and Paul Broadhurst in their Sun and the Serpent publication, and it fell to Trish Mills to get it published in 2012, and then publicised.

 

Trish told us that John was interested in earth energies, frequencies, music and Radionics. John and Peter were puzzled when the first line they dowsed, Line 1, stopped short of Chartley Castle which they believed to be its end point. John eventually realised through his familiarity with radionics that energy does not recognise time or space. They adapted their dowsing and asked to be shown the line as it was 2,000 to 2,500 years ago. And lo, Line 1 continued through Chartley Castle! They then had to go back to re-dowse what they’d already done so far as it had been 2,000+ years ago. 

 

In terms of the power of sound, and what our ancestors knew they were working with, Trish gave multiple examples. Here are just a few: the carvings in the 14 arches of the Rosslyn Chapel suggest a code based on cymatic resonance; the walls of Jericho purportedly came crashing down after the Israelite army circled the town sounding their trumpets and shouting. And Jonathan Goldman tells of a special visit with a group of six into an underground chamber at the Mayan city of Palenque in Mexico. They went at night, and after they had become accustomed to the pitch black they began to chant and witnessed the chamber become illuminated.

 

The story continued when JGF received an unexpected phone call resulting in him and his friend Peter Watson dowsing all 10 evenly spaced lines of the Decagon which emanate from Ragged Stone Hill, near White-leaved Oak in the Malverns. This area is also renowned for its Three Choirs vineyard, and the Three Choirs Festival which alternates between Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester and began in the early 1700s. John and Peter then went on to dowse the circumference, with the ancient Three Choirs located on its southern edge. See image above, with permission from Trish for use here.

 

JGF’s second book, ‘Forgotten Pathways’, is a gazetteer of every line and all the sacred sites they found in their three and a half years of tracking the lines, taking them as far as Stafford in the north, Glastonbury in the south, Llandovery in the west and Milton Keynes in the east.

 

Then JGF’s life was catastrophically affected by a stroke at the age of 59, and he is currently in a care home near Chepstow. John and Peter’s legwork, and their research, is surely on a par with the epic of Hamish Miller and Paul Broadhurst in their Sun and the Serpent publication, and it fell to Trish Mills to get it published in 2012, and then publicised.

 

Trish told us that John was interested in earth energies, frequencies, music and Radionics. John and Peter were puzzled when the first line they dowsed, Line 1, stopped short of Chartley Castle which they believed to be its end point. John eventually realised through his familiarity with radionics that energy does not recognise time or space. They adapted their dowsing and asked to be shown the line as it was 2,000 to 2,500 years ago. And lo, Line 1 continued through Chartley Castle! They then had to go back to re-dowse what they’d already done so far as it had been 2,000+ years ago. 

 

In terms of the power of sound, and what our ancestors knew they were working with, Trish gave multiple examples. Here are just a few: the carvings in the 14 arches of the Rosslyn Chapel suggest a code based on cymatic resonance; the walls of Jericho purportedly came crashing down after the Israelite army circled the town sounding their trumpets and shouting. And Jonathan Goldman tells of a special visit with a group of six into an underground chamber at the Mayan city of Palenque in Mexico. They went at night, and after they had become accustomed to the pitch black they began to chant and witnessed the chamber become illuminated.

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Back at the Decagon, there was initially some puzzlement as to why Line 1 varied in width between 29’ wide on a Sunday morning and 326’ wide later that day, only to diminish in width again over the following week. John and Peter found that this widening of the line coincided with the Sunday morning service at Little Malvern Priory and all the other religious buildings en route. 

 

The same line also ran through Wolverhampton Wanderers football stadium and that too underwent a 7-fold increase on match day, after 90 minutes of secular singing and no doubt other heartfelt engagement!

 

The enthusiasm for what Trish had told us came over during the questions afterwards, and there were several enquiries as to how to buy the book. The answer is, email Trish at quicksilver7@icloud.com, £25 per book, or £40 for both plus £5 P+P.

 

John Moss also told the tale of his involvement with dowsing the Decagon when he was a member of South Herefordshire dowsers himself, and I am so, so glad that Trish’s presentation, of which the above is only a synopsis, is the essence of what most of the 70+ attendees will remember, rather than the computer crash in the first 5 minutes which mattered because it was playing the recording of Trish’s presentation at the time and, ominously, has happened before! Everyone was very patient and remained positive while Trevor rebooted his computer, and I’m very grateful for that.

 

Ali Denham

(Edited by Trish Mills)

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Dowsing the Vectors on Vectis

 

In the Footsteps of Gary Biltcliffe and Caroline Hoare

 

The Sun and the Serpent aside, there are few works that delve more deeply into the heart of Britain's long-distance energy lines, in such depth and with such insight, as Gary Biltcliffe and Caroline Hoare's Spine of Albion. For anyone who has not come across this tome, it is the tale of a non-physical exploration cum practical pilgrimage, which tracks the longest distance dowsable flows in the UK, from the southernmost tip of the Isle of Wight (IoW) to the northernmost coast of Highland Scotland.

 

T he epic journey starts with the arrival of the Belinus 'ley' at the unprepossessing seaside town of Sandown IoW. As we were marking our own significant coalescence of space-time just around the bay at St Catherine's lighthouse, it was too good an opportunity to miss.

