Inspiration

A marriage of heaven & earth in Glastonbury Abbey

2017-02-11T11:00:39+00:00

Adventures in Avalon

Drove up to Glastonbury to spend time near /on the meeting of the Mary & Michael earth energy lines in Glastonbury Abbey. After a smooth and blessed non-stop 3 hours drive, upon entering the town, two very low flying crows choose my car to pass over in a ‘welcome’ flight. At the Abbey parking there was 1 parking place left, obviously arranged by my Parking Angel, so I thanked it and manoeuvred my car into the tight spot, got out, tucked the mirrors in and stretched my legs. Ah, it’s been a while since I was here. More than a year ago. I realised I didn’t have enough change for the parking meter and needed a way to change some money. Luckily, my favourite mushroom pasty baker, Burns The Bread, had opened a little shop on the parking’s corner. I walked into the store and scored my lunch plus got small change back for the meter. Yay, two objectives settled with one action. Armed with a bag filled with winter warmers, I walked into the Abbey Grounds and greeted the Holy Thorn descendant.

Wassail Traditions: Awakening Nature

2017-01-07T20:27:21+00:00

Good health!

During January, communities in Britain gather in orchards to bring a blessing to the trees. It’s called ‘Wassail’ and originates from ‘waes hael’ which could be translated into ‘be healthy’ or ‘be whole’. Wassailing is the echo of rituals from the past when people would toast to the last harvest in late autumn and share the drink with the earth in order to bless its health for the coming Spring and to repel any bad influences. The deeper motivation being to safeguard a good yield in the next harvesting season.

In modern times, this is still the motivation but the time of blessing has been moved to January. The Wassail was preferably held on the last day of the 12 days of Yule with the traditional preferred date being January 17th because this is the ‘old twelfth night' (according to the pre-Gregorian calendar). On the Gregorian calendar it is held on January 5th or 6th. Which coincides with the Christian “Ephiphany' or ‘Three Kings’ celebration.

Does the earth communicate in sound and geometry?

2016-08-26T12:35:00+00:00

One of the things that I find really interesting is the link between sound/vibration, its geometric shapes and the language of earth energies. Long time ago, Hamish Miller and friends, found that where two earth energy lines cross, a node point was dowsable. Very often this node point would have a geometrical shape (see Hamish' s books In Search of the Southern Serpent and It's Not Too Late from Penwith Press). Now, this geometrical shape was seen to morph over time. When I put this information next to my dowsing results of Kynance Gate, where earlier people seem to have been aware of sounds coming from the earth at particular spots, then it doesn't surprise me that this sound has a dowseable geometrical shape and that it morphs over time.

Think of the influence of the seasons, the moon, eclipses, focused intent etc. This would all affect the geometrical shape. But when it does, does this then mean that the earth's sound/vibration has changed. And if yes, is sound/vibration the language of earth? I've attended a special gathering of likeminded souls way back in June 2008 when sounds coming from the earth were made audible by using a human, a stone and focused group intention (under the guidance of Tareth, Glastonbury) as a channel to manifest the sound coming from the earth. It was amazing to hear the sounds! John Reid later researched the sounds using his CymaScope and came back for an evening of presenting the results. He showed us the geometrical shapes that were made by this sound from the earth that had been recorded on that occassion. One of those shapes was a very distinct five pointed star, but there were many other shapes as well. I wonder whether the earth uses these as a language?

Spirit of Hawthorn on video?

2016-08-22T13:11:00+00:00

Now, today I’ve got a lovely story to share. I’m still excited by it! Here it is: I was standing guard next to Skye. She’s an elderly dog who really can’t be left unsupervised when she goes out to do her business. Sometimes she falls over and needs a hand to get back up again. I’m happy to be those loving hands. In most cases when she goes out, she just stands there. Soaking up the environment and sniffing the latest news carried to her by a Summer breeze. While keeping an eye on the dog, my attention wandered to the hawthorn tree, just a few meters away. And for the first time I noticed a funny kind of green hanging beard in one of the branches facing me. It seemed to be the only place with a ‘moss beard’ that was made from lichen (Lichen is a composite organism). Curious it should only be present in that one spot of the entire tree.

Step Beyond Radio Interview

2016-07-03T14:18:30+00:00

Listen to an interview with Shamanic Dowsing on Step Beyond radio by Deby Gould.

There are no boundaries

2016-06-17T13:43:00+00:00

Giving things a name, or label, makes it easier for humans to establish a mental connection to 'something'. It would be a challenge to address something that is too diffuse to make sense of. Hence we create sets of boundaries that can be labeled. In essence everything is made out of the same source. In the way I conduct shamanic dowsing, when I would like to establish a friendly 'mindmelt' with, let's say, the Spirit of Stone, in order to have a conversation about its unique perspective and particular knowledge, I do so from a perspective of knowing that this 'Spirit of Stone' I'm addressing is just a focal point within Source (or God or the Universe, pick your label).

