The AMERICAN DOWSERDowsing for Missing Persons by Ted Kaufman.....56 The Many Faces of Dowsing The Mastodon Project Update by Susan Collins ..........................................58

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QUARTERLY DIGEST

Editor’s Desk by Sybil Carey .............................................................................. ..4President’s Comments by Sandee Mac ...............................................................7In Memoriam Tipi Halsey .....................................................................................................10 Richard D. Wright ........................................................................................10Conventional Wisdom I Give Thanks by Don Taylor..........................................................................16 The ASD Convention from the Perspective of a Dutch Participant by Frida Stoop ..............................................................................................17Into 2012 and Beyond... This is the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius by David Price Francis...........20 Planting Seeds for Transformation by Christan Hummel...........................25 Dowsing Our Path by Brian L. Crissey, Ph.D.................................................28Learning About Dowsing Beginner’s Dowsing Column, Entry #7 by Greg Storozuk..........................36 Asking Questions by John Living....................................................................41 Dowsing and the Implicate Order by Richard D. Wright.............................45 Hints for Informational Dowsing and Dowsing in General by Jack Livingston and Joan McFarlane........................................................54Lost and Found Dowsing for Missing Persons by Ted Kaufman............................................56The Many Faces of Dowsing The Mastodon Project Update by Susan Collins..........................................58 On Becoming A Dowser by Cary Mangum...................................................67 The Story of El Chan by Cynthia Sterling.......................................................70 Dowsing for a Trip by Rochelle Weithorn......................................................74 Planting Trees and Leaf Mulching by Allen Brandes ..................................77 Beyond the French Coil by Allen Brandes.....................................................80Water for Humanity Water for Humanity News Update by Steven G. Herbert ...........................85 Water for Humanity Annual Report...........................................................97

The AMERICAN DOWSER

DANVILLE, VERMONT

VOLUME 52, NO.2 FALL 2012

Preambleto the By-Laws of the

American Society of Dowsers, Inc Dowsing is a faculty employed with intent to expand the perceptive abilities of its practitioner beyond three- dimensional limitations. It is a most ancient, varied craft, as ancient and varied as humanity itself. Dowsing has roots, among all manner of peoples, lands, and epochs. There seems to exist an ageless natural knowledge that enables us to identify ourselves with an unknown source of being and becoming; it is of primary significance, joining earth, sea, and stars. Explanation of dowsing’s whys and wherefores is still far from satisfactory, but to refuse to explore the unexplainable sim-ply because it cannot presently be explained is unscientific and irresponsible. Dowsing is fact. As awareness grows, the public mind should recognize that, when based on ample training, experience, and talent, dows-ing is a most useful skill, applicable to many fields of human activ-ity. Spiritual pride is to be avoided by the dowser. Psychic powers, intellectual aptitudes, or physical skills are useless unless applied for the benefit of all, because they bring increased sensitiv-ity. These may properly be expressed only in an increasing aware-ness of the oneness of all life and in greater love for the whole of humanity.

Any activity that investigates, perpetuates, and expands humankind’s lore, mysteries, beliefs, traditions, and useful abilities should command at once loyalty and service. In the energizing of such activity, the power generated in and by a group of interested persons is greater by far than the sum of its numbers. Upon these concepts THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS, INC. is founded.

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OFFICERS AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2011-2013

BILL BONNELL Co-Vice President

481 Lonesome Pine TrailLancaster, VA 22503

804.462.5518(h) 804.462.0220(w)[email protected]

ANDY BRAY Treasurer

1577 Main Rd.West Granville, MA 01034

[email protected]

CAROL GADER53 Summit Ridge Drive

Keene, NH 03431603.357.4699

[email protected]

RENE LINCOLN2460 Lottery Road

Shrewsbury, VT 05738802.492.3743

[email protected]

KEITH SCHAFFER1490 Schoffers

Birdsboro, PA 19508610.689.5164

[email protected]

MARTY CAIN Co-Vice President

PO Box 1047Black Mountain, NC 28711

[email protected]

KATE WHITEFIELD Secretary

105 Montgomery St. #3Highland Park, NJ 08904

[email protected]

SANDRA ISGRO PO Box 590

Stratton, ME 04982207.246.2922

[email protected]

LISA McCRORY341 Macintosh Hill Rd.Randolph, VT 05060

[email protected]

ADHI TWO OWLS338 Thompson RoadShelburne, VT 05482

267.884.4252 (cell)[email protected]

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THE AMERICAN DOWSER Joya Pinkham Clark [email protected]

FALL © 2007 Volumes 47 ~ NO. 4

[email protected]

ASD Bookstore: 802-684-3826

PO Box 24, Danville, VT 05828Phone:802-684-3417

Fax:802-684-2565

THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS, INC.Headquarters and Bookstore Contact Information:

The American Dowser

HEADQUARTERS STAFFOperations Manager: Arvid Johnson [email protected]

Assistant to the Operations Manager: Scot Foxx [email protected]: Stephanie Gadapee [email protected]

OFFICERS AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2007-2009GEORGE WELLER

President POB 473

Derby Line, Vermont 05830 819.876.2528

[email protected]

BRUCE IRWIN Treasurer

223 Athol Rd. Athol, New York 12810

518.623.3772 [email protected]

BESS CUTTER Vice President 800 Dryden St.

Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462 757.335.2100 cell [email protected]

ATALA DOROTHY TOYExecutive Secretary

418 Horne St.St. Charles, Illinois 60174

630-443-9101 or 847.651.1758 cell [email protected]

BILL BONNELL 481 Lonesome Pine TrailLancaster, Virginia 22503

804.462 .5518 (home & fax after six rings) 804.435.0531 (work)

[email protected]

WILL CLARK 26 South Main St #242

Concord, New Hampshire 03301 603.225.6438 or 603.340.2966 cell

[email protected]

MARNA EHRECH POB 958

Shelburne, Vermont 05482-0958 802.985.8378 Fax: 802 985 9385

[email protected]

TIPI HALSEY POB 181

Thetford, Vermont 05074 802.785.4978

[email protected]

KEITH SCHAFFER 1490 Schoffers

Birdsboro, Pennsylvania 19508 610.689.5164

SHEILA WILLIAMS 44 Union St.

Keene, New Hampshire 03431 603.357.4875 home 603.352.0157 work

[email protected]

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THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS, INC.Headquarters and Bookstore Contact Information:

PO Box 24, Danville, VT 05828 www.dowsers.org Phone: 802-684-3417 [email protected] Fax: 802-684-2565 ASD Bookstore: 802-684-3417

SANDEE MACPresident

PO BOX 2217Lakeside, AZ 85929

[email protected]

HEADQUARTERS STAFFOperations Manager: Nathan Platt [email protected]

Bookstore Manager: Jacqueline Willey [email protected]/Marketing Director: Lisa Lacoss [email protected]

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ASD REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS Updated September 2012

NORTHEAST

Sally Holvey-Slifer36 Union School RoadUpper Black Eddy, PA 18972610-294-9027• [email protected]

SOUTHERNDorothy Roberts 191 Ficus Tree Drive Lantana, FL 33462 [email protected]

GREAT LAKES Scott Pearce264 W. Carol St.Alliance, OH 44601330-821-2988 • [email protected]

MIDWEST REGION To be filledNORTHWEST To be filled

CALIFORNIA (South)Inez Lindsey3030 Suncrest Dr. #315San Diego, CA 92116619-563-9782 • [email protected]

CALIFORNIA (North)Shirley A. Runco17063 Via PasatiempoSan Lorenzo, CA 94580510-278-3136 • [email protected]

SOUTHWEST Jeanne Gehringer3830 Yellowstone Dr.Las Cruces, NM 88011575-522-4667 • [email protected]

INTERNATIONAL VPLeroy Bull16 Belmont SquareDoylestown, Pa. 18901215-348-8286 • Fax: 215-345-4925 [email protected]

Check the ASD website for the latest updates.

Northwest Region: WA, OR, ID, MT, WYCalifornia Region: CA, HI, AK, NV

Southwest Region: UT, AZ, CO, NM, TX, OKMidwest Region: ND, SD, NE, KS, IA, MOGreat Lakes Region: MN, WI, IL, IN, OH

Southern Region: DC, KY, WV, VA, NC, SC, TN, MS, AL, GA, FL, AR, LANortheast Region: ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI, NY, PA, NJ, MD, DE

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ASD PAST PRESIDENTSTrustees Ex-Officio

* ROBERT S. PLIMPTON Storrs, CT

* GALEN O. HUTCHISON Brandon, VT

* DONALD BOYER Riverton, VT

* GORDON MACLEAN So. Portland, ME

* JOHN SHELLEY, JR. Lewiston, ME

* NORMAN LEIGHTON Portland, ME

* T. EDWARD ROSS St. Davids, PA

* PAUL J. SEVIGNY Danville, VT

* DWIN A. GORDON Portland, ME

GREG STOROZUK 5719 W.26th Ave., Edgewater; CO 80214

303.274.4158

JIM PERKINS 1023 Cooper Dr., Ashland, OH 44805

419.289.6607

* Deceased

* HAROLD MCCOY Fayetteville, AR

* GORDON BARTONWinter Harbor, ME

* JOAN MCFARLANE Auburn, CA

* WALTER WOODS Oroville, CA

E.W. (TONY) GEHRINGER1471 Sungate Dr., Apt. 106,

Kissimmee, FL 34746 321.682.3212

LEROY BULL 16 Belmont Square, Doylestown, PA 18901

215.348.8286

* BARRY A. SMITH San Jose, CA

BILL NORTHERN POB 986, Warsaw, VA 22572 804.333.4802

* LEILA “TIPI” HALSEY Thetford, VT

GEORGE WELLER POB 473, Derby Line, VT 05830

819.876.2528

* DOUGLAS (MAC) MCILWAIN Peebles, OH

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OEDITOR’S DESK

by Sybil Carey

ver the years, each time I’ve edited a Digest, the same thing has happened. In the course of production, an assortment of sub-missions crossed my desk and I’d wonder how an interesting and cohesive issue would ever result from what was collected. And then… at the very end of the process, as if by divine intervention, the contents would not only come together, but a common theme would become apparent. “Here,” the sheets of paper would say to me. “Now we’re ready!”

Many voices blend in this latest journal, each with their own perspective and their own message about planetary changes and the value of dowsing. From the array of investigations, les-sons, and stories, the varied styles and intentions, once again a theme has emerged: our personal and collective ability to con-sciously choose the world we hope to create as we experience 2012 and move into this new era. In seeking truth through dowsing, we are inspired to call forth the best in ourselves, finding grati-tude and being of service to others in the search. In this way, we choose to honor the past and the present, as well as future pos-sibilities. Indago Felix… may it be so.

This issue is a smorgasbord of dowsing choices that in-cludes new voices blended with those of old friends. Two very thoughtful and intelligent explorations of the whys and hows of dowsing, by Greg Storozuk and Dick Wright, expand our under-standing of this ancient art. New contributors, David Price Fran-cis and Brian Crissey, join Christan Hummel in heralding the age of 2012, characterized by the empowering effects of the expand-ing energies available to us in all areas, and the opportunities to transform the models we have known into a new consciousness governed by harmony and cooperation.

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Don Taylor poetically salutes the volunteers who choose to serve ASD; and a new international member describes the road she chose that led her to the "weird and wonderful" world of ASD. The Learning About Dowsing and The Many Faces of Dowsing sec-tions run the gamut of dowsing experience and include some very practical tips for all dowsers to consider. As always, Steve Herbert contributes his thorough reports on Water for Humanity’s ongo-ing efforts to fund water development resources worldwide. Also, take note of the announcements about the newly established ASD Trust Fund and the nominating procedure as we proceed to choose our 2013 Board of Trustees. Finally, on page 19, practice your dowsing skills with a fun challenge within this issue.

It’s my hope that these articles will inspire readers to re-examine their inner and outer worlds, aware that what they see is the result of the choices they have made up to this moment. With that new perspective comes the realization that we have the power to make new choices in every minute. It also strengthens the knowing that as we seek answers through dowsing, we are the answers we seek; and that as the calendar marches onward be-yond the 2012 milestone, we–individually and together–can cre-ate a world of unity, of peace, of joy through the choices that we make.

Just as the individual voices in these pages blend into a larger picture, as we move forward, each of us can contribute our unique offerings in our own unique styles with the intention of contributing an important thread to the larger tapestry. As I write this, a song keeps repeating in my head, “Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.”

By the way, on the subject of 2012 and choice… I heart-ily recommend Shirley MacLaine’s delightful book, I’m Over All That and Other Confessions, for her wonderful insights and humor. The chapter, “I Wonder If I Will Be Over The Drama of 2012,” is particularly meaningful.


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On a personal note… With gratitude for the opportunity to serve as Editor of The American Dowser, I find that the time has come for a changing of the guard. I am turning over my blue pencil to the next willing editor(s), with the hope that you find the job to be as fulfilling as I have over these years. Each issue is akin to birthing a child–in turn, exciting, exhausting, stimulat-ing, demanding, provocative, self-reflective, and, after the final push, miraculous. I offer my sincere thanks to all of you who have supported the publication process. I’ve learned so much and had the great pleasure and honor to meet so many wonderful people along the way–people whom I now call friends. I’m grateful to all of you who have shared the journey with me. As I move on to whatever comes next, I’ll look forward to seeing you at conven-tions and other gatherings in the days ahead.

Namaste.

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PRESIDENT’S COMMENTS

by Sandee Mac

W ell here we are… 2012, that exciting year of change we have been anticipating for the last several thousand years. Take a mo-ment with me to reflect on where we are and where we might be going as we whirl through space, won’t you? Two of our own joined the Sky Dowsers: former Trustee and well-respected dowser, Richard Wright, and current Trustee, Tipi Halsey who made her transition just before our June con-vention. We are stronger for what each of them brought to our organization. It has certainly been a busy time for all of us at ASD. The gorgeous Vermont Green Mountains again hosted our success-ful annual national convention. Our stellar Convention Commit-tee orchestrated everything, along with our staff at headquarters and a multitude of generous other volunteers. Inspiring speak-ers, great classes, a popular Wellness Corner, interesting vendors, a harmonious annual membership meeting, good food, old and new friends, and a myriad of activities, all on the beautiful Lyndon State College campus, enchanted us for days. We all celebrated when Water for Humanity broke their records of generous raffle donations to fund lots of clean water for countless grateful people around the world. If you were unable to play with us in person, contact the ASD bookstore and choose a few CDs and DVDs to enjoy the highlights. By the way, some of our members may not realize that their annual dues (the price of a cup of coffee a week) and the na-tional convention are the two principle sources for all of our oper-ating expenses for the entire year. We so appreciate your generous participation and support. In July, the ASD West Coast Conference was another suc-


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cess. Lots of learning and lots of fun with these great folks was held on the beautiful Santa Cruz campus. In August, a great ASD team participated at the National Organic Farmers Association (NOFA), with speakers, dowsing demos, and a bookstore pres-ence. In August, I attended several days of a conference of pro-fessional fundraisers for non-profit organizations, to hear the lat-est in ways to generate support in lean times. I clearly got the message that people want to be part of a worthwhile cause with a mission; and if they can trust an organization to significantly fulfill the cause, then and only then, will they support it. We have a phenomenal cause. We just need to get the word out. Call me if you want more details. In October, the Dowsers United chapter in Florida will be participating in another event with over 1500 people attending. We are committed to more of these regional activities… send us your ideas. Also in October, ASD Headquarters is sponsoring our first specialized mini-conference–a comprehensive intensive on all phases of water dowsing. Skill in this area may prove to be abso-lutely critical in the next few years. People will look to us for their most basic and precious need–that of clean water. Why not take this chance to sharpen your skills with this outstanding opportu-nity? We want to create more of these specialized mini-confer-ences all over the country; can we count on your suggestions and support? Finally, as we all rush toward 2013, let’s set the tone and di-rection of ASD to move ahead in a defined role of leadership and service. We will be nominating and electing new Trustees. We need lots of dedicated and talented help to make our next conven-tion and other projects become a reality. Your current BOT has done an incredible job of cleaning up our finances, headquarters, expanding the website, and structuring a bridge into the modern world of technology. See page 12 about the Nominating Commit-tee and think about whether you or another member you know

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would be a good addition to the Board of Trustees. We can still treasure the memories, hold the wisdom, and pass on the skills from the past; but while we honor what went before, we must also move forward. I have insisted we continue to respect and accommodate those members with no computers, and still integrate the latest technology–not an easy job. I sincere-ly encourage your suggestions and feedback; call me and let’s talk. I am here to serve you so we can serve others. I actually believe we all have been entrusted with a sacred mission as dowsers. It is worthwhile, and it is achievable. We need each other, and I know the world needs us–even if they don’t quite recognize it yet. I am so immensely proud of each of you and the difference you are making. I sincerely and humbly thank you for your trust and support, and I wish I could accomplish more… big-ger, faster and better!

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IN MEMORIAM Tipi Halsey Richard Wright

T ichard Danforth Wright was born in Albany, New York, on June 2, 1933, and died in Newport, Vermont, on June 29, 2012. Richard and his wife Pat have lived in Derby Line, VT, since 1973, where they have had a book and gift shop called Tranquil Things. Richard was a dowser and served as a trustee for The American Society of Dowsers and an editor of and contribu-tor to The American Dowser. With T. Edward Ross 2nd in the mid-80s, he organized a two-day dowsing school, focused on dowsing as mind reach, that brought many people with medical and scientific back-grounds to Danville, Vermont. He gave many dowsing talks

R ipi Halsey crossed over on Tuesday, May 29th, 2012. We will always remember Tipi as a key–and colorful–person in the growth of ASD, where in recent decades she was a major player in producing the ASD annual convention. Not only was she chairperson of the convention several times, Tipi served on the ASD Board of Trustees and as Vice President and President of ASD. She re-ceived many awards for her nu-merous contributions. Tipi was unable to get around easily due to consider-able physical pain, and she en-ergetically navigated her spe-cial motorized chair around the halls of convention. Yet, never once did it stop her full partici-pation at the event.

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Like her native country, Fin-land, Tipi tried to remain neu-tral on all political concerns and thus be a good listener. She was a devotee of Sai Baba and studied theosophy and all things metaphysical. Tipi and her husband, Bill, an architect, designed and built a spiritual education center, Lightgate, near their home in Vermont. Tipi was a brave and inspired person, and we will miss her. Her memory will live on in her extensive library and memorabilia which are to be-come part of ASD’s library and archives. Tipi loved dowsers, and we are so fortunate to have had her in our lives. She exem-plifies the spirit and generosity that ASD was built upon.

and participated in the symposia on dowsing and consciousness that he and his wife organized as part of three annual dowsing conventions they planned. His two books, The Divining Mind, written with Terry Ross, and The Divining Heart, Dowsing and Spiritual Unfoldment, written with his wife Pat, were published by Inner Traditions Internation-al. He leaves behind two unpub-lished manuscripts, one on the formal retreat process and an-other on similar lessons learned in raising three sheltie siblings. Richard was a lifelong student and a teacher of many different subjects and a lover of the natural world, as well as an active participant in his com-munity. He enjoyed a great many things, including collecting books, films, and Irish music, and playing the autoharp and the native flute. He felt blessed by many dear friends and took great pleasure from the compan-ionship of wonderful dogs. He was a loyal, hard-working, humorous, gentle and kind man who was valued very highly by those who came to know him and who will miss his physical presence greatly. As the Irish say, “His like will not be seen again.”


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NOMINATING COMMITTEE for the

2013 BOARD OF TRUSTEES ELECTION

The preamble to the ASD By-Laws states: Any activity that investigates, perpetuates, and expands humankind’s lore, mysteries, beliefs, tradi-tions, and useful abilities should command at once loyalty and service. One of the areas where loyalty and service can be most clearly dem-onstrated is by being willing to serve on the ASD Board of Trustees. The Trustees are looked upon as leaders in the international dowsing community and their actions, speech, and demeanor will encourage or discourage people to become and remain members of our Society.

Qualifications of an ASD TrusteeThe purpose of the Nominating Committee is to find the best qualified candidates for the Board of Trustees. Once the new board is convened, it elects the organization’s officers. There are certain criteria that the Nominating Committee consider essential to the success of a working Board and that members need to thoughtfully consider before nomi-nating candidates and casting their votes. As stated in the ASD Policy and Procedures Manual, the primary attributes deemed important for Board members include:1. Being at least18 years of age.2. Being a US citizen. 3. Having a thorough understanding of the basic concepts of dowsing.4. Having a history of active involvement at chapter and higher organi- zational levels promoting the cause of dowsing.5. Having a reasonable, logical, practical, and open mind.6. Ability to bring in special skills, knowledge, and aptitudes (e.g., fi- nance, marketing, management, computer science, engineering, etc.) 7. Ability to grasp the challenges confronting ASD, and to make deci- sions effectively.8. Ability to work efficiently and harmoniously with others in a group setting.9. Having the time, energy, and financial resources to attend all Board of Trustee meetings.** 10. Willingness to accept a 4-year term as a trustee.

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** [Note: There are two (2) required in-person meetings at the Annual National Convention (presently held in Vermont), one before the Convention and one after the Annual Meeting. There will also be monthly teleconferenced meetings at the call of the Chair. Candidates must have access to email and be able to participate in monthly teleconferenced meetings.]

