Earth Energies

Most dowsers will agree that our ancient foremothers and fathers knew all about what are now known as the Earth Energies when they constructed both their homes and their sacred sites, for example, most of the Bronze Age hut circles one finds on the moors here in Britain do not seem to have been built on these energies, while sacred sites right next to them are loaded with them!

While the so-called burning times of the Inquisition put a stop to things like dowsing for these Earth energies, there was one kind of dowsing that was just too valuable to be totally exterminated – and that was water dowsing, or, interestingly enough, also called “water witching.” But even with the repression by the Church, other kinds of dowsing re-emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century beginning in Germany. Dowsers there were interested in what they called “krebs” houses. Krebs = crabs = cancer. In certain houses, generation after generation, or family after family seemed to get cancer when their neighbours didn’t. As they hadn’t lost their ability to find water, dowsers found significant crossings of underground veins of primary water running under and more importantly, crossing under these krebs houses, but not under their neighbours’ homes!

Reginald Allendar Smith worked for the British Museum, and in 1925 became the Trustees’ representative on the Ancient Monuments Board for England. After his retirement (so many wonderful things in the Earth Mysteries were re-discovered by people when they retired!), he wrote papers for the British Society of Dowsers (BSD) saying that he was finding water under the sacred places that many BSD members were interested in. These so called “blind springs” and their veins of primary water are seen by many as the yin/female /Earth Mother side of the Earth Energy system.

Around the same time as Allendar Smith, Alfred Watkins, a truly renaissance man who was the son of a baker and the inventor of a photographic light meter, found in his travels through Hertfordshire whilst selling his father’s baked goods, in what is reported by his son as a rather mystic flash, that ancient sites of varying age lined up in straight lines, and these lines (which he called “leys”) crossed at sacred sites over Allendar Smith’s blind springs and primary veins of underground water. Laterdowsers when dowsing some of these leys, found six to eight foot wide straight beams of energy they called “energy leys.”

This crossing of yin and yang is called a “power centre.” The energy leys, like the acupuncture meridians on the human body, are seen as the yang/male/ Solar side of this energy system, and it is where these energy leys cross overt the underground yin primary water that the possibility of spiritual connection is enhanced.One way to see this is to dowse a friend’s aura somewhere where these energies aren’t, and then see the expansion when they stand on a power centre – like in the goal (centre) of the labyrinth in St John’s Church yard, at the high altar in the Abbey, or inside the tower on the Glastonbury Tor.

It is important to understand that many dowsers do not see these energies the way I have reported here. It is like the three blind men and the elephant. All of them were looking at the same pachyderm, but each of them “saw” something different. This reality is also experienced by all spiritual seekers. No two pilgrims experience the road to Jerusalem in exactly the same way. While all Christians see Jesus as the doorway to God, Catholics see it differently from the way the Methodists see it, who see it differently from the way Jehovah’s Witnesses see it, etc., etc., and we haven’t even begun to talk about the Jews, Pagans, Muslims, Buddhists or other spiritual paths all who also have their own different sub groups or denominations. They all see the Spiritual Realms and the One differently.

Another word for dowsing is “divining”, and dowsers run in to the same lack of uniformity as seekers on the spiritual path. It is not a tool of science, so it doesn’t meet major criterion of scientific methodology - repeatability. I would go so far as to say, even if they had the same teacher, it is quite probable that no two dowsers, when dowsing for intangible targets like the Earth energies, will ever find exactly the same thing. We all “see” the sacred space elephant differently.

Let me give you some examples. Hamish Miller, a famous dowser from Cornwall found serpentine Michael and Mary lines that twist their way up from St. Michael’s Mount in Cornwall through a number of Michael sites (including the Tor), and then wend their way up to the northeast going through Avebury and other sacred sites out to the North Sea. You can obtain maps of how several different dowsers find these Michael and Mary lines dancing and interweaving their way through Glastonbury. These are maps by dowsers Hamish Miller and Tony Kennish andcan be found in the PRC reference library or in many bookshops on the High Street.

While the energy ley system and the Michael and Mary Lines are the major ways dowsers see the Earth Energies here in Glastonbury, there are also the Rainbow Serpent Energy, Hartmann and Curry Grids, the more nebulous “energy lines,” and many more.

The important thing to remember should you be inspired to take dowsing rods in hand and go looking for the Earth Energies here in Glastonbury (or anywhere else for that matter), it is what you find that is important! Listen to others, but see what you see. If my experience is any guide, you won’t find exactly what others find anyway, ultimately, we each need to find our own way.

Some places where the Earth Energies cross are detrimental to a person’s health (as with the krebs houses). Other places – usually found within sacred spaces- enhance the possibility of spiritual connection.Try meditating on one of the benches in the Abbey in the Crypt of St. Joseph (of Arimathea), or by the well in Chalice Well Gardens, or inside the tower on the Tor. These are all important power centres. If it was the reason why you came to Glastonbury, then listen for that still small voice.

Sig Lonegren

If you would like instruction in this subject please contact Sig at (01458) 835 818 or email link website: www.geomancy.org

Thanks to Anthony Kennish for the picture.