When I connect to Spirit of Stone, I'm am reverting to working with manageable portions that narrow down the frequency level and intent of communication. Imagine if you will, that you are in a library filled to the brim with shelves and books. You want to connect with Spirit of Stone which is a chapter in a book somewhere. To find the chapter containing the information from the Spirit of Stone, you focus on what you think it is (to you!) thus applying boundaries and a label, and then let yourself be guided by means of dowsing to the right information/chapter.

It is only by narrowing down (and thus applying imaginary boundaries), that you have a clearer idea of the connection you want to establish. You still know that the chapter is part of the whole library but you want that specific information and tuning into the right 'address' helps. It is an aid. The chopping up in a set of boundaries serves a purpose. Once the chapter has been read, the best thing to do is to respectfully close the book, put it back on the shelf and find yourself returning to the awareness of the totality of this library. Where, by the way, you too are currently a chapter in a book, on the shelf of Life on Earth, in the greater library of One. We are all stories in the end, just make it a good one, yes?

Weaving the land

2016-06-16T22:16:11+00:00

"Love Songs to Wild Earth… We listened to wind and water and the silence of places that are remote from human hearths; we gathered up threads and fragments of melodies and words from ocean and high loch and deep valley and ancient migration routes; then we brought these threads home and wove them into the Dartmoor landscape that we wear inside our bones. We sought music that would express our huge gratitude and ever-deepening love for the landscape where we roam; we made songs upon the wild earth’s loom." ~ Carolyn Hillyer and Nigel Shaw

The landscape has stories to tell. Tales that rekindle our deepest memory and reconnect our hearts to the ancient heartbeat of the wild land. Are we listening? Sometimes I imagine I 'feel' with the heart of the earth who sings her song and weaves her music regardless if anyone listens, yet acutely aware of a heart that does hear it, of a soul that reconnects and of a deep longing being touched and transformed. She can do it all on her own, for eons of time if must be, yet nothing compares to that sweet soulful joining of Song and Listener while they rekindle all life with their dance of Love and Life. Through the practice of Shamanic Dowsing I can feel both the Song and the Listener.

Cymatics ~ the energetic structures at different vibrations

2016-06-13T17:06:26+00:00

"The CymaScope is a new type of scientific instrument that makes sound visible.The CymaScope has applications in almost every branch of science simply because vibration underpins all matter. The ability to see such vibrations permits a depth of study previously unavailable to scientists, engineers and researchers." Cymatics: below is a graph with the energetic structures of water and other substances at different vibrations."

Source: Secret Energy

Often, when dowsing the energy manifestation of an energy centre at an ancient site, geometrical forms are found. I wonder if these are, like the cymatics research, the manifestation of sound/vibration at that particular spot in the earth. The vibration of the earth, the frequency of the sound it produces and the specific material in the ground, may create the dowsable geometrical form. Thinking backwards this could then imply that by matching the dowsed form to the sound/frequency glyph from cymatics, we will have an idea of the sound frequency/tone the earth is making. Shamanic dowsing on a dowsing field trip yesterday found that ancient people were able to hear the sound the earth was making in some spots and enhanced such areas according to their specific beneficial effect on humans, the land or animals. Further dowsing also said that modern humans have forgotten 98% of their metaphysical capabilities! Time to bring that back, I say.

NLP and dowsing

2016-06-11T17:11:05+00:00

In the video below, Derren Brown uses a fine mix of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and dowsing to help a man who has never dowsed before to find a tiny canister of water buried in the desert. Derren instructs him to feel the direction from the rods themselves and "let them take you where the rods want to go". Then he asks the man to think of an image of the 'guiding entity' which the dowser associated with his grandfather. Then Derren adds colour to it: "the experience of doing this (finding water canister), what colour would this be? "Blue", replies the dowser. And lastly, Derren adds sound to the image and colour; "if the canister with water would make a sound and the sound would get louder when you are nearing the object, what sound would it be?". And the novice dowser says: "the sound of water and wind". And with this composite strong mental image, the dowser finds the canister with water at the place where the dowsing rods cross. And this is exactly how it works. You have to fully engage the thing you wish to find, using imagery and other senses to create the nearest specific vibration (unique to you) that resonates with the object. The rods then indicate when you come across it. Your subconscious mind plays a very important role in this whole process.

Just Being

2016-06-09T17:23:45+00:00

"Everybody has a different perception of their relation to the Earth and you too will find it, quietly, on your own, in a place like this. You must go with an open mind and a sense of wonder and feel the subtle effects. Tune in, just sit and contemplate. We are all subject to mind chatter but getting into a state of relaxation will help you access something. By just being and listening."

~Hamish Miller

How often do you just BE at a spot in nature? Not doing, not intending, not thinking. Just Being. Feeling the sensations, hearing the sounds around you, seeing the play of light, darkness and colour, smelling the scents in air, tasting the offerings of nature. And listening to its soul, its deva or spirit. When we want to start a friendship with nature, we introduce ourselves like we would when meeting a new person in our life. And then we would perhaps ask a question about something we are curious about and listen to their answer. It is the same when communicating with Nature or a tree or a flower, etc. Only the answers come in through all the 6 senses. Perhaps by hearing words been woven into our mind. Or images, sounds, scents, tastes or feelings in our body. Or we might just suddenly 'know' things. These are the subtle energies that Nature uses to communicatie with you. We can only sense them when we just BE. Being fully present in the moment.

