Pathways

Of

Consciousness

Booklet 2

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Contents

1) Leylines – Pathways of

Collective

Consciousness.

2) Pathways of

Consciousness.

3) Some further

observation on Ley-line

analysis and recent

changes in the system

before and after

Harmonic Convergence.

4) Beyond the Five Senses.

5) Some Thoughts on

European Ley-Lines

and Oriental Dragon

Lines.

From the Archives

Copyright of

Fountain

International

All the articles have

been written by Colin

Bloy.

Leylines

Pathways of

the

Collective

Consciousness

Some years ago, you were kind enough

to give me the opportunity to address

you on the subject of “Dowsing Ley Line Energies and the Search for the

Grail.” May I now be permitted to give you an update on what has happened

in the last five years, and to what

extent one has learned more and put

into practice what one thought one had

learned.

Those involved are still, to all intents

and purposes, relatively sane, or at any

rate no one has publicly to account for

that reason, although that may of

course be due to not having anything

important to say. But if I may

summarise briefly what was said five

years ago, it was as follows:

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Due to a series of coincidences,

contrived or otherwise, a group of

dowsers seeking the truth about the

existence of ley energies stumbled

across a display of geometric forms

around the Templar Preceptory at

Shipley, Sussex, and subsequently at

other Templar Preceptories. They

found what was believed to be the ABC

of how the, so called ley system works

and subsequently the discovery of the

stone in the caves in the Pyrenees

produced what might be called the

syntax and grammar.

We tried to show how these

geometrical numerical forms related to

the Cabalistic and Gnostic tradition, to

the sacred architecture, and through

the work of Bligh Bond, to the basic

esoteric nature of true Christianity or

what might be equally well called, just

truth, whatever name it may take in

any culture.

What appeared to be the case was that

the material world is not the be all and

end all, some sort of Newtonian

Billiard table on which not even

Hurricane Higgins could make a

mistake. Of course Newton would be

the first to say that he had been mis-

represented. He had only sought to

show how the grossest form of the

material world works, not to say there

was nothing else. Coming back to

Hurricane Higgins, he would know, as

we must also know, that whereas the

billiard balls may perform in a

perfectly predictable way, whether or

not it performs in the desired way,

depends on whether the mind and

body behind the cue has delivered its

input correctly of not.

We were faced with certain compelling

conclusions, the first was self-delusion,

the second was that the material world

as defined by science or “scientism,” the rational positivistic study of reality,

that subtle energies may be shown to

exist by dowsing raises many

questions, and the self -confidence and

clarity of the observer may be the first

to be questioned.

On the other hand, it is equally self-

evident that if you elevate, as the only

means of perception, the five senses

and a series of apparatuses,

functioning solely on input from gross

energy fields, they are incapable of

discovering anything else. As my dear

friend Michael Bentine said, “If you apply the meters of the gas man to an

electrical cable he will tell you that

there is nothing.

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Not long ago, in a radio discussion, a

leading physicist was asked whether he

thought that consciousness was an

objective reality. Now he had the

honesty to say, hesitantly, that he did

not know, and of course the nub of the

paranormal, I believe resides there,

should it be objective.

Uri Geller once said, “I’ve done it once why do I have to do it again?” I recall a story told to me by Andrea Puharich

about Uri Geller and Werner Von

Braun. Von Braun had said that if

what Uri Geller purported to do was

true he would have to change his

model of the Cosmos. Andrea brought

Geller to Von Braun’s laboratory and in Von Braun’s hand his own door key bent out of true. Apparently Von

Braun walked around his laboratory in

an agitated manner for some 30

minutes, returned to his desk, put the

key down, said “I don’t believe it”, and walked out.

Now spoons have been bent under my

own eyes by friends in my own home,

and many of us will be familiar with

John Halstead’s work at Birkbeck College, where he has shown without

doubt that it is virtually a banal

phenomenon: it can be reproduced by

a significant percentage of the

population. There is more than

enough evidence to justify Uri Geller’s statement. Here lies the greatest

problem of the positivist approach to

science, once isn’t enough, not ten times, you really have to pocket the

billiard ball every single time to

gain credence. That really is throwing

the baby out with the bath water,

because the one that behaves

differently is totally ignored, even if it

is observed correctly.

Many laboratory investigations have

been carried out, under supposedly

identical conditions, and sometimes

they work and sometimes they don’t. But just what are these identical

conditions? Apparently conditions

that have to conform to a positivist

criteria. The Faraday cage is often put

forward as important, but so far as I

am aware, the Faraday cage only

screens out influences from the so

called electric-magnetic spectrum. Are

we to suppose, therefore, that there are

no other influences that bear on

reality?

Often subjects of paranormal

investigation protest that the

environment is hostile, that

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investigators present give off “negative vibrations” so they cannot function. Certainly the De La Warr radionics

camera did not work for everybody,

and never consistently, but that is no

reason to say that it was a fraud when

sometimes it worked brilliantly. We, I

believe, are obliged to say that when it

did work, something happens outside

the conventional positivist criteria, and

instead of turning our backs on the

problem, we have to account for it.

Human society being what it is the

most immediate source of Brownie

points is to echo the conventional

wisdom. You don’t ready get marks for

telling society and its institutions that

it is wrong. If you are out of step with

the regiment, it’s the guardhouse for you or maybe a source of income cut

off. Here lies the sociological problem

of the discovery of true knowledge. I

am not knocking the scientific

approach to life completely. It is a

safeguard against total fantasy and

delirium. Nonetheless we really do

have to look more closely at the one

that gets away.

Heisenberg started to upset everybody

when he stated that not every particle

behaves in the Newtonian billiard ball

way, and further, the act of observation

influences the event, which really did

make everything relative. It is all very

well to make nuclear bombs, and to

send spacecraft on a calculated course,

to wherever, in a Newtonian Universe,

but the theory of probability places a

large question mark on the whole

positivist approach, because you really

do have to account for the one that

doesn’t work according to convention.

One of Einstein’s close collaborators, Eugene Wigner, once said he could not

conceive of a coherent system of

physical laws without taking

consciousness into account, and that

the evidence that material objects had

spiritual essences, have a very similar

form of reality, and had greatly

contributed to inner peace. In any

event he could conceive of no other

way satisfied the requirements of

quantum mechanics. Not to mention

all the problems presented to

contemporary physics by the difference

between particles, waves and fluids,

the ether, the Michelson Morley

experiment, and so on.

Now an even greater problem has

apparently presented itself. Closer

observation of the behaviour of

electrons, which may only have mass

when they are observed, reveals certain

characteristics of communication

which indicates that there is something

which actually works faster than light.

Thought, in an instant can transport us

to any location, (this is from the

International Herald Tribune, I might

say.) The one insuperable barrier and

limiting factor of positivist science,

nothing can go faster than light.

Indeed says one commentator, if this is

so then certain events can have their

cause in the future rather than the

past.

Well, all that’s a long way from the billiard table physics, which certainly

gave man many technological goodies,

and for that matter, baddies. We

appear, therefore, to be left with a

problem: Newtonian physics only

works at the grossest material level.

When it does, it is entirely predictable

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and yields totally to statistical analysis.

What happens when Hurricane

Higgins does not pot the black?

What’s gone wrong? Why do some particles not obey the rules? Why

apparently is communication between

electrons faster than light? What

bends spoons and distorts Geiger

counters? What is the factor that

affects paranormal success or failure?

Coming back now to Bligh Bond.

Some of you will be aware that in his

book, “The Company of Avalon,” he makes specific reference to, “The Great Return.” That is to say, when man from the peak of ego consciousness,

and through the medium of love,

returns voluntarily to the group

consciousness.

That may seem a big jump out of all

that technical, scientific stuff, into that

statement by Bligh Bond. But I want

to try to bring out the relationship

between consciousness, in its’ highest

state, pure love and energy, as being

those concepts we find help us most to

explain the phenomena we have been

studying. It’s a way of explaining the bits that don’t fit the billiard table physics.

Returning to an earlier question. Is

consciousness an objective reality? My

answer, in the light of the dowsing

experience is an unequivocal “Yes.” There is no doubt, at the moment , in

my mind that there is a relationship

between form, number and

consciousness and subtle energies

which exist beyond the gross worlds of

the Faraday cage: and that is the true

message of the Holy Grail. It also

became clear to me of late, although I

would be the first to resent the

tardiness of such a realisation, that

consciousness, as manifested by the

individual, is in fact holistic.

The brain is not the seat of

consciousness, any more than it is the

seat of the emotions. Dowsing shows,

at least to me, that the brain maybe a

form of telephone exchange in respect

of orders to the to the body, but in

respect of our being, it thinks and

cerebrates, which is but one small

aspect of consciousness.

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The Greeks maintained that the heart

was seen as the seat of the emotions

and modern material science has

rebutted that, but dowsing shows the

Greeks to have been right, just as it

shows that the contemporary slang

“gut feeling,” is also right. Many feelings have to do with the abdomen

and not the brain.

Now human consciousness, as it

relates to the body, has fields which

may be determined by dowsing – not

that perplexing version of dowsing

represented by the pendulum, which

requires use to take views about the

subtleties of the relationship between

mind and body, but based on a very

slight extension of the tactile sense,

received through the hand.