How To Nominate A Candidate for TrusteeThe ASD Nominating Committee invites chapters and members to sub-mit the names of members in good standing that they consider highly-qualified candidates to become members of the Board of Trustees. You may nominate both present Board members whom you think should be re-elected, as well as new candidates. The recommendation must (1) be in writing; (2) cite the reasons for the nomination; (3) include a candidate’s resume, and (4) contain a statement that the nominee has expressed a willingness to serve. People may not nominate themselves. Please provide the name, address, email, phone(s) and fax of the candi-date and the person/chapter who is placing that name in nomination. A copy of the Prospective Trustee Questionnaire is located on the ASD website (www.dowsers.com). Please submit your nominations as soon as possible so that each name may be given careful consideration by the Nominating Committee. You may send your nominations via email to [email protected] or by mail to 2013 Nominating Committee c/o ASD, 184 Brainerd St.,PO Box 24, Danville, VT 05828Your thoughtful participation in the nomination and election process for the 2013 Board of Trustees lies at the foundation of a well-rounded, functional team to lead our Society in the coming years.

Thank you!

New vistas have emerged for the time-tested skill of dowsing. The more discoveries that are made in the physical sciences, medicine and psychology, the more they tend to verify what we as dowsers have long understood about how energy is the connecting link between all things, tangible and intangible. As the investigations of scientists and the investigations of dowsers continue to move closer together, there will be greater opportunities for ASD to be of service in moving this intersection process along.

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THE ASD TRUST FUND

Thanks to the impetus from ASD Past President George Weller, members voted at the 2009 Annual Meeting to create an ASD Trust Fund. It has taken some time for the committee to set up the fund and get all the documents in order; but as of Fall 2011, we now have a trust-fund bank account.

The Trust Fund Committee is composed of three committee members, cycled in three (3) year intervals. Beginning in 2012, a new committee member will be elected every year at the Annual Meeting to replace the outgoing member. This year we welcomed Annette Weis, who has a long and well-respected history with ASD. Should you be so disposed to be on the committee next year, please contact any committee member.

We are currently collecting monies with the intention of building a sufficient amount to have a meaningful Trust Fund. This grow-ing account will serve several purposes:

1. To reestablish a cache of funds to assure that ASD can and willbe considered a viable educational organization worthy of grant monies;

2. To require that three (3) signatures, including one non-trusteeTrust Fund member and the current BOT president and trea-surer, be mandatory for any withdrawal;

3. To replace the funds, seeded by our originators, which werelost in recent years; and,

4. To help assure that ASD remains a viable organization–onethat is self-sustaining, able to grow, and ready to flourish.

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The American Society of Dowsers is evolving into a dynamic new form that supports our founders’ original intents and purposes and also incorporates the field of quantum mechanics into the more esoteric realms of dowsing, thus broadening our appeal to the scientific community.As you feel you can–and please remember us when you receive unexpected gains–we welcome your addition of funds, payable and mailed to:

American Society of Dowsers Trust FundP.O. 468

New Tripoli, PA 18066

If you would prefer to mail the checks to the main office, please be sure to write “Trust Fund” on the check to avoid its being con-fused with general funds.

~~ Thank You ~~ Indago Felix

Daniel Churchill, Chairman (2010)Diane Bull (2011)

Annette Weis (2012)

(For routing numbers, comments, or questions, please contact The Trust Fund Committee, c/o [email protected] or [email protected], ASD Treasurer.)


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Conventional Wisdom

I GIVE THANKS

by Don Taylor

As the 2012 annual convention neared its conclusion, Don offered these poetic thoughts to the participants during the closing ceremony.

I’m sure you’ve heard the adage:For want of a nail, the shoe was lost.For want of the shoe, the horse was lost.For want of the horse, the rider was lost.For want of the rider, the battle was lost.

For want of our volunteer ASD Convention Committee,the Convention would be lost.

For want of our volunteer editor,our Quarterly Digest would be lost.

For want of our volunteer Nominating Committee,the ballot for Trustees would be lost.For want of our volunteer Treasurer,

the management and guidance of ASD would be lost.For want of all these things,

the ASD membership would be lost.For want of our membership,

the American Society of Dowsers would be lost.

I give thanks for our wonderful volunteers and for the member-ship they serve.

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THE ASD CONVENTION...From the Perspective of a Dutch Participant

by Frida Stoop

n the 18th of April, 2012, I left my temporary home in Hol-land, for a business trip to the United States. I also planned to visit various family members and friends. Attending the ASD Con-vention was not on my list… yet. In Dutch, dowsing is called Wichelroede lopen and is main-ly associated with looking for water to drill a well. Since we’re all connected to the main suppliers in Holland, there is not much call for this ability. What remains is the other, more questionable as-sociation: witchcraft, or at least very dubious or New Age prac-tices. My kind of stuff! So it was with trepidation that I told my family and friends in Florida, the Carolinas, and New Hampshire that I planned to attend a dowsers convention in Lyndonville, VT and mingle with a bunch of weird and wonderful people. How pleasantly surprised I was to get only positive responses! So off I went. The first two days I atttended Basic Dowsing School. Our instructors had volunteered to come to Vermont from all parts of North America, at their own expense, to share their knowledge of the art of dowsing with us. The L-rods and pendulum I was familiar with, but the Y-rod and bobber were new to me. The latter became my favorite; it spins and twirls and nods or bobs in response to a question posed. And sometimes it remains frustratingly quiet… oops, too many possibilities for a straight answer. I learned in dowsing that you have to feed “the instru-ment” bite-size morsels, easily digestable by either my higher self or any of the tools used. After two days of Basic Dowsing School, the actual three-day convention began with a myriad of lectures and workshops. Little did I know how diverse the topics would be! Since my in-


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terest, amongst many other things, is in the healing power of, and being in, Nature, I ended up taking classes in Tree Hugging, Tree Preaching, Plant Medicine, and listening to stories about Stone Persons and Native American Teachings. I found these lessons so inspirational and, at times, very moving. Labyrinths, Ancient Mysteries, and Numerology were also high on my list to learn more about.

And how I ended up, after all, at the ASD Convention? That’s an-other story for another time. Suffice to say for now: see you there next year!

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ters (802-684-3417) to send hard copies to you. We now have an ASD Trust Fund that was set up formally a year ago where only a limited amount can be used each year, with the rest left to grow. The more that is in it, the more financially secure is our organiza-tion.

On a lighter side, northern New England had the best col-ors in several years this fall. “Leaf peepers” were out in full force for several weeks. Flying over the area in my small plane, it looked like the world was made up for Halloween with a carpet of reds, yellows and oranges. Last night as we were finishing work on our farm, the sunset was spectacular. It looked like the mountains to the west were engulfed in fire for a few moments. The lower sky was clear and bright red around, but not to the top of, the moun-tains. Above was an overcast cloud layer. What a beautiful sand-wich! We are blessed with a really beautiful landscape and planet on which to live.

And now a repeat from last issue, here is a pitch for ASD trusteeship. How about running for Trustee? Elections are com-ing up. Are you able to spend some time steering ASD to new heights in the future? Do you have ideas that you would like to see implemented? Then please consider running for Trustee.

Linking. Do you know of organizations that you think ASD should link web pages with? Linking can be beneficial to both organizations. Check out our website at www.dowsers.org to see where we have linked already. If you have suggestions, please send them to me ([email protected]) or to our Operations Manager, Arvid Johnson, at [email protected].

• Learn To Dowse! Throughout the year across America, dowsers of ev-ery description come together in local ASD Chapter meetings to practice, to learn new techniques and to renew old friend-ships. Newcomers are always welcome and are quickly taught the basics of this valuable and exciting new skill. They learn how to find water, lost people, missing objects, minerals, oil, gemstones, remedies, better health, environmental energies and much, much more. Our dowsers range from engineers to housewives, from drillers to businessmen, from contractors to students and teachers. You name it. Anyone can learn to dowse. If you think that you or someone you know would like to learn more about dowsing, contact the nearest ASD Chapter in your state. If our nearest chapter is hundreds of miles away, call our National Headquarters in Danville, Vermont, and we’ll introduce you to one or more of our members located closer to you. Often these initial contacts are the start of something big – like a completely new chapter! We’ll be happy to show you the steps.

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PRACTICE YOUR DOWSING SKILL—IT’S FUN!

Here’s a dowsing exercise you can do right now without even moving from your chair. Dowse each item to find out where it’s located in this

issue. As Greg Storozuk says, “Practice, practice, practice!” ~SC

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_____ …we can anticipate… an increase in natural skills such as dowsing…_____ …always first dowse whether the person wants to be found._____ Abundance is the true nature of the Universe…_____ …In all dowsing investigations… check with these energies to see if they support the project._____ A special way of dowsing lights the way…_____ In seeking truth through dowsing, we are inspired to call forth the best in ourselves…_____ ASK! That’s the beauty of dowsing._____ Thank you for sharing your stories and ideas with us!_____ Remember that water is receptive to thoughtforms._____ For want of our membership, the American Society of Dowsers would be lost._____ …you have to feed “the instrument” bite-size morsels…_____ … dowsing is… a human being employing a rudimentary form of communication with life forms existing in the same universe._____ … to let go, stop trying to figure it out with the brain, and know in a manner that transcends the physical dowsing response._____ … the colors began to have a healing effect…_____ …we all have been entrusted with a sacred mission as dowsers._____ The more that dowsing is used, the more the holistic brain is brought into everyday matters…_____ In all that you do, you have full responsibility for your actions.


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Into 2012 and Beyond...

THIS IS THE DAWNING OF THE AGE OF AQUARIUS

by David Price Francis

s it? Is it really? What does this mean? Didn’t it really “dawn” back in the 1960s with the musical Hair? What is the Age of Aquarius anyway? Has it any relevance in our modern world? These and other questions often arise when people hear the expression regarding the dawning of the Aquarian age. Few remember today that the poster for the 1969 Woodstock music festival was originally entitled “An Aquarian Exposition.” The Age of Aquarius was already meant to be in full swing back then. If that was the case then, what about now? This short article shall focus, not on the astronomy of the precession of the equinoxes, but rather on the energetics that are coming upon us at this time, part of which, I believe, is the shift from the energies of the Age of Pisces into the Age of Aquarius. It will also explore what this means to us and how it affects us.

Aquarius Is The Power Carrier Modern astrology tells us that the symbol for Aquarius is the water carrier. Because of this, many people who are not well versed in astrology think that Aquarius is a water sign. Aquarius is, however, an air sign. The symbol for Aquarius is the symbol of a movement of energy as well as water. In ancient Egypt where the in-depth science of astrology (the study of universal forces and their influence on life on earth) originated, and before it was taken up in Babylon, the symbol of the zigzag lines represented the transmission and reception of power. Almost any book of art-work from ancient Egypt shows this design and it can be seen in Egyptian artwork being transmitted, for example, from the hands of one person to another, through the element of air. These zigzag lines later became interpreted only as water, but originally also represented waves of energy or power.

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The core symbol for the astrological sign of Aquarius, therefore, represents the bringing of power or energy. It is this swift surge in the natural energetics of the planet and all of her or-ganic life (including human) that we are feeling at this time. This is, of course, of particular interest to workers within the energy worlds who train themselves in the arts of seeing, feeling, and sensing these naturally occurring energies.

Baptism By Fire There is a most interesting point in the New Testament of the Bible where John the Baptist speaks of the fact that he can baptize by water, but there is One coming who will baptize by fire. Baptism by water is a ritual of the Age of Pisces, as practiced by John the Baptist and the Christians, as is the washing of the feet, the part of the body designated to Pisces. The original symbol of Christianity consisted of two curved lines coming together in the form of a fish, another Piscean symbol. The baptism by fire that John the Baptist referred to was not due to appear for approxi-mately two thousand years, with the dawning of the new Age of Aquarius, in which the symbol of the fish would be replaced by the lightning strike or electrical fire of Aquarius. As many spiri-tual figures do, he was preparing us for our future.

The Legend of Ganymede The so-called water bearer of Aquarian symbology was none other than Ganymede. It was Ganymede, who, in Greek my-thology, was the cupbearer to the gods. What he carried to the gods was not water, but a substance called ambrosia—the drink of the gods. In some versions of the legend, Ganymede slips the ambrosia of the gods into the water supply of human beings, thus elevating their consciousness. It was never said that this ambro-sia was water; rather it was a property that brings increased con-sciousness and a heightened awareness of the worlds of energy and evolution. If we apply this legend to the dawning of the Age of Aquarius, it implies increasing consciousness, spirituality, and the possibility of furthering human evolution.


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The Aquarian Age There are many different views about the timing of the be-ginning of the Aquarian age. I am of the view that energetically the energies of Aquarius began their onset in the mid-1960s, as the Hippie movement espoused. Astrological ages do not, how-ever, change overnight and just as it takes time to move from day to night, so it takes time to move through the cusp of one great astrological age into another. If the energies of Aquarius began to make their appearance in the 1960s, it is totally reasonable that the real onset of the Aquarian age would not be felt until 2012, making an interesting coincidence with the Mayan calendar, or possibly even fifty or a hundred years later. The waves of energy that accompany great changes of frequency often cannot be ex-actly forecast; but their effects can certainly be prophesied, and by watching for these effects, we can tell when the change is under-way. I believe we are surrounded by tremendous planetary and universal energies that are surging through our bodies, brains, minds, souls and spirits every second of every day. There are defi-nite natural laws which give form to these energies and make pos-sible all our human experience. By bringing ourselves into greater harmony with these natural laws and energies, we both expedite our development as human beings and live more fulfilling and successful lives. It is my belief that new energies for human development and possibility are entering the planet and that these incoming en-ergies are the harbingers of a major shift of energies yet to come. These early manifestations give us the opportunity to practice and train now for the new energies of the future. In this process there are great lessons to be learned and wisdoms to be won from the illuminated mystery schools and teachings of the past. There are certain phenomena which can be anticipated as we move into the time in which the energy worlds of the planet and the human swiftly increase in power, as the Aquarian symbol

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indicates. When this happens, we can anticipate seeing such hap-penings as:• An increased interest in all aspects of the energy world.• An increase in natural skills such as dowsing, as the energies that make them possible become more empowered.• An increased focus on all modalities of energy healing.• Increased numbers of people reporting seeing, feeling, and sensing the energy worlds with their natural human faculties.• An increase in ESP, clairvoyance, etc., as the increased energies switch on previously dormant parts of the brain.• People coming to rely on synchronicity and their own “sixth sense.”• People naturally forming into communities of interest based on shared energies, rather than trusting in large institutions and collectives.• Individuals increasingly believing in their ability to make their own connections to the universe and the Great Creator, rather than needing a priest, mullah, rabbi, or institution as an interme-diary.• Increased connectivity between people over distances, bypass-ing geographic barriers through wireless communication—ini-tially through technology, but ultimately through telepathy. As you read through these points (and many more could be written here), do they not begin to build a picture of the kind of change which is happening in our times? Do they not suggest that we are children of the cusp, born into the time of the twilight zone between the epochs? We have been born into such an ex-citing time! And what a natural time to be drawn to developing a deepening interest in the energy worlds of the human and the planet. To be so moved is to be aligned with the natural synchron-icity of the forces of planetary and human evolution presenting themselves to our time. In this year of 2012, to have an increasing awareness of the energy worlds is still to be a scout in advance of the main columns of civilization; but as the Age of Aquarius intensifies, the scouts


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and pioneers (that’s us!) will be joined by many more of the hu-man tribe who will be glad that there are those who have taken the time and effort to invest their energies to make the vital prepara-tions for the energies of our future.

David Price Francis has been researching and teaching the worlds of energy for over 30 years. He founded Energy Worlds in 2007, offering coaching, seminars, workshops, and retreats to an international network of cli-ents. He conducts tours introducing people to energies of ancient sites, and is the author of Partners in Passion and The Tales of Dr. Woo (Kora Press). His website, from which the above article is reprinted, is www.energy-worlds.com

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•It’s such fun to find the hidden layers and many mean-ings that words hold. Have you ever thought about the word dowser? Did you realize that its letters also contain the concept of e-sword? I think of it as an en-ergetic sword that cuts to the heart of our "gnowing" or intuitive nature. As a dowser, you have at your dis-posal a built-in tool to guide you to the information you seek.

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PLANTING SEEDS FOR TRANSFORMATION

by Christan Hummel

e are living in the middle of history in the making. Plu-to, the planet of transformation and regeneration, has returned to the position it was in during both the French and American Revolutions, thus bringing an opportunity for the death of the old, archaic political and economic systems, and a rebirth of one more reflective of the new consciousness expressing on the planet at this time. This time around, Pluto's "revolution" will not be contained to one country, but will affect the entire geopolitical-economic system on the planet in place for the last 250+ years.

As any student of history knows, all revolutions start with a key group who first "ignite" the spark in the realm of ideas. These ideas, like seeds, take root in the minds of men and women. They begin to change the way we look at the world, getting people to start to question what they have taken for granted for most of their lives. This power of a thought whose time has come, is what has preceded every revolution in the planet's history.

What is often overlooked, though, is that while a change in the actions and structures of a society all begin with that first revolutionary thought, all thought is preceded by consciousness: any change in the actions and events which occur on the physi-cal plane, must first be preceded by a change in the thoughts that prompt it; but to shift those thoughts, one must first transform or shift consciousness. To shift consciousness, the grids, or ma-trix, which sustain that consciousness, or paradigm, must first be transformed.

It is for this reason that political leaders for thousands of years have tried to possess, own, and control the major nexus points of these grids. The earth is surrounded by this hidden ma-


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trix, or grid, of consciousness. It is this matrix which contains and defines any expression or system of political, economic, or gov-ernmental concept. For these outer systems to change, the con-sciousness grids that support and sustain them must first change.

For instance, our current economic models on the planet are based upon a certain consciousness, or way of understanding their reality which is based primarily in the root and solar plexus chakras. As such, this reality–this level of consciousness–is ori-ented around concepts of greed, win/loss paradigms, fixed-pie scenarios, and power/control/separation. No matter what coun-try or political regime, the same consciousness underlies all of the existing economic models. Under this model, in order for one person or country to "win," another must "lose." Such a model de-termines the political action and agents, which in turn determine the rights, liberties, and livelihood of individuals.

Abundance is the true nature of the Universe; yet most of the planet is living in this artificially constructed grid of scarcity, greed, and fear and the wars, crime, and violence that conscious-ness engenders. These energies are subsequently carried through the grid lines, or the meridians of the planet. By shifting the ener-gies of this planetary grid matrix, the consciousness reflected in it is also shifted, allowing for new possibilities to emerge, ones more consistent with the higher realms which the Earth is enter-ing into. When humanity is able to shift from the solar plexus orientation of I, me, mine, to the heart chakra orientation where universal love is the currency that flows between us, then the new economic models will be able to emerge on the planet. This is a key time on the planet for new economic perspec-tives to flourish. To do so, there needs to be a fertile space to re-ceive the seed of new and revolutionary ideas. It is time for a new idea to be born, and the Earth grids are where such ideas first take root before manifesting into action and ultimately new systems. By working with the guiding spirit of these grid points and ley lines in key areas of the planet which hold a part of the economic

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paradigm for the planet, we offer Spirit an opportunity to plant in the matrix those new seeds of thought where they can sprout into action and new economic models of right living.

Christan Hummel, a pioneer in earth energies exploration, has es-tablished a grassroots network throughout the world focused on planting new seeds of consciousness in the Earth grid through our actions and thoughts. She travels internationally lecturing and teaching, and her book, The Do-It-Yourself Space Clearing Kit, is a guide for people to use in their own homes. Christan provides a unique synthesis of modern science and ancient wisdom in an easy and understandable manner. Her website is www.earthtran-sitons.com

This photo was taken during the closing ceremony that Christan facilitated at a sacred site in Ireland called the Drombeg stone circle. Christan, in the middle of the circle, reported that the light which appeared in the photo wasn’t visible to them at the time; but on looking at the photo later, it turns out that the camera captured light that came exactly through the entryway of the stone circle.

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DOWSING OUR PATH INTO THE 5TH WORLD:The Swirled-World Project

by Brian L. Crissey, Ph.D.

Hopi Prophecy he Hopi prophecy stone shows a decision point for the hu-man race, where the decaying and decadent 4th World faces cos-mic lightning, while the emergent 5th World of love, balance, and spiritual strength opens up into the future we all seek. How do we make our way through this decision point to a better future? A special way of dowsing lights the way, enabling us to be the change we seek in the world, as Gandhi so succinctly said.

Dowsing Crop-Circle Energy For many summers Barbara Lamb, dowser, sensitive, and crop-circle researcher, has taken groups into the highly fertile cir-cle territory of southeast England, near Stonehenge, Avebury, and other ancient sacred sites, where ley lines hum and subtle ener-gies pulsate, insensible to most. Checking in at the local pub, she dowses the selection of new sites and takes the group to the latest and most energetically brilliant site. Arriving at a formation, she dowses its authenticity, positivity, contours, and energetic center. Sitting in the energetic center, Barbara holds close to the earth a glass bottle of pure water from the White Well, widely known for its high energy and healing properties. Centering herself, she honors the immanent spirits, guides, nature spirits, and off-plan-et allies, and addresses herself to the circle-makers something like this:

“Welcome, benevolent unseen artists of these verdant fields. We honor your presence among us. We are in humble awe of the exquisite gift that you have provided to us here this day. We feel your positive intentions and abiding love for us, and we thank you for this physical manifestation of beauty, serenity and power, and we ask that you direct some of the powerfully beneficial healing and transformative energies of this emergent creation into this living water this day. May

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this pure water remember and retain for all time the creative energies and positive intentions with which you have so gen-erously graced this field. Please help us distribute this energy throughout our distressed planet, so that your benevolent in-tentions may manifest in our world in a good way. We thank you for your steadfast presence on our troubled planet over so many years, and we sincerely love and appreciate you all for helping us emerge from the darkness of our past into the brightness of a better future. And so it is.”

