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QUARTERLY DIGEST

ASD Trustees & Headquarters ..........................................................................1 Regional Vice Presidents ....................................................................................2 Past Presidents; Volunteers: The Heart of ASD ............................................. 3Editor’s Circle by Kathryn Deputat ...................................................................4Presidential Message by Sandee Mac ...............................................................5Headquarter Happenings by Blair Wolston ....................................................8 In Memoriam - Rene Lincoln, ASD Co-VP...................................................... .9Gratitude and Farewell To Rene by Steve Herbert ....................................... 10Convention Awards ...........................................................................................11Bookstore News by Jax Willey; Terry Ross Book Review.............................12Water For Humanity Fundraising; Canadian Dowsers Benefit................... 13First Time Convention Attendee Learns To Dowse by Violetta ..................14Convention Response .......................................................................................15Grandfather’s Suitcase by Nicole Porte Leclercq...........................................16A Dowsing Challenge To Lessen Climate Change Effects ...........................17We Invite You To The Future by Don Black ...................................................19 Letter To The Editor, Member Book Request ................................................18Water For Humanity Congratulates Richard Roy .........................................20“Got Juice” Experiment At National Convention by Kathryn Klvana ....... 21Thank You Sandee Mac by Kathryn Deputat .................................................22Why Join The American Society of Dowers by Marty Lucas........................23Membership Application ................................................................................. 25Water For America: Proposed Project For Experienced Dowsers by Greg Storozuk..........................................................................................26Water For Humanity News by Steve Herbert ............................................... 31Dowser’s Apprentice With Award-Winning Bill Getz by Albie Barden ....33 I’m A Little Green Frog by John Wayne & Katie Blassingame ....................38Ring Dowsing A Well by Eleanor Rost............................................................40Who Answers Our Dowsing Questions? by Marty Lucas ............................41The Conditions For “Miracles” and Cricket’s Story by Terry Ross .......... ..45Awareness and Healing by James Daniels ......................................................48“Running Corrections” A Legacy Dowsing Tool From Walt Woods by Sharron Hope ...........................................................................................50Ley Line Lessons by Joan Nathanson ..............................................................52Gifts of a Natural Vortex: Transcending Time by Madis Senner ................56Ley Lines And Spirals by Hugh J. Vaughan ....................................................59Using Dowsing Maps & Flower Essences To Help Heal Wild Animals and Wild Places by Libby Hopkins ................................................................. 64How Rock Dust Can Enrich Agricultural Soils by Steven G. Herbert .......69Advertising Products & Services ................................................................... 77Submissions and Rights To Publish ................................................................81 ASD Chapter Directory ....................................................................................83

The AMERICAN DOWSER

DANVILLE, VERMONT

VOLUME 54, NO.2 Summer 2014

The American Society of Dowsers Vol. 55, Issue No. 2 – Summer 2014

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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.

OFFICERS AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES 2013-2015

KEVIN O’BRIEN TreasurerPO Box 72

Franconia, NH 03580603.823.7002

[email protected]

KATE WHITEFIELDSecretary

64 High Street, Apt. 7 Greenfield, MA 01301

[email protected]

BILL BONNELL 481 Lonesome Pine Trail

Lancaster, VA 22503804.462.5518

[email protected]

SANDRA ISGROPO Box 590

Stratton, ME 04982207.246.2922

[email protected]

LISA MCCORY Co-Vice President

341 Macintosh Hill Rd.Randolph, VT 05060

[email protected]

ANNETTE WEIS Co-Vice President

PO Box 3015Upper Montclair, NJ 07043-3015

[email protected]

MARTY CAINPO Box 1047

BlackMountain, NC 28711828.669.9900

[email protected]

KEITH SCHAFFER1490 Schoffers

Birdsboro, PA 19508610.689.5164

[email protected]

SANDI RUELKE86 Orchard Hill

Littleton, NH 03561603.444.5494

[email protected]

SANDEE MACPresident

PO Box 2217Lakeside, AZ 85929

[email protected]

ASD HEADQUARTERS & BOOKSTORE www.dowsers.org

Phone: 802-684-3417 • Fax: 802-684-2565 PO Box 24, Danville, VT 05828

Operations Manager: Blair Wolston [email protected] Manager: Jacqueline Willey [email protected]

Assistant Operations Manager: Lisa Lacoss [email protected] Digest Editor Team: [email protected]

Lead: Gina Barkovitch • Supporting Editors: Kathryn Deputat, Albie Barden, Joan Gallo and Joan Nathanson



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ASD REGIONAL VICE PRESIDENTS Updated March 2014

NORTHEAST

Sandi Ruelke86 Orchard HillLittleton, NH 03561603-444-5494 • [email protected]