Now I’m not special – not especially

sane, or especially sensitive, and

anybody can do what I do, if they want

to, so I claim no special gift or

revelation: however, it has been made

plain to me that, at least within the

electro-magnetic spectrum, in which

our five senses may be held to work,

their window of reality in relation to

the whole of the spectrum is

infinitesimally small.

However, if we raise the sensitivity of

our hands by a small degree, by

rubbing them together or by clapping

them,

and we approach one palm to the

other, we may be aware, due to the

marginally heightened sensitivity, of a

form of resistance at about 6 inches

distance: it depends on the individual.

It is liked by some to the repulsion of

similar poles of a magnet, or holding

an invisible air balloon between our

hands, or by others as a tingling. But

what we are feeling, if we concentrate

in a relaxed way and let our higher

consciousness do the interpreting, is

the energy field around each hand

coming together.

Once we have recognised this

sensation, and it’s easier than learning to ride a bike, then we may feel not

only our own aura, but those of others.

What is important here is the study of

chakras, or energy centres, which

appear to be a link between the spirit,

through the etheric to the physical

body. They have multitudinous effects,

such as their relationship to the

endocrine and glandular systems to the

subtle workings of the body, but what

is relevant to this submission is their

consciousness.

Interesting to note that there are 8

chakras in the general theory, although

there is a very arcane argument as to

how many sub-chakras there are. A

straight forward manual analysis of

any individual’s chakras may indicate

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his state of consciousness. For

instance, someone in a state of anger of

a visceral nature, or sexually obsessed,

momentarily or permanently, will

exhibit a large field around the lower

abdomen. Someone whose

consciousness is involved in loving

attitudes will exhibit a uniform field

around the heart region to a radius of

up to three yards. Someone who is

cerebrating, studying or worrying out a

problem will have an extended field

around the forehead. Someone who is

a practising saint will have a large

flaring field around and above the top

of the head. There are infinite

variations and conclusions based on

experience, which may be drawn from

distinctive profiles thus revealed. They

are not necessarily moral conditions.

The conclusion for me, however, is that

consciousness, in some degree, is

measurable and quantifiable, and

therefore objective. It is not solely

dependant on the electrical activity of

the brain, although it is true that brain

rhythm and states of consciousness are

related.

A study of the chakras reveals

ascending degrees of consciousness, as

if on a ladder, from the base to the

crown, a replica if you like, of the

Cabbalistic tree of life. An indication

of the extent to which our heads maybe

in the clouds, or our feet on the

ground.

A healer may be observed, from

behind, to have none of his chakras

working except his crown chakra, and

from the front a common field of

uninterrupted consciousness with the

person being healed. EEG’s reveal that the healers brain pattern shifts, so does

that of the subject: implying that a

certain level of consciousness during

the act of healing, they are one being.

That is to say that they enjoy a moment

of collective consciousness at that

time. Maxwell Cade with his mind

mirror shows that not only did this

function when healer and receiver

were facing each other, but also when

they were separated by considerable

distances as well.

A series of photographs taken of

healing in progress, shows that there is

something important happening. A

column as many contemplatives

perceive it, has totally descended on

both healer and healed. It conforms in

every way to descriptions of the Holy

spirit, in Christians terms, but it is also

a well-known phenomenon in Eastern

religions and many be called prana and

various other names. Cosmic energy.

Divine energy the stuff of life, because

it’s the force that heals once it is in

combination with four other energy

fields coming from the nearest point in

the ley system.

Now the last time I was kindly invited

to address this Society. I was hopefully

able to define in energy terms, what we

felt we had discovered or been

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permitted to observe about the ley

system. We have concluded that all of

it worked by number and form, ie the

number of parallels in the lines and the

geometric forms that the energy takes

when it goes into function. We had

observed that these change and

augment when some form of spiritual

input takes place by those present, in

any particular place of function;

indeed we concluded that the system

moved to accommodate ephemeral

situations just as a healer might

function in the middle of an open field.

The cross of ley energies comes upon

him during that spiritual act and he

draws in from the nearest terminal

point in the ley

We also observed that the mis-named

ley system is not merely horizontal, but

as Sig Lonegren has also commented

in “The American Dowser,” there are vertical energies or what he called

“uppers.” And indeed the phenomenon of the column of light of

the healer may be found in other

circumstances such as the altar of a

properly dedicated church, and other

places of organised spiritual activity.

Those blessed with hyper vision see

this phenomenon as a column of light

with different colours. Much work has

been done in Australia to show that the

parallels in the ley lines have different

colours, not colours in the physical

sense but using a Mager colour rosette.

There appears to be some form of

qualitative distinction that, that

particular colour rosette interprets as a

different colour, may be different

vibrations but he signs are that there is

more work to be done there.

Now putting two and two together, and

possibly making five, and taking into

account the Templar phenomenon we

described in some detail in the last

lecture, we came to the conclusion that

what it all had to do with, was no more

or less that the collective

consciousness of the Western World.

The ley lines, the alignments and the

energy come together in that concept

of collective consciousness. There is

also a collective consciousness in the

Eastern World, and of course there it is

in the stories of dragons, Feng Shui the

dragon current and Lung Mei the

dragon paths.

Having observed how a healer works

within the ley system, and also having

heard from the protagonists of

Transcendental Meditation that

communities tend to go better when a

certain, very nominal percentage

practice TM, something like 2%, it

occurred to one or two of us one May

evening in Brighton, that if a healer

worked unknowingly but in real terms,

with the ley system, and if the ley

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system had to do with collective

consciousness, bearing in mind the

subtle nature of the other bodies of the

individual: particularly how a healer

combines his consciousness with that

of his subject, and if individual

diseases may be analysed in terms

relating to degrees of consciousness,

then collective beings in villages,

towns, and cities might also exist

which have collective diseases the

same way. Violence, traffic accidents,

largely produced through stress, high

incidence of stress induced disease and

so on. Physical manifestations which

have their origins, we feel, within its

collective consciousness.

Consequently it occurred to us that if

the TM people were right and if our

observations were correct, a group

input into a group situation might have

some beneficial effect. Particularly

what is instructed in TM is more of a

passive, self- indulgent to some extent,

type of meditation. What we are

proposing was to use an altered state

of consciousness but put in an active

visualisation of the desired change.

Just as when a healer, working on the

rational approach uses visualisation, a

switching of the brain rhythm to

permit a higher state of consciousness

in which total visualisation can take

place.

We used the analogy of the individual

one to one healer as well in relating the

collective body of the community. The

individual healer puts vital energy into

the person receiving through the hara,

or solar plexus. In Brighton the hara

just had to be the Great Fountain in

the centre of the Old Steine. That

circus around

Which Brighton revolves, just in front

of the old Palace Pier. It is called the

Old Steine because there used to be a

stone circle there, and some of the

stones have been left in the base of the

fountain. A very propitious place from

all points of view. Thus the idea of the

Fountain Group, (Fountain

International,) came into existence.

Although it may seem out of sequence,

I would now like to deal with the

China, Hong Kong experience as it

relates to the pathways of collective

consciousness.

It has long seemed to me that the

Chinese system of Feng Shui, wind and

water and Lung Mei, ought to be

related to what we have been looking

at in the ley lines. However, in the

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sparse literature that has so far been

available, although the use of the

geomancers’s compass is shown, and the complex schematic of factors,

relating to physical phenomena,

combine and to produce and enable

the geomancer to calculate, propitious

chi or noxious cha. I have never found

any reference to the use of dowsing as

a Feng Shui Method.

It was with a long anticipated pleasure

that last week, for the first time, I went

to Hong Kong and Peking. Now Mao

banned all the “mancies” in Communist China, but in Singapore,

Taiwan and Hong Kong the dragon

man or Feng Shui practitioner is a

prominent functionary, and no one,

not even the British Government of

Hong Kong takes them lightly. I am

also concerned with a new factory in

Hong Kong, and its orientation, date of

ground breaking and ceremonial

opening were all established by the

dragon man, and the director

concerned is a European who

consulted them.

It was to this director I therefore

addressed myself on arrival and asked

him to arrange for me to meet a dragon

man. He immediately put me in touch

with a Hong Kong Chinese named Y.K.

Yeung who had studied under a dragon

man. Yeung explained that he was the

architect to the whole group, a large

construction company. He approached

me with some diffidence at first –

presumably Europeans were not

supposed to know these things – but

when I explained what we had been

doing he brightened up and started to

look me in the eye, proposed that we

went and looked at sites together. We

struck a deal to share our knowledge.

The first surprise was that when I went

to his office he produced a very heavy

dowsers rod which was carefully

machined. “You see,” he said. “We do the same thing but we never write it

down. But I don’t understand your method of numbers of lines and

geometrical forms. We identify good

and bad lines by whether the rod dips

or keeps it’s head up, and the intensity by feel and intuition.”

We went out together and I hope to

recount the details of that exercise

later in an article for the British

Society of Dowsers, if they will accept

it. We finished the day entirely

satisfied, we were talking the same

language and looking at the same

things. Indeed, the following day we

had lunch together with more

members of his Feng Shui group which

included a Chinese Catholic Priest, a

Jesuit, and Eastern master and a lady

acupuncturist. I am happy to tell you

that at that luncheon the Hong Kong

Fountain Group was formed.