Not Made by Hands Gary King, a videographer and crop-circle investigator, had a “gnosis moment” in which he inwardly knew that a signifi-cant formation would appear on 7/7/7 in East Field, near Knapp Hill, where authentic circles appear from time to time. He gath-ered a crew of three with night-vision video equipment to record the entire field for the whole night. No formation was in the field, and no humans visited the field that night, but at 3:13 a.m., the camera recorded a brilliant white flash of light. When dawn's ear-ly light illuminated the field, a formation could be seen in the field, over a thousand feet long and some 500 feet wide. The video can be seen on You Tube, if you search for “Gary King East Field” or visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOlwyXkick4. When Barbara's crew arrived, she dowsed the formation to locate its powerful energetic center where she settled down to harvest its healing energies. When Barbara knows that the water


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is buoyant with healing energy, she dates and labels the bottle and later ships the bottle of living water to us, along with other forma-tions she dowsed. We make a mother-water bottle from each, adding some vodka to discourage the growth of living beings that would not be welcome.

Akashic-Record Readings for Crop Circles The next participant in the process is Aingeal Rose O'Grady who has an unusual skill of entering into, wandering around, and interrogating the Akashic Records for reliable answers to specific questions. She asks about the truth of matters past and present. It is a form of dowsing. One of her questions is what the harvested water specimens want to be called, and she receives names and other information for each of them.

The Healing Mandala In the month before 9/11/2001, several people we know were petitioning the off-planet circle-makers to give humanity an undeniably authentic crop formation that could help break through the fear-based blockage of our global transition into the 5th World of love, balance, and spiritual strength. On 8/12/2001, numerologically equivalent to 9/11/2001 (5 = change), a response to the petitions appeared overnight on top of Milk Hill. Nine hundred feet across and consisting of 409 perfect circles, each a prime number of inches in diameter, this formation was clearly not made by pranksters with boards and ropes during the four hours of pitch darkness at that time of year in England. In the months leading up to 9/11/2001, we were research-ing the profound implications of the 8/20/2001 crop circle at Chilbolton that was clearly an off-planet response to a message sent out in 1984 by Carl Sagan from the Arecibo radio telescope. Our focus had not yet matured to the point where we recognized the huge opportunity implicit in gathering crop-circle energy in water at the sites, so we did not think to collect water-based en-ergy from the 2001 Milk Hill formation. Without water-based energy from the circle, we wondered how to make use of this formation, and we were guided to in-

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tuitively add color and motion to it. In time it became a power-ful global-healing mandala, now in use in 17 nations for collec-tively manifesting a better world. A beautifully moving animation of the group process can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipsQLAJV5a8.

Group-Energy Process To Heal The Earth Here is how we are being guided to use it: On full moons and new moons, and other numinous times, we gather with like-minded, good-hearted folks in a circle around a colored print of the mandala. We place glass bottles of pure water in the center. Each of us shares a personal vision of how the 5th World will be a world of peace and cooperation, sustainable green energy, and equitable economics, a world where every child is wanted, where there is enough for all, a world of mutual respect and well-being, a world suitable for our great-grandchildren's great-grandchildren. When all have contributed, we spin our Chi energy counterclock-wise in the torus-shaped auric fields around our bodies, pulling healing cosmic energy in from above into our crown chakras. We feel the Divine Love energize our heart chakras, and we share the love with everyone in the circle, which expands our toruses until they merge into one large torus around the whole group. We see in our mind's eye the great mandala slowly spin-ning counterclockwise in the center of the group. We feel the cool


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breeze as each great colored arm sweeps through our chakras, cleansing and energizing them. Energy spinning counterclock-wise around the group pulls in an astonishing waterfall of bril-liant white, crystalline, Divine energy from the Cosmos into the center, from which it flows out in expanding concentric circles of brilliant chakra colors, out along the great arms and up into our chakra systems. Healing energy also pours down into Moth-er Earth, feeding and nourishing her needs. We experience her deeply felt gratitude to us as she directs the received energy to wherever she needs it most desperately. When awareness returns to our bodies, we retrieve our water bottles from the center and dowse them for the character-istic spin that always accompanies water that has been spun up in this fashion. We have never encountered a bottle of water that did not spin when dowsed after one of these group processes. The di-rection of spin may vary, according to the Principle of Uniquency, but almost invariably it spins in the same direction as the group energy moved. [The Principle of Uniquency state that a person's subtle-energy field vibrates in a unique way that on any given day does or does not harmonize with the subtle-energy vibrations of the object or treatment in question. Only the individual, or a

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dowser operating with the individual's permission, can feel which choice is most harmonious.] What is the intent of this swirling water? How can it be used? We have been told that the formation is a global healing mandala, a gift to humanity from benevolent off-planet circle-makers, and that our task is to figure out how to use it to heal the Earth. So we experiment. This is what we have found so far: a single drop of swirling water, when dropped into a virgin bottle of pure water, will cause it to swirl in the same way when dowsed. This process continues indefinitely. One bottle may be a lifetime supply. It seems to be homeopathic, getting stronger with dilu-tion. A drop of swirling water in a stream can be detected down-stream, when the swirling water arrives. A single drop in a hot tub of pure unchemicalized water has kept it clean for up to three months, although no claims will be made for others' results. In-dividuals are encouraged to consult their inner guidance for how to use swirling water in their lives. By the Principle of Uniquency, one would expect a proliferation of techniques and discoveries.

Group Dowsing The power of group-energy work is multiplicative, and the idea of personal dowsing now extends into group dowsing, using the global healing mandala as a focus. Gather four people aligned to the four directions around a print of the Great Mandala. Take a wide stance, touching each other's toes. Entwine your arms around each other and put your heads together. Open to Divine Guidance with something like this:

We honor the guiding presence of Divine Light in our group, and we welcome your graceful and generous attention to our needs. We honor the four directions, spirits within and without, above and below. We honor all our unseen allies who join us now with our highest and best interests at heart. We thank you for your gift of guidance this day. We ask that only Truth of the highest order be allowed to speak through this group oracle today.

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pouring in upon you like a crystal waterfall. Bathe in the experi-ence. You will feel a natural tug that moves the group in a swirling motion, usually in the direction of the swirl of the center print. This is evidence of the presence of Spirit. Honor it and welcome it. Ask it for an observable signal of affirmation. Perhaps the swirl-ing will stop, or the group will lean in some direction, or the di-rection may reverse. By the Principle of Uniquency, anything is possible, and it is all good. It is unique to this group, this time and place. Ask for and observe a signal of negation. Then, as each one is guided to speak, ask questions, as simply and unambiguously as you can, and responses will occur. Spirit is quite literal, so be care-ful in your phrasing. You will know when the portal has closed.

Negativity and Judgment Sometimes a person will make the judgment that the counterclockwise spin is somehow negative. We see no evidence of that. The circle was formed like a galaxy, spinning counter-clockwise. Looking up from Mother Earth's perspective, it spins clockwise. It just is. In our experiments with hot tubs, the clock-wise swirling water did not keep the water clean for more than two weeks, so the counterclockwise swirl seems to us to be the more powerful direction for the applications that we have applied it to.

Swirled-World Project Many times one hears from spiritually elevated people that it is pointless to try to save the Earth, that we can only tidy up our own corners, and that the Earth can be saved only when everyone gets their own corner in order. If this is true, then we are all prob-ably doomed, because so many folks may never get their corners tidied up. Are we then to boycott and undermine any effort that has some chance of manifesting a better world, just because it has a global focus? We think not. Our planet needs our attention. She needs our energy. She needs us to be the change we seek in the world. The Swirled-World Project is such an effort, and it has a chance to make a difference. Each individual who has created or

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received a bottle of swirling water is encouraged to place a drop of it into every water body they pass over in their own corner of the world, allowing the powerful swirling energy to flow with the water into streams, rivers, bays, and oceans. The oceans are all One, and this is the Water Planet. Water has memory; and pure virgin water that has been swirled with good intention, as indicat-ed above, remembers only a future of love, balance, and spiritual strength, the characteristics of the new epoch we can reach as a planetary people–what the Hopis called the 5th World. Since a single drop can energize more water, everyone who receives a drop of swirling water is asked to agree to engage two or more other people, under the same conditions, as quickly as pos-sible. In this way, we get exponential growth of participants, and positively-intended swirling water will be everywhere on Earth, and a new and better world will be birthed from below, invisibly, which cannot be stopped. In this way we intend to collectively manifest the 5th World, one personal corner at a time. And so it is.

Brian Crissey is the author of Common Sense in Uncommon Times and the publisher of more than 70 titles on topics from UFOs and past lives to shamanic healing. He is CEO of the 5th World Fund, a charitable organization that coordinates global visualizations of a better world. The dowsed waters harvested at the crop circle’s en-ergy centers are sent to his Touch the Sky Cosmic Energy Essences™, a part of the Granite-Planet.net™ coalition of web sites that assist the human race in its transition into the 5th World.

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BEGINNER’S DOWSING COLUMN ENTRY #7

by Greg Storozuk

Entry #1 – General overview of dowsing. Subdue the ego.Start at the beginning.

Entry #2 – Entering the dowsing state of mind. How to’s.Entry #3 – Why the relaxed state of mind is so important.

Entry #4 – Forming questions: Write them down. Proper wording.Entry #5 – Introduction to dowsing tools.

Entry #6 – Practice.Entry #7 – Dowsing: Human communication with the Universe.

ooner or later, every dowser will wonder, “How does dowsing work anyway? Is it a gift? Can everybody do this? Am I a ‘special’ person? Is there a scientific explanation? Dowsers ask questions, but where do the answers come from?” Opinions abound, but no one has a precise answer ex-cept what works for them. So it’s left up to the individual dowser to discover an explanation which they consider to be adequate, workable, and comfortable. In this regard, the author of this column offers a notion–an idea–from which to begin your personal inquiry for further introspection. Truth endures. Dowsing would have died out long ago had the skill not been significantly productive in human society as a whole. The fact that it has survived for thousands of years around the world attests to the fact that dowsing remains a human skill of considerable value to all mankind. Perhaps then, the question of ‘How does dowsing work?’ should be replaced with the declara-tion:

It works. Let’s use it despite its enigmatic nature.Dowsing then joins the company of other universally well known but unexplainable phenomena such as electricity, magnetism, and

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gravity, since adequate definitions of these phenomena still defy the scientific community as well. An inquisitive scientist may ask, ”Is dowsing a physical re-action to some yet undiscovered force? A mental/chemical reac-tion in the brain like a human radar or sonar? Are electromagnet-ics involved? (Keep in mind that neither can be fully explained.) Or, is dowsing both a physical and mental/chemical combination? If so, in what percentages and in what order do these reactions occur?” In short, science first needs to determine how dowsing needs to be studied in order to apply the appropriate tools for measurement. If, on the other hand, one chooses to study dowsing from a different point of view, the thought process reverses itself a full 180 degrees. From a deductive point of view, one must first con-sider the grandest, most all-inclusive, natural concept they can imagine, and then use reason and logic to reach their own per-sonally acceptable answer as to how the dowsing process ‘works.’ Although unscientific, the deductive way of thinking allows the mind to free itself from the framework of science into which the explanation of dowsing must fall. For the illustrative purpose of deductive thinking, I’ve chosen to use a generic term for this grand, natural concept. The term is deity and the definition used is:

That which is referred to as Deity is the totality of consciousness,intelligence, and energy of all that exists, whether tangible or

intangible. If one studies this definition carefully and logically, it can be easily understood, by extension, how everything (and every non-thing) in the Universe can be reduced to these three con-cepts: consciousness, intelligence, and energy. Should you consider this definition to be acceptable, then these three concepts would make up the cornerstones of natural law. We must always keep in mind that natural law precedes hu-man science and human religions by tens, or perhaps hundreds of


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billions of years. So besides offering a simpler explanation, would it not also be more correct to use the senior precept as the starting point for our inquiry? By comparing the two viewpoints, we can see how com-plex a scientific investigation would have to be to explain a rela-tively simple phenomenon. Too many mysteries in science still remain to provide an adequate explanation as to how dowsing works, despite the fact it’s something that people have been doing naturally since the dawn of man. So from the simplistic, deductive point of view, dowsing can more easily be understood by the common man. This is prob-ably why many dowsers, when asked how dowsing works, will simply reply:

It works. So I use it.No further explanation is necessary other than its acceptance. If one is willing to accept the concepts of consciousness, intelligence and energy as the cornerstones of natural law, then these concepts would therefore include the creation of everything in the universe on both the macro and microcosmic scales. Further, if one is to apply these cornerstones on the macro and microcosmic scales, it would also mean that everything in the universe is alive, because at the most basic level, everything is made from the same “stuff”. The only differences would be the various applications coming from nature itself. Mountains, rocks, trees, oceans, clouds, plants, air, animals, insects, human beings, and dirt are all made from the same “stuff”; as are the sun, moon, stars, planets, galaxies, and all the energies and life forms in be-tween, with each having its own unique connection with Deity.

Something to ponder:Is there any difference in anything? It’s up to you, the dowser, to decide.

At its very nature then, the dowsing skill is nothing more than a human being employing a rudimentary form of communi-cation with another life form existing in the same universe. As far

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as the dowser’s mind can reach, that’s how far this communica-tion can extend. For some reason, somewhere, somehow, and some when, someone decided to see if dowsing could be used in a different manner. These explorations extended beyond the standard sur-vival skills into the unseen world of earth energies. The Pyramids, Stonehenge, Easter Island, and other monuments from the an-cient past are testaments to some of these newer applications. They’ve also become enigmas to modern science–but not to the experienced dowser. Somehow, dowsing manages to endure in the modern world despite its cynics and skeptics, who, in all likelihood, have never tried dowsing in earnest or even read any dowsing litera-ture. Even so, they cannot deny the results of water wells drilled in extremely arid areas. An underground water vein has its own life, which is why “live water” is the target sought by most experienced dowsers for water wells. Science chooses to ignore the dowsers’ water theory, but this is a topic for another column. Other unseen energies such as oil, gas, minerals, tunnels, and other tangible targets, and ley energy, geopathic zones, and entities are also ‘alive,’ and physically manifest themselves in many beneficial and non-beneficial ways. In short, there’s absolutely no shortage of dowsing targets. Everything is fair game. In sum, thinking deductively in the most basic terms of consciousness, intelligence, and energy, one simple fact exists:

Either something is, or is not.When translated into the dowsing language, this becomes a sim-ple, and humble, ”yes” or “no.” Once the proper state of mind has been achieved, the dowsing routine begins by first resonating, and then dialoging, with the dowser’s chosen objective, also composed of conscious-ness, intelligence, and energy, on a level of mutual mental vibra-tion. All that’s necessary then is to ask the proper question in the proper state of mind to receive the answer to your inquiry.


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Thanks to the many successful practitioners around the world who follow the same process as those who have gone be-fore, dowsing perseveres in the modern-day world and is con-tinuing to develop in many different arenas. The expansion of the dowsing skill and its numerous applications in modern times has replaced the basic survival skills associated with locating sources of food and water, although a slow renaissance of water dowsing is now underway due to the drought conditions permeating our planet. So it appears that the skill has gone full circle, or, more correctly, is completing another turn on the upward spiral of hu-man existence. Hopefully, for the sake of humanity, this trend will continue. Deductively speaking then, the answer to any question is already known. In accord with all the tenets of natural law, dows-ing is a simple form of communication with everything in the uni-verse. It’s not necessarily an easy skill to learn, but it is simple. All that’s needed are a sender, a receiver, a common language, and of course, practice, practice, practice.

Information’s pretty thin stuff, unless mixed with experience.

Clarence Day

Greg Storozuk, an ASD past president, is a professional dowser who concentrates his dowsing in the areas of water, geopathic zones, oil, minerals, clearings, and map dowsing. He is the author of A Dowser’s Series and owner of Labyrinths of Colorado.

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ASKING QUESTIONS

by John Living

Brain Waves ears ago when Barbara Prisbe was an editor of The Ameri-can Dowser, she published a diagram that showed how the brain waves of people who used dowsing consistently were active in all brain speeds, unlike those of Yogi, Zen, and TM masters who reached the same level as dowsers but not in all the speeds. (See The American Dowser Vol 23 No 1 Feb1983, "Brain patterns char-acteristic of dowsers as measured on the mind mirror” by Edith M. Jurka, MD.) It was explained that this difference was due to the active seeking of information, which those who were not dowsers did not do, at least not to the same extent since their ac-tivities were based mainly on meditation.

Dowsers are usually asking about a particular problem, such as seeking water, lost objects, or how to help people. Per-haps our skills could be developed even more by asking “real stu-pid” questions that have almost impossible answers!


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The Job of Ego Ego is in charge of our logical brain and thinks that it knows everything. By asking open questions, such as those that don’t have any clear answer, we confuse our ego to the extent that it gives up and allows our intuitive brain to play its part. Our intuition, accessed mainly through our heart, has ac-cess to universal knowledge. Remember that we can best under-stand the answers that we get when we have some basic know-ledge of the subject about which we ask. In other words, it may not help a carpenter to ask about the workings of an atomic bomb; but asking about the effects that would result may obtain answers that are understandable, based on the knowledge and expressed in a context understood by the carpenter. Our ego is very important. It has the ability to manipulate the data in our knowledge banks and the information obtained from our intuition and develop new approaches and applications. Without our ego, we would not be creators!

Open Questions The following questions are just examples; try asking them to your heart–or 'the wisdom of your being'–and see what hap-pens. You could get feelings, see something, or hear 'the small voice'–all ways of getting a meaningful answer. Form such ques-tions for your own purpose. If the answer you get would cause hurt or harm to anyone, then it may be coming from some intruder or possessing entity. In all that you do, you have full responsibility for your actions. If the answer feels wrong, send 'True Holy Love, Namaste' to who-ever is sending the message, and ask that it be taken away to be healed, and that you be protected from any similar interference in the future. I use such questions many times a day, along with follow-up questions if an answer is not completely clear. For example, this morning I asked, "What can I learn today that I have not learnt before?" and I got "Acceptance". So I asked, "What should I

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learn to accept?" The answer: "Acceptance of lessons." "OK, what lessons should I accept today?" And so on. In this particular dialogue, I was reminded of Dr. Richard Bartlett's comment in his book Matrix Energetics: Give me the strength to accept things that I cannot change, and the power to change things that I cannot accept."

Some Open Questions You Might Try• If I knew what is the most useful question that I can ask, what would the question be?• If I knew what is the best thing for me to do, what would it be?• If there is a better way for me to do this, what would that way be?• If I knew the best way to help xxxx for the good of all, what would that way be?• If I were to understand how to do it, what would it look like? Feel like? • If I could visualize this, what would I visualize? (or see instead of visualize) • What new possibility can I access which will give me the most benefit?• What is the meaning of that dream? • Is there a lesson to be learnt from that dream? • Is there a lesson to be learnt from that situation? • How will this lesson be useful and beneficial?• How can I embrace creative potential?• If I harmonize myself in relation to finances, how would that be?• How is this situation serving me?• Is this being caused by my subconscious to protect me? • Is this protection still needed?• How is this helping me grow?• By transcending this, how can I help myself and others?• How can I return to pure intent and let it guide me throughout the day?


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• How can I make peace with that part of me?• How can I notice things going on that are in alignment with my higher self?• I don’t know what to do, but if I did, what would I do?• If I have doubt, which part do I want to doubt first?• How can I be flexible in my noticing/observing?• How can I have fun in my noticing?• How can I notice and see more clearly? • How can I step outside of and notice the noticer?• How could something like that be true?• I do not see anything, but if I did, what would I see? (or know? or hear?)

John Madgwick Living has been a Roy-al Engineer, a Chartered Civil Engi-neer, and a Professional Engineer. He started dowsing in 1952, being taught as a young officer in the Corps of Roy-al Engineers as one of the first officers commissioned by Queen Elizabeth II. John has been the Executive Secretary of the Holistic Intuition Society, and a member of the American Society of Dowsers, the Canadian Society of Dowsers, and the Canadian Society of Questers. He has authored a number of books. To contact John, email [email protected], visit the web page of the Holistic Intuition Society www.in2it.ca, or phone (toll Free Canada & USA) 1-866-367-7464.