SOUTHERNKaren Durham 2065 Hartford Path The Villages, FL 32162 352-753-0622

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

MIDWEST REGION Janet Windsor925 East Wells St.Milwaukee, WI 53202206-679-4868 • [email protected]

NORTHWEST Don BlackPO Box 296Anacortes, WA 98221360-299-2514 • [email protected]

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 RELATIONSLeroy Bull - Co-Chair16 Belmont SquareDoylestown, Pa. 18901215-348-8286 • Fax: 215-345-4925 [email protected]

Kate Whitefield - Co-Chair64 High Street, Apt. 7Greenfield, MA 01301978.771.9946 • [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, MO,

Great Lakes Region: MN, WI, IL, IN, OH, MI Southern Region: DC, KY, WV, VA, NC, SC, TN, MS, AL, GA, FL, AR, LA

Northeast Region: ME, NH, VT, MA, CT, RI, NY, PA, NJ, MD, DE

ASD PAST PRESIDENTSTrustees Ex-Officio

* 1961-64 • Robert S. Plim, Storrs, CT * 1964-65 • Galen O. Hutchison, Brandon, VT* 1965-67 • Donald Boyer, Riverton, VT* 1967-69 • Gordon Maclean, So. Portland, ME* 1969-72 • John Shelley, Jr., Lewiston, ME* 1972-77 • Norman Leighton, Portland, ME* 1977-80 • T. Edward Ross, St. Davids, PA* 1980-84 • Paul J. Sevigny, Danville, VT* 1984-86 • Dwin A. Gordon, Portland, ME 1986-87 • Greg Storozuk , Edgewater; CO 1987-89 • Jim Perkins, Ashland, OH* 1989-93 • Harold Mccoy, Fayetteville, AR* 1993-95 • Gordon Barton, Winter Harbor, ME* 1995 • Joan Mcfarlane, Auburn, CA* 1995-99 • Walter Woods, Oroville, CA 1999-01 • E.W. (Tony) Gehringer , Kissimmee, FL 2001-03 • Leroy Bull • Doylestown, PA* 2003-05 • Barry A. Smith, San Jose, CA 2005-06 • Bill Northern , Warsaw, VA* 2006-07 • Leila “Tipi” Halsey, Thetford, VT 2007-09 • George Weller, Derby Line, VT* 2009-10 • Douglas (Mac) Mcilwain, Peebles, OH

* Deceased

ASD PAST PRESIDENTS

VOLUNTEERS - THE HEART OF ASD

Can You Help? Contact headquarters at (802) 684-3417 or visit us on the web at www.dowsers.org. Do you have some free time and the ability to help? Please let us know! We are always looking for help in many areas: graphic design, writing, editing, interact-ing with people on the Internet, and much more!Also, inquire about our many openings in various committees, including: Historical Preservation, Membership, Publicity and Marketing, Fundraising, Grant Writing, Convention, and our new short-term Vision committee including some Chair posi-tions available.

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What a great gift our Editor in Chief Gina Barkovitch gave to me at Convention this year! By inviting me to share the stage with her and Albie Barden, representing the Digest editing team, I moved from relatively unseen to seen in our community—from invisible to visible. This was wonderful enough, but it also opened up an unexpected outpouring over the remainder of the weekend of warmth, thanks, friendship, and acknowledgment—for my vol-unteering, but also for the writings I’ve contributed. It is the ultimate “completion” moment for a piece of writing–indeed for any creation, I think–when an other, often a “stranger,” finds resonance with a writer’s message and tells her so, saying in effect: “What you wrote made a difference for me. Thank you for writing it.” On a broader scale, it seems to me that this moving out of the shadows is one of the great many riches of attending con-vention, available to all who come. We put faces to names, we embrace one another, we touch hand to hand and heart to heart. We meet the other parts of our one body, so to speak. We can remember the Whole, and revel in the beauty of the living Fabric that we are. If you missed out this June, I encourage you to mark your calendar for next June. And in the meantime, I hope to see you on these pages!

- Kathryn Deputat

EDITOR’S CIRCLE

Managing Editor: Gina Barkovitch Contributing Editors: Albie Barden, Kathryn Deputat,

Joan Gallo and Joan Nathanson

Albie Barden& Gina Barkovitch

Kathryn Deputat Joan Gallo Joan Nathanson

hile winter seemed to drag on and on, our summer is now fleeting by. At ASD we have been very busy as always. Our 2014 National Convention was a great success, thanks to the efforts of Suzanne Pinkham and her very capable team of volunteers, the headquarters staff, numerous speakers, vendors, Wellness Center practitioners,