The Eastern master later revealed he

had founded a group called Ling Su

International, (Ling Su means spiritual

truth,) which had over 5,000 members

in Australia, Japan and the Philippines

and Hong Kong. He had been a

member of the British Society of

Dowsers some 30 years ago, was also a

spiritual healer. He said he would be

pleased to organise Asian Fountain

International through Ling Su.

It seemed to me that the whole

Chinese attitude towards Feng Shui is

one of a passive role in the matter.

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You can divert it, send it out of your

house to someone else’s and in, England we also agree with this. But it

is possible (and this is what “dragon killing” is about in Western European mythology) to transmute that negative

energy into positive energy through the

application of certain spiritual acts. I

think that is the one point where I had

something useful to say to them, and

they took the point because we went to

a place with bad cha, we both agreed

by dowsing where it was, and I was

able to show that one can transmute

that into positive.

On my arrival in Hong Kong I had

picked up that the Hong Kong Line

system worked on a five factor, that is

5-10-20-25-50. Whereas Europe and

North America works on an eight

factor. I wondered whether this was

unique to Hong Kong or if I would find

this also in mainland China. When I

arrived in Peking I checked and it was

the same.

I was met at the airport by my

designated interpreter, a diminutive

20yr old graduate in English from

Peking University. Although I did not

know the form in Peoples Republic of

China, I intended to have a dowse

wherever I went and thought it best to

come clean. So on the journey to

Peking I told her my interests, to test

her reaction. She smiled and said,

“That’s lovely and exciting. Tomorrow

(Sunday) I’m taking you to the Great Wall of China, you can do it there and

in the Forbidden City. That will be

interesting. And my friends will be

fascinated.” I breathed out a sigh of relief and checked her chakras. Her

crown and heart chakras were superb.

If she were typical of today’s China, then things were going well. I told her

about Fountain Groups and chatted to

her superiors, quite naturally, who

were just as interested. So it was a

very important hurdle for me to go

through to find that there was

absolutely no barrier in talking about

these things, even though they had

been banned by in Mao’s time.

Xu was a delightful guide companion

and interpreter. “Did I know Roger Moore personally?” she asked. I didn’t, but the question led me to

believe that all was well in Peking.

Great Wall of China

We went to the wall the following day

and along the length I was able to

dowse a 25 bar line. Now that would

be a pretty strong energy line. I

subsequently found a postcard which

showed the fort to the Eastern end of

the wall which was called the head of

the dragon. I believe that the whole of

the wall was considered, at the time, as

putting a dragon down on the earth.

I’m quite certain that, just as in Western mythology, the Eastern

dragon, to the initiate, is the energy,

the spiral energy. The way that you

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use it, through Feng Shui, geomancy or

whatever, is very important.

In the Forbidden City, the huge

imperial complex of the Ming

emperors, was a 10 x 5 line that went

on through the Hall of Chairman Mao,

the only place where his picture it to be

seen and where his mausoleum was

constructed, and through to a great

obelisk in People’s Square.

I found the only negative line in

Peking, and I dowsed 30 or 40, to be

coming out of a Ming style pagoda type

building, in front of which was the only

armed soldier I saw in the whole of

Peking. Nothing is marked on the map

to show me what this place is. There

are ways, through the healing process

mentioned earlier, of altering negative

lines and this I was able to do. When

dowsing I consider a line to be negative

if it is split once: this is confirmed by

Fountain Group members in Australia,

and also by my new friend Y K Yeung

in Hong Kong.

Strangely enough when Y.K. and I were

looking at the hara in Hong Kong,

which is a clock tower of the old bus

station, a U.S. aircraft carrier, almost

certainly nuclear, came in and latched

itself on to the clock tower by a 1-10-

10-1. Now nuclear arsenals, plants and

bombs do get into the system. I have

already dowsed nuclear arsenals in

Spain and found this split line with a 1

single either side to be synonymous.

It was fortunate that that had

happened while we were dowsing

together as he was able to confirm a)

negativity and b) the same numbers as

myself, (once he got the idea of

parallels.)

Coming back to the unidentified

building with the negative energy.

Before leaving Hong Kong I went to

see a business contact, a very senior

man in the People’s Republic, and a close friend of Deng Xao Ping. I had

previously talked to him in London

about Feng Shui dragon lines: he knew

a little about it and was prepared to

discuss it. He told me that the

unidentified building was where Deng

Xao Ping traditionally lives. I told him

that all the dragon lines in Peking were

working well. “Oh good,” he laughed, “that means that China will continue her open door policy.”

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This brings me up to date in terms of

the last time you were kind enough to

invite me. I implied then that

something very significant was to be

found in these studies, and it was

about then that the whole idea of

applying this experience in practice

with the Brighton experiment, was

burgeoning. The idea that ley lines

were pathways of consciousness had

formulated.

As I said earlier, experiments with

charged stones had revealed that an

energy line is created between two of

them when they are knowingly set

down on the floor. In studying the

Watkins alignments we had noticed

that not all of them have energy in

them today. I mentioned William

Beckford and Fonthill Abbey. Itsak

Bentov in his book, “Stalking the Wild Pendulum,” theorises that the attribution of godlike qualities to a

stone outcrop actually starts to create

them: they become a focus of

consciousness and start to function.

That accounts for the fact, in my

opinion, that certain places become

functional in the ley system simply

because consciousness focuses upon

them. Not necessarily in anticipation

of godlike qualities emerging.

In Spain once up in the mountains, I

had noticed that if you go into a stone

circle to dowse and start to relate to it,

it starts you off in a little dance and

lines are taken from stone to stone

which pushes you through a series of

patterns. We started to do this in the

remains of a stone circle we found in

the mountains and when an

experienced clairvoyant, who was with

us, was asked what she could see, she

said that a Pan-like figure was dancing

in the middle.

I also mentioned the theory of

nomadic man putting down roots, the

connection with water, the creation of

a focal point which can become the

religious focus as well. Interestingly

enough the Chinese Feng Shui people I

talked to, are clear that good chi is

associated with good quality water. I

won’t go into the work of Guy Underwood and his analysis of

underground water, but there is some

evidence to show that sites are not

necessarily chosen because there is

good underground water, but that the

creation of good energy attracts good

underground water. There is a very

strange relationship between

underground water and subtle

energies. When Reich was doing his

experiments with his cloud buster, he

would always take a cable from the

tube and put it in the ground where he

knew there was a spring or

underground stream.

I should also include some of the new

foci of consciousness that we observed

to be in the system of new ley lines. TV

masts, nuclear power stations, town

halls, football stadia etc.

We also noticed that the great pilgrim

routes of Europe coincide with the

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great energy lines. The maps of the

routes of Santiago, to take an example,

may be held to be the map of the

collective consciousness of Europe,

and it’s interesting to see how the Templars took over the whole of these

routes as if it were very important to

them.

I was able to go last August to Santiago

and by our standards, it wasn’t working: there was this negative

energy form in all the key places of the

Cathedral. That is the square, circle,

square, circle, downer rather than

upper

.

That was put right and seemed to be

working very much better when we

left. Curiously, in the crypt, where the

supposed remains of St James are,

there is a plaque commemorating the

Pope’s visit there some 18 months ago, where it says, he cried out, “Santiago de Compostella find thyself and be

thyself again.”

We have already mentioned Maxwell

Cade and his mind mirror and the fact

that different states of consciousness

exist. That of the dowser, according to

the latest results from the British

Society of Dowsers, is very like that of

the state of Zen meditation. Dowsing

too is related to altered states of

consciousness.

So we felt we had established that the

so called ley lines, in their

contemporary form, represented the

meridians, veins and arteries of

groups, communities, nations, and

continents and thus their collective

consciousness or collective being.

We thought it might be valid to

consider that there were, therefore,

collective diseases such as gratuitous

violence, random vandalism, civic

irresponsibility and so on. Stress, the

primary cause of traffic accidents and

certain types of physical disease. One

might expect a general improvement in

public health with this type of

community healing, as we call it,

through the transmutation of the

energies by the activities of groups

practising this type of meditation and

healing.

Brighton, the town in which I live, was

particularly prone to Bank Holiday and

weekend violence, and it seemed a

good place to start an experiment in

community healing. In no time at all

the word spread round and by June

1981 some 100 people pledged their

support. It was decided, for good

dragon killing reasons, that September

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29th, St Michael’s Day, would be an auspicious day to start – St Michael

being that angelic being concerned

with changing the course of events.

James Holroyd, Vicar of St

Bartholomew’s Church, who was associated with the activities and the

objectives of the group, held a service

that day with a thundering sermon, full

choir and orchestra. A group

meditation was held in which the

appropriate visualisations were made.

We had learned that visualisation in

the altered state was the clue to shifts

in this type of energy. It cannot be

separated – it is related to certain

states of consciousness. The world is a

Platonic world of idea and a change

can be made by rebuilding the idea in

the higher states of consciousness.

That works in individual healing and I

believe it works in community healing.