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DOWSING AND THE IMPLICATE ORDER

by Richard D. Wright

Upon the retirement of Richard Wright and Pauline Nobel as editors of this journal, Editor Virginia Light paid tribute to them jointly and individually in the Fall 1991 issue: “To refer to these two remarkable people as "tireless workers" is both trite and true; their valuable contributions to ASD throughout the years are im-measurable… Those who know Richard benefit from his wisdom and true understanding of the human condition.“

I was thrilled to discover the following article in The American Dowser, Volume 22-2, May 1982, as a further tribute to Richard Wright’s intellect and his lasting memory. ~SC

ccording to an ancient story, there was once a man who, when walking down a street, saw a friend on hands and knees by the side of the road. "Have you lost something?" asked the man. "Yes, I've lost my key," answered the friend as he busily searched on. "Here, I'll help you," said the man, and he joined the search. After a period of fruitless crawling about, the man asked, "Do you remember exactly where you lost your key?" "Yes," replied the friend, "I lost it in my house." The man asked, "Then why are you looking for it out here?" "Because," replied the friend, "the light out here is so much brighter." This story illustrates one of the problems that many dows-ers note when they ask themselves, "How does this marvelous skill work? Why is it that I can do all these amazing things?" They feel that there must be a good, logical, scientific explanation for it and feel uncomfortable when one is not forthcoming. When a traditional scientist examines dowsing, he does not face that problem. He discovers, very simply and very quickly, that the phenomenon does not fit into the classical paradigm of science and assumes, therefore, that it does not exist, except as a


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psychological delusion. The dowser, however, cannot take comfort from that as-sumption. He knows that dowsing works and that there are posi-tive, verifiable results at all levels of dowsing activity. Even so, he still feels a little uncomfortable about not being able to explain why it works. That discomfort is not warranted, and this paper will try to suggest why. It will do so by concentrating on one mod-ern physicist, David Bohm, whose theory of what he calls the "im-plicate order" of the universe is causing a stir among physicists, physiologists, philosophers, and even dowsers. His theory accepts classical science within its limits, works its way through the phys-ics of relativity and quantum theory, and produces a startling view of the nature of reality. As early as 1957, in his book Causality and Chance in Modern Physics, he stated that "scientific research does not and can not lead to a knowledge of nature that is completely free from error. Rather it leads and is able to lead only to an unending pro-cess in which the degree of truth in our knowledge is continually increasing."1 The book reaffirmed the questing nature of science and was hailed as "a return to common sense" within the field. In the generation since that book (now a minor classic), David Bohm has used that common sense to develop his theory of the nature of reality. Much talked about for the last decade, it received its current statement in 1980 in the book Wholeness and the Implicate Order. Bohm's theory goes beyond the paradigms of classical physics, which is the basic physics learned in high school. Speaking generally, classical physics is built on precepts of order assumed to be permanent. It is a kind of order that may be called a "lens-system" order. To understand what this means, remember that our concept of order is based upon the informa-tion perceived by the five senses and particularly by the sense of sight. This sensory information is all-pervasive and intense; when it is coupled with the learned, logical, linear sequence of language, it dominates our thinking. One can understand why this concept of order developed in science at the same time that the lens was

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developed and became widely used as a scientific tool. A primary fact about lenses is that they bring details into sharp focus: that is, they objectify. The focus may be on the min-ute complexities seen through a microscope or the glorious vast-ness witnessed through a telescope. The use of lenses strength-ened man's awareness of the parts of an object and relationships between parts, even those that cannot be seen by the naked eye. Because lens systems allowed one to break things down into ever finer parts of large units, the tendency developed in science to think in terms of analysis and synthesis. This tendency became so predominant that the classical approach became an analytical approach. It created a framework for the development of the "sci-entific method," and, within it, the scientific method was shown to be valid. The next step was then to extrapolate beyond the lens system, using the well-established scientific conventions of logic and reason. The end result was that laws were formulated, based upon these extrapolations. This view created what can be called a mechanistic ap-proach to reality, which is an approach in which the world is re-garded as constituted of separate units outside of each other, as in the parts of a machine. The world is viewed as if through a photo-graphic lens, with point-to-point imaging even of things that can-not be seen by the naked eye. Each part of the picture produced gives clear details of one particular part of the whole photograph. In a mechanistic science, one starts from these parts and derives wholes. In human terms, this means that people are trained to see reality as composed of bits and pieces of this and that, each having its own existence and each governed by logical, mechanistic laws. Anything else–that is, anything that cannot be scrutinized in the laboratory or through the lens system–is assumed to be illusory. David Bohm takes a long look at classical physics and subjects its theories to what he calls the ratio of the structure of thinking to the facts as observed. If this ratio is not balanced, then (1) can it be reestablished by means of adjustments within the theory, or (2) is a fresh perception of the whole fact necessary?


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There comes a time, he feels, when it is possible, in general con-texts, that old orders of thought may cease to be relevant, so that they can no longer coherently be adapted to fit the new facts. If this is true, then there also comes the unenviable task of developing new orders of thought. These new orders cannot simply be developed out of thin air, either. What is necessary is "to assimilate the whole of the fact in physics into the new theoretical notions of order.2

There is one scientific phenomenon that holds a key posi-tion within Bohm's theory, and that is the phenomenon of ho-lography. This is the name given to a non-lens system in which is developed a photographic plate that contains nothing but raw information in the form of wavelike interference patterns. When the image is re-created by means of a coherent light technique, it exists in three dimensions, able to be seen from different points of view. Unlike a regular photographic negative, each region of the plate has interference patterns relevant to the whole structure, and each region of the structure is relevant to the whole of the interference pattern on the plate. If you break a small section of the plate and shine the coherent light through it, you still get the whole three-dimensional image. In terms of David Bohm, each bit of information is "enfolded" within every other bit of information, although when these bits are unfolded, they create the reality of every different part of the image. Each part is separate, yet each part is also enfolded in a holistic manner within every single seg-ment of the original photographic plate. If one now takes the concept of a holographic plate and ex-pands it into further dimensions, one begins to approach Bohm's theory. He suggests that a new order in science should consider the possibility that physical law should refer primarily to an order of undivided wholeness, as with a hologram, rather than to an order based upon analysis of separate parts, as with a lens. This order based on undivided wholeness would have the whole "pic-ture," or reality, enfolded into a whole order of different "pictures," or realities. These realities, which are the ones observed through

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lens systems, would be "secondary realities," while the enfolded order behind these would be "primary reality." At this level, every-thing is everything else, and when the light of a higher dimension shines through any part of this secondary reality in which we nor-mally function, it is possible to tap into the entire universe. The enfolded order is called by Bohm the "implicate order," while the unfolded, secondary reality is called the "explicate order." In opposition to the classical physics approach, a science that derives from a theory of implicate order begins with a con-cept of the undivided wholeness of the universe and derives the parts through abstraction from the whole. As Bohm states, "We come to a new general physical description in which 'everything implicates everything’.”3 This is not just a theory of space, either. He contends further that the structure of primary reality "extends over the whole universe and over the whole past, with implica-tions for the whole future."4

Within this concept, each law of physics is valid, but only within a limited context, since it abstracts only certain aspects of primary reality and indicates them by some appropriate mea-surements. Behind these theories is a fundamental law. According to Bohm, the relationships within this fundamental law "are be-tween the enfolded structures that interweave and interpenetrate each other, throughout the whole of space, rather than between the abstracted and separated forms that are manifest to the senses and to our instruments.”5 An independent theory that dovetails with Bohm's theo-ry is that the mind itself processes information in a holographic manner. This concept, developed and investigated by brain physi-ologist Karl Pribram, proposes that the sensory input to the brain is transformed into wave patterns and that the wave patterns then spread throughout the brain, enfolded within each other. In this theory, based upon hard data obtained in laboratory studies, con-sciousness then becomes an overall, not a fragmented, experience as assumed traditionally. This means that the actual structure, function, and activity of thought is in the implicate order, and we


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are back with David Bohm. This implicate order of thought is the one that is poten-tially the most immediate and the most direct. However, the irony is that in our usual process of thinking based upon a lifetime of training, we learn to activate memory patterns that are recurrent, stable, and separable. This gives rise to an illusory state, such that the "manifest static and fragmented content of consciousness is experienced as the very basis of reality.”6 It is an illusion, but it "proves" the correctness of a fragmented view. Unfortunately the holistic view of the implicate order, even though more immediate and direct, is also more transitory and subtle. As a result, it be-comes simply swamped by the intensity of the secondary reality. As psychologist Robert Ornstein explains, "We consider that our own personal consciousness is the world, that an outside 'objective' reality is perfectly represented by our experiences.”7

Even from a traditional psychological point of view, however, our personal consciousness "cannot fully represent the external world or even our internal world, but must consist of an extremely small fraction of the entire 'reality'.”8 Stepping beyond traditional phys-ics, Dr. Pribram develops the idea that "if you penetrate through the world of appearances and objects and look at the universe with a non-lens system, in this case a holographic system, you arrive at a different view, a different reality. And that other reality can explain things that have hitherto remained inexplicable scien-tifically.”9 It is at this point that we can now begin to re-adjust our thinking on the "why" of dowsing. There are certain techniques one can use, or certain hab-its of mind one can develop, that allow one to grasp the subtle qualities of primary reality. Indeed, even the beginning dowser is doing this when he gets a dowsing reaction. The process, as we all know, is simple to begin with, and the skill improves with practice: you ask a question at whatever level you are dowsing, and you get a response through whatever dowsing instrument is being used (even if the instrument is the person himself ). Within David Bohm's theory lies an interesting way of reconsidering the

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process. That theory suggests that the person dowsing knows the answer to the question before it is even asked, yet he must go through the ritual of asking the question and getting a response from the instrument–placing it, if you will, in a time-oriented and space-oriented paradigm. The ritual of asking the question and receiving a response opens the dowser to an awareness beyond the objective, secondary reality, and he then taps into informa-tion not otherwise available. This information being tapped into is then, as it were, unfolded out of the implicate order, which is timeless and spaceless. When we realize that everything is enfolded within every-thing, we can understand that what we call "empty space" con-tains an immense background of energy. Astonishingly enough, one cubic centimeter of space is calculated to contain more ener-gy than the total energy of all the matter in the known universe.10 Matter, as we know it, is nothing more than a small, "quantized" wavelike excitation on top of this background, rather like a tiny ripple on a vast sea. This "sea" of energy is perceived as emptiness or nothing-ness; and, in like manner, the vast "unconscious" background of explicit consciousness may be seen as an emptiness. It is not, how-ever. The seeming emptiness is really the tremendously powerful manifestation of primary reality. Indeed, everything becomes part of this manifestation, including the observer himself. According to Bohm, each human being is not an independent actuality, but, rather, all human beings, as well as nature, are projections of a single totality. Even so, the theory allows each individual to use his own free will to set his own limits:

“If man thinks of the totality as constituted of independent fragments, then that is how his mind will tend to operate, but if he can include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border, then his mind will tend to move in a similar way, and from this will flow an orderly action within the whole." 11


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As people begin consciously to allow themselves to be part of the whole, they themselves are fundamentally changed, but it is a change caused by the expanding awareness of the per-son. This phenomenon can be seen in the whole process of per-sonal growth that takes place as one proceeds through the various stages of dowsing. The more that dowsing is used, the more the holistic brain is brought into everyday matters; and the more it is brought in, the better a person becomes as a dowser. Activities that others would ordinarily think of as "miraculous" and "impos-sible" become everyday occurrences for him, and conversely, the world itself becomes a miraculous place. His concept of nature expands, and nature is then seen to be at one with the person himself. In summary, we can see that within Bohm's theory, the dowser, his target, and his responses are not separate "things" re-lated to each other, but are, instead, merely different manifesta-tions of one single, fundamental, primary reality. To tap into this, we move inward and teach ourselves to readjust the way we look at the seemingly real world. That world is splendid, as far as it goes, but it is only a secondary order of reality. Those who are ac-tive in dowsing are able to open themselves to the hologram-like primary reality and increase this splendor. Like the two friends in the opening anecdote, we have been looking for explanations too long in places where the light strikes us as much better, in places that seem reasonable, rational, and logical to classical physics. Those places, valid though they may be within the limited context of secondary reality, no lon-ger are appropriate for the new paradigms. The key exists every-where, but a search for its discovery begins within each person's own house. David Bohm's theory offers a source of illumination for that search.

References

1David Bohm, Causality and Chance in Modem Physics (Penn-sylvania Paperback second edition). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1980, p.166.

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2Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order. London: Rutledge & Kegan Paul, 1980, p. 143. 3Ibid., p. 155. 4Ibid., p. 148. 5Ibid., p. 185. 6Ibid., p. 206. 7Robert Ornstein, The Psychology of Consciousness. New York: Penguin Books Ltd., 1972, p. 32. 8Ibid., p. 33. 9Quoted in an interview with Karl Pribram conducted by Daniel Goleman for Psychology Today. February, 1979, p. 83. 10Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order ,p. 191. 11Ibid., p. xi.

Congratulationsto the following recipients of the 2012 ASD Awards

• Educator of the Year: Lee Barnes• Chapter of the Year: Tucson Chapter• Dowser of the Year: Rene Lincoln• Legend Award: Don Taylor• Newsletter of the Year: Appalachian Chapter• Volunteer of the Year: Donna Kuras• Paul Sevigny Award: James Kuebelbeck

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HINTS FOR INFORMATONAL DOWSING AND DOWSING IN GENERAL

by Jack Livingston and Joan McFarlane

his list of dowsing hints from two of our respected elders is reprinted from The American Dowser, Vol 32-4, Fall 1992. Be-cause each of us learns in different ways, it may be just the way you can hear the information most clearly! It’s never outdated.

1. Get what you are looking for firmly in your head.

2. Phrase the question so it can be answered yes/no/maybe.

3. Make sure of your wording. What you ask for is what you get, and a single word can change the meaning.

4. Accept your original answer. Repeatedly asking the same question is saying in effect that you did not like the first one, so you may get another.

5. If you are concerned that you may be putting conscious think-ing into an answer, have someone else dowse it for you. Personal questions for yourself and those close to you are where this is most apt to happen.

6. Get the full answer to the first question before you go on to the next one, so there is no chance of overlap. In fact, it is a good idea to halt your instrument.

7. Don’t ask irrelevant questions–ones you already know the an-swer to or can get easily from another source. They are fine as a learning tool but come under game playing later on.

8. When you don’t have enough personal knowledge to phrase a question, it is perfectly acceptable to use the information pro-vided by the mind of the person asking you to dowse.

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9. There is something we call invasion of privacy. Your very first question, in some cases, should be whether you should ask for the information you want. There may be a very good reason not to dowse that you are not aware of. This is especially true when you are working with people. You need permission.

10. Know how to recognize when you are getting tired.

11. If someone is bothering you, don’t hesitate to ask them to leave. And if you personally feel bad about answering, say no.

12. When dowsing for the future, it will most likely be based on the information available today. People and events do change, so it is something to keep in mind.

13. Dowse for need, not greed, and you will be more successful.

14. Do the best you can; and if you do make a mistake, try to learn from it.

15. Keep humble.

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DOWSING FOR MISSING PERSONS

by Ted Kaufman

A piece of paper with Ted Kaufman’s name on it found its way to my desk recently. On it is an informal presentation of things to con-

sider when dowsing for missing persons. A beloved ASD elder, Ted never took a missing-person assignment lightly;

we offer this in the spirit of his work. Indago Felix ~SC

olunteering may be rejected, so be prepared for this. If you use the information that follows, the procedure of “May I, Can I, Should I?” can be a guide. I wait to be asked by police, rangers, sheriffs, immediate family or close friends, or any other parties. If you undertake to help in the search, always first dowse whether the person(s) wants to be found. If yes, garner as much information about the person(s) as possible: picture; description; reason for disappearance, if known; health; place last seen; cir-cumstances, etc. Select, if you can, a team or teammate who is a dowser to compare answers to questions. Avoid being with skeptics, if pos-sible; they can spook you. Also try to remove any hostile thought-forms.

Actual Procedure✰ If possible, get best detailed map of area, and start ESP dows-ing with these questions:1. Is person alive/dead (separate questions)?

2. Is person in the area indicated by the map on which you are dowsing?

3. Establish “takeoff” point, if possible. Then ask for distance from the point. Is it a mile or more/less, breaking it down into larger/smaller increments, as indicated? Then ask for direction (north, east, south, etc., breaking down into NE, SW, etc., as indicated. Try to get a point (do not consider this a pinpoint, because a pen-

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cil mark on a map can be hundreds of yards). Be as thorough as possible, so you can be guided in the field. If possible, have a second dowser check out your answers above and compare notes.

✰ Now, in the field, if the person is alive, you must continuously ask, “Is he/she moving now?” This might cancel out earlier place-ment but can be checked by asking, “Moving north, south, etc.?”

1. Ask about terrain if in the woods.

2. Ask about houses, buildings, etc. if it is indicated that the per-son is in one. You must analyze at all times.

3. Is the person kidnapped? A captive? Check all possibilities.

4. Is the person sick, hurt, etc.? Is the person waiting to be found? Hiding from searchers? Check all possibilities.

5. As you start away from takeoff point, have a second person with compass to read azimuth point of your directionals. If your path is not a straight line, as in woods, take frequent readings to stay on azimuth direction. Move apart from others and try to triangulate location when you are close. Ask, “Is the person more than a mile from where I stand?” Repeat as direction and distance diminishes.

6. Prepare for the phenomenon of “wishful thinking.” It may take several days of going over the area(s), and you may still come up wanting.

7. Always ask whether search team should spread. How far apart? Team should keep contact with each other. Use devices for signaling (pistol blank/whistle/ walkie-talkie, etc.).

8. If you are cooperating with a formal search party, try to keep discussion of your procedure to a minimum. It creates negative vibes, unless you have already established a reputation with the authorities.

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The Many Faces of DowsingThe Mastodon Project Update

Results of the Global Map and Field Dowseby Susan Collins

This is a follow-up to the article printed in this journal’sSpring/Summer 2011 issue (Can You Find A Mastodon

On A Pig Farm?)

et’s get the sad news out of the way first: Billy Jamieson, the head hunter, died in July 2011. He was the catalyst for the televi-sion show where the Mastodon Project got its start and an inspi-ration to all of us that choose to explore the untidy fringes of our world. We extend our condolences to his family. And yet the Mastodon Project lives on thanks to the par-ticipation of the many dowsers who have taken the time to map dowse for the remains of these enormous, ancient creatures who lived near the north shore of Lake Erie in Ontario, Canada, thanks to members of the Canadian Society of Dowsers (CSD) who braved November winds to field dowse on site, and of course thanks to Brenda who owns the farm and continues to welcome us with patience and bowls of hot chili.

The Hunting of the Snark – An Agony in 8 Fits (excerpted)Lewis Carroll, 1874

“Just the place for a Snark!” the Bellman cried,As he landed his crew with care;

Supporting each man on the top of the tideBy a finger entwined in his hair.

“Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:That alone should encourage the crew.

Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:What I tell you three times is true.”

Somehow Lewis Carroll’s long, fanciful poem, Hunting of the Snark, comes to mind. From the beginning of the project in

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November 2010 until now, the project has been born along on the faith that what we seek exists, and that we have the ability to find it. Much as Carroll’s “Bellman” brought a crew of experts on board to hunt the Snark, I recruited visionary hunters from the ranks of dowsers around the world and, from a satellite image of Brenda’s farm, invited them to map dowse a variety of questions concerning the current whereabouts of recognizable, recoverable mastodon remains.

The crew was also complete for phase two: the Field Dowse. The intrepid on-site team consisted of veteran CSD water dows-ers: myself, Lloyd Nuttall (Vice President of CSD), Debi Watson (a director of CSD), and her two sons Dan and Eric (the latter providing field support), Joop Ten They, and of course Brenda and her family.

The Map Dowse The original article and invitation to participate in the project was published in the journals of the Canadian Society of Dowsers, the American Society of Dowsers, the British Society of Dowsers, the Ozark Research Institute, and the Canadian Society of Questers. The project itself was featured on the front page of the May 28, 2011 edition of the Hamilton Spectator, and I also presented it in person at conferences sponsored by CSD, CSQ, BSD and ASD (in both Vermont and Arizona).

I did not look at any of the results of the map dowse either when they were submitted or before the field dowse for two rea-sons: I did not want to create a thoughtform that other dowsers


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would find and mistake for the actual bones, and I did not want to prejudice my own field work.

Map Dowse Results Summary The vast majority of the fifty four respondents dowsed that the mastodon bones in Billy’s possession had been dug up from the area represented by the map (88%) and that we would be able to locate mastodon bones in the area (95%). (See map below of compiled dowsing results.)

While proposed locations for the recovery of the old bones were widespread, there was a concentration in the follow-ing squares: E5 (wooded area by stream, 5 hits); D4 (hilly pasture by stream, 3 hits) and G5 (field with one corner by stream, 3 hits). Memory of exactly where those bones were found has been lost,

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and there may have been more than one location from where they were recovered, so we will never know how accurate these results are, but I believe the clusters may be indicative of the truth.

Proposed locations of where we might now recover mast-odon bones also varied widely, but there were concentrations in map band 5 between D and H (16 hits) and in band 4 between C and D (8 hits). For depths, 28% dowsed that the depth to dig to re-cover bones was 0 to 5 feet; 29% found 6 to 10 feet; 15% found 11 to 25 feet, 3% found 26 to 50 feet, and 24% found depths over 50 feet, including one maverick who found the depth to be at 7,000 feet.

The Field Dowse It was just over a year from the initial television shoot be-fore the Field Dowse Team came back to the farm. I had spent the summer promoting the project and wanted to give the global dowsing community plenty of time to respond. On a more prac-tical level, we had to wait for the soybean and corn crops to be harvested so that we could walk freely over the land.

On the two-and-a-half-hour drive to the farm on the Field Dowse day, I had plenty of time to set the intention for the day: To locate recognizable mastodon bones recoverable with the digging tools available. Although I had a shovel in the back of the car, I didn`t really think we'd be digging that day or even locating any-thing within the first few feet of top soil, as that area had been well turned over during the summer. Of course in the spring, before planting, frost heaves can bring larger pieces of stone and bone to the surface, and animals can always bring things to where you ask to find them. Did I sabotage the project with that expectation? I don’t think so, but it is indeed a challenge to keep thoughts both supportive and realistic. Once the intention was set, I reminded myself to check with Brenda to make sure the farm's electric fences were turned off so as not to interfere with our ability to sense the subtle elec-tromagnetic frequencies that might guide us to the mastodons which had been extinct in the area for at least 10,000 years.