PRESIDENTIAL MESSAGE

by Sandee Mac

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and a brilliant Angel Committee. We had great weather, good food, lots of speakers and plenty of wisdom sharing. We fund-raised successfully for our beloved Water for Humanity. British, Canadian, and American Dowser Presidents joined Canadian Keynote Speaker Susan Collins on stage for inspirational opening and closing ceremonies led by our dear Canadian Great Spirit and friend, White Eagle. As we continue to work closely with our Canadian and British counterparts, we find creative ways to make an important collective difference in the world. Some of our cherished members, including Andy Bray and Rene Lincoln, who passed over within the year, were celebrated as Sky Dowsers. Our principal Keynote Speaker, Dr. Bradley Nelson, author of The Emotion Code, along with his lovely wife and two gorgeous daughters, attended the Basic Dowsing School, and got inspired about all the possibilities of dowsing. Valuable new connections were made. Some members may not realize how critical it is for the Convention to be a significant financial success each year. The proceeds pay a good part of ASD’s organizational operating



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expenses to pay for the website, our headquarters, staff wages, the Digest and so much more! I personally thank each of you who participated in making it so successful. Call our Office and order some CDs if you couldn’t attend so you can enjoy at least some of the Convention’s benefits—not to mention the satisfaction of supporting ASD! I was also fortunate to attend this year’s successful West Coast Conference in Santa Cruz. These California people know how to party and dowse at the same time! Over 60 people attended their basic school. They had great speakers and loads of fun. Lisa Lacoss represented ASD headquarters with a good selection of books and tools for attendees. We’re moving ahead with plans for the 2015 Convention and a number of other projects. Committees are in place for Financial Review and Policy and Procedure Manual (PPM)-Bylaw upgrades. We’ve done several improvements at headquarters, and more are on the horizon. Some new chapters are forming. The Appalachian Chapter in North Carolina is making great progress on a Regional Convention in March 2015: mark your calendars now to attend! The Southwest Conference in Flagstaff, AZ may also be restored. Personally, I would love to see more small regional conferences – any chapters out there that want to sponsor one? Some of the Board members and I have been talking about what our role, vision, or mission is in these challenging times. Are we primarily a business (actually a non-profit corporation) to investigate science and teach some dowsing? Or is there a larger mission we are charged with, to make a difference in the world at this time? While I have a huge, 3-D, full-color HD Cinema mission in my own head, I’m asking for your thoughts, more specifically your guidance or dowsed information on this. Please help us visualize our potential so the Board can really represent you, our members. These are extraordinary times. Changes are occurring at warp speed in virtually every aspect of our individual and

collective realities. I envision a role for dowsing and the ASD to support these changes in service of the Light and uplifting of humankind. As Hellen Keller stated, “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all!” I’m inviting you and all dowsers to come with me on this exciting ride. Thanks sincerely for all you’re doing. Might we do just a little bit more and go just a little bit higher for the rest of the Planet? My dowsing says, “Yes, we can!” Please call, write, or – since I live in Indian Country – even send me a smoke signal with your suggestions. I’ll be waiting! I appreciate, adore and honor each of you.

In Service,Sandee Mac,

ASD President

Front: White Eagle, Opening CeremoniesLeft to Right: Susan Collins, Sunday Keynote Speaker, Sandee Mac, ASD National President, Grahame Gardner, British Society of Dowsers, Nancy Bradley, Canadian Society of DowsersPhoto taken by Bill Getz, June 2014



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HEADQUARTERS HAPPENINGS

by Blair Wolston, Operations Manager

H ello members of the ASD! It was a pleasure to meet so many of you in June at the National Convention in Vermont. The energetic expression of that event was truly uplifting, inspiring, and moti-vating! As an organization we made an-other quantum leap toward awakening the full potential of the human mind. The convention was well attended with about 350 participants enjoying the choice of over sixty unique presentations.

A big THANK YOU goes out to all the volunteers who made this event possible, from the convention chairperson and committee chairs to the people distributing handouts and doing head counts our gratitude extends ad infinitum. For anyone who missed the convention or just missed a presentation the record-ings are now available at www.dowsers.org/bookstore or by phon-ing in your order. Thanks so much for your continued support as a member of this organization.

“Are there any ham radio operators within ASD’s membership? I bet there are! The OM at Headquarters is a ham and he’d like to hear from you. Give Blair a call or shoot him an email about your experience as an amateur radio operator.

(802) 684-3417 mail to: [email protected]

Attention Ham Radio Operators!

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IN MEMORIAM:ASD REMEMBERING RENE LINCOLN

hea-jean "Rene" Lincoln passed away at her home Friday June 13th. She was born September 7, 1949 in Bryn Mawr, Pennsyl-vania, the daughter of Franklin Grant and Nanette Bury Schoch. She graduated from schools in Pennsylvania.