 

Sandown off-season is a cameo of post-war, post-Brexit traffic-clogged inner suburbia. I'm sure it's delightful, even vibrant in mid-summer, but the atmosphere on our visit was just pleasant and unchallenging - provided you were well wrapped up against the elements. It wasn't the most obvious place to embark on any landmark saga - except, of course, it was just that.

 

In The Spine of Albion, Gary and Caroline picked out

two churches above the cliffs of the south east of the IoW - one newer, St Patrick's RC building, the other Christ Church, an older, more standard CofE structure. St Patrick's has a giveaway feature that shouts at you that it's a bit special - a full scale Irish round tower, much venerated by those researching the phenomenon of using such architecture to 'broadcast benevolent energy' to the surrounding fields of Eire. Although there were no fields here to benefit in the traditional sense, I am sure the urban landscape would derive some positive vibes from this energy distributor for some distance around. 

 

The real interest in St Patrick's, of course, is that despite being Victorian, it straddles most of the Belinus ley. It also hosts a section of Billy Gawn's lunar grid, with a crossing point somewhere in the middle 

of the building. Being neither Catholics nor locksmiths, we had to accept that that was a bit of research we would have to leave to others. However, before moving on, we were amused to find a man-hole cover with stars and sun symbols in the

pavement outside the church doors - right on the 'ley'. In my wildest dreams, I couldn't think the Founding Fathers requested the style of this piece of mundane ironwork, but it is often surprising what presumably non-dowsing civil engineers feel is appropriate at such locations.

 

A couple of hundred metres up the road, we dodged the incessant flow of cars and lorries to have a closer look at the Anglican sister church. The wider aspect of Belinus encompasses the church, although the tower is off-centre to the core of the ley. The building was being used as what appeared to be a Warm-space for a large group of men of a certain age (well, my age) and we chose not to disturb them. However, the real excitement was to be found outside, where the moon grid line that we had discovered down the road was found to be tight up against the lower masonry of the C of E church - so tight in fact that it almost seemed improbable.

 

Having understood what the Belinus ley 'felt like', we trundled up the road to the ancient little church of Yaverland, where the Belinus earth energy serpent could allegedly be found. Gary and Caroline's clues are always pretty spot on, and we found the current sweeping through the (sadly locked) little building and out of the back - straight through the neighbouring, and also clearly historical, Yaverland Manor House. For some reason I had got it into my head that I was looking for the female current and couldn't understand why my rods were indicating something else. However Ros, as ever, just found what she found - and we were clearly dowsing the male line. 

 

I was able to discern the presence of two parts of the Martian grid, which crossed somewhere inside, and contributed to the very solid sensation of the whole site. 

 

Pushing my way through the buddleia at the back of the church, I found that the window of the Manor House that was smack on Belinus had been blocked up (a bit like many churches have had their north door blocked in more recent times). I didn't detect any obvious adversity in the churchyard, but it felt it might not be doing the inhabited space of the ground floor of the house a lot of good

O ur last port of call for the day was to find a suitable and accessible part of the Elen serpent. After a few wrong turnings and diversions, we gave up on our original targets and closed in on the interestingly named Quarr Abbey. For readers from the south west, it's a bit like Buckfast Abbey in Devon, with 'real' Benedictine monks and a vast, and very welcome, tea room. Quarr is a huge brick-built edifice, about 100 years old, and with a middle-eastern style tower reminiscent of Westminster RC Cathedral in London.

 

Nearby, are the largely robbed out ruins of the mediaeval Quarr Abbey (1135-1536). We had to dodge some enthusiastic tree-felling activities and turn a blind eye to the Footpath Closed signs, but we did eventually find the remnants of the historic site, and we were able to dowse Elen, albeit at a short distance, coursing through the beleaguered remains, which now form part of 

the overly monumental facade of the Abbey Farm.

 

W e tracked Elen back towards the more modern main building, through the woods, which Gary and Caroline mark as Eleanor's (of Aquitaine) Grove, through old and extensive new orchards, and into a part 

of the mother site.

 

Back on my grid quest, I found that there were crossing solar lines at, or very close to, the massive brick tower. Did the 20th Century architects actually know about such a dowsable current? Well, apparently, yes - and no.

 

It seems unlikely that they were pre-Gawnian celestial grid chasers, but they do seem to have been aware of the currents in an informational sense. Such places are very difficult to deconstruct academically, and maybe we should just accept that we all experience the subliminal flows in different ways.There was a lot to experience here, and we had only arrived mid-afternoon. It deserved far more attention - and probably on a day when organised tours of the mediaeval part of the site are in process to provide better access. 

 

Whatever you feel about the religious aspect of places like Quarr, the foundation seemed overtly welcoming, and it is very up-front about the cultural, social and environmental impacts of their community.

 

 

Many thanks to Gary and Caroline for providing the original information for our quest - and we look forward to their forthcoming presentation to the TDs, which concerns a similar type of thoughtful and thought-provoking journey. 

 

 

Nigel Twinn

Tamar Dowsers 

January 2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dowsing for Beginners’ 1-day workshop

with John Moss (of the Trencrom Dowsers)

 

March 24th 

Marazion Community Centre

 

As John has been teaching dowsing for over 20 years, this is a tried and tested 1-day workshop.  The ideal way to learn this fascinating and ancient skill, or to refresh your knowledge.  Limited to a small group, this is a good, friendly learning experience and lots of fun. Dowsing tools will be available to use for the day and a resource pack to take away.