We are delighted to welcome Graham Hole as Co-Chair of Tamar Dowsers, joining Alex as Stu Dow steps back from the role to take greater care of his health. Stu remains a much-loved part of our community and will continue helping with our Facebook group. 💛 In this warm conversation, Alex and Graham explore the journey that led him into dowsing - from the unforgettable pendulum image on The Moody Blues’ Every Good Boy Deserves Favour and discovering The Sun and the Serpent, to his love of dowsing with rods and investigating earth energies. 🌀 Graham shares some of his experiences at sacred and ancient places, including the Rollright Stone Circle, Brentor and Duloe Stone Circle. Alex and Graham also remember the Tamar Dowsers outing to Duloe Stone Circle and Talland Bay last year. 🌿 We also hear a glimpse of the fascinating dowsing quest Graham and Lou Clancy have been following around Quethiock, ahead of their forthcoming autumn talk for Tamar Dowsers at North Hill. At its heart, this is a conversation about curiosity, intuition, merry companionship and the living connections between people, landscape and cosmos. ✨ Welcome, Graham, and heartfelt thanks to Stu for everything he has brought, and continues to bring, to Tamar Dowsers. #TamarDowsers, #Dowsing, #EarthEnergies, #SacredSites, #Cornwall, #Quethiock, #DuloeStoneCircle, #TallandBay, #Intuition

Do ancient stories, sacred sites and earth energies form a network of “songlines” across the Cornish landscape? In this fascinating and wide-ranging talk, Cornish Bard, artist, poet and sacred sites campaigner Andy Norfolk explores the idea of Cornish Songlines and our relationship with the living landscape. Beginning with the ancient songlines and Dreaming tracks of Australia’s First Nations peoples, Andy explores how stories, songs and sacred places can preserve knowledge of the landscape across extraordinary periods of time. He then turns his attention closer to home, asking whether Cornwall has its own form of songlines woven through its rich traditions of folklore, ancient stones, sacred sites and mythic journeys. Along the way, Andy explores earth energies, the Michael and Mary lines, ley lines, giants and saints, Cornish legends, stone circles, holy wells and ancient pathways. Drawing connections between folklore, archaeology, dowsing and earth mysteries, this thought-provoking talk invites us to see the landscape not simply as a collection of places, but as something alive with stories, memories and meaning. 00:00 Welcome & Introduction to Andy Norfolk 02:32 Dowsing, Folklore & the Origins of Cornish Songlines 04:00 Australian Songlines & John Michell 06:12 Bruce Chatwin and The Songlines 08:03 Dreamtime, Sacred Places & the Rainbow Serpent 11:00 A Songline Over 7,000 Years Old 12:02 The Fairy Emu Dreaming & Stories in the Landscape 13:25 Songlines, Stars & Ancient Navigation 14:01 Totemic Landscapes & Deep Memory 15:10 Country as a Living Entity 17:01 The Seven Sisters, Pleiades & Cornish Parallels 18:18 The Nine Maidens & Dancing Stones 19:30 Churingas, Greenstone Axes & Ancient Trade Routes 20:09 Does Cornwall Have Its Own Dreamtime? 21:50 Dragons, Dragon Lines & the Michael Line 22:34 The Michael & Mary Earth Energy Lines 23:17 Alfred Watkins, Ley Lines & Ancestral Memory 1:10:47 Audience Q&A About Andy Norfolk Andy is a Cornish Bard, artist, poet and long-standing campaigner for the protection of ancient and sacred sites. He founded CASPN (Cornish Ancient Sites Protection Network) and has been involved in the restoration and protection of important ancient sites. This talk was hosted by Tamar Dowsers and filmed live at North Hill Village Hall in Cornwall. Tamar Dowsers is a friendly and welcoming group exploring dowsing, earth energies, ancient and sacred sites, healing and related subjects through talks, workshops and field trips. If you enjoy exploring dowsing, earth energies, sacred landscapes, ancient sites, folklore and the mysteries of the land, please subscribe to my channel for more talks, interviews and explorations. https://www.tamar-dowsers.org/ #CornishSonglines #Cornwall #Dowsing #EarthEnergies #SacredSites #CornishFolklore #AncientSites #LeyLines #TamarDowsers