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I also thought about how glaciation had changed the con-tours of the land during that period. This part of North America was covered in a thick sheet of ice that pushed down on the earth’s crust and created the basin which became the Great Lakes. When the ice melted, the tremendous weight that had held the land down was lifted, and the land began to spring back. So a river that the mastodons drank from, or a bog that they might have become stuck in (both logical places to hunt for them both in the past and now) might be in a different place today than they were then. Our dowsing would have to account for the shifting river bed.

Instead of driving straight to Brenda’s farm, I drove a cir-cuit on the roads around the 100-acre property. I confirmed that the two stream branches on the western and eastern sides of her property both run more or less from the northwest to the south-east. Rising land would have probably pushed the rivers north to some extent. Lloyd pointed out that the satellite map of the north-ern boundary of the farm (D3 on the map) showed light patches. While golf courses also have that look from satellite imagery, in this case he believed the light patches show where the river had meandered in the past. While it would be difficult to account for all 10,000 years of change in the area, the team felt that if we at least acknowledged that these changes had taken place, we could adjust our internal dowsing programs accordingly.

Next I checked in with the Spirits of Place–what the Ro-mans would have called the “Genius Loci”, and the Hindus refer to as “Devas” or light beings. These are the intelligent, natural ener-gies that we humans coexist with but are usually unaware of. I find it useful in all dowsing investigations to check with these energies to see if they support the project. (This process is outlined in my book, Dowsing Triage–Finding and Fixing Energy Problems.)

I’d also like to mention here that having a field dowsing team with different approaches was part of the project plan. We each brought our own expertise and set of parameters to the proj-ect. For example, Lloyd, Debi and Dan have done quite a bit of

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work dowsing cemeteries and native burials. Joop has also devel-oped his own style over the years and brings that to the table. Brenda, also a dowser, has an intimate knowledge of the energies of the farm, having lived there with her animals for decades.

In any case, as I approached the Spirit of Place, I was drawn to the people who lived there at the time of the mastodons. I won-dered what a friendly greeting to them might be, and "I share meat" came to mind. This would have been a hunter-gatherer cul-ture, so sharing meat would indeed have been a welcoming ges-ture. In any case, “speaking” to them, I said: "You keep the meat, we just want the bones."

I continued checking in with the energies of the land, including the Spirit of the Mastodons, asking for permission to come onto the land, and for support in the location of recogniz-able mastodon bones. Pat Prevost, a former director of the CSD who I consulted on the project after the field dowse, also suggest-ed that it is important to check with the matriarch of the specific mastodon herd whose bones we would be finding.

Results of the Field Dowse So what happened? After meeting at the farm, the team agreed not to look at the map dowse results until after we had done our field dowse (for the reasons mentioned above.) We split into teams and headed out with orange survey flags to mark our finds.

Brenda’s daughter drove Debi, Dan and Eric down to the southern end of the farm. Joop, Lloyd, Brenda and I headed on foot to the northern area, each of us more or less on our own. I pulled out my rods, fully intending to start in the northern part of the farm, and found myself directed immediately in the other direction, walking down the road that Debi and her crew had just driven down. After a good ten-minute hike with my rods pointing resolutely straight ahead, I caught side of Debi’s team in a field 100 yards to my right, but I kept my eyes focused on the ground


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in front of me and followed my rods.

A few minutes later I noticed a survey flag on the path straight ahead (circled in photo below). Sure enough, as I ap-proached it, my rods signalled "Found Target" by crossing right over the flag. I photographed and GPSed the spot, and marched on, eventually flagging another three possible sites. I was quite impressed with the logic of being directed to walk the proper-ty after the other teams had already planted their flags so that I could provide some confirmations.

Regrouping at the farmhouse, we compared notes. Debi and Dan were responsible for the flag at the first spot that I also identified. Lloyd was responsible for another flag at a spot I iden-tified and verbally confirmed a spot I flagged to the south. Lloyd also identified a spot where he feels the animals were disassem-bled (D3). Joop and Brenda located a site at the northwest corner of the farm.

Comparison of Map and Field Dowse Data Of the seven locations the field team flagged (three sites were marked twice), five locations (seven hits) were in or close to the map’s upper band of 5 between E and H, and two locations

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(three hits) were found in C3. There is some correlation between the map dowses and the field dowse, particularly in the 5 band. There is also a correlation with two of the locations used in the original television shoot in 2010 (5H, 5G) that the on-site paleobi-ologist had indicated could have been potential mastodon habitat 10,000 years ago. (I have been careful during the promotion of this project not to indicate in any way where we shot the footage.)

During the debriefing after the field dowse, I asked the team to check whether we had influenced each other in our search results to see if we had developed a telepathic connection with each other or the found-target locations that could have skewed the results. We dowsed we were free of influence from each other, but as we well know, it is often hard to be objective about one’s own dowsing.

What’s Next? Well, the logical thing to do next is to dig, but for that we'll need an excavator as there is far too much soil to move by hand. If Brenda is willing, we could invite a university to get involved with the project at this point and a proper excavation could be conducted as part of their class work.

We haven’t chosen a site to dig yet, and I'd like to open up the map dowsing to you again to examine the field team’s results. The Field Locations are identified as: 1 (map C3 mid); 2 (C3 bot-tom); 3 (E5); 4 (E/F at 4/5); 5 (G5); 6 (G/H 4); and 7 (H5). Depths were not consistently checked, so have been omitted here.

Questions For Each Location1 What is the probability that recognizable mastodon bones will be recovered at this location (from 1 to 7, as listed above) with the digging tools available?

2. At what depth would recognizable mastodon bones be found (at locations from 1 to 7, as listed above)?


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Please send your results to me as soon as you can so that we can compile and analyze.

Summary Thank you to all the people who have participated in the Mastodon Project thus far, and again our thanks to the memory of Billy Jamieson, the head hunter whose curiosity about the hidden world got the whole thing started. I hope to have another prog-ress report for you later. The search continues.

Susan Collins is a full-time, professional dowser with a global consulting practice. She has presented at many international conferences in North America, Britain and the Middle East, and is the author of a successful series of books and DVDs on dowsing techniques. Susan was Presi-dent of the Canadian Society of Dowsers from 2003 to 2006, was named Dowser of the Year in 2006 and is currently an advisor to the CSD Board of Directors. Contact: [email protected]. Website: www.dowser.ca.

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ON BECOMING A DOWSER

by Cary Mangum

y path to becoming a dowser began in 1981, at age 55, after closing escrow on ten acres in the Sierra foothills. The land had no well, and public water was over a half-mile away.

Two drillers picked locations too easily. A third sent a retired worker, a real dowser who obviously knew what he was about, in sharp contrast to the others. This was fortunate due to the areas of granite where drilling for water is not easy.

We met near the top of the ridge at the north line. After questions, he took out a small forked branch of a limb. Concen-trating, with a fork in the palm of each hand, his upper body slow-ly swept through an arc over the acreage, moving east, south, and west, and then stopping. His fingers turned white as he tightened his grip on the forked branch. Slowly it tilted down from what seemed to be a strong invisible force.

Relaxing his grip, he pointed south through the trees and said, “See that line of space between the trees for a mile or more, south along the ridge? That’s a major water course.”

Then, as he stood behind me with his hands over mine, he said, “Here, see if you can feel it.”

“Wow,” was my reaction. With that, he walked along that line about 70 feet and marked a spot to drill.

When asked for another location, he found one 300 feet southeast and 110 feet below in a different vein. For both, he gave depth of water and rate of flow. A well drilled at the lower site had the flow and depth he indicated. The upper location is still marked but not used.


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That led me on a trip to the public library to study dows-ing, then to Sierra Dowsers where Walt Woods helped set the right questions as would be later described in his Letter to Robin.

I purchased a pendulum for the next trip to the acreage. What happened was quite unexpected. On the ridge well away from the dowser’s identified water course, I took the pendulum out of my pocket with an intent to ask a question. As I did so, the pendulum came alive with a force of its own. Quickly my right arm extended as the pendulum started swinging in a right-handed cir-cle. Faster and faster it flew around… ever faster, spinning hori-zontally, parallel to the earth, with such force that my arm ached just to hold it and keep my hand from moving. It didn’t want to stop! I had no control over it; it had a life of its own–on and on in jubilant celebration, at times undulating up and down in a dance while swinging parallel to the earth.

Then came a knowing and feeling of freedom impossible to describe, as slowly it wound down and came to rest, leaving tears in my eyes and an aching arm. Even as I write this 31 years later, there are tears of joy in my eyes and warmth in my heart.

However, more was to follow. The next morning, in a mo-ment of communion with some aspect beyond the physical, came imagery with a warning: “You can not use the ability to dowse for water or to locate things, only for a higher purpose.”

Attending a West Coast Dowsers convention, Martha Branson’s talk on consciousness opened a door that led to the book BEING: The Metamorphosis of Consciousness, co-authored with ASD member Ralph Garvis (now deceased).

Mary Satterlee’s deviceless dowsing opened another door. Decades later, answers now come without a device in ways that work for me. Normally unnoticeable, at times the answer is so strong that my right lower arm slashes forth in an empathic yes response.

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One time I forgot that warning not to use dowsing to find things. I was on the acreage seeking a corner pipe marker that should have been visibly sticking up two feet above the ground. Thinking a neighbor may have pulled it up, I used a pendulum to ask for its location. After digging four different spots and finding nothing, I awoke to the fact that I had asked to locate a physical object, a thing.

I closed my eyes and said, “Okay, I understand.” I released the dowsing question, putting it out of my mind. Once I got qui-et and my inner self was at peace, without moving, I opened my eyes; there it was in clear sight, four feet away, two feet tall, but invisible previously.

That’s when the realization came to me that my ability to ‘see it with physical eyes’ had been blanked out as a needed lesson, for which I was then, and still am, grateful.

This experience further reinforced the process of inner knowing in a manner that I did not grasp at the time, but now do: to let go, stop trying to figure it out with the brain, and know in a manner that transcends the physical dowsing response. As I have done that–working with people and human consciousness–answers have come as a subtle inner knowing that cannot be de-scribed.

There are times now when I ask if I can ask by dowsing. Often it’s a big no, but sometimes a yes, which is further con-sciousness expanding. When I think back to that initial dance of the pendulum. I can still see it on a string about 12 to 14 inches long; and feeling and watching it dance in the wave motion as it hurtled around and around was astonishing. As I write this, I can almost feel the sensation in my arm and hand and remember what it was like.

Cary Mangum is an ASD Life Member who lives in California.

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THE STORY OF EL CHAN

by Cynthia Sterling

y daughter, Alexandra, is a psychic-sensitive. From the time she was a little girl, she could see and hear things that no one else in the family could. Alexandra visited me recently in San Miguel de Allende and we visited the Charco del Ingenio together. The Charco is a botanical garden near a deep canyon in the high desert of central Mexico which has been striving to preserve the native plants of Mexico. Along one of the trails at the edge of the canyon, Alexandra saw the following sign posted:

THE POOL OF EL CHAN

The whole conservation project is named after this pool. Nestled in the canyon depths, El Charco del Ingenio has been a source of popular legends for many centuries. Its guardian spirit, El Chan, is a mythic being from the Underworld who dwells in its mysterious waters. The pool is fed by a perennial spring, one of the last natural water sources in San Miguel de Allende.

Contacting El Chan Alexandra wanted to try to make contact with El Chan and ask him about the land and the water around the canyon, as well as his role as guardian of the spring. While I waited on a bench by the trail, Alexandra descended the long 50 foot metal ladder to the canyon floor below. She reappeared about a half hour later and told me she had succeeded in connecting with El Chan who had asked her why she was there. She addressed him very re-spectfully and told him she would like to have a conversation with him at a future date and would like to present a gift to him and the spring that he was guarding. He told her that he would like to have some samples of fresh water from springs around Mexico

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poured into his pool, so he could read the energies in the different waters and know what was happening in other areas. During this brief visit, El Chan warned her about stepping on certain rocks as they were slippery and she might fall. Also, there was a part of the pool she was warned against going near as it was an entry to the underworld and inhabited by restless and possibly dangerous spirits of the dead. (There had been many in-cidents in the past of people who had committed suicide by jump-ing to their deaths from the top of the cliffs next to this pool, and we both assumed that the spirits of these unhappy people were still there.) His words were, “Do not tarry long in the land of the dead!” During the next week, Alexandra and I visited Tolantongo in Hidalgo state for three days. While there, we collected samples of water from two of the deep caves. A friend of mine donated a water sample from the healing spring of Tlacote near Queretero, which she said had been blessed and energized by llamas rep-resenting the Maitreya Buddha; and I contributed a cobalt blue glass bottle of very special charged water from dowser and healer Raymon Grace via the Toronto Dowsers in Canada.

The Offering On Wednesday, March 21st (Spring Equinox), I dropped Alexandra off at the Charco Ingenio, where she planned to be for about two hours. She had the water samples in her backpack, as well as a small notebook and pen with which to interview El Chan. I was curious as to what this spirit guardian looked like, and she said he seemed to have the body of a man but his head looked like a whirling vortex of water. She said it looked like the design on the roof of the Charco. Alexandra did not know this at the time, but the design on the roof of the Charco was a representation of the Chichimeca Indian symbol for water. After two hours had passed, Alexandra returned to the bench by the trail where I had been waiting anxiously. This was the story of El Chan as related to my daughter by the Guardian of the Spring.


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Learning The Story Many centuries ago, long before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors, there were several Chichimeca Indian tribes living in the area which we now call San Miguel de Allende. Water was very highly valued, and the spring at the bottom of the canyon was a sacred place. Battles were fought between the tribes for possession of this deep spring as it was the freshest and best water for miles around. The pool which held the spring was said to be bottomless and also the entry to other worlds. The tribe which held possession of the sacred spring de-cided to ensure its protection by providing a spirit guardian who would guard the spring from harm by future generations. In order to do this, a call went out for a volunteer who would be willing to sacrifice his own life in order to protect the precious drinking wa-ter from the sacred spring. A strong young man stepped forward and agreed to the sacrifice, realizing it would bring great honor to his family. Gazing out across the still waters of the pool, Alexan-dra was given a vision of what happened. She saw a young Indian man at the top of the cliff ritually slain and his heart cut from his body with a stone knife. He was then bound and tied with ropes in a fetal position and his body weighted down with large rocks and thrown into the pool. Then, a few moments later, his heart was thrown into the pool, wrapped in flowers and weighted with a stone. Upon entering the sacred pool, the spirit of the young man merged with the Deva of the spring, resulting in the guard-ian spirit we know as El Chan, who is part human and part water spirit. He has been there for centuries. Alexandra asked about the portal to the underworld in this bottomless pool. He answered that cosmic light needs depth and when the energy of the light meets the dark earth energies, a spiraling vortex is formed which creates a portal where spirits can move back and forth between worlds. When Alexandra asked El Chan if he was ready to move on and go to the light now, he said no. He said, “People are greedy!” He feels that the water from his sacred spring is more in danger now than ever. Alexandra agreed, thinking of all the many hous-

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ing developments going up around San Miguel with little or no regard for water availability. He said that people do not respect water as a sacred element and care only about exploiting it for their own use. He is very upset at what is happening to the aqui-fer which is being drained at an alarming rate. He also inferred that if anyone attempts to drain water from the spring which he is guarding, there will be dire consequences. He considers himself to be guardian of the water, not only from this small spring in El Charco, but for the entire bioregion. El Chan was very impressed by the sample of energized cosmic Echo water from the Toronto dowsers group. The water contains the beneficial energies of love, happiness, prosperity, joy, and peace. Flower of Life energy has been added. I had been holding onto this bottle of water for a long time, waiting for a spe-cial place to put it, and the deep pool at El Charco was it. El Chan knew that this water had been developed by a group of men and women, but Alexandra had not known this when I gave it to her. I only said that the water had been energized. Remember that water is receptive to “thoughtforms.” You may put a specific thoughtform in the water to accomplish a spe-cific purpose. Echo water has been especially programmed with beneficial energies so that every drop of water that it touches will have these qualities and every drop of water those drops touch will have these qualities. Hopefully, there will be a chain reaction which will eventually heal the waters of our planet. It is my hope that the Echo water will help to heal the waters of the pool and the spring.

Heeding the Message of El ChanThe message of El Chan is clear. We need to respect water, to hold it sacred, not abuse or pollute it. Without clean water, Planet Earth and all of us–humans, plants and animals–who depend on it to live, are doomed.

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DOWSING FOR A TRIP

by Rochelle Weithorn

n the last few months, I have been using the Color Rays Chart in Anne William's book The Pendulum Book of Charts to see what color I needed that day. Then I would simply send the energy of the color to myself, using a clockwise swing with my pendulum. After a while I thought maybe I could use this method to see what color I should wear that day. I placed my pendulum in the middle of the Color Rays Chart and asked, "What color should I wear today?" The pendu-lum immediately swung to one of the colors. Then I put that color on and found that people would give me all sorts of compliments on how wonderful I looked. Eventually I added a few more colors to the bottom of the chart. I noticed that Anne's colors correlated to the colors of the seven chakras:

1. Red — Root Chakra2. Orange — Sacral Chakra3. Yellow — Solar Chakra4. Green — Heart Chakra5. Blue — Throat Chakra6. Indigo — Brow Chakra7. Violet — Crown Chakra

I then added the colors Khaki, Navy, White, Pink, Black, and Tur-quoise. Each morning I would ask, "What color should I wear to-day?” It was a fun way to start the day, and more and more I think the colors began to have a healing effect on me and on the people I met that day. It also worked really well when I was teaching a dowsing class or talking to clients on the phone. In late May, I had to pack for a 10-day trip to Europe and the Middle East. It was a daunting task. Then I had a brainstorm.

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What if I used the color chart to dowse for which clothes to take with me on the trip? I dowsed that it would be very helpful to do this. This is how I did it. First I made a list of all the days and dates I would be trav-eling. Next I used the chart and asked what color I should I wear on each day. The first day was Saturday, June 2. My pendulum swung to Black. I wrote Black next to June 2. I repeated this for all ten days of the trip which would end on Tuesday, June 12 when I was to fly back to NYC. I took out all the clothes I had in the colors on the list and dowsed to see which ones I should take. For example, I have a few pairs of black pants. The pendulum chose one of these pairs and said no for packing any other black pants. In about an hour, I had neat piles of clothes on my bed for each day of my trip–a surpris-ingly small amount of things than I would have ordinarily taken. I even dowsed which shoes to take and in which color. I dowsed which hat to pack and in which color. I put it all in the suitcase and it was done. I took the list with me on the trip, and each day just looked to see which color I was to wear that day and then checked it off the list after I got dressed. The interesting part of this was to see how the color correlated to the activity of the day. For example, my relatives took me to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. Red was the color for that day. As I moved through each room, it almost felt like the deep blood red I was wearing melded into the images of horror, torture, and suffering in front of me. On a rest day, the color was Violet, a very healing color. St. Germain’s violet flame healed me as I relaxed, slept, and walked in the garden of my cousin's home. Another day we drove to the Dead Sea. It was a Green day, and that felt like an offering of life to the vast desert road and hills we drove on. Along the way we saw huge groves of date trees in Jericho–dark brown trees with green leaves. My cousins planned the itinerary without my knowledge, so when I was packing I really had no idea what we would be do-


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ing on each day. Have you ever packed for a trip and, when you got home, found that half the things you took you never wore? Well, at the end of this trip, I found there were exactly three items–two skirts and one tee shirt–that I did not wear. Everything else was worn and enjoyed. I highly recommend dowsing for your wardrobe. It's a lot of fun and makes you and everyone around you cheer up! The other day Anne and I used the 0 - 100 chart in her book to see how helpful dowsing for which clothes to take on my trip was. We got 73%. "Pretty good," said Anne. It was my secret adventure and such a relief not to have to think about what to wear each day. I had total faith that the dowsing would work, and it did! As an aside, I also dowsed to see which gifts to give my rela-tives. Dowsing is such a unique gift, and we are so lucky to have it in our lives!

Rochelle Weithorn is a full-time dows-er living in New York City and can be reached at [email protected].

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PLANTING AND MULCHING TREES

by Allen Brandes

The first part of this article (Planting Trees) is reprinted from The American Dowser, Volume 30-4, Fall 1990.