Dowsing instruction video by Hamish Miller
If you live in the US, this DVD will not play, but there is a Downloadable alternative DVD Diverse Dowsing by Hamish Miller here.

Zero point consciousness

2016-06-08T17:36:55+00:00

"The zero point is a state of consciousness where no distance exists. This means that the beginning exists within the end, awareness exists with ignorance and power exists with impotence. The reason that this state is so powerful is due to the fact that healing, manifestation and empowerment can occur instantly. There is no pause between here and there, because here and there exist in the same point."
Source: The Path of Power

Within shamanic dowsing, the prevalent state of mind is to not only know we are always connected to everything but being fully aware of this connection and actively working WITH it. Have no doubt whatsoever that every answer is already present in the question. Do not wonder 'if' the question will be answered by dowsing, wonder about what we can learn from the answer we get.

Einstein on dowsing

2016-06-08T17:32:28+00:00

Evolution of consiousness & dowsing

2016-06-04T17:49:43+00:00

Huna and consciousness

2016-07-02T21:33:27+00:00

Huna is THE underpinning 'structure' that I use in the creation of ceremonies or in experiments for shamanic dowsing. It is an extremely exciting combination, huna and dowsing, and there possibly isn't enough time to explore it all but I can try. Endless possibilities await!

"Huna is a Hawaiian word meaning "secret," but it also refers to the esoteric wisdom of Polynesia. Kupua is another Hawaiian word and it refers to a specialized healer who works with the powers of the mind and the forces of nature.

The basic assumptions of Huna are these:

The Seven Principles
1. The World Is What You Think It Is.
2. There are no limits.
3. Energy Flows Where Attention Goes.
4. Now Is The Moment Of Power.
5. To Love Is To Be Happy With (someone or something).
6. All Power Comes From Within.
7. Effectiveness Is The Measure Of Truth.

The Three Selves (or Four)
Another set of assumptions used in Huna is that human behavior and experience can be explained and changed through the interaction of three (sometimes four) selves, aspects or functions:

1. The High Self (Kane, Aumakua), inspires.
2. The Conscious Self (Lono) imagines.
3. The Subconscious Self (Ku) remembers.
4. The Core Self (Kanaloa) wills.

The Four Levels of Reality
A third set of assumptions coming from the kupua tradition divides all experience into four levels or frameworks of beliefs about reality which can be summarized as follows:

1. Everything is objective (Scientific reality).
2. Everything is subjective (Psychic reality).
3. Everything is symbolic (Shamanic reality).
4. Everything is holistic (Mystical reality).

The kupua (Hawaiian shaman) learns to move in and out of these realities in order to change experience more effectively."

~ Serge Kahili King
Source

Drink yourself happy & healthy

2016-05-31T21:24:52+00:00

And I'm not talking green smoothies and otherwise healthy kind of drinks. Nope. I'm talking Drink Magic! Oh yes. Let's use the power of our mind to set an intent and infuse our drink with it.

So how do you create yourselves a bit of beneficial drink magic, you ask? First choose a drink. It could be anything: water, fruit juice, tea/coffee, alcohol, you name it. The idea is to infuse the drink with your deliberate intention. From past shamanic dowsing experiments, we've already seen how intent has an effect on your energy field. In the case of creating Drink Magic, first just think of a general ' outcome' that you wish for. You could choose love, health, happiness, good luck, success or anything else you want to bless yourself with. Then narrow the intention down to a more specific outcome, should you need one. Having a clear idea about the desired outcome is everything. Be as crystal clear as a pristine mountain lake in what you want to establish with your ' magic potion' .

Then weave an image of the desired outcome and include all five senses in that image: how would the result look like, taste like, sound like, feels like and smells like? Don't worry if you can't imagine all five senses, most people have developed just one or two in this life. Use what you're good at. Now, amalgamate the desired outcome into one powerful feel-intention and/or visual-intention. An image that holds the power of your wish. You could call it the Seed. This seed holds the entire blessing you are about to spike your drink with. In a good way though!

Next step: hold your hands above your drink and bless it by imagining you are dropping that Seed into the chosen drink. Or you can just project the intention with your mind into your liquid of desire. Both ways work. The most powerful minds are those that have the least doubt about the effectiveness. In its most basic form, magic or intention doesn't need much ' decoration'. But on the other hand, creating a 'play for the senses' can help to strengthen believing and thus enhancing the general outcome of the Drink Magic.

Now comes the best part; drinking it. Yay! Steady... do it slowly, savouring every sip, make it count, imagine the intention finding its magical way into every cell of your body, mind and soul - delivering its blessing and starting the manifestation of it. That feels good, doesn't it?

If you are a dowser (or just very intuitive and use your hands - or third eye), try dowsing the circumference of your (or your friend' s) energy field before and after the Drink Magic. Oh and please email results. I would love to know what you found!

CHEERS!
May you be happy and healthy! (and now you know why we say ' Cheers' before drinking)