Anyway there we were, naïve,

unknowing, but at least honest in our

intent. We went down to the Fountain

afterwards and previously the main

line had been a triple 64. Now it was

2400 X 64 bar lines. I was very

astonished by this. I later realised that

if the ley system was in a very real

sense the corporate body of collective

consciousness, it must have been on

it’s last legs if the activity of only 100 people or so could have augmented it

to such an extent.

Another phenomena was observed.

Apart from a general boost in the

activity of the other lines in Brighton,

between the gaps in the lines a grid

pattern was emerging. A series of

unattached blank squares – about 2

yards square. Later on, as more input

occurred these joined up into a

continuous pattern and then in a

period of about three months became a

chequerboard. The so called black

squares were not really black, but more

detailed grid patterns – that is to say

that the black squares had 64 tiny

squares inside them. If you dowse one

of these quickly it looks like a

continuous field and you might say

that that’s a field in a square. It’s not quite like that but at least it is distinct

from the vacant square and the

analogy of a chequerboard is, I think,

permissible.

Now I mentioned something about the

chequerboard energy form in the last

lecture. The single square with the

grid inside it does relate with vital

energy. When a healer puts basic

energy into a person the dowser can

find that grid square around him.

I was very surprised later when I

reluctantly attended a bullfight in

Barcelona, and noticed that when they

killed the bull this grid square

appeared in and around the bullring. I

couldn’t relate as to why this apparently cruel act should produce

the same energy form as the loving act

of healing. Later I worked out that

bullfighting is the continuation of a

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long Mithraic religious tradition where

the bulls were killed to re-vitalise the

community. The fact that I had

identified that energy form as a basic

vital energy, took on a new logic in that

context.

More facts emerged. In Brighton from

that day, with one exception, group

violence and associated phenomena

stopped. The one exception was when

a crowd of Chelsea supporters came

over from Portsmouth. Strangely

enough we noticed that the field at the

time had decayed and the squares had

separated again. The lesson was

learned that you never relax in this

type of work and the field must be kept

together and cultivated continually.

Oddly enough the chequerboard is, of

course, the flag of the Knights Templar

But was that a coincidence? Maybe,

but we had already a shrewd suspicion

that the Templars were not just the

guardians of the pilgrim’s routes, but also the guardians of the European

collective consciousness. It may be

that one of their objectives has been to

combine that collective consciousness

with that of the Islamic world, in an

attempt to bring greater harmony and

peace to the then known world. They

certainly had had contact with the

Sufis and the Order of the Hashashim

and had started a lot of Islamic

esoteric traditions.

During the initial period in Brighton,

whereas the grid pattern occupied the

conurbation of Brighton and Hove and

then stopped. On the London road it

started to creep northwards at an

exponential rate, until it reached

Purley. We could not understand why.

From an aircraft leaving Gatwick

airport, I was able to dowse that it

covered the motorway and railway.

Finally the penny dropped, as the

prime protagonists of Brighton

violence came from London, “the energy” had worked it out that in order to achieve success in Brighton, it had

to get to London, so that those coming

for a punch up were exposed to the

field immediately they left London,

and as the field shifted consciousness

marginally out of the base chakra, by

the time they got to Brighton, by road,

or rail, that adrenalin fed desire was no

longer active.

In dwelling further over the reasons

why a chequerboard had emerged

another penny also slowly dropped. In

the last talk we made reference to this

energy form of the double E, that is an

E with a reversed E facing it. We

identified this as Elohimic energy.

Rudolph Steiner describes the Jehova

Elohim as that aspect of God which has

the programme of the evolution of

consciousness on planet earth. We

also found the double E with a bar

separating the two as if some beneficial

influences were being held in check.

The removal of that bar produced the

double square as the squares come

together.

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In the chapel of Mary Magdalene, in

the church of the Holy Sepulchre, in

Jerusalem, it is actually spelled out on

the floor, black stone on white showing

the two double square rectangles

coming together to form the equal

armed cross within the square. If we

multiply this up again we find the key

component of the grid pattern that

represents the vital healing energy. It

thus evolves into the chequerboard

form. It seems that the chequerboard

comes from basic Elohimic energy, and

that could be very important. It is also

the repeated form on the arms of

Parsival.

All Fountain Groups get this grid going

in their communities, when they first

go to work. However after three years

existence, Fountain International, as it

had become, decided to hold a festival

at the University of Sussex. This was a

great success and attracted speakers

from various countries. Shortly

afterwards the chequerboard squares

in Brighton, became smaller and

smaller until it was about the size of a

fingernail, then it disappeared for 24

hours to be replaced by what is called

the Teutonic Cross: the four triangles,

which was used by the Teutonic

Knights – the German Templars. I

subsequently learned that the Knights

Templar had also used that cross.

Last June the Teutonic cross faded to

be replaced in its turn, by the Maltese

Cross, the triangle pierced to make an

eight pointed cross or the cross of the

eight Beautitudes. That too was used

by the Knights Templar. Their fourth

cross was the cross of Lorraine.

I began to wonder whether the

Templar progression in the evolution

of their emblem, from the equal armed

cross to the cross of Lorraine, was

perhaps a reference to this sort of

esoteric knowledge. We have yet to

find the cross of Lorraine as an energy

form and it will be interesting to see if

this occurs.

I also wondered whether we were

looking at a progression of fields which

relate to levels of collective

consciousness through the collective

chakras as it were.

However, after the second annual

festival this year, and a particular

group meditation, the Maltese cross

was displaced, as a continuous energy

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Form in Brighton, by the eight circle

phenomenon everywhere. The eight

circle phenomenon being that column

repeated and repeated. I don’t know what that means at all but I take it to

be good. I don’t know whether it supports the theory of eight chakras

going up the ladder of consciousness

or anything like that yet, it is too early

to tell. But now there are Fountain

groups in at least thirty different

countries. It was specifically envisaged

that it should never have any structure

and would simply be a basis for

communicating experience within this

context, and the whole idea of

community healing, so that every

community could have groups taking

care of negative energies or creating

more positive energy.

The reason why there should be no

structure or organisation is because

many institutions, with a spiritual

objective, form themselves then all

their energies get dissipated in

hierarchies and committees and so on,

and they become more important than

the work. Quite a number of people

have joined Fountain Groups, in

Brighton, and then left because they

were looking for some sort of authority

which Fountain Groups were not there

to give. Some people even-thought

there should be an annual dance! But

after a general sorting out period, it

was the people who know and

understand their own being who are

there on their own account. They are

not there because they have been

whipped in by their local organiser. It

has to be voluntary, self-starting, with

total comprehension and

understanding. That is the way it has

been kept from the beginning.

May I therefore, summarise my

conclusions:-

Consciousness is an objective field and,

in its highest form, it is the essential

entry point to the spiritual sciences

which may be far more potent than

material sciences. They ley lines, not

alignments, are the pathways of

consciousness which affect our lower

states of consciousness, but may be

affected by our higher states of

consciousness in their turn. In their

manifestations to the dowser, these

pathways and fundamental points

appear as number and form.

I am not sure where Fountain Groups

will end up, but we are learning more

and the results are encouraging, but

not always in the way that we first

thought. One lesson I have learned is

that it does not necessarily affect

individual behaviour: it is not an

imposition on the individual. It tends

to affect group behaviour. It does not

necessarily mean that individuals do

not manifest violence, but group

violence diminishes, and that may be

important. Certainly in places around

the world where violence has

threatened, Fountain Groups have

nipped in and got the right energies

flowing and none of the expected

violence has taken place. It may be

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more important at that level than at

the level of the individual.

What we are observing may be a way in

which, those who wish, can participate

in the evolution of our planet and help

it through some of its grosser follies.

The highest form of consciousness is

PURE LOVE, and that is the ultimate

energy in the universe. Personal

discovery and self-knowledge are a

prerequisite to effective participation.

It is a re-discovery of ancient

knowledge and many clues lie in

Frederick Bligh Bond’s work. It is not for nothing that he spoke of the Holy

Grail, and the Knights Templar were

great disseminators of the Grail

legends and mythologies. Fountain

International, in a sense, is taking part

in neo Templar work, but in its

understanding of this ancient

knowledge it is still in its infancy and

has very much more to learn. But what

we think we have learnt so far, I have

been very happy to share with you.

Colin Bloy – Second Lecture for

RILKO 25/10/1985

Pathways of

Consciousness

The suggestion by Dr Arthur Bailey

that the dowsing of ley lines as

pathways of consciousness, may in fact

be the result of dowsing one’s own imagination, really opens up an area of

fundamental discussion as to the

ultimate nature of reality. I do not

wish to comment further on the use of

“radionics” artefacts, save to say that in my experience they are extensions of

consciousness and do what is expected

of them. In the first instance, so far as

my own observations are concerned,

and those of the group with whom I

worked, the initial approach to ley line

dowsing was purely speculative, and

the same attitudes were applied as to

say, the dowsing of water or pipes.

Once satisfied of their objective

existence as some form of energy line,

it was later observed that they change,

in intensity, direction, and in what

they manifest in certain places.

Briefly, the number of parallels in the

lines appear to indicate intensity and

geometrical forms that arise at “node points” appear to indicate function –

an interesting support for the esoteric

notion that all is form and number in

the cosmos. Changes that occur

appear to be caused in the main by

certain activities by human agencies,

which may be held to be produced by

altered states of consciousness and the

associated use of visualisation – they

may also be produced unknowingly –

but still associated with altered states.