After graduation, she held various positions in her family automobile dealership. She later managed a number of travel agencies giving her a chance to travel extensively around the world. She married George J. "Rip" Lincoln in Pennsylvania on May 9, 1980 and proceeded to have three lovely children: Elizabeth Ashley, Victoria Bury and Christopher Grant Lincoln. She is survived by her sisters, Deborah Schoch and Pamela Schoch, and seven nephews and nieces. In 1986, she and her family moved to Vermont and built a house in Shrewsbury. Rene had a lifelong commitment to volunteerism. She was one of the founders of the Shrewsbury Nursery School which was eventually absorbed by the Shrewsbury Mountain School. She was a co-chair of the Shrewsbury Bicentennial committee in 1990. For many years, Rene was editor of the Times of Shrewsbury and taught the Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS) Environmental Learning for the Future ( ELF) program at the Shrewsbury Mountain School. She initiated the ELF program at Christ the King School. Rene additionally served her town as the animal control officer and was on the Shrewsbury Library committee. She also served VINS as an avian rescuer, was a Reiki practitioner, delivered Meals on Wheels and volunteered in two nursing homes for years. Rene was introduced to and developed a true passion for dowsing. She joined the Jack O'Handley chapter of the American



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Society of Dowsers in Rutland serving as secretary for four years and as President until her passing. In addition to her monthly chapter meetings, her group also met monthly for healing work. For many years she served on the ASD Convention Committee eventually being Chair of the annual event twice. Rene was elected to the National Board of Trustees of ASD in 2010, was honored as Volunteer of the Year in 2011, and received the Dowser of the Year award in 2012. She also served on the Water for Humanity Committee since 2008. Rene traveled around northern New England dowsing wells and teaching dowsing at libraries, elementary schools and colleges, and for Orvis Corporation. Rene would like to thank you for all of the letters, cards, flowers, calls, prayers and blessings that so many of you sent to her that she could not respond to. In lieu of flowers, please make all donations in her memory payable to Water for Humanity. They can be mailed to Water For Humanity c/o ASD, P.O. Box 24 Danville, VT 05828. Rene's Memorial Service was held on June 19th at the Shrewsbury Community Church and Town Meeting Hall in Shrewsbury, Vermont.

GRATITUDE AND FAREWELL TO RENE

The Committee of the ASD Water for Humanity Fund is sad that our beloved committee member, Rene Lincoln, passed away. Rene Lincoln originally joined the WFH Committee April 8th of 2008, as Liaison to the Convention Planning Committee and later on as a Member-at-Large. She loyally served for over six years, also acting as our advocate on the ASD Board of Trustees as both supporter and defender. We deeply appreciate her service and contributions on all levels and will miss her greatly, even knowing that she has now been called to higher realms and even greater service.

In gratitude, Steve Herbert, WHF Secretary

National Convention Awards

2014 CATEGORIESDowser of the Year: Richard Roy Paul Sevigny Award: Bill Getz Outstanding Service Award: Gina Barkovitch Educator of the Year: Richard Crutchfield Glen JohnsonVolunteer of the Year: Paul BennettLegend Award: Marge Hefty Registry of Recognition: Peter Harmon George Tolles Geanne GehringerChapter Member of the year: Heidi Irgens Scott PearceChapter of the Year: Mohawk - Hudson Dowser Chapter Newsletter of the Year: West Coast Dowsers

CONGRATULATIONS

TO THE 2014 RAFFLE WINNERS!

Lifetime ASD Membership: Cindy Burns One Year ASD Membership: Marty Lucas

The raffle raised $1,030.00 and broke a new record.



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BOOKSTORE GREETINGS

by Jax Willey, Bookstore Manager

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BOOKSTORE NEWS

want to thank everyone who helped make the bookstore a success at this year’s convention. A special thanks to Amy Wolston, Mimi Trull & Karen Eddings for volunteering in the bookstore at convention. We are proud to announce that we, ASD, published Terry Ross’ last book, The Healing

Mind. It is now available through the bookstore and is highly rec-ommended. The bookstore has continued to grow with metaphysical and dowsing books and products. We just started carrying orgone products. Orgone is a natural life-force energy that enhances a person’s strength, harmony or balance. We now have protection disks, Pendulums, L-Rods, & necklaces made with orgone. Convention recordings have arrived! Over 60 audio CDs and 30 DVDs to choose from. Full audio MP3 of over 60 of the 2014 Convention speakers is also available in the bookstore. It is always a pleasure to connect people with knowledge and inspiration by finding them the right book or dowsing tool.