Planting Trees ften we wonder why some of the trees we plant do well and others do not do well at all or they just plain die. What follows are some observations I’ve made. Many times we plant trees where we want them, either for looks or for convenience. This may not be what is best for the tree. Have we ever stopped and asked what the tree may want? It (and the Universe) probably knows a heck of a lot better where it wants to be planted than we do! I feel that soil, drainage, etc., are all secondary factors. We do well when we are in a place we want to be, even if conditions are not perfect; but rarely do we do well in a place we do not want to be, regardless of how perfect the conditions may be. So how do we know where the tree wants to be? ASK! That’s the beauty of dowsing. We can ask about something we know nothing about, and at least get an answer (no guarantee that it’s right or wrong, but at least it’s an answer, which is better than guessing and then complaining when things don’t go right.). Then, what questions do we ask? Of course, that’s the $64 question, but here are a few for starters. Using an L-rod, ask, “Where on this property is the BEST location to plant THIS tree that will ensure its health, vigor, and productivity for the longest period of time?” Follow your “nose” (i.e., follow the tip of the “L-rod”), and it will lead you to the best place. When you cross over the correct place, the L-rod will swing back to point behind you. It takes a little practice, but it’s really very easy. If this is a suitable location, you can ask what the diameter


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of the hole should be, and also the depth of the hole. Dig the hole to those specifications. The next step is really important, and that is to find which direction the tree should be planted. As a tree grows naturally, it develops a “front door” through which it is believed that energy enters a tree. For the best results, the tree should be replanted with the front door facing in its original direction. Standing in the hole, using an L-rod, ask in which direction the front door of this tree should be facing. Mark the direction on the ground with a stick or a scratch in the dirt. An extra step I like to take is to find out how deep the tree should be planted. This is easiest done by laying the tree on its side. With the tree lying down, using an L-rod, ask where the top of the soil should reach when planting the tree. Moving along the tree, from the roots up, the L-rod should point to a given area. Mark this with a piece of chalk or tape. Now, with the tree standing up, try to find the front door of the tree by asking, “Please indicate, on this tree, on which side is the front door.” Walk around the tree with an L-rod whose point is very close to the trunk. It should point to one particular side. Place the tree in the hole with the front door facing the line or stick that you used for a marker. Fill dirt in underneath the tree to raise it to the correct height. Laying a stick or yardstick across the hole will help to get the right height. When the height is close, ask if the front door is facing the right direction. If you get a weak answer at this time, ask if an adjustment would be beneficial. If you get a yes, ask in which direction and adjust accordingly. With nursery trees, I have had some difficulty finding the front door. I assume that with the constant replanting that is done in nurseries, the front door may not be well defined and therefore difficult to locate. The method I have used to handle this situation is to place the tree in the hole, fill to the approximate depth, and then ask if the tree is rotated to the correct direction. If you get a no here, then ask in which direction it should be rotated. Rotate

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about 30-45 degrees and ask again. At one point the direction to rotate should change. Then rotate in the opposite direction about half the last correction. Keep this up until no further corrections are required. Tedious, but worth it if it helps the tree!

Leaf Mulching Now that you’ve planted the tree, how can you optimize its growing conditions? Placing rocks around the tree can form a mulch by themselves, but this can be greatly enhanced. I remem-ber reading in a Rodale publication about placing leaves under the rocks. This covered leaf mulch attracts huge numbers of worms that gobble up the leaves. After three applications of leaves in four months, the worms left three inches of castings on top of the ground. Talk about natural fertilizer and natural cultivation! Needless to say, the tree did phenomenally well. Either old leaves or fresh leaves can be used for the leaf mulch. I think fresh green leaves are by far the best as they still have the life force and the nutrients intact. But to use fresh leaves, several questions should be asked. First, are the leaves from the donor tree suitable for the tree we are about to mulch? (I can already tell you: do not use grass clippings around fruit trees! Clippings really stunt fruit trees and attract insects of all kinds. This is the voice of experi-ence speaking!) Second, do you have the permission of the donor tree to use its leaves as a mulch to benefit the receiving tree? As some people give willingly of themselves to help others, so do certain trees. Others give grudgingly or not at all. Leaves from those trees should not be used. Once you have permission from the donor tree, strip the leaves from the branch of the tree using heavy gloves. I collect the leaves in a heavy-duty trash bag. Do not cut the branch. That would be like cutting off the hand that fed you! Do not take too many leaves from any one tree. Go by your feeling or ask by dows-ing. As with people, some give a little and some give a lot. Take it


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as it is. Don’t knock it. Also take only what you need, because you are going to need a lot more leaves in the future. No one wants his gifts to be wasted. When you are through stripping the leaves from the donor tree, sincerely thank it for its gift. If you are collecting leaves from several different types of trees, keep the donor leaves separated by type, then make sure of matching the right donor to the right recipient. (Kind of like giving blood, isn’t it?) Apply 4-6 inches of leaf mulch around the tree. The first time you apply the leaf mulch, it will probably take a while for the worm population to build up, so be patient. They also will probably take all the mulch “down below” the first time. Replace the mulch when you can see bare dirt between the rocks. By the second or third mulching, the worms will be leaving a lot of cast-ings on the top. This is great fertilizer for the tree. Be sure to say thanks, and enjoy the wonderful fruit!

BEYOND THE FRENCH COIL

by Allen BrandesMr. Brandes also wrote an article specifically about the French Coil which can be found in the members-only Digest archives of the ASD

website. The following article that he wrote in May, 1990, discusses the benefits of rock mulching. We didn’t want you to have to wait for the

rest of the story! Happy planting…

s many will attest, French coils do wonderful things for trees and shrubs. There have been many reports of pests leav-ing trees, healing, survival, and in general, improved growth and health. In my opinion, the French coil, if correctly applied, creates an energy field of the right frequency around the tree. This energy field seems to be a vertical vortex that engulfs the tree and seems

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to be a vertical vortex that engulfs the tree and seems to pump en-ergy into the tree. Applying a rock mulch around the tree greatly strengthens the energy field and really energizes the tree. The tree looks and feels vibrantly alive. In 1949, J.I. Rodale wrote a book called Stone Mulching in the Garden. His interest was piqued after reading several articles about plants that grew phenomenally well when they had rocks lying around their base or when they were growing in rock soil. This led him to do considerable research in this area, resulting in the book. The gist of the book is that when stones are placed near or around the base of a tree, the tree benefits, sometimes greatly. Several theories on how this helps are proposed. Some feel that the rocks serve to reduce evaporation and help hold soil moisture in. Others feel the rocks help hold the heat from the sun and keep the soil warmer longer. No one theory predominates and there is no consensus on how the process works. In any event, the tree benefits. I myself have noticed that the trees at the corner of a field are generally bigger and stronger than the other trees in a fence row, and these almost always are the ones with rocks piled around them that have been picked up from the field. Last year I placed French Coils around some new fruit trees and several cider shade trees that were having problems. The coil helped a lot, but I felt that something was missing. After reading Rodales’s book, I went to a nearby farm and hauled in some flat rocks to place around the trees. The results were amaz-ing! Within one week, the leaves of a peach tree that had always had a lot of yellow leaves (even after a French Coil) were turning dark green and the tree was throwing out new leaves. The apple trees and the pear tree really took off! This spring, despite the cold and frost, the apple trees bloomed. One tree now has lots of small apples growing all over it. Why is this so phenomenal? Well, this tree was just planted early last spring and was only 4’ tall. I’ve planted a lot of apple trees and have never had one that put on fruit the first year after


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planting! Around here, you generally have to wait two or three years, and then only get a few small fruits. We’re going to have to pinch off most of the apples (if we get permission from the tree) because this young tree will not be able to support that many apples without serious structural damage. So how does this all work? In my opinion, rocks of the right kind, placed in a circle, form an amplifier that greatly en-hances the energies that are present. If a French Coil is used to tune to a particular frequency, the circle of rocks will greatly am-plify that frequency. It that frequency is beneficial to the tree, the tree will benefit greatly from the amplification. In other words, the French Coil selects the right radio station, and the rock circle sets the volume. Does that mean you should start out piling rocks around your trees and shrubs? You can, but I wouldn’t recommend it. There’s just a little more to it than that. Better ask some questions first, such as:• Would a French Coil be beneficial to this tree at this time?• Would a rock mulch be beneficial to this tree at this time?• Would a French Coil enhanced with a rock mulch be beneficial to this tree at this time? Maybe the tree would prefer to be left alone. Ask first! If you get a yes to the rock mulch question, then here is my current method. It may not perfect, but it’s where I’m at.

Installing A Rock Circle Rocks. Not all rocks are created equal! In general, there are some types of rocks that should not be used for the stone cir-cle. You must dowse to find out which ones are suitable. Para-magnetic rock seems to be the best use, but that is the subject of another article. When you have found the rock pile you wish to use, just ask, “Are all of these rocks suitable for rock mulching around this tree?” If you get a yes here, you’re in luck. No sorting will be needed. But if you get a no, ask, “Are any of these rocks suitable

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for rock mulching around this tree?” If you get a yes here, then you will have to sort out the ones you need, one by one. If you know your rocks (which I don’t), you can ask whether that par-ticular type of rock is suitable. If it is, start loading them up. Unfortunately, until I learn better, I have to do it the hard way, one by one. I generally try to find flat oval rocks that are 1-3” thick, 10-16” long, and 8-10” wide. These are easy to handle without getting hemorrhoids, cover the ground well, and seem to fit together well. You will need some smaller flat rocks to fill in the blank spaces between the larger rocks. My indications are that, in general, the size (thickness) of the rocks is not all that important, but good ground cover is. Check for yourself. Installation. Dowse for the outer edge of the rocks to be placed around the tree. I find it’s easiest to mark the four cardinal directions first, then mark in between. Do not be sur-prised if you get an oval or some odd shape instead of a circle! The tree knows what it needs. Respect its wish-es. Mowing around rocks can be the pits, so I would suggest digging down about 4-5” around the circle, and installing ground level edging. Then slope the hole up to ground level at the

ROCK MULCHING IN YOUR GARDEN

Rock mulching works equally well in the garden. Make paths (with the right kind of rocks) and plant your garden in nar-row strips between the paths. The rocks prevent compaction of the soil, hold mois-ture, and give a home to the earthworms.

If you do not use chemicals on your lawn, use your grass clippings to mulch around the plants in your garden. The rocks and mulch will keep weeds in con-trol. Put the loose grass clippings on about 3-4” thick and sprinkle lightly with compost. Pay atten-tion and see the dif-ference. It’s amaz-ing… and easy!


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base of the tree. This will prevent water from standing around the tree trunk and also allow for easy mowing. Before placing the rocks, add 4-6 inches of your leaf mulch. Once compressed under the rocks, the leaf mulch will be 1 o 1½ inches thick. I find it’s generally easier to start at the outside of the circle, fitting the larger rocks together, and working your way toward the center with smaller rocks. Placing the rocks is a great exercise in creative development! Small rocks also work well to fill in between the larger rocks. The idea is to cover the ground around the tree completely. Leave about a 1-2 “ space around the trunk of the tree to prevent damage to the bark. Maintenance. Periodically you should check on the con-dition of the French Coil (if used) and see whether it needs ad-justment. At the same time, check to see if the size of the rock circle needs to be changed. As the tree grows, it may need to be enlarged. A French coil alone helps a tree a lot. Adding rock mulch helps it even more. This is a good passive system as, once it’s in-stalled, very little attention or maintenance is required. Believe it or not, there is one more thing that can be done with a rock mulch that adds the frosting to the cake, but it takes a little work. Read on! We believe these last tantalizing words have to do with the addition of crystals to rock mulch… but that’s for a future issue of the Digest.

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WATER FOR HUMANITY NEWS

A Quarterly Update From Steven Herbert

W ater For Humanity is an organization operating under the auspices of the ASD, with the purpose of funding water resources development worldwide (www.dowsers.org/Wfh.htm).

This regular posting in The American Dowser was created to keep you, the membership, and our supporters better informed of the activities of the WFH Fund, in supplement to our bi-monthly Wa-ter for Humanity E-Newsletter.SPHere Evaluation: We have received a report from the orga-nization Sustainable Peace Here (SPHere), based in Maine, on an evaluation of the sustainability of their well and pump project in Nepal. Between 2000 and 2005, WFH provided a total of $5,400 for this project. These wells are very shallow, or point-driven wells, estimated to have cost about $100 each. Therefore, our in-vestment represents over 50 wells to date. An earlier evaluation conducted in 2006, documented a 96% success rate.The updated evaluation just completed on wells installed since 1998, showed that 73% (69 out of 95) were still operational. Ten of those non-operational wells (38%) had been washed away or filled up with mud by monsoon flooding; and nine of them were the result of villagers who did not honor SPHere’s sustainability re-quirements. The remaining seven installations had been removed or relocated for a variety or reasons between 1998 and 2012. If we discount the wells destroyed by “acts of God,” then 17% were no longer operational due to human factors.A New Photo Received from Expanding Opportunities: In January of this year, we received a completion report from Ex-panding Opportunities of Kenya. An initial grant was awarded


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to this organization in 2009 to begin construction of a rainwa-ter harvesting system for Joseph Waweru Home School and sur-rounding community near Nakuru, and a supplemental grant was awarded in 2011 to finish it. As the system was being completed, two of the children of the school took it upon themselves to paint a sign on the side of one of the cisterns to show their appreciation for the support of the Water for Humanity Fund.

Children from Joseph Waweru School in Kenya express their thanks to WFH

World Water Day: March 22nd was World Water Day. Often we receive reports from organizations that we support in India which participate in events in recognition of this day and the vital im-portance of this precious resource. This year we received a photo taken by Village Development Center (VDC) during their own

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participation in a march. In the past, we have funded the con-struction of seven wells in three projects with this organization, and just recently funded a project to provide 12 wells to cyclone-affected villages. We would like to make the suggestion that ASD chapters think about World Water Day 2013 as an opportunity to do a fundraiser in your area for WFH.WFH’s New Year-End Report: The Water for Humanity Fund is pleased to announce the creation of a new piece of promotional literature we are presenting as the 2011 Year-End Report. The first of four full-color pages outlines our mission statement, philoso-phy, commitment to donors, volunteers abroad, range of projects, and history. The two inner pages give a sampling of seven projects completed over the 2011 calendar year. And the last page gives three testimonials along with our fiscal-year report. Look for it soon in electronic form on our website.Dowsing Tools and Methods from Around the World: We of the developed world are accustomed to thinking of the four main dows-ing tools that modern dowsers use as being Y-rod, L-rods, pendulum, and bobber. In many other parts of the world, they may also create dows-ing tools of simple and inexpensive materials, but their tools of choice may seem quite foreign to us. One example comes from Nicaragua, and is known as the wire loop. On a trip there early in 2000, Steve Herbert met a local dowser, Dimas Cerrato, who introduced him to this instrument.Upon learning that I was a dowser, Mr. Cerrato went in search of a piece of wire and brought back a length of about six feet. The wire had to be strong enough to maintain the shape

Dimas Cerrato of Nicaragua demonstrates how the wire

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of a loop, yet flexible enough to twist and return to its original shape. Dimas demonstrated by holding the ends of the wire loop against each side of his body in the area of the kidneys. The loop was suspended in a horizontal position in front of his body. He posed a question in his mind and then began to walk forward. When he approached and crossed a point where the type of water he was looking for was below him, the wire began to twist and formed a figure eight. If he backed up, the wire would resume its simple loop shape.Dimas showed us a dug well which he had dowsed by this meth-od explaining that the spot upon which they dug was a crossing of two veins. When I checked this with my own L-rods, indeed I found this was true. In Limon, Nicaragua, I later met another dowser who used the same method. He assured me there were many more like him.Report on WFH Committee Meeting: The Committee of the ASD Water for Humanity Fund met on Sunday morning, the 12th of June, during the ASD annual national convention in Vermont. Guest Richard Roy, founder and director of Eau Sans Frontieres, spoke to the committee about his ongoing projects in Haiti, which receives regular funding from the WFH Fund. Please read the de-tailed account of grant allocations within the WFH Annual Re-port beginning on page 98.Convention Awards: During the annual meeting at the conven-tion, held on June 10th, WFH recognized its greatest contributors with the presentation of certificates. This year the recipients were as follows:

Greatest Individual Contributor: Janis FallonGreatest ASD Chapter Contributor: Finger Lakes ChapterGreatest Contributor – Business or Corporation: Phantom Labo-ratoryIn addition, we would like to give honorable mention to three dis-tinguished water dowsers; Henry Mosher of ME, Glen Johnson of ME, and Bill Getz of NY. These three individuals have been dows-

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ing and requesting that their clients make a donation to Water for Humanity in lieu of accepting a personal check. These contribu-tions have nearly totaled enough for a well all by themselves!WFH Annual Report: Each year, the Executive Committee of the WFH Fund traditionally presents an abridged annual report to the ASD general membership during the annual meeting. The full report is contained on pages 97-102.Polarity Group Does Fundraiser for WFH: A fundraising event to benefit WFH was recently initiated by ASD member Sue Leon-ard, currently a student of Polarity Therapy at Spa Tech Institute in Westbrook, Maine. In preparation, Sue explained that as part of their educational experience, the students needed to put on an event to welcome people to an afternoon of free Polarity ses-sions at their school. Traditionally, the school asks the students to dovetail with a charity for any donations received from clients during the event. Since she and her fellow students were already dowsing with pendulums in their work, Sue suggested donating to the ASD Water for Humanity Fund, and they happily agreed this would be a very worthy cause to support. ASD brochures and a power-point presentation were included in the event, and twelve raffle items were offered; Sue was pleased to report that they raised $105!Convention Raffle: Sue Dillon, WFH Raffle Chairperson, and the members of the WFH Committee are pleased to announce that at this year’s convention a new fundraising record was set once again, beating the 2011 amount of $12,303.23. The overall final total in 2012 from raffle ticket sales, the “dowse your own price” table, crystal and Tee shirt sales, silent auction, and straight donations came to $14,019.24! Your generosity will make a tre-mendous difference in the lives of many in critical need of this vital resource. Thank you to Sue and her volunteers at the raffle table, all of you who donated raffle items, and, of course, all of you who supported us by buying raffle tickets.Testimonial of a Life-Changing Well: The following testimoni-al came with the project completion report from Rural People’s


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Development Society. Mrs. Megala, who lives in the beneficiary village of Yerikkadu said: “First of all, I convey my whole-hearted thanks on behalf of our village women to RPDS and the donor agency WFH to solve our problems for the past several years over water. We have prayed for good and safe drinking water for more than a decade. We have submitted several petitions and conduct-ed many processions to appeal for safe drinking water. However, the government officials and politicians were unhearing about our worries and the problems we faced with poor access to unsafe drinking water. We must walk two kilometers to fetch our water. The nearby landlords do not allow us to fetch water in their wells. Now the problem has been solved through the NGO, RPDS. Now we can fetch water from the bore well nearby our colony and en-joy the time saved. We are happy that all our villagers are relieved

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from water problems now that we have our own bore well. We as-sure you that it will be maintained and protected properly and be used very preciously. Let me thank you again for the financial as-

sistance given to meet our basic needs.” Project Completion Reports:

Rural People’s Development Society (RPDS). This organization, of the south-ern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, con-ducted their first project of two wells with WFH funding in 2006. It was completed with integrity and professionalism, and reported in a timely manner. We found the same with the recently completed project. You will see that they built sus-

tainability into the project with the establishment of responsible committees, appointment of individuals trained in maintenance and repair, setting up a pump repair fund, and village-wide train-ings in water management, conservation and hygiene. Report of the Project. This is the second phase of the project. Earlier, two bore wells were installed in Karipatti and Minnampalli in 2007. The report and other documents, such as photographs, financial statement, etc, were submitted. Now, two more bore wells have been installed, in the villages of Koottathu-palli and Yerikkadu. These two villages have considerable popu-lation; 1,893 in Koottathupalli, and 960 in Yerikkadu. These are the most backward villages in Ayothyapattinam Block of Salem District. The people in the above remote villages are living in very dire needs of safe drinking water. They are using the open pond which contains the red soil dissolved in the water. Implementation of the Proposal. Various components were covered to implement the proposal: formation of a manage-ment committee; geohydrological survey; drilling of bore wells; installation of hand pumps; platform construction; caretaker trainings and awareness camps; and orientation camp on techni-cal works for SHGs.

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1. The committee of management was formed involving the Self Help Group (SHG) members, youth club members, and village elders to oversee the hand pump for good running con-dition with right service of drinking water to the needy people. This committee has 15 members selected from each village.2. Next the geohydrological survey involved the local dowser who marked the right site for drilling in the above two villages. He made this dowsing by traditional method of using sticks and coconuts.3. The follow-up step was drilling bore wells in the two vil-lages. For drilling, a local contractor was engaged. The drilling went up to 305 feet in Koottathupalli and 209 feet in Yerikadu. In the drilling of the points, the water flow started at 150 feet in both villages. To get more and regular yield without fail-ure, it was drilled up to the above depths. The water quality as per the opinion of the people with traditional testing is good for drinking and potable. There is no salinity or other mineral content which would be hazardous and harmful. The people of the villages felt very happy to get the new facility for water as safe and protected from impurities and health hazard. The skilled labor was organized by the drilling contractor, and the unskilled labor was contributed by the village people.4. After drilling the bore well, the India Mark II hand pump was purchased with its accessories and arranged for installa-tion. The installation was done by technical instructors. They also explained to the people the operating system of the hand pump and handling method.5. Platform construction was the next phase of the activity. The village community contributed labor and materials in-cluding skilled labor from the village.6. Caretaker training was organized for the selected people consisting of five members from the SHG and the youth from each village. One camp was organized for the two village par-ticipants. This caretaker training covered the subjects on wa-

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ter, hand pump operations, repair and maintenance, tool han-dling, and also the details of spare parts and other technical services for good and regular maintenance. 7. General awareness camps on water, sanitation, and drink-ing water usage and utilization was conducted for the village people. It was held in each village separately, and in each vil-lage around 55 people participated.

8. Last, a technical orientation camp was organized for the SHG members for proper handling and durable services with-out failure. In each village, 20 women members for the SHGs participated.