A very strong working hypothesis has

emerged from this study, and from

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studying the human aura by

augmenting the sensitivity of the hand,

namely that consciousness is an

objective field: that is to say that it is

palpable and measurable – not by

conventional scientific instruments

other than certain clues that may be

deduced from the use of the EEG, but

by dowsing and hyper-sensory

perception – not ESP but HSP. Visual

observation is empirically valid: so

should tactile data be.

Now if consciousness is an objective

field, and it is important to distinguish

between this and the electro-chemical

processes which go on in the organ of

the brain, which is to do with thought,

which is different – then the whole

idea of the imagination and its

potential takes on a different

dimension.

It is apparent, by these tests at any

rate, that consciousness is not only

objective but structured, and thus

holistic, or all embracing.

Its objective nature is apparent by

dowsing and so is its structural nature:

the word “chakra” is the best available to describe the points around which

palpable fields appear in and outside

the human body according to the

predominant states of consciousness:

for instance, a person in a violent,

lustful or dark and greedy state,

manifests his consciousness in a field

around the base of the abdomen.

There are intermediate states and

various profiles exist between the two

extremes: but a saint or someone in a

saintly state manifests their

consciousness in a great corona in the

crown chakra around the head, just

like renaissance pictures show the

aureola. This, one assumes, is the

highest state of consciousness. All of

these may be felt with the hand in the

hyper-sensitive state, (achieved by

brisk rubbing together of the palms,)

and may also be photographed.

Now, not only do ley lines manifest in

numbers of parallels but also in

different colours, or different

vibrations that we may have care to

distinguish by colours. So do the

chakras. Clive Beadon and Roger

Wood of Adelaide have produced some

solid data on this point, and the

association between ley lines and

structured consciousness is striking.

It is axiomatic, I believe, that one may

dowse anything that one may conceive.

For instance, country dowsers over the

millennia have never reported straight

energy lines – only water. They were

only looking for water and the concept

of ley lines did not exist. One does not

dowse what one is not looking for and

one cannot look for what one cannot

conceive. On the other hand, if one

conceives of something, to what extent

is it thus called into being? And some

dowsers call the water.

The extent to which ley lines may be

held to be pathways of consciousness is

based on the observation that they

change in relationship to the states of

consciousness of the people on them,

near them, or feeding into them – the

reverse is also apparently true.

Ley lines and pathways of

consciousness spring up between focal

points of communities, be they sacred

or profane centres, and change

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according to the criteria mentioned

above.

However, what is more impressive is

following these pathways until they

reach back into the earth through the

primal spirals, at springs, tree circles,

or heads of valleys, the primal spiral

that appears to be the origin of the

myth of the dragon, raw earth energy –

true in the West and the East, and

which would appear to indicate that, if

the ley lines may be considered to be

the veins and arteries of the collective

consciousness of humanity, then that

consciousness is inseparable from the

so called physical earth, and that the

contention that the globe, Gaia, is a

being, an organism, of which each

individual, as a point of consciousness,

is a cell, is correct – and the

responsibility of knowingly being such

a cell is demanding.

Now back to dowsing, and the

imagination. It also appears correct

that individuals may be trained or

illumined, or simply woken up to

higher states of consciousness: various

systems, mainly oriental in origin, exist

for the purpose although a clear

Western tradition has been exposed by

Alice Bailey and Dion Fortune. One of

these techniques used is visualisation

in altered states induced by meditation

or other disciplines. It is also true, in

my experience, that the crown chakra

may be opened through visualisation

by those who desire so.

The effect and intensity of ley lines

may be changed by similar techniques,

even created in the first instance. Thus

behavioural patterns change, and

spoons bend, healing is carried out,

both healers and spoon benders plug

into the ley system.

Such changes in the material world

require visualisation in the altered

states, when the will dominates the

consciousness to devote itself to the

visualisation of the necessary change.

Most magical systems are based on

this idea. The imagination is what

permits us to conceive of new

dimensions and objectives in any

infinite world. Ritual, mandalas and

mantras are means of achieving the

necessary states.

May dowsing or tele-radiesthesia must

imply the ability of real to go

everywhere and is further evidence of

the holistic nature. Indeed, Sir James

Jeans’ notion that the universe seems more like a great idea than a great

machine may well be one of the most

valid aphorisms of all time, and if

consciousness is an objective field, and

as Einstein intimated, on various

occasions, there is such a thing as the

unified field, and thus consciousness is

part of it, then ultimate reality depends

on the imagination, or our ability to

conceive – visualisation is the bringing

of the concept into reality, and is only

effective in the higher states, because

the lower states are incapable of

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holding an image in total

consciousness.

The basis of what is called “New Age Thinking” may be held to be a belief that man is not a prisoner in a

mechanistic universe, a random

accident in a meaningless continuum,

but is the receptacle, at least on this

earth, of consciousness – not rational

thought – which is capable, in its

purest form, of transcending matter

and Newtonian physics and creating a

dynamic of its own which actually

changes reality as currently perceived

by conventional modes.

When this is done in love, that is to say

with total personal identification with

evolving consciousness on this earth,

setting aside ego based considerations,

and with a voluntary and deliberate

return to group consciousness, then

what in that state we may imagine to

be ideal will actually come into being,

and that may be why the concept of ley

lines as pathways of consciousness and

the means of transformation of the

being Earth, is producing ever more

clearly dowsable effects, and the more

our imaginations move in this

direction, the more they will be so, and

the stronger the new direction will be.

It is fundamental raison d’etre of the Fountain Groups.

The most important observations of

all, however, is that just as these

pathways recede into the dragon

spirals of the earth, at certain points,

altars, healers sanctuaries, or around

the beds of spiritually aware people, to

name but a few such places, appear

eight concentric circles who dowsed

planographically. They appear

sensitives as columns of light and have

been photographed around a healer

when healing. Clairvoyants see the

eight circles as having different

colours, just as the lines, or the

different chakras. This column of

energy may also be felt with the

hypersensitive hand in a palpable way.

Just how high they go, there is no

means of knowing that I am aware of.

But it is also interesting to observe

than an open crown chakra on the

individual also has this eight circle

phenomenon, when it is being used

constructively – it diffuses when it is

being used in a merely contemplative

mystical state.

It recently occurred to someone to ask

if it were a vertical or “cosmic” connection, what happened to it when

the person in question is lying down?

In an appropriate space, people with

such chakras were invited to lie down

and without exception it was possible

to dowse the crown chakra proceeding

for about fifteen feet in the horizontal

– then it narrowed to a point – a gap –

and then occurred the eight circle

vertical column, presumably of infinite

height.

So whereas the pathways of

consciousness are rooted in the earth

through the dragon spirals, the eight

circle vertical “cosmic” connection or “uppers” as certain US dowsers have called them also exist, implying, at

least to me, not only that

consciousness is related to the planet

earth but also to the cosmos as a

whole.

And this prompts the question, that if

through higher consciousness, we can

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get our planet right, wither super

conscious man in the universe?

Lest I get carries away in some sci-fi

cosmic fantasy before its time, and lest

we fall into the trap of assuming that

spiritual elitism is valid, until man has

enabled his fellows, through the

application of true love, via

visualisation, imagination and will

through higher consciousness, to

achieve personal fulfilment in all the

best senses on this planet, man’s cosmic destiny inevitably remains a

deferred objective. That does have

socio-political consequences but they

are not to be found in any materialistic

dialectic.

No change will occur until individuals

change and learn to love in the true

sense of the word, and begin the group

consciousness as volunteers. It’s the group consciousness that achieves.

But when they do, as many are doing,

it ain’t ‘alf dowsable, Mum!

If we can see esoteric dowsing as a

form of prosthetic clairvoyance, or the

use of supersensible faculties as

Steiner describes them, rather than a

physiological reaction to external

fields, then it may take place as an

invaluable discipline on the road to

HSP and ESP which lift man further

out of the slough of materialism and

rational thought, into the better worlds

that enlightened imagination makes

possible.

I do not wish this to be interpreted as

some facile intellectual argument in

favour of self-indulgent flights of

fancy, but to suggest that dowsing is

one of the routes open to man by

which he may determine that it is a

Platonic rather than Aristotlean world,

and if ideas are objectives, in that

context, we would appear to have a

duty to ensure those ideas are right,

that is to say, based on the

comprehension that love, in its strictly

unsentimental sense, is the only rule

which should permit us to do anything,

whether to heal an individual, a place,

or to “improve the planet”, or build an atomic bomb. And love implies

submission, thus Terry Ross is right,

but the scientific method, based on the

five senses, must give way to super –

sensible awareness, and the notion

that ultimate reality is what our

imaginations, in love, can finally

conceive, and that may change

positivist reality. Thus belief is

significant.

Strange that both Newton and

Descartes have their names taken in

vain as scientific positivists, when both

were men of highly spiritual

understanding.

Visualisation changes reality. But you

cannot visualise without belief. You

can only visualise responsibly in love.