Jax WilleyBookstore Manager

“Each time I dip into this book [The Healing Mind: The Way of the Dowser], I am wowed by its contents. I look forward to partaking of the rest. It’s a well of riches…” ~Kathryn Deputat

TERRY ROSS BOOK REVIEW

"Sandee Mac, the first woman President of the American Society of Dowsers, made some excellent contributions at our Canadian Dowsers Society's Annual Convention as our Keynote Speaker and in her post-convention workshop. Sandee is an eloquent, articulate speaker on subjects too many to even list without reference. She also made some perceptive, helpful comments during our Annual Meeting, based on her experience as a Trustee and President of the ASD. We were very fortunate to have her with us!”“Nancy Bradley, our Canadian Dowsers' President, had a good time at ASD's National Convention in June and I'm so glad that she was acknowledged in your opening and closing ceremonies. I believe Nancy will do an excellent job of continuing the rebuilding of our organization, possibly borrowing from some of the positive changes that ASD has been able to effect in the last few years." - Joan Nathanson [Joan Nathanson is Editor of the Canadian Dowsers' member e-newsletter and Contributing Editor to The Quarterly Digest beginning this issue.]

CANADIAN DOWSERS BENEFIT FROM ASD PRESIDENT’S LEADERSHIP

At this year’s convention, the Water For Humanity (WFH) table raised a very respectable $11,785.92. The raffle fund-raiser

raised $2,697 from sales of raffle tickets. The “Dowse Your Own Price” table brought in $292.72. Tee shirts generated $573. Donations from David Pitkin books amounted to $245. Straight donations (including the Wishing Well) added up to $7,678.20 and the Silent Auction took in

$300. Thanks to everyone who participated in making this such a great success.

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by Violetta from Romania moved to the USA 15 years ago. I worked as a mechanical engineer the first three years. I liked the job, but I liked to work with people better and help them in different ways. That is why I left and became a community organizer. I have organized more than 500 events. I was busy but I enjoyed my work. Since childhood, I was interested in the spiritual life. That is why I took the opportunity to learn and practice yoga, Reiki, Magnified Healing, and other practices. I was eating healthfully, mostly vegetarian, enjoying being with friends and practicing yoga. I might have only one flu per year. Suddenly last summer, I was diagnosed with a very rare Ampulary cancer. It was on the pancreas, too. I had the Wipple procedure. Unfortunately, I had many complications after that, but I didn’t give up and I was not scared. I refused the traditional medicine – chemotherapy, radiation. That was the hardest decision in my life. A friend of mine from Croatia told me it would be good to find a dowser and check my house. He lived in a building where many people got cancer from the energy lines underneath. Once they cleared them, everything was OK. Three years prior to my diagnosis, my husband and I bought a house. I was concerned about the energy lines running under my house and how they might contribute to (or exacerbate) my illnes. I spent time trying to find a dowser in my area, but couldn’t. In November, I went to a Health Expo in Marlborough, Massachusetts. To my surprise, the American Society of Dowsers were there. I was so happy. I asked for help. One very experienced dowser was willing to help me and he found from a distance that two energy lines were crossing under my bed. He worked on them. I couldn’t be more thankful for his clearing this problem.

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I was interested in learning dowsing too, because I felt that dowsing could help me to heal and grow more spiritually. I did a lot of natural healing. I improved my health a lot, but still I can’t say that I put the cancer in remission. I was looking for new things to learn and practice and I decided to come to the conference and take the Beginners Dowsing class. This was my first time in a year going out of Boston and my first time after the surgery driving by myself that long of a distance. I drove three hours to Vermont. I was planning to stay just for the class one night. But I was so amazed by the great like-minded people that I met: the nature, the fire, the incredible teachers and the presenters. I felt at home. That is why I called my husband and said, “I will stay here longer” and he said “You sound so happy! Great!” I learned a lot from the class and everyone I met. After the conference, we went with friends to Newport, Rhode Island. We had a nice time on the beach and walking around. When we were leaving, my friend lost her keys for the house and the car. She was so worried because she had only one key for the car. She is an experienced dowser but at the moment she was not able to use her skills because she was so worried. Then, after an hour searching, I decided to try to find it. I had a pendulum with me. I asked a couple of questions and I was able to find it. I was so happy!

"We had an awesome time. Wow! We got blessings and healings and past life stuff cleared up and bought books and met people and had some really nice time together away from home. Nei-ther of us had been to ASD before and we loved it. Thank you so much!"

Love and blessings, Dawn (and her husband, Phil).

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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].

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MY GRANDFATHER'S SUITCASE

by Nicole Porte Leclercq from France

id I tell you why I came to the Dowsers’ Convention in Vermont? It was just because of my grandfather's suitcase. When he passed away in 1964, my cousin, Brigitte and I were very sad as we really admired our grandfather. I was 14 years old and Brigitte was about 8. We always played in his attic as he had lots of strange things that fascinated us. Shortly after his funeral, we came back to his house and once again escaped to his attic looking for solace by touching what we considered his little treasures. It gave us a sense of a closeness to him. We had always guessed he had "secrets"... But what? We found a small wooden case and were puzzled by what was inside - two strange objects with hundreds of thank-you notes. We found out the two objects were a pendulum and a very heavy piece of meteorite. At first, we didn't understand the connection between these objects and the thank you notes.