Join Patrick MacManaway for a warm and wide-ranging open forum exploring the art and practice of dowsing. 🌿 Patrick shares stories and insights from his work with farms, homes, wells, springs, rivers and sacred landscapes. The conversation moves through regenerative farming, nature spirits, dowsing tools, dragon lines, water devas, geopathic stress and earth healing. At the heart of the evening is Patrick’s understanding of compassionate witness and the grace space - a peaceful, coherent state from which we can listen, enquire and work with greater clarity, care and discernment. ✨ This thoughtful question-and-answer gathering invites us to deepen our relationship with the land, water, subtle intelligence and our own inner guidance. If you enjoy this conversation, please like, share and subscribe for more explorations of dowsing, consciousness and our living relationship with the Earth. 💚 CHAPTERS 0:00 Opening blessing 0:30 Welcome and introduction 2:18 Working with non-visible beings and place 5:35 Land energies and regenerative farming 14:21 Dowsing across past, present and future 20:31 Gnomes, dwarves and nature spirits 29:10 Choosing dowsing tools and working safely 34:25 Hidden labyrinths and sacred sites 44:24 Short intermission 49:17 Dragon lines, telluric currents and geopathic stress 57:29 Water devas, wells and healing water 1:10:32 Blessing rivers and supporting biodiversity 1:15:52 Earth healing through compassionate witness 1:18:56 Understanding the grace space 1:23:20 Closing reflections and trusting yourself 1:25:01 Closing blessing #PatrickMacManaway #Dowsing #EarthEnergies, #GraceSpace #SubtleEnergies #NatureSpirits #LandHealing #WaterDowsing #GeopathicStress #RegenerativeFarming #SacredLandscape #Consciousness

🔥 Recorded live at North Hill Village Hall, this Tamar Dowsers talk welcomes Dr Alan B Jones, author, speaker, psychotherapist, mentalist and Rational Mystic, for a fascinating exploration of Brigid and Imbolc. Alan journeys through early Irish mythology and the Tuatha Dé Danann before introducing Brigid’s three great gifts - poetry and inspiration, healing, and the transformative craft of the forge. 🌱 He explores Imbolc as the first stirring of spring, together with Brigid’s Cross, holy wells, sacred colours, ritual symbolism and the eternal flame of Kildare. 🕯️ The story then moves from Brigid the Celtic goddess to Saint Brigid of Kildare, revealing how an ancient sacred presence continued through changing spiritual traditions. 🔬 Drawing on psychology, earth science, theology and decades of esoteric study, Alan reflects on science as a method of enquiry and on the place of intuition, symbolism and mystical experience. The talk also considers how we engage honestly with inherited traditions, what Brigid may offer both women and men, and how spiritual growth can become a journey of self-discovery. ❓ The audience questions explore: * The nineteen keepers of Brigid’s flame * The meaning of red and green * How Celtic stories travelled between Ireland, Cornwall, Wales and Scotland * Smithing, alchemy and transformation * Myth, translation and the stories communities live by * Thresholds, liminal places and the magic of the in-between 🌐 Discover more about Alan, his books and current work:https://alanbjones.com/ 📍 Recorded at North Hill Village Hall for Tamar Dowsers. 👍 If you enjoy thoughtful talks about dowsing, consciousness, folklore, symbolism and the living traditions of the land, please like, subscribe and share. CHAPTERS 0:00 Welcome and introduction 1:09 The Rational Mystic and the “I am” invocation 2:07 Early Ireland and the Tuatha Dé Danann 8:50 Who is Brigid? 11:09 Smithcraft, alchemy and the triple goddess 13:07 Imbolc and the return of spring 16:34 The sacred flame, holy wells and Brigid’s symbols 18:06 Brigid’s Cross and the ritual table 20:08 From goddess to Saint Brigid 21:59 Syncretism and changing spiritual traditions 23:05 Kildare and the eternal flame 24:49 Science, mysticism and Alan’s own path 29:36 Modern paganism and honouring our sources 35:07 Female spirituality and what Brigid offers men 36:36 Brigid and the Morrígan 38:05 St Brigit of Kildare 43:36 Connecting with Brigid across gender 49:25 Rekindling the flame and allowing beliefs to evolve 51:11 Alan’s books 53:30 Closing reflections 54:05 Audience questions 54:16 The nineteen keepers of the flame 55:03 Sacred colours and Mary Magdalene 56:15 How Celtic stories travelled 58:05 Smithing and alchemy 59:26 Fact, allegory and the deeper meaning of myth 1:02:27 Virgin birth, language and translation 1:06:08 Thresholds, liminal spaces and Excalibur #Brigid, #Imbolc, #SaintBrigid, #CelticMythology, #IrishMythology, #CelticSpirituality, #SacredFlame, #DivineFeminine, #LiminalSpaces, #MythAndMeaning, #RationalMysticism, #TamarDowsers, #CelticTraditions