In conclusion, may I cite Barry

McWaters’ book, “Conscious Evolution,” in which he expresses the theory that we need not be passive

spectators of evolution, but in higher

consciousness, active participants in

the evolutionary process, using our

imaginations.

Whither ultimate reality?

Colin Bloy – Andorra

January 1986

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Some further

observations on

Ley-line analysis

and recent

changes in the

system before and

after Harmonic

Convergence.

They say it is good for the soul to have

to recant, therefore I am now going to

enjoy myself. In the past I have

implied that energy lines are always

straight, although I do recall that the

pathway from the market square to the

Bishops Palace at Wells, about 30

degrees of a circle, has an energy line

which follows the curve but when

Hamish Miller, dowser extraordinary

to Fountain in Cornwall, started to

report curved lines across the

countryside, I thought I’d better have another look.

Of course, we have always said in

general terms that you only use

dowsing to find what you can conceive

of, and apart from the spiral dragon

forms in woods and valleys, I had only

looked for straight lines. Thus one day

in June 1987, whilst wandering up a

mountain valley in Guadarrama,

Spain, I thought I’d have a look for curved lines.

Thus visualising I came upon one. It

was running parallel to the straight

energy line, it was eight bars and in the

form of a semi-wave, but it was not

static. It was writhing like a serpent:

that is to say within the bounds of a

distance of two metres, the curves were

moving from side to side. I timed the

movement and it was 10 per minute.

Moving to the other side of the energy

line, I found a similar serpent line

thrashing about but this time at six per

minute.

Many years ago, we had determined

that the straight line energy oscillated

at four per minute.

Later in Madrid, on the main energy

line of the city, down the Paseo de la

Castellana, the same phenomenon was

in evidence, and subsequently in

Britain. This I am tempted to believe

that it is a universal feature of the ley

system. These may be the yin and

yang energies of the Chinese that

accompany the pathways of

consciousness.

But it still wasn’t what Hamish was referring to. I conclude from all of this

that we still have a lot of work to do on

this phenomenon and I would

certainly for one welcome comments

from anybody who would have a look

at it.

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So far as recent changes are concerned

a number of factors are bearing on the

situation, which are making

substantial changes in the system. But

it would perhaps be useful to make a

brief review of the last 10 or 12 years.

The first lines encountered were based

on a 7 factor and ranged from 1, (about

12 inches wide,) 3, 6, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35,

42, and 49. A major line like a

cathedral line or the main artery of the

city would be a 49 bar line and a parish

church a 1, 3 or 7, generally speaking.

From the day of Good Friday,

21/03/1978, the seven factor became

eight. What happened that day was a

form of deliberate input, to do with the

Grail knowledge, and the change

occurred across most of those

countries that may be considered to be

within the Western ethos. It was a

basic shift, I believe, in the collective

consciousness necessary to

accommodate the advent of the

Aquarian Age.

17th June 1979, saw a further extension

of the eight. Based on input at Rennes

le Chateau, in the Eastern Pyrenees, a

four bar line became an eight and so

on up the scale and a 64 bar line

became a triple 64.

But of course, since all that so much

more has happened. Fountain Groups

exist in so many places in so many

countries, that their input has

stimulated the system enormously, still

within the eight factor.

Simultaneously, if one may presume, it

seems to me that the general

quickening of consciousness is taking

place, all of which has contributed to a

transformation of the ley lines – the

pathways of consciousness. If we

thought a 49 was a big deal, now after

Glastonbury 87, a major line in various

countries appears as 1000 X 64. So

does a line on a healer. Something has

happened!

I really do not know how to evaluate

this. If the lines are representative of

the health of the planet, then by God, it

was on its last legs, now all is well?

What next?

As Gurdjieff said, “I have not come to teach you. I have come to wake you

up.” I believe that to be right. Left brained knowledge limits the spine. It

is the right hemisphere which holds

the key to its plenitude when full

consciousness exists.

So what of the serpentine lines? More

work needs to be done, (at least for me

they exist.) We are still neophytes, (or

at least I am,) in this great adventure.

How are the lines of the Gulf States

now? Did the work of the Fountain

Groups on either side of the Berlin

Wall two years ago achieve anything?

The re-connection of the Jerusalem

Pyramid line appeared successful. Are

we doing enough? I doubt it.

Fountain and allied groups must unite

evolved people in all the nations across

the earth. It’s beginning, I don’t believe if you were No 144,001 it

matters. It’s a mystical number, bit if

Alphaega is to get off the ground in the

final healing of the planet, such people

must come forward. It will happen.

But how will the lines be then? We will

have the luxury of hindsight analysis,

but while Hamish goes on discovering

new aspects of the system, we can only

stand back and keep going until our

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left brain understanding catches up

with him.

Somewhere in the line system the new

feminine principle will be reflected. I

look forward to that discovery. In

general, I do feel that things are

advancing rapidly but how far down

the track to healing the planet we are,

no one can know. It may be a lot or a

little. At least we know it has begun.

Colin Bloy

15th September 1987

Beyond the Five

Senses

Debating further with various groups

of friends over the Chinese business,

and what the 5 factor as opposed to the

8 factor meant, the idea of a difference

in collective consciousness in a

structured sense became more

striking.

The more one studies the whole Feng

Shui business, the clearer it becomes

that the Chinese attitude is passive.

The object of the exercise is to divert,

avoid, and isolate ones’ self from bad cha. And in a sense, it may be here

that the real difference is most

apparent.

It may of course, be a facile western

presumption on my part, but the

traditional idea of Chinese patience

even unto the n’th generation and Chinese passivity before events, always

prepared to wait until later, the notion

of Chinese civilization as being

superior to the foreigners, may all be

the consequence of a 3,000 year old

tradition of seeking to accommodate

the dragon, rather than integrate with

it, of seeking to adapt to it, rather than

doing a St George or St Michael on it.

It has always seemed to me that the

western symbology of the dragon has

specifically to do with overcoming it,

with bending it to the will, albeit the

superconscious will, and this is of

course, more dangerous and, in the

end, for the purpose of this

monograph, possibly more productive.

In a sense, the experience in Hong

Kong, which seemed to demonstrate

the fundamental difference, is crucial

in this argument. In the house where

there was cha, identifiable by the split

dowsable line, and where the attempts

of the local Feng Shui man to divert it

has failed, in spite of moving stoves in

the kitchen and furniture and so on, it

was recognised by those present that

the operation to transmute the

negative cha into positive chi was

successful, to their surprise. All of

which seemed better than trying to

divert negativity away to one’s neighbour, which has given rise at least

in Hong Kong, to the famous mirror

wars, summoning police, and

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threatening law suits, the stuff of

comic operas.

Now, if what we have recently learned

about these matters in the West was a

revelation to practitioners in the East,

from whom we had learned much in

the first place, does it indicate that as

an 8 based community, is in a different

state of collective consciousness to a 5

based community, and that this may

have a lot to do with the perception of

ego consciousness.

It has often seemed to me that after the

Renaissance, Western man went on an

ego trip with a vengeance. Now this

may have been inevitable, rather than

presumptuous, although the

consequences are the same.

In very general terms, pre Renaissance

man may be held to have been

submissive before the cosmos, living in

a God-ordained world, and with no

particular desire to change it. In a

sense the feudal system was a

reflection of this, and there are those,

perhaps rightly, who will say, that the

feudal system was not all bad, at least

everyone knew their place, and the

uncompetitive nature of such a society,

except as between noble families had

aspects of a Rosseau – esque type

tranquillity. Be all that as it may.

The Renaissance was the introduction

or re-introduction of the humanistic

ethic into Western society, the

transition from a God-centred to a

man-centred community. Thus the

Aristotelian version of man began to

predominate – the man of the five

senses, who had the right and the

means to investigate reality on his own

account, rather than accept a revealed

or handed down version – in a sense,

the awakening of Western

egocentricity.

However, the rules of such an

investigation were what later came to

be known as positivism – that is to say,

that any advance in understanding had

to conform to repeated and repetitive

experiments within the confines of

sensory experience – all of which set

man further away from God – because

experience of god, by definition later in

this offering, cannot come through the

five senses.

The Church, by this time, had long

since sold its birth-right to temporal

considerations. Constantine had

Romanised the Christian Church,

instead of, as popular belief has it,

Christianising the Roman Empire.

The Christian church became a tool of

state politics, and indeed, at certain

periods, became the only institution

which continued the notion of the

Roman Empire. It saved itself as an

institution by assuming unto itself the

power to make and unmake Kings and

Emperors, and through various murky

deals and concordants, survives to this

day as a state, with ambassadors, civil

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service, treasury and all the trappings

of a secular organisation.

Small wonder, when, on the way, it

denied the world was round, that the

sun was not the centre of the solar

system, and that the practise of any

sort of authentic spiritual love was

heretical without its imprimatur, the

emergence of individual rational

thought after the renaissance resulted

in conclusions that set thinkers apart

from the Church, created reformations,

atheism, new social and political

systems, the material sciences, and the

affirmation that whatever the true

nature of reality, man could create

Utopia by binding to his technologous

will the world, as his new materialist

ethics saw it. Suddenly, man assured

responsibility for himself, based on a

five sense world.