Only after reading the notes did we realize our grandfather had a gift for healing using these objects. We surmised he could heal people long distance with just a photo, as there were a few testimonies about that. Brigitte and I were very moved and we had tears in our eyes. If only we had talked to him about his healing and dowsing abilities! As you probably know, dowsing and long distance healing were not common in France during his lifetime. Such practices were not widely accepted.

In May 2014, I was visiting a good friend of mine in Massachusetts who was going to the conference in Vermont. It was a good opportunity to discover more about dowsing. I registered for the basic dowsing class and was happy to meet so many people with such diverse backgrounds in both dowsing and healing. Believe me...I am just a beginner but I hope to share what I have learned.

To all Members:With the Edgar Cayce Predictions fast approaching reality, it seems to me that with the expertise of all the dowsing talent available in our Society, we should be able to buffer in specific ways the inherent dangers involved in the Cayce Predictions.Here are some thoughts along these lines: Which areas in your locality could be involved with: earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tornados and/or specific pollutions? Map it out. Use your pendulums.Since many of our members know how to move a water vein from one spot to another, why can't the same thing be accomplished by one or a group of dowsers - to move a hurricane to a safe watery conclusion, or an earth fault happening to a

A DOWSING CHALLENGE TO LESSEN CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS

minor shake, or a tornado to swerve to a wooded area with no homes involved.It seems to me that these God-given talents of our members should be channeled along these lines, making efforts to save many lives in our near fu-ture.Let's do a survey: can we help in any way to reduce the dangers of earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, tornados and pollutions using our Dowsing Talents? Let’s hear from you. Any better ideas? The outcome of the survey could be issued in a future issue of the Digest. I think it’s important and very, very topical.Frank W. Breslin, 92 years old[Send correspondence to the Di-gest at [email protected]]

ANNOUNCING OUR NEW SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR!

Please welcome Bill Rude from Michigan, our new Scientific Advisor! He can be contacted at 616-723-0524 or

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TO THE EDITOR

To The Editor, The award for Educator of the Year came as a big surprise. It has made me wonder how many were in the competition! It allowed me to get a hug from Marty Cain. I learned from my friend, Richard Roy, "Never pass up a chance for a hug"! Since I do teach dowsing classes at two local Adult Edu-cation systems in the area,I humbly accept the honor. At a recent class, I was pre-sented with the problem of a

I am looking for a book titled "Geological Transmutations" by C. Louis Kervran in either print copy or rough translation by Christopher Bird. I had a copy years ago provided to me by Freida Mattenly.

MEMBER BOOK REQUEST

polluted well - radon, arsenic and bacteria. Asked if I could help as a dowser, I asked for a self-cleaning, thought form filter to be installed in the line feeding the dwelling. The e-mail feedback was, "Tested the water-acceptable levels of radon, arsenic and bacteria. A workable Raymond Grace idea.”

Glen Johnson, Life Member

Rollie Moore Chapter of So. Maine Society of Dowsers, Inc.

Please contact me at [email protected] with any infor-mation on how to obtain an-other copy of this book.

Thanks, Sue Trumpfheller

by Don BlackVision Committee Chair

he VISION COMMITTEE is working to submit a Report to the Board of Trustees on the future opportunities available to ASD accompanied by Position Papers with related Action Plans. Our MISSION is to increase membership and enhance incoming revenue by creating a value-added membership that embraces the Information Age paradigm shift while remaining consistent with our traditions, history, ethics and by-laws. Our Committee has been working for a few months and this is what we are exploring: 1. 0ur Potential Audience 2. ASD’s present image 3. Enhancing membership 4 . Ta r g e t e d Grant Writing 5. The Role of the Board of Trustees: working Board or policy Board 6. Headquarters location. Should we create a satellite service office? 7. 0pportunities for ASD to be a clearing-house for resource information for activities around the country that will inform scheduling and minimize calendar conflicts 8. Ways to clarify the regulatory challenges to our members 9. Raise awareness in the academic/scientific community to recognize dowsing’s contribution in ongoing initiatives and investigations into extra-sensory perception and consciousness. 10. Greater public awareness for Water for Humanity 11. Liaison with Dows-ing Organizations outside the US.

Contribute your ideas to the Vision Committee. Go to the ASD website “Vision BLOG” or go to the Facebook link. Contact us before September 30, 2014. We will then submit our Report to the BOT; if they concur, it will be presented at the 2015 Conven-tion. If confidential, email me - [email protected] or snail mail me at P0 Box 296, Anacortes, WA 98221. ASD IS YOUR ORGA-NIZATION - reap the bounty of this opportunity.