Evaluation. The evaluation was made by interaction, in-terview, and discussion with the people in respective villages. The people said that they were very happy to get the new hand pump by which they assured regular use without failure. The village pan-chayat president who participated in the village camps assured to give priority to the care and maintenance of the new hand pump in the villages. He also thanked the WFH Fund for their generous contribution of the hand pumps for the poor and marginalized

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communities in the area. These new drinking water facilities have motivated the people to keep the water wells in good repair and use them hygienically. Creation of Water Fund. The people have decided to raise funds in the name of the water fund by contributing 5 INR (about 9 cents US) per month from each family for meeting the expens-es whenever the hand pump goes out of order. It is managed by a committee called the Water Fund Committee where the SHG members are enrolled as the office bearers.Updates from Brother Kimpton. Brother James Kimpton is a Catholic missionary, accomplished artist, and phenomenal dows-er who is also founder and director of the non-profit organization Reaching the Unreached of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Brother Kimpton was the first recipient of a grant from the Water for Humanity Fund and has received our support nearly ev-ery year since to develop his dowsed water well sites. Every so often he sends us notes and photos of his dowsing and drilling activities. He sent the following on March 9, 2012:

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Dear Friends,Yesterday I spent the whole day from 6AM in a small, very remote village: Veera Chinnammal Puram. I divined and drilled and all gave very good water. This village of 150 families before had no water. It was hot at 35 degrees C and very dry. We left a lot of very happy people.

Cordially, J. E. Kimpton

The following was Brother Kimpton’s report from a fellow priest, Rev. Fr. J. R. Jerome Bronimus, whose district was a recipient of well construction with help from WFH funding. (Note: a Balwadi is a pre-school for children under five years of age.)Respected and Dear Rev. Brother James Kimpton, President RTU:Greetings of Peace. I am happy to give this short report of the work done in T. Sindalachery Parish. As the Parish Priest and Correspondent, I am grateful to you and the donors of these proj-ects. People, teachers and students who are the beneficiaries of these projects also thank you.

1. Balwadi (Sirumalar Balwadi) with a bore well at T. Sindalach-ery. People in T. Sindalachery in Theni District are from Backward Class Udayar Community, and 95% are daily wage employees. Most of the men folk go to different parts of the state to work with the bore well companies. They stay there up to six months. They visit their family once in six months. Women of this village go for coolie work. They have to take their babies with them. Now, because of your generous help, they leave their children in the Balwadi you have provided. At present, there are 25 children come to Balwadi. People pay the salary for the teacher.I have to thank you for the following: a beautiful Balwadi building; a bore well of 300 feet with 1.5 HP submersible mo-tor pump; 250 feet of hose, 200 feet of PVC pipe, a starter, 500 liter water tank, 400 feet of cable wire, and other accessories; and EB Service.


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2. Bore well at Amala Annai Hr. Sec. School. There are 500 boys and girls studying in Hr. School. One Rev. Sister and ten teachers work here. Drinking water is a grave problem in the school. You have helped us to solve this problem by providing a bore well. The teachers and students are ever grateful to you. I have to thank you for the following: a bore well of 250 feet with a 1 HP submersible motor pump & starter; 1,000 liter water tank, water pipe line, and 200 feet of hose pipe; 250 feet of cable wire; and 10 water tabs with cement basin.3. Bore well at Amala Annai Hr. Sec. School. Amala Annai Hr. Sec. School in T. Sindalachery is a partly aided school. There are 1300 boys and girls studying here. One Rev. Sister and 40 teachers work here. Though there is enough toilet facility available, water for the toilet is a grave problem. When I ex-plained the situation to you, you were kind enough to visit the school and understand the situation. Understanding the prob-lem, you have accepted my request and come forward to pro-vide a bore well. Now we have got a bore well and the problem is solved. The staff and 1300 students of Amala Annai Hr. Sec. School are ever grateful to you. I have to thank you for the following: a bore well of 340 feet with 1.5 HP submersible motor pump; 1,000 liter water tank; 250 feet of hose, 300 feet of wire, and a starter; EB Service; 240 feet PVC pipe line; and 17 water tabs with cement basin.

Dear Rev. Brother, with immense joy and grateful heart, I thank you for all the support you have given to the people, students, and children of T. Sindalachery and Thevaram villages. We as-sure you that your help will never go to waste and you will always be gratefully remembered in the years to come. We also thank the donors of these projects.

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WATER FOR HUMANITY ANNUAL REPORT

Presented to the ASD General Membership – June 8th, 2012Lyndon State College, Lyndonville, Vermont

Submitted by Steven G. Herbert, WFH Secretary

2011 Calendar / Fiscal year financial report: Incoming funds from donations, and proceeds from raffle and sales, were $23,527.23. This figure includes a total of $19,696.72 from donations alone (thus $3,830.51 from raffle & sales), of which the amount of $275.00 was donated to restricted funds. Total deposits plus interest of $14.80 added up to a total income of $23,542.03. Total outgoing funds were $26,896.94 for grants and projects, and $256.38 in office/non-project expenses and fees for transfer of funds, totaling $27,153.32. Operating and office expenses were 0.94 % of total outgoing. Over 2011, our Exxon-Mobil stock increased in value by $1,858.61 to end with a total value of $12,446.50. The accrued cash increased by $229.01 to $580.10. At the 2011 convention, $2,845.10 was raised from raffle ticket sales, $162.00 additional from crystal sales, $156.00 from sale of WFH Tee shirts, $387.38 from the “dowse your own price” table, $280 from silent auction and $8,472.75 (a new record) from straight donations. The total came to $12,303.23 (a new record).

Half year 2012 (January to end of June) financial report: Total incoming funds were $15,751.74, of which $12,243.47 were from donations and $3,328.27 from convention sales of raffle tickets, books, crystals, Tee shirts, and silent auction items. Add-ing $5.88 in interest brings the total to $15,577.62. All donations were to the general fund, except $645 restricted to the Brett Wen-tworth Memorial Fund. Total outgoing funds were $14,405.75 al-located to projects, plus $165.45 in postage for registered mail-ings and $322.50 office expenses, totaling $14,893.70. Expenses


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were just 3.28% of total outgoing. As of June 30th, stock value was $19,979.80, with a total portfolio value of $12,705.56, and accrued cash increased to $725.76. At the 2012 convention, $2,539 was raised from raffle tick-et sales, $103.50 additional from crystal sales, $308 from sale of WFH Tee shirts, $227.77 from the “dowse your own price” ta-ble, $200 from silent auction and $10,640.97 (a new record) from straight donations. The total came to $14,019.24 (a new record)!

Funding requests granted at the 1/24/11 teleconference meeting:

Three organizations in India were approved for grants; So-ciety for Health, Environmental and Rural Development Proj-ect (SHERDP) received $1,900 to construct two wells, Women’s Organization for Rural Development (WORD) was funded for $2,241 for three wells, and Society for Community Develop-ment Project (SCDP) was granted $1,111 for one well. The organization Konditi Development Initiative Inter-national (KODI) of Kenya was granted $1,600 to serve as seed money toward the second composting latrine at Konditi Primary School. A supplemental grant of $2,000 was awarded to the Hopi Well Project via Metempyrion Foundation of Arizona, USA.

Funding requests granted at the WFH 2011 convention meeting:

St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School of Tho-reau, NM, in the Eastern Navajo Reservation was awarded a grant for the fourth year of $1,435 for two weeks worth of water delivery for residents of remote reaches of the reservation. Brother Kimpton and his organization Reaching the Unreached of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu re-ceived an annual donation in the amount of $1,500 to continue his work of developing his dowsed well sites.

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ASD member Richard Roy and the organization with which he is associated, Eau Sans Frontiers, received a donation in the amount of $1,000 from the general funds to help with his work of restoring and developing water resources in Haiti since the January 12th earthquake. The Hopi Well Project in Arizona, USA, headed by Ju-dith Jubb and a number of other dowsers in that area, received an additional grant of $1,000 (added to $5,000 already allocated in previous grants) toward a drilled well for the Hopi reservation. Two organizations in India received grants for wells: Foundation of Rural Development (FORD) – $2,288 for one more well, and Tiruchirappalli Multipurpose Social Service Society (TMSSS) – $985 for a second well. Following the convention, another email vote finalized on 6/28/11 approved the amount of $1,884.62 to supplement funds previously granted to the organization Expanding Opportuni-ties of Kenya for a rainwater harvesting system. In the same email vote, a grant of $660 was awarded to the organization Sustainable Peace Here (SPHere) of Nepal to conduct an evaluation of their well and pump project. WFH has previously granted a total of $7,600 over the years 2000 to 2004 in six different grants for water well (shallow dug or point-driven) development. This represents about 70 wells. We also provided a grant in 2005 of $500 for their last evaluation which showed a 96% sustainability rate. In an email vote finalized on 9/14/11, the WFH Commit-tee approved a grant of $1,384.80 for the balance needed to con-struct the second composting latrine at Konditi Primary School, and $1,975.60 for the renovation of a dug well, both in Kenya and both in partnership with Konditi Development Initiative Inter-national (KODI).


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Funding requests granted during the 1/18/12 teleconference meeting:

The Salvadoran Association for Rural Health (ASAPROSAR) which has received support for operation of a portable drilling rig and the first three phases of a filter distribution proj-ect, received funds of $700 to implement a fourth phase. Society for Health Environmental and Rural Develop-ment Project (SHERDP) recently completed two wells in their first project with us, and was granted $1,990 for a balance of two wells on that proposal. Society for Community Development Project (SCDP) also completed their first WFH funded project with one well, with two of three remaining wells funded for this second phase at $2,222. Women for Women (WFW) have a fully funded project with six wells to their credit, and the first well on their second proposal with a balance of two, for which we granted $1,660. Village Development Center (VDC) temporarily retract-ed their own proposal to mobilize aid for victims of the Thane Cy-clone in Cuddalore District with a proposed project of one bore well and hand pump in each of twelve villages, which we fully funded at $3,540. Rural Peoples’ Development Society (RPDS) have prov-en their capability with one past project constructing two wells, leaving a balance of five wells on that proposal of which we of-fered to fund two more for $1,590. Women’s Organization for Rural Development (WORD) are the veterans of a fully funded project of five wells in the past, and have completed four WFH-funded wells on the current proposal with one left to go, for which we provided $940. SUCCESS Trust has submitted a proposal requesting three wells, and we agreed to fund the first two in their first proj-ect with WFH for $1,648.

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Funding granted at the WFH 2012 convention meeting: St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School of Tho-reau, NM, in the Eastern Navajo Reservation was awarded a grant for the fourth year of $1,222 for two weeks worth of water delivery for residents of remote reaches of the reservation. Brother Kimpton and his organization Reaching the Unreached of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu re-ceived an annual donation in the amount of $1,500 to continue his work of developing his dowsed well sites. ASD member Richard Roy and the organization with which he is associated, Eau Sans Frontiers, received a donation in the amount of $1,000 from the general funds to help with his work of restoring and developing water resources in Haiti since the January 12th earthquake. To this was added $340 from re-stricted funds. The organization Centro de Ensenanza y Aprendizaje de Agricultura Sostenible (CEASO – Center for Teaching and Learning for Sustainable Agriculture) in Honduras was ap-proved for a ceramic water filter distribution project ($1,200). Jarana of Bolivia received funds for a drilled well, slow-sand bio-filters, and rainwater harvesting systems ($2,000). One well for $964 is being sponsored by the Mohawk- Hudson Chapter’s Brett Wentworth Memorial Fund for GUARD Society of India. One well is being funded for $745 for Society for People’s Health Education and Economic Development (SPHEED) in India. JASMINE Society in the state of Tamil Nadu, India was awarded $1,210 to construct five rainwater harvesting systems. Finally, we are excited to announce that the organization Tamil Nadu Tribal Development Society (TNTDS) is organizing the formation of a dowsers society of Tamil Nadu and is receiving $1,450 to construct two wells.


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Changes in the committee since last convention: There have been no changes on the WFH Committee since last convention. The committee, by convention 2012, consisted of:Bill Bonnell of VA, Chairperson, Trustee LiaisonLisa McCrory of VT, Trustee LiaisonSteve Herbert of VT, Secretary, Member-at-LargeApril Douglass of GA, Member-at-LargeRene Lincoln of VT, Member-at-LargeDon Nolan of WI, Member-at-LargeRachel Chevalier of VT, Member-at-Large(position vacant), Convention Planning Committee LiaisonDan Prater of MI, Member-at-Large

Advisors: Rob Thompson of CA, Drilling; and Mark Fulford of ME, Appropriate Technology

Raffle Chairperson: Susanne Dillon

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The American Society of Dowsers Vol. 52, Issue No. 1 – Spring/Summer 2012

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NOTICE TO MEMBERSHIP FROM BOARD OF TRUSTEESASD STATEMENT OF POLICY ON HEALING

***Whereas Authority for the existence and incorporation of ASD flows from its Articles of Association granted by the State of Vermont, which Ar-ticles cannot and do not authorize legally as a corporate purpose the prac-tice of diagnosis or healing or their promotion or sponsorship; and whereas under Vermont Statute “Medicine and Surgery”, Chapter 23, T. 26 Sec. 1311-12 and 1314, anyone who practices medicine “by any system or meth-od” (italics added), including those of “faith cure,” “laying on of hands” and “mind Healing” (excepting practice of the religious tenets of one’s church), “shall be deemed a physician or practitioner of medicine or surgery” and shall require licensing by the State of Vermont, or be subject to prosecution, the following policy has been adopted by your Board of Trustees:

***Members of the Society wishing to diagnose or heal are notified they do so not as members of ASD, but personally, and at their own risk, and subject to the interpretation of the laws of their own State and the Pure Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, passed by the U.S. Congress, which makes it a felony to diagnose or heal without a license, and with the interstate use of an instrument or device.

***Defense against prosecution by a State or the Federal Government could be a consuming, costly affair, and members cannot be entitled to legal or financial support from ASD for what may be an illegal act.

***Members who wish to write or talk on bodily diagnosis or treatment, on the other hand, are entitled to do so under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which guarantees them freedom of speech; in view of ASD’s position, however, they may not hold themselves out, in so doing, as representing ASD in any way, but rather as presenting a personal position.

***Requests coming from a licensed medical doctor in this country should be considered in the context of applicable law, and at the member’s own risk. It is pointed out that requests originating with a doctor outside the country, who is not duly licensed in the U.S., constitutes such a risk.

***The question of the legality of discussion or treatment of radiation det-rimental to health turns on whether one is holding oneself out as curing disease; it is noted that it would be attempted by a prosecuting attorney to show that this was done by a system or method that was prohibited.

***YOUR TRUSTEES HAVE DIRECTED THE ASD STAFF TO REJECT ALL REQUESTS OF A MEDICAL NATURE, EITHER DIRECTLY OR FOR REFERRAL TO A MEMBER OR CHAPTER, NOTING TO THE PETITIONER THAT SUCH REQUESTS MAY NOT BE PROCESSED UNDER THE SOCIETY’S INTERPRETATION OF THE TERMS OF STATE AND FEDERAL LAW.


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BYLAWS: CHAPTER XV. CODE OF ETHICS FOR MEMBERS* The Society expects that the following rules will guide the acts of its members.Section 1. Code of Ethics for Members. (a) Members shall be guided in all their relationship with the public by the highest standards of personal integrity.(b) Members shall uphold before the public at all times the dignity and reputation of the Society.(c) Members shall avoid and discourage sensationalism, exaggeration, undignified and unwarranted statements, or misleading advertisements.(d) Members shall refuse to undertake work which may be of questionable value or results without first advising as to the probability of success.(e) Members shall not willfully use or attempt to use their membership in this organization as evi-dence of their qualifications as a dowser or as a measure of ability or proficiency.(f ) Members in good standing may mention their membership in their resumes and biographies. With written approval of ASD’s Executive Committee, members may exhibit or use the name of this Society on any letterhead or stationary, on any personal or business cards, and in any advertising of a personal, business or professional nature.Section 2. Disciplinary Process. Any Member, Trustee or Officer, may be reprimanded, suspended, removed from office or lose their membership by a 2/3 vote of the full BOT if shown to be guilty of misconduct. Examples of miscon-duct would include: (1) Violating the Code of Ethics. (2) The abuse or misuse of power. (3) Personal activities prejudicial to the best interests of the Society, including placing personal interests ahead of those of the Society. (4) Slanderous remarks against another member affecting their ability to carry out their duties. (5) Any other form of misconduct not listed above.A grievance or complaint may be filed by either party to the action, or by a third party who has ob-served the action, and will be taken to their Chapter President. If no resolution can be found, it will then advance, in sequence of appeal, to their regional Vice President, the Executive VP and finally to the BOT, who will assemble as the Ethics Committee. From this point on, the BOT and Ethics Com-mittee terms are interchangeable.(a) If the grievance or complaint is brought by a member not associated with a chapter, they will start the process with their region’s RVP.(b) If a party to the grievance chooses not to participate at any level of the process, the process will go forward without their participation.(c) Responsibilities of the BOT in such matters: (1) Should a crisis situation arise, the entire Board will be notified. A majority vote of a quorum of the BOT may take any and all actions necessary to contain or address the problem, in the best interests of the Society, until a full board meeting may be held, regardless of any inconsistency between this action and these bylaws. Such actions shall be limited to responding to the immediacy of the crisis, and nothing more. (2) A Trustee who is the subject of charges shall not participate or vote in the BOT deci-sion and the vote will be adjusted accordingly. (3) Charges against a Member, Trustee or Officer and all related evidence will be offered in written statements under oath to the President for review by the Trustees. A written statement submitted to any person or group in this process shall be considered taken under oath. If it is found that a statement is false, the person or persons submitting the false statement will immediately lose their membership in ASD by a majority vote of the BOT. Notification of the dismissal will be made in a timely manner. (4) After receipt of complete written statements under oath from Complainant and De-fendant, the President will distribute said copies to the full BOT (Ethics Committee) for evaluation. The BOT will make and record their decision by a 2/3 vote, including disciplinary actions, within 30 days. That decision will be expeditiously communicated to all parties involved. This decision is final and not subject to further appeal. (5) Anyone whose membership has been terminated by expulsion may reapply for Mem-bership after two (2) years provided any sum owed to the Society under Chapter IV Section 3 by such applicant be first paid in full. The BOT will then review the application and vote its acceptance or denial. If denied, the applicant may reapply again after another two years. Any Member, Trustee, or Officer removed from their position due to an ethics violation and wishing to hold office again at any level must first gain approval of the BOT by a majority vote.

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ASD CHAPTER DIRECTORYUpdated September 2012

Thank you for contacting headquarters to update or correct your chapter information!

ArizonaCity/Town: GlobeChapter Name: The Globe DowsersContact Person: Jo Ellen DavisPhone: 928- 425-9448Email: [email protected]: The meetings are the first Wednesday of the month at the Globe-Miami Chamber of Commerce Build-ing, at 1360 N. Broad St., at 7pm. This chapter does not meet in June, July or August.

City/Town: PhoenixChapter Name: Phoenix Life ForceContact Person: Louise JohnsonPhone: NoneEmail: [email protected]: No set schedule, announce-ments will be made in advance. E-mail to place your name on the list.

City/Town: PrescottChapter Name: Prescott Area DowsersContact Person: Michael GreenupPhone: 928-308-2753Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the first Sunday of the month at 1:30pm, at the Prescott Public Library.

City/Town: SedonaChapter Name: Verde Valley ChapterContact Person: Michael Krokosz or Audree JuhlinPhone: (Audree) 928-646-6733Email: [email protected] or [email protected]: www.arizonadowsers.com Meetings: Meetings are usually the third Sunday of the month (except June, July and August) at 2:00pm, at the St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 100 Arroyo Pinon Dr.

City/Town: TucsonChapter Name: Tucson DowsersContact Person: Marge HeftyPhone: 520-885-1100Email: [email protected]: www.tucsondowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are the first Satur-day of the month, September through May, at 1:00pm, at Unity of Tucson, 3617 N. Camino Blanco. Check web-site above for current information.

ArkansasCity/Town: FayettevilleChapter Name: Fayetteville ChapterContact Person: Allie WujcikPhone: 479-839-8185Email: [email protected]


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California

City/Town: Corte Madera or San FranciscoChapter Name: Golden Gate DowsersContact Person: Karen AshleyPhone: 415-564-6419Email: [email protected]: Meetings are the third Satur-day in September, November, January, March, and May, from 1:30pm to 5pm, at different locations. Please email to find out where we will be meeting next. After the meetings, we often go out for a no-host dinner with the guest speaker.

City/Town: EurekaChapter Name: Humboldt County ChapterContact Person: Marty RossPhone: 707-768-3665Email: [email protected]: There are no set dates or times for meetings. Occasionally this chapter offers basic dowsing classes; call or email if interested.

City/Town: Fountain ValleyChapter Name: Orange County ChapterContact Person: Keith SpencerPhone: 714-847-7150Email: [email protected]: There is no set schedulefor meetings. This chapter has severalmeetings a year and usually announcesthem about thirty days in advance. Call or email to place your name on the list. Meeting locations vary.

City/Town: OrovilleChapter Name: Gold Country DowsersContact Person: Sharron HopePhone: 530-534-3516

Email: [email protected]: Meetings are the first Satur-day of the month at 1pm, at the Oro-ville Church of Religious Science. This chapter meets about four times a year, so please contact for which months the meetings will be. There are also group field trips that the public is welcome to join, so contact if you are interested in finding out when these trips are.

City/Town: ReddingChapter Name: Northern California DowsersContact Person: JeannettePhone: 530-222-2024Mailing Address: PO Box 493499, Redding, CA 96049Email: [email protected]: www.norcaldowsers.comMeetings: Meetings usually first weekend of every month, in Communi-ty Room, adjacent to Tobacco ‘n Brew, 2139 Hilltop Dr., Redding. Parking in rear. See website calendar for details.