Voltaire, Giderot, Rousseau, Comte,

Darwin, Freud and many others

participated in a process which had

one inevitable conclusion, the

dialectical materialism of Karl Marx,

the vision of a man as being alone in

the universe, self-sufficient, and, as

there was no such thing as a soul,

survival, the etheric body, which do

not belong in a five sense, socially-

engineerable Pavlonian, conditional

reflex world. Some attitudes to the

problem remained agnostic, and thus

liberal democracy emerged.

Only the charismatic Churches had

anything to say to stem the tide from

the religious point of view. The

established Churches were left behind

in their self-made morass of

compromise, self-seeking, and

abandonment of original truths in

favour of survival as institutions.

Indeed, they had discouraged rational

investigation of reality, out of fear,

when if they had more honestly said,

“Let us together investigate how God works,” all would have been well.

The five senses approach to reality was

the inevitable reaction to the

established churches hostility to any

honest enquiry into ultimate truth and,

has produced the many problems that

Western man is trying to cope with

today.

For a start, a man-centred universe is

terrifying. Once the process was

started of separating man out from

God, the responsibilities are

frightening, once the self-

congratulatory, self-confident,

scientific method starts to creak.

Newton, Descartes, Darwin, Freud,

and Pavlov have been shown only to

have described a certain aspect of

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reality. Billiard ball physics, which got

space ships to the moon are now no

longer able to claim they describe all

reality. Some particles behave in non-

Newtonian ways. Man is not a totally

sensually motivated being, not all

fossils support Darwin, Pavlov’s conditional reflex has not been able to

organise a harmonious social system.

Reason is not all. There is the X factor.

Einstein struggled to provide

equations for his unified field theory,

his intuitive understanding of the

oneness of all things. He even

published equations that did not work,

so others would not go up the same

blind alley, generous. Eugene Wigner,

one of his associates became convinced

of the spiritual nature of ultimate

reality and that within the unified field,

consciousness had to be taken into

account as an objective field.

There lies in the ruins the false hopes

of the Renaissance and its great, great,

grandchild, dialectical materialism,

and a man-centred universe, so far as

the scientific method is concerned.

Not that this is a plea for a flight into

fantasy. The honest empirical method

remains: but the five sense prison it

has been forced to work in is too

constraining, and the empirical

method is what is being applied to

honest enquiry into parapsychology,

an ugly, clumsy word, but there it is.

While the humanists were applying

their new criteria to the investigation

of reality, the poets and artists were

finding increasing difficulty is seeing

the world in such terms. Granted,

Marxists art demanded a materialist

view of the world, but it has not

triumphed.

The Romantic movement was the first

reaction to modern materialism, a

vague dream-like exploration of

subtler feelings and emotions, an

attempt to restore a more platonic

vision. Ossianic self-indulgent

mysticism gave way to a much more

vigorous and directed attempt to

analyse reality in a new esoteric, rather

than exoteric way. It was an attempt

to penetrate the material world, cut up

into sections and compartments by the

material science, all neatly checked

and filed away, and create a new

background unity of subtle

correspondences and spiritual

essences. Such was the Symbologist

movement, giving rise to Cubism and

Surrealism in art, which sought to

show that reality could be looked at in

many different ways and re-arranged if

necessary.

As a background to all of this, many

plunged into esotericism, finding new

explanations in spiritualism, the

Theosophical Society, new religions

and so on – for anyone not totally

immersed in a man-centred world and

its application, was beginning to

experience all the desperate horrors of

the new independence, and self-

awareness. The pseudo-science of

psychology and psychiatry grew up,

whose basic objectives are to placate

man’s fear of loneliness in the universe – the inevitable conclusion of positivist

thought.

The Symbologists, dissatisfied with all

of this, set out to find the absolute, that

state of being and knowledge which

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would abate thinking man’s terror and

bring him back into the God-centred

cosmos. They had seen enough to

know that within the man centred

world, self-awareness was leading to

what they called the Abyss – that state

of consciousness, which is no longer

satisfied with the material view of the

world – but does not know of any way

of finding a better, and can lead to

insanity, by falling into the abyss of

desperation.

Of course, the answers all lie in the

message of the Gospels, but they had

fallen into disrepute because of the

cynical use to which they had been put,

and, for political reasons, man had

been separated from direct contact

with God, by the outer position of the

priestly class, and basically told to

mind his own business.

What was emerging from the attempts

to find an alternative to materialism

was the first glimmerings of an

awareness of consciousness as an

objective phenomenon. Man

separated from God by the Church,

was beginning to use his reason to find

non-material reality on his own

account.

Paul Valery, perhaps the last and most

perceptive of the Symbolists, in his

search for the absolute, or what we

would now call Nirvana, used the

expression “Je me voyais me voir,” I saw myself looking at myself, thus

identifying different states of being,

and stating that each state of being was

capable of perceiving reality

differently.

Freud had diagnosed consciousness in

the crudest of terms, and indeed, there

is reason to cast doubt on the veracity

of some of his celebrated cases, but

Jung came forward with much subtler

concepts about the nature of

consciousness, and pose the concept of

the collective consciousness as

something beyond the individual. Now

if that were objective, in what

continuum could it have an objective

reality.

Certain advanced and liberated

scientists were already at this problem,

Sir Oliver Lodge, for one, who posed

the question of the existence of the all,

pervading fluid or field – the ether,

which Einstein referred to as the

unified field. The famous but

inconclusive Michelson-Morey

experiment was directed at this

problem, in respect of the nature of

light.

No scientific proof of such a field was

established. Indeed, one is entitled to

say, that by definition, it must be

incapable of resolution into

mathematical equations or repetitive

experiment because of its essentially

ephemeral and permanently transient

nature.

If it exists, it cannot conform to

positivist analysis because it is non-

positivist.

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Thinking folk in the Western world,

and setting superstition aside, as well

as charlatanism, and self-delusion,

particularly those not entrapped in the

institutions dedicated to materialistic

attitudes in science, and recognising

that physics is at a dead-end until it

stops inventing even newer and more

esoteric particles to save it equations

from falling apart, started to explore

the true nature of consciousness –

wherein lies the abyss if you don’t find the bridge to the absolute.

Awareness of the abyss usually is the

cause of the reversion into the sense

world, alcohol, sex, drugs, violence,

excitement, hedonism, anything that

detracts our attention from this new

and frightening awareness – insanity is

another way out of this terror – but for

those who press on – a whole new

awareness is now becoming available.

The triumph of Western man in the

material sciences, the rise of the

individual ego, that awful isolation of

self-awareness, has resulted in the

agony of Western man.

But it may be that, in his desperation,

it was the Oriental world that supplied

the answers that gave emergency first

aid, and in the rational expectation of

consciousness as an objective field and

it’s consequences, all that agony was the necessary price for a new

understanding, which may help all

humanity, North, South, East and

West.

The exploration of the inner worlds of

consciousness through meditation and

a deliberate and organised attempt to

view reality from different states of

consciousness is revealing.

Colin Bloy 20/05/1986

Some thoughts on

European Ley-

Lines and

Oriental Dragon

Lines

Chinese Geomancy or Feng Shui is a

complex affair and for all , of Western

interpreters like Stephen Skinner, or

Stephen Feuchtwang: An

Anthropological Analysis of Chinese

Geomancy – Ventiane, Loas, I am not

sure if we have really penetrated it in a

way which would permit a Westerner

to perform as a “dragon man” – for

earth energy is the dragon for them.

What is certain, however, is that the

majority of Chinese landscape and

urbanisation has been developed

according to a complex system of

criteria relating to earth sky energies

publicly unrecognised in the West.

Vocabulary and imagery are divisive.

Fritjof Capra showed how the dance of

the shiva may be seen as the motion of

the electrons of an atom around its

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nucleus. Yet it has been a Western

scientific convention for hundreds of

years that if a concept is not expressed

in Greek or Latin neologisms it cannot

be valid. That is not a plea for a

Gadarene flight into the subtle imagery

of Eastern philosophical and religious

systems but simply to point out that

Western modes of expression have no

particular monopoly of truth.

In pre-Marxist China, for several

thousand years past, to construct

anything without consulting the Feng-

Shui master was the height of folly. In

Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore

they have always been accepted and

consulted; and in post-Mao China,

they have surfaced again.

Whereas the Feng-Shui master

operates with the compass with a

complex scale around it, which tells

him many things on an astrological,

geographical and meteorological basis,

and he describes the energies he is

looking for or seeking to avoid in terms

familiar to the ley line fraternity in

Europe, he does not apparently dowse

for these energies but works out where

they are by topographical observation

and basic common sense. Indeed,

where the dragon a particular hill

formation, lies down with the tiger,

another, the Feng Shui is good –

combined with meandering rivers and

undulating hills. “Secret Arrows,” like straight avenues, railway lines,

highways, straight escarpments, or a

line of projecting hills or even

buildings are to be avoided, as these

drain away the good “chi” too quickly.

The perfect site, or dragon’s lair, is, says Skinner, like the description of a

blind spring. (He does not mention

Guy Underwood or his seminal work,

“The Pattern of the Past,” – but it was

Underwood who spoke at length about

the dowsing of the blind springs at

sacred sites – 7 looped spiral.)