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WATER FOR HUMANITY CONGRATULATES RICHARD ROY, DOWSER OF THE YEAR, 2014

At our recent annual National Convention of ASD, Richard Roy of Laval, Quebec, was awarded the honor of recognition by the ASD as Dowser of the Year. Richard Roy made his first trip to Haiti in 2001, and has continued making trips to Haiti twice each year since. The WFH Fund is proud to have supported Richard’s efforts with grants nearly every year

since 2002, making particular efforts to provide support after the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12th of 2010. Richard spends six to seven weeks in Haiti on each trip and estimates he has spent 178 weeks there total to date. Over that time, he has dowsed well sites himself and trained hundreds to do the same. He has overseen the digging or drilling of hundreds of wells and the repair of even more. Many people have been trained to operate portable drilling equipment by him. Richard has been responsible for a great many households receiving slow-sand bio-filters to purify their water. Apart from water resources, he has promoted literacy trainings in Haiti, volunteered as an election monitor, and per-sonally finances the primary education of many children. He set up a fund to finance technical school and college education, and brings medical supplies with him on every trip. Originally, Richard worked with the Canadian non-profit, Les Artisans de Paix Internationale. In 2009, he founded his own non-profit organization called Eau Sans Frontieres. To better prepare himself for his work in Haiti, at his own expense, he attended training in water filters presented by CAWST in Calgary, Alberta, and week-long trainings offered by EQUIP of North Carolina in both drilling and hand pumps. Richard is a true hero in Haiti and this award was very well deserved. Congratulations, Richard! In gratitude,

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“GOT JUICE” EXPERIMENT RESULTSINVITE FURTHER EXPLORATIONS

by Kathryn Klvana

e had 55 people take part in our “Got Juice” experiment at the ASD National Convention in June. I designed the experiment using four C batteries. Three of these were fresh batteries with a full charge and one was dead. I tagged each one with a piece of masking tape and marked them A, B, C and D. At Convention, the experiment was out in the lobby where attendees could dowse their answer to the question, “Which bat-tery is dead?” They circled their choice on the answer slip, added their name and email address if they wanted, and dropped the slip into the collection box. On Sunday afternoon, I collected the slips and counted them up. We had 14 people choose A, 18 people choose B, 13 people choose C, and 10 people choose D. I had a small battery tester with me and at that point, I tested each of the batteries to see which one was dead. The correct answer was B. 33% of the participants chose the correct battery. The dif-ferences between the choices were not statistically significant. Calculating the standard deviation, it indicated that choosing the correct battery could have been due to chance. If you dowsed incorrectly, don’t feel bad. There are several reasons that could account for that: the experiment was set up in a busy open area; you may have been picking up on someone else’s choice; you may be better at another kind of dowsing; and finally and most importantly, you may not have thought of this as a serious endeavor. Next time, I will try to stress that our goal is to conduct an experiment that will stand up to scientific scrutiny and that proves what we know–that dowsing works. I would be happy to receive any ideas you may have for fu-ture experiments if you would like to send them to me at [email protected]



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ITHANK YOU SANDEE MAC

by Kathryn Deputat

joined ASD and attended my first convention in 2010. It seems to me ‘everything ASD’ has gone from good to better these past four years, and I for one attribute that improvement largely ,if not predominantly, to Sandee Mac’s passionate, skillful, heart-ful and seemingly tireless, leadership. I am frankly in awe of the sheer volume of time and energy Sandee gives in service to this organization—to us. Furthermore, I have been touched person-ally by it--deeply and irreversibly--for the better. It was Sandee’s spirited and inspiring appeal at Convention 2013 that had me throw my hand up, thereby committing to writing an article for the Digest. “What can you do?” she had inquired of us all. What of our numerous and various talents and expertise, she was asking, could we offer to grow, support, and enrich our community: to contribute, in a word. In 2 or 3 seconds flat, our President had single-handedly converted me from a card-carrying, dues paying member to a contributing member. My raised hand was a promise, and I’ve been keeping that promise. I have our fearless leader to thank for all the gratifica-tion, friendship, colleagueship, and professional as well as per-sonal visibility and enrichment that followed from that singular, inspiring, irresistible appeal—merely one of a gazillion demon-strations of Sandee’s effective leadership. I heard Sandee Mac’s remark at Opening Ceremonies of our National Convention last month and I gasped. “President for a little while longer”!? I have known no other ASD president, but I honestly cannot imagine a better one! Suffice it to say I feel we are extremely fortunate to have Sandee at our helm. Love and Light,

Kathryn Deputat

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WHY JOIN THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF DOWSERS:A LONG-TIME DOWSER’S FIRST TIME

TO NATIONAL CONVENTION

by Marty Lucas ur chapter is an excellent dowsing chapter. We have excellent officers, an excellent newsletter and fascinating programs. No one from the National ASD (American Society of Dowsers) Headquarters stops by our meetings and frankly we can dowse as well as anyone. So why join the American Society of Dowsers?