City/Town: SacramentoChapter Name: Sierra DowsersContact Person: To be announced.Phone: 530-533-3986Email: To be announced.Meetings: Meetings are held 3 or 4 times a year, on Sundays from noon to 5pm, at Rancho Cordova Recreation Center, Rancho Cordova.

City/Town: San DiegoChapter Name: San Diego ChapterContact Person: Inez LindseyPhone: 619-563-9782Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the sec-ond Saturday of each month, 9am- 12:45pm, with potluck lunch, at the Ocean Beach Recreation Center, 4726 Santa Monica Ave., San Diego.

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City/Town: San JoseChapter Name: San Jose ChapterContact Person: Cathy CoultripPhone: 831-336-8973Email: [email protected]: www.westcoastdowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are the second Saturday of the month except June, July and August, at the Divine Science Community Center, 1540 Hicks Av-enue.

City/Town: Santa RosaChapter Name: Sonoma County DowsersContact Person: Dianna CoulombePhone: 707-575-9237Email: [email protected]: www.sonomacountydows-ers.blogspot.comMeetings: Meetings are every other month, on the fourth Saturday; call for times and location.

City/Town: WinnetkaChapter Name: Valley of the DowsersContact Person: Katy KesslerPhone: noneEmail: [email protected] or [email protected]: Meetings are the second Friday of the month (no meetings June, July or August), at the Valley Village Community Room, 20830 Sherman Way, Winnetka. (DeSoto Exit off the 101).

Colorado

City/Town: LakewoodChapter Name: Mile High DowsersContact Person: Bo Hanson or Elaine Jay FinsterPhone: (Bo) 970-667-7724, (Elaine) 303-838-8446

Email: whisperingmoon999@ yahoo.com [email protected]: www.milehighdowsers.comMeetings: Meetings are the first Thurs-day of every month (except July), at 7pm, at the Clements Community Cen-ter, 1580 Yarrow Street (Columbine Room-upstairs; 1 block west & north of Colfax and Wadsworth)

Connecticut

City/Town: MilfordChapter Name: Connecticut Golden Rods ChapterContact Person: Terese M. BrennanPhone: (Home) 203-874-7898 (Cell) 203-231-2080Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the third Monday of March, April, May, June, Sept., Oct., Nov., and Dec. at 7:30pm, at 23 Clinton St., Milford

City/Town: New BritainChapter Name: Gordon MacLean ChapterContact Person: Don HuschkePhone: 860-667-1873Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the second Tuesday of April, May, June, October, November, and December at 8:00pm, at 118 Abbe St.

City/Town: West HartfordChapter Name: Dick Paskowski ChapterContact Person: Stephanie NelsonPhone: 860-523-7642Email: [email protected]: Meetings are the second Tuesday of April, May, June, Oct., Nov., & Dec. at 7:30pm, at the home of Stephanie Nielsen, 16 Grenhart St.


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Florida

City/Town: BradentonChapter Name: Manasota ChapterContact Person: Ed Straight or John AmesPhone: (Ed) 941-778-6324, (John) 941-756-1787Email: (Ed) [email protected] (John) [email protected]: Meetings are the fourth Tuesday of each month except Decem-ber, from 6pm to 8pm, at the South Manatee County Branch Library, 6081 26th St.

City/Town: CocoaChapter Name: Space Coast DowsersContact Person: James KingPhone: 321-633-8158Email: [email protected]: Meetings are the second Thursday of each month, at the CentralLibrary, Route 520 by the river, from 1pm to 8:45 pm.

City/Town: Palmetto BayChapter Name: Miami Dade, Broward, Monroe ChapterContact Person: Robert BarnesPhone: 786-295-7852Email: [email protected]: Held the second Saturday of the month (except Dec., Jul., & Aug.), at 8500 SW 180th St. from 1:00pm to 4:00pm. Call for directions.

City/Town: The VillagesChapter Name: Dowsers UnlimitedContact Person: Karen DurhamPhone: 352-753-0622Email: [email protected]: Meetings are held at the Unity of the Villages Church on the

second Wednesday of each month, from 4:30pm, with short dowsing les-son given at 4:15pm.

City/Town: West Palm BeachChapter Name: Palm Beach DowsersContact Person: Dorothy RobertsPhone: 561-585-1570Email: [email protected]: Meetings are quarterly; please contact for time and location.

Georgia

City/Town: Sandy SpringsChapter Name: First Georgia DowsersContact Person: Sandy NorrisPhone: 770-966-7603Email:[email protected] Meetings: Meetings are on the first Thursday of the month from 7:30pm to 9:30pm, at the Christian Church, 301 Johnson Ferry Rd.

Idaho

City/Town: BoiseChapter Name: Idaho Subtle Energy Study GroupContact Person: Warren Rekow and Frank JordanPhone: (Warren) 208-896-4908, (Frank) 209-344-9188Email: [email protected], [email protected]: Meetings are on the third Saturday from 3pm to 5pm or as ar-ranged. Location changes, so please call or email for directions.

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Illinois

City/Town: Des PlainesChapter Name: Northern Illinois ChapterContact Person: Larry BirdPhone: 815-579-9356Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the second or third Sundays of February, April, June, August, October, and Decem-ber, from 1pm to 4pm. The meetings are held at The Dance Building, 1330 Webford Rd.

Indiana

City/Town: EvansvilleChapter Name: Tri-State DowsersContact Person: Mary BuchananPhone: 812-359-4949Email: noneWebsite: www.tristatedowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are the last Thurs-day of the month, Jan. through Oct., at 6:30pm, at the Newburgh, In. Library off Bell Rd. Check our website for changes or cancellations.

Iowa

City/Town: Meetings are in different towns.Chapter Name: First Iowa ChapterContact Person: Kathy SealmanPhone: 319-345-2619Email: [email protected]: Meetings are every other month, in January, March, May, July, September, and November, from 9:30am to 3:30pm, at different loca-tions throughout the state, depending on who is hosting the meeting. Please contact for more information.

Kansas

City/Town: Kansas CityChapter Name: Kansas City ChapterContact Person: Joyce TownsPhone: (home) 913-432-2070 (cell) 913-638-7948Email: [email protected]

Maine

City/Town: BangorChapter Name: Northern Maine Contact Person: Albert BeanPhone: 207-942-0214Meetings: Meetings are the third Sun-day of each month, from 1pm to 2pm, at 881 Ohio St.

City/Town: FalmouthChapter Name: Rollie Moore Chapter of Southern MaineContact Person: Glen JohnsonPhone: 207-797-6031Email: [email protected]: Meetings are the last Thurs-day of the month, at 7:30pm, at the Norway Bank on Route 1 in Falmouth.

Massachusetts

City/Town: BedfordChapter Name: Greater Boston DowsersContact Person: Susan McNeill SpuhlerPhone: 978-392-1456Email: [email protected]: www.bostondowsers.comMeetings: Meetings are on Sat.every month, from 2pm-5pm, at the First Parish Unitarian Universalist Church, 75 The Great Road (Route 225). Check website for which Sat. of each month.


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Michigan

City/Town: WarrenChapter Name: Southeast Michigan DowsersContact Person: Dan PraterPhone: 586-202-4166Email: [email protected]: www.michigandowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are usually held on the third Wednesday of each month at 6pm at Macomb Community Col-lege, 14500 E. 12 Mile Rd., Building M, South Campus, Warren, MI 48088.

Missouri

City/Town: St. LouisChapter Name: Gateway Society of DowsersContact Person: Janet H. DunlapPhone: 314-652-8608Email: [email protected]: www.gatewaydowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are the second Saturday of the month, starting at 1pm, at the St. Louis County Library Head-quarters, Lindbergh Blvd., just south of Interstate 64/40, across from Plaza Frontenac.

Montana

City/Town: HamiltonChapter Name: Bitterroot Valley DowsersContact Person: Michael HoeflerPhone: 406-642-3630Email: [email protected]: Meetings are held on the first Tuesday of the month at 7:30pm, at Common Ground, 258 Roosevelt Lane.

Nebraska

City/Town: NaponeeChapter Name: Mid-River DowsersContact Person: Dwayne HeerPhone: 308-264-2746Email: To be announcedMeetings: Contact for meeting sched-ule.

Nevada

City/Town: Carson CityChapter Name: Carson City DowsersContact Person: Harry LawlerPhone: 775-882-5760Email: noneMeetings: Meeting are held at 1960 Pinion Hill; call for times and dates.

City/Town: Las VegasChapter Name: Silver DowsersContact Person: Char CruzePhone: 702-893-2051 homeEmail: [email protected]: Meetings are held monthly. Email or call for dates, times, and loca-tions.

New Hampshire

City/Town: ClaremontChapter Name: Living WatersContact Person: Carol GaderPhone: 603-357-4699Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the third Tuesday of every month except Janu-ary, and February, at 6:30pm for in-struction, and 7pm for the meeting, at the Claremont Savings Bank, but loca-tion does change from time to time, so contact to be sure.

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City/Town: PlymouthChapter Name: White Mountain DowsersContact Person: Sandi RuelkePhone: 603-444-5494Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the sec-ond Monday of each month, at Unitar-ian Universalist Church on Fairground Road, at 6:30pm. Dowsing instruction and practice at 5:30pm.

New Mexico

City/Town: Los LunasChapter Name: Willow BendersContact Person: Gary PlappPhone: 505-565-1784Email: [email protected]:www.homepage.mac.com/ gplapp/lldowsers.htmlMeetings: Meetings are at 1pm, on the second Saturday of each month, at the old Los Lunas Public Health Office, RDN Bldg., 1000 Main St. NW.

City/Town: Santa FeChapter Name: Kokopelli DowsersContact Person: Angellyn RosePhone: 877-706-7397Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the second Saturday of month, except July and August. Please call or email for time and location as the chapter meets in several locations.

New York

City/Town: Ballston SpaChapter Name: Mohawk-Hudson ChapterContact Person: Bruce IrwinPhone: 518-623-3772

Email: [email protected]: www.mhdowsers.orgMeetings: November, January, Febru-ary, March, April, and May meetings are held in the Cornell Cooperative Extension, on Sundays at 1pm. During the summer months, the meetings are field trips to different locations. These are also on Sundays at 1pm. December is the only month this chapter does not meet.

City/Town: BrooklynChapter Name: Tri-State DowsersContact Person: Diana Giammarino-TedaldiPhone: 718-860-4112Email: To be announcedMeetings: To be announced

City/Town: FillmoreChapter Name: Genesee Valley- Western NY ChapterContact Person: Fred SinclairPhone: 585-593-1759Email: [email protected]: Meetings are held from April to November, usually on the third Saturday, from 1-4pm, at the Wiscoy- Rossburg Fire Hall.

City/Town: FreeportChapter Name: Long Island Society of DowsersContact Person: Margot CassaniPhone: 516-796-1836Email: [email protected]: www.longislanddowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are every third Sunday of the month from September through May (except December), at 1pm, at the Freeport Memorial Library, 144 West Merrick Rd.


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City/Town: New York CityChapter Name: The Anne Williams New York City ChapterContact Person: Anne WilliamsPhone: 212-673-9257Email: *Meetings: Meeting are the last Tues-day of the month (except July, August and December), at 7pm for a dowsing class or 7:30pm for the meeting. Meet-ings are held at Studios 353, 353 W. 48th St., 2nd floor, NY City. (Subway Trains C & E to 50th St. Station.)

City/Town: Sleepy HollowChapter Name: Northern Westchester DowsersContact Person: Twink Wood or Judy RosenthalPhone: (Twink) 914-922-1559, (Judy) 914-922-1500Email: [email protected]: Meetings are about every other month, sometimes on Sunday af-ternoons, sometimes Wednesday eve-nings. Meetings are held at the Kendal on Hudson.

City/Town: SyracuseChapter Name: Finger Lakes ChapterContact Person: Wil AlauraPhone: 315-373-0683Email: [email protected]: Every third Thursday of each month. 5pm - 6pm: Dowsing lesson and practice. 6pm - 8pm: Lec-ture. Salina Meadows Office Park, 301 Plainfield Rd., Ste 195, North Syra-cuse, NY 13212

City/Town: Walker ValleyChapter Name: Catskill Mountain ChapterContact Person: Stanley DobrowolskiPhone: 845-336-8565Website: www.wiandwellness.com

Meetings: Please refer to website for information.

North Carolina

City/Town: AshevilleChapter Name: Appalachian DowsersContact Person: Roy DudgeonPhone: 828-692-6599Email: *Website: www.appalachiandowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are on the third Saturday of February, May, Septemberand November, at Unity Center, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Rd; Mills River, NC, 28759. For details, go to website, “Chapter Events” page.

City/Town: RaleighChapter Name: Triangle Dowsers ChapterContact Person: Ray HinnantPhone: 919-266-2326Email: [email protected]:www.triangledowserschapter.comMeetings: Meetings are on the odd-numbered months starting in January, on the second Sunday, from 1:30pm until 4:30pm. Meetings are announced via email and posted on the website 10 days before the meeting, along with di-rections.

Ohio

City/Town: PeeblesChapter Name: Great Serpent MoundContact Person: Jim McKenziePhone: 937-587-3953Email: [email protected]: Meetings are held monthly at various members’ homes, except for when they meet at different site loca-tions. Call for time and location.

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City/Town: RichfieldChapter Name: Ohio Buckeye DowsersContact Person: Jim DavisPhone: 330-999-0226Website: www.barbfeick.com/dowsingMeetings: Meetings are the fourth Sunday of the month, April through November, at the Stone Garden Farm, 2891 Southern Road. Meetings begin at 12:30pm with a pot-luck lunch.

Oregon

City/Town: PortlandChapter Name: Oregon Territory ChapterContact Person: Tom and Paula LauermanPhone: 360-910-2972Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the last Friday of every month at 7pm, West Hills Unitarian Universalist Fellow-ship, 8470 SW Oleson Road, Portland, Oregon.

Pennsylvania

City/Town: KutztownChapter Name: Berks County ChapterContact Person: Keith SchafferPhone: 610-689-5164Email: [email protected]: Call or email for meeting times and locations.

City/Town: PerkasieChapter Name: Guy Snyder Chapter of Southeast PAContact Person: Sally Holvey-SliferPhone: 610-294-9027Email: [email protected]: Are held every other month

on the third weekend. Interested peo-ple can call 215-968-2897 for a meet-ing notice message or join an email no-tice list by emailing [email protected]. These are for meeting notices only, NOT for contact.

Rhode Island

City: ProvidenceChapter Name: Dowsers Rhode IslandContact Person: Neri E. DonaldsPhone: 617-803-6773Email: [email protected]: Time and Day: TBA, Lo-cation: 50 Park Row West, Conference Center, Providence.

Texas

City/Town: DallasChapter Name: North Central TexasContact Person: Bette EpsteinPhone: 214-358-3633Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the third Saturday every other month from Oc-tober through May, at 7pm, at 4314 West Lovers Lane.

City/Town: HoustonChapter Name: Lonestar DowsersContact Person: Gail Brittain or Vernell BoydPhone: (Gail) 713-943-3015 (Vernell) 713-826-3772Email: [email protected]: www.freewebs.com/lonestardowsersMeetings: Second Tuesday of each month upstairs at Central Market, 3815 Westheimer at Weslayan.


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City: San AntonioChapter Name: Alamo ChapterContact Person: Rosemary LanzaPhone: 210-490-2419 210-860-1176 (cell)Email: [email protected]: Meeting are the fourth Thursday of the month at 7pm, at the Broadway Central Market (HEB), Community Room on the second floor, 4821 Broadway.

Vermont

City/Town: DanvilleChapter Name: Danville ChapterContact Person: John Wayne BlassingamePhone: 802-274-3861Email: [email protected]: Meetings are the last Sat-urday of each month (except July; and November and December meetings are combined into one meeting on the first Saturday in December), at 10am. Held at 270 Maple Lane, Walden.

City/Town: RutlandChapter Name: Jack O’Handley ChapterContact Person: Rene LincolnPhone: 802-492-3743Email: [email protected]: Meetings are the second Thursday of the month, at the Rutland Police Station on Wales St. There will be no meetings in June, July and Au-gust.

City/Town: ShelburneChapter Name: Chittenden County ChapterContact Person: Marna EhrechEmail: [email protected]:www.burlingtonvermontdowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are the second

Saturday of the month except June, July and August, at 10am, at the Shel-burne town offices above the police station on Route 7.

VirginiaCity/Town: KilmarnockChapter Name: Chesapeake Bay DowsersContact Person: Bess CutterPhone: 757-335-2100Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the third Saturday of each month, at 9am until noon, at the bank of Lancaster, 432 Main St.

City/Town: Sterling area and beyondChapter Name: Knights of the Round TableContact Person: Louis MataciaPhone: 703-404-1203Meetings: Call for information about meetings of this chapter. If you are in-terested in potentially getting involved, please contact Louis.

City/Town: Virginia BeachChapter Name: Virginia Beach DowsersContact Person: R.K. GilbertPhone: 757-233-0628Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the second Saturday of each month, from 9am to noon, at 425 Peace Haven Rd., Nor-folk.

WisconsinCity/Town: Port EdwardsChapter Name: Heart of Wisconsin ChapterContact Person: Don NolanPhone: 715-887-2693Email: [email protected]: To be announced

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YOUR ASD EDITORS ARE EAGER TO RECEIVE YOUR MANUSCRIPT!

~ About Submissions and Rights To Publish ~The ASD is a non-profit, educational, and scientific Society open to all interested people. It is the goal of the editors to reflect this mix, but this doesn’t mean that your story has to be educational or scientific–just carefully and thoughtfully written. Oh yes, and it must be about dowsing.ASD strives to assemble all manner of dowsing theories, ideas, techniques, applications, and personal experiences for study, for evaluation, and just plain enjoyment. The American Dowser is a wide-open forum where the full range of dowsing thought may be freely presented for thorough examination. We attempt to pres-ent a representative cross-section of this highly diverse and of-ten contradictory material. Views of our authors are personal and bear no offical stamp of approval or acceptance by ASD.

Please note that, as an educational/scientific journal, we do not consider articles built around your client testimonials or those designed to promote your dowsing- or wellness-related business or modality to be appropriate for inclusion; but your dowsing-related experiences or insights gleaned from your work are always welcome! Please understand that submissions will be edited ac-cordingly.

By submitting your work to The American Dowser, you are giv-ing ASD the right to publish your article and any accompanying illustrations in The American Dowser; reprint same in any future edition of The American Dowser; and to post it on the members-only Digest section of the ASD website. While ASD has the right to use submitted articles in these three venues, the author retains all other rights to their own work. The ASD website section now archives every issue of the Digest in its entirety, and it cannot be responsible for how its contents are used beyond that medium. ASD also has reciprocal rights with other worldwide dowsing so-cieties, so your article may potentially appear in their journals.


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The American Dowser accepts original work. Accordingly, we need permission to reprint your submission if it is original work which has previously appeared elsewhere in print in the exact for-mat as submitted. In the case of interesting dowsing-related clip-pings or articles submitted from other publications or websites, it is your responsibility to procure (and include with your submis-sion) a Permission to Reprint release from the publisher that gives The American Dowser permission to reprint it.

Now for a few technical details. If you are unable to use email for your submission, please type it (preferably) or legibly write it. If using email, use Microsoft Word in 12-point Times New Roman. We would love any relevant photos, drawings, diagrams, and cap-tions that enhance your story, as well as a photo of you, the author. All artwork should be in .jpg or .tif format and be at least 300 dpi (dots per inch).

If sending by email, include in the subject line the word Submis-sion and the title and author (i.e., Submission: Dowsing for Dia-monds by Jacob Jones). Send your manuscript, photos, and art as email attachments to digest@ dowsers.org, or by postal service to Editors, ASD, PO Box 24, Danville, VT 05828.

Thank you for sharing your stories and ideas with us!

Fall2012

Managing Editor/Editor:

Sybil Carey

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Affirmation of The American Society of Dowsers

Dowsing is the skill of posing questions and receiving verifiable an-swers, through various, diverse modalities, regarding the particular at-tributes of water, minerals, and other targets of interest.We, the members of the American Society of Dowsers, consider com-passion as the fundamental intention behind dowsing, and we conduct our work based on a code of ethics for the highest good of all.We shall:1. Remain true to our roots, by passing down and preserving the wis-dom and teachings of our founding members, and by honoring the skill of locating water as the foundation upon which our society stands.2. Provide education and compassionate mentoring for people who aspire to cultivate the dowsing skill in their quests for knowledge and service.3. Sustain a loving and supportive community throughout the mem-bership by promoting communication, cooperation, and interaction on local, regional, national, as well as international levels.4. Study and apply advances in knowledge, new discoveries, natural principles, and new understandings of scientific endeavors to all as-pects of dowsing.5. Grow and evolve as a society in harmony with the changes of our country and our world.

This vision, adopted in 2010, will guide ASD into its next 50 years.

Our Mission StatementThe mission of the American Society of Dowsers shall be to support, encourage and promote dowsing and dowsers in a manner consistent with the highest standards of personal integrity and behavior; to provide dowsing education and training to dowsers and non-dowsers alike to bring them to a level of proficiency they are comfortable with; to promote and foster communication and fellowship among all per-sons in any way interested in dowsing; to build in America an effective, responsible body of men and women devoted to active investigation, study and application of dowsing; to give all possible assistance and encouragement to the devel-opment of the dowsing faculty to the end that dowsing may become part of the culture of modern people.

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