Skinner, “It is logical to postulate that here the dragon is, of course, in his

lair, because it is from here that the

water (ie the dragon,) emanates before

crossing the land as a stream, or being

evaporated, to form dragon clouds.

Water courses are the most obvious

flow lines of “chi” and a curved and tortuous course is the best existence of

existence of “chi” concentrations.”

T.Edkins writing in 1872 said that the

dragon may be traced to its source. It

is observable in the flow of the

mountain stream or in the contour of

the earth. The hollow river bed, and

the variety of hill and valley are caused

by the dragon. Trace the water of a

valley to its source. That is the point

from which commences the influence

that controls human destiny… Since the dragon gives prosperity… it is important to consider the position of

the water…”

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Elsewhere Skinner says, “In some ways the organic lines are as typical of

Chinese civilization as rectangular

Descartian lines are the hallmark of

Western civilization. Basic to the

nature of dragon lines and Chinese

civilization generally is the curve as

opposed to the straight line which

expresses itself not only in Western

architecture, but also in the ley lines

which have been often suggested are

the European equivalent of dragon

lines. They are in fact, diametrically

opposed. Straight lines, as we have

seen, are anathema in Feng Shui for

they generate “cha” and secret arrows…”

As said above, Chinese geomancers do

not apparently dowse, and this may be

the reason for the apparently

erroneous conclusion suggested by

Skinner.

I have followed the rod the “chi” of the dragon up water courses to the head of

the valley in the Pyrenees on many

occasions. Whereas the water course

in sinuous, the energy is effectively

straight, dodging in dog-legs from rock

to rock, on either side of the stream

and have found the dragon – he looks

like this.

If you follow Guy Underwood’s work, as a dowser, there is an important

thing to remember, Guy Underwood

was only looking for underground

water – the fact that he did not find

over-ground energy lines may be

explained by the fact that he was

simply no aware of them and dowsers

do not generally find what they are not

looking for.

However, if you do dowse a Guy

Underwood type site you will find the

meandering, sinuous underground

water course, but if you “think” ley lines, you will find that overlaying the

dragon is the straight line, through its

median as in the stream from the head

of a valley, viz.

In an earlier issue of the journal of the

British Society of Dowsers, I suggested

that underground water may not have

been determining in the choice of

sacred sites but the result of choosing

them, viz, Lourdes and Guadalupe in

Mexico – the springs burst forth after

the apparitions, Moses summoned the

water.

What appears inseparable, is the

relationship between flowing water,

both underground, and certain states

of human consciousness. “Stalking the wild pendulum,” by Istvak Bentov

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suggests how the focus of human

consciousness on a particular site

makes it sacred and phenomena thus

result of “religious” nature.

Curious that the dragon is a common

feature of Western and Eastern

geomantic lore and no dragon bones

have yet to be found. Thus it may be,

in a Jungian sense an important

archetype to humility generally, and I

always feel that the idea represented

by St Michael or St George killing the

dragon, and God knows how many

such dragon deaths are preserved in

European legend, is not so much some

form of medieval elimination of

predators, but the organising of the

“chi” or ley energy out of its primal spirals down the valley and into

constructive co-operation with

evolving mankind, by using the spear

or the lance of higher consciousness.

The alternative image of the dragon,

being base chakra consciousness

taking up the spine as the Kundalini to

bring nirvana or total awareness is also

relevant; it appears in alchemical

symbology for similar reasons – the

transmutation of the spirit.

It may be observed, and one of the

raison d’etres of the fast multiplying Fountain Groups around the world,

that hyper-states of consciousness

applied through meditative techniques,

visualisation and projection have a

discernible effect on the ley lines, and

that if the mixture is right, the effect is

beneficial for the community. Thus

the dragon is killed with the spear.

Why is it then, that straight lines are

anathema to Chinese geomancy, as

interpreted by Western

commentators?

I would advance the hypothesis that it

is all to do with the evolution of

consciousness. Now, much play has

been made with the concept of

Western individual ego-consciousness,

as opposed to Oriental patience and

submission. Indeed, the philosophical

crisis in Western evolution may be

seen in what was called in France, at

the end of the 19th century “Le mal de fin de siècle,” – “End of the century disease,” and many authors and poets spoke in depressing terms of plunging

into the abyss in their search for the

absolute, their word for nirvana.

(Baudelaire, Gerard de Nerval,

Mallarme, Valery et al.)

As far as I am concerned, it is a basic

tenet of life that humanity is a unity.

We are all going the same way, in the

same boat, at the same time – but that

doesn’t mean to say we are all the same in terms of consciousness. Nor does it

necessarily pre-suppose that one

particular state is better than another.

What does, however, seem apparent is

that Western man has evolved further

from tribal consciousness into ego –

consciousness than Oriental man. This

is not a moral comment, The fact that

Japanese only travel in groups, and

that you never meet or do business

with one Japanese alone, is not

necessarily without relevance. The

whole organisation of Japan is

collective, in consciousness terms,

without being drastically materialist in

philosophical terms. Thus it is in

China. Patience and submission to

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events, in favour of longer term issues

transcending individual lives.

Western ego-consciousness and

subsequent disillusion gave rise to the

age of reason, and the materialist ethic,

plus the idea you’ve got to make it in this life time. In science, medicine,

philosophy, the arts, many individual

names from the West, as original

thinkers, are enshrined in various halls

of fame. Not so with the Orientals, yet

their collective application to

technology is awesome – we are just

seeing the beginning of the Chinese

application – give China another 30

years.

Frederick Bligh Bond the excavator of

Glastonbury speaks cogently in his

book, “The Company of Avalon,” of, “the great return,” that is to say the voluntary and aware submission of

Western egocentricity to the collective

consciousness as a virtually religious

act and “The New Age,” awareness is part of the process.

What has this to do with straight and

sinuous energy lines?

It is sadly very true that the worst

excesses of Western town planning

exist in the USA where a grid based

town is simply socked into the

landscape. Most UK new towns are

very like that. Great psychological

disorientation is a result.

Strangely enough, one of the most

beautiful man-made cities, (not San

Francisco, that is a city born of its hills,

where man has submitted,) is in the

USA, namely Washington, designed

by, for, and with comprehending

Masons. Yet it is based on straight

lines – but not grid lines – radiating

lines and low rise buildings.

Adolf Hitler, see Nigel Pennick, “The Secret Sciences of Adolf Hitler” –

Neville Spearman understood how

energy and town planning worked.

Albert Speer records it well in his

memoirs, with extraordinary

photographs of the models for the new

Berlin. What matters is how you use it

and what’s at the centre.

What I am, in fact trying to suggest, is

that Chinese Geomancy is, perhaps

sentimentally, rooted in the past, and

it is certainly a deliberate attempt to

maintain a form of collective

consciousness in being, which prevents

ego developments in a Rosseau-like

way. That may be good, bad or

neutral. I make no attempt to judge it

– but the maintenance of traditional

forms in complete harmony with

naturally occurring earth energies

should certainly achieve that. That

may to some be a form of responsible

guardianship. One cannot quarrel

with it. And the fear of the straight

line may be to do with the break out of

the ego. I would nonetheless venture

to suggest that as well as conducting

good “chi” out, a well-constructed

avenue, and they certainly existed at

Imperial level in China, can equally

conduct good “chi” in.

The emergence of the straight line

occurs when man starts to separate

himself from nature, when his

consciousness is no longer totally

related to the water veins of the earth

but the emerging ley lines. They do

seem inseparable from emerging

consciousness. It will be interesting to

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dowse China shortly “in situ,” but I suspect the fear of the straight line is

the fear of ego-consciousness, and all

the agonies and glories that has

wrought for the Western world. It is

perhaps arguable that for ego –

consciousness to emerge, pass through

its spiritual transmutation and go

forward to its voluntary re-submission

in an act of pure conscious love, is a

process we are involved in, willy-nilly.

Some may say the Oriental has already

been through it. I am not sure about

that, but I am sure that Western man is

now going through it, and has got to go

through it and make the “Great Return,” if this planet is to survive, and I do offer the thought that Chinese

geomancers’ abhorrence of the straight energy line is more to do with the

repugnance of individual ego

consciousness rather than its intrinsic

“badness.” The fact remains that over-

ground subtle energy lines are straight

and the question is as to whether a

civilisation harmonises itself with

underground subconscious sinuosity

or over-ground straight line ego

consciousness.

The continuing focus of consciousness

on sites important to man, be they

religious or secular, sacred or profane,

creates the straight energy line, thus a

TV transmitter can exhibit the same

energy lines as a standing stone – but

it is evidence of a moving away from

that harmony with the earth that is the

quintessence of natural man. I am

quite sure we must return to it, when

we have surmounted our straight line

phase and get both working together –

not for reasons of sentimental

nostalgia for a lost millennium but

through a conscious understanding of

how ego may be transmuted

alchemically into conscious love, and

made the basis for a future

millennium. The intermediate phase is

fraught with danger, as the legend of

Atlantis instructs us, but the eventual

outcome, if we make it, is a

consummation devoutly to be wished.

P.S I have just dowsed a railway line

for the first time, frankly it never

occurred before and railway lines are

not things to which one has easy

access. It exhibited negative energy.

Some more work must be done!

Colin Bloy 09/07/1984