If you ever had the opportunity to attend the national con-vention, the question becomes obvious, but for everyone else it is not so obvious. The ASD has been around for a long time and is headquartered in Vermont. The organization has had its ups and downs, but is currently growing and rebuilding. They provide chapters and members with more than most of us realize.

First of all, The Quarterly Digest contains a wealth of infor-mation from trusted and experienced dowsers. Their tips, tricks and procedures help new and experienced dowsers solve prob-lems and improve their accuracy. The Digest is archived on-line, so articles from the very beginning of the organization are still available for study. The website also has some of the best train-ing materials online, including recorded classes and lectures. This rich library of knowledge and contact information by itself is well worth the $50 annual dues.

With the Digest, there is also the contact information for dowsers that concentrate on any number of specialties. Some dowse for water, others dowse for lost pets, things, and even peo-ple. As you peruse the Digest, you’ll notice their emails and phone numbers. Some have dowsing businesses, others are researchers. But in every case where I have contacted a dowser from the di-gest, I have been received with helpfulness and courtesy. What a blessing to have these experts available if someone has a question or needs to hire someone or find a local chapter!



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Then there is the National Convention itself, currently in Vermont. Annually, around 500 of the world’s top dowsers get together for a few days to exchange ideas and learn. There are almost 20 classes per day. They are all recorded so you can still listen to the classes you miss or buy the entire convention‘s re-cordings to listen to.

The trade show hall is filled with vendors carrying everything from pendulums and L-rods to crystals, radionic equipment or the latest in self-health technology.

Then there is the Health Spa. Here is another entire room filled with massage therapists, Reiki practitioners, advanced spiri-tual advisors and even people with Aura Photography equipment. So when the rest of the convention is too much, or you need to pamper yourself, the Spa is there for you.

But all of these people and all of these services and all of this dowsing knowledge doesn’t come together by magic. It is put together by just three ASD employees and a host of volunteers. The lifeblood of ASD is the members. Without the individual members from around the country and around the world, none of this would be possible.

For just $50, members get access to this vast network and 4 times a year they receive The Digest. Honestly anyone that tells me they cannot afford the dues really doesn’t understand the val-ue they are passing up.

Join ASD and support your dowsing community. You owe it to yourself, but more importantly, you owe it to the next generation of dowsers. Your membership helps to preserve dowsing traditions and knowledge.

Marty Lucas is the Winner of the 2014 One-Year ASD Membership Raffle. Marty can be reached at [email protected]

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SDOWSING THE QUARTERLY DIGEST

by Gina Barkovitch, Lead Editor

ome people, especially those who contribute the stories we publish in the Digest, may wonder how we choose which articles (and now advertisements) go into a given issue. Here is MY dowsing story of how this has been happening since 2013. Albie Barden and I accepted the voluntary position of Editors for The Quarterly Digest in February, 2013. We received wonderful telephone support from ASD’s previous Editor, Sybil Carey, as well as a few unpublished articles. We immediately got to work stumbling through the process of putting our first Digest together with roughly three weeks to publication. Work demands took Albie out of town and out of range of Internet access. So in the end, I had to figure out solo what to include from among the articles we’d received, read and edited together. My best resource was to dowse. A system quickly came to mind based on a book I read fifteen years ago by David Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., titled Power versus Force; The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior. I learned about numerical calibrations/energy levels/vibrational frequencies for emotions or states of being by specific numbers through kinesiology (muscle-testing strength). Dr. Hawkin’s numerical system went from 0 to 1,000. Any numbers below 200 (which include the emotions of shame, grief and fear) make people weak, and any numerical equivalencies 200 and above make people strong (including love, joy and peace). I’ve benefitted from his book and adapted his method in so many ways since then with simple things, like determining the current numerical frequency of a room that doesn’t feel quite right and asking for the optimal or highest potential numerical frequency of that room. Pointing to objects in the room while dowsing their numerical frequency can help to determine what to remove in order to raise the overall

vibration of that room (or books on an overflowing bookcase to help decide what to keep or give away based on the vibration, etc.). I adapted his method again to create a Digest dowsing program, but first I set up an environment for “blind dowsing”, to eliminate the possibility of showing any bias towards authors or topics. I made a list of all the available articles, counting that I had, in the first case, 27 articles. Then, I asked someone else to take the list and randomly assign a number between 1 and 27 next to each line item, with one number per article, scrambled. I instructed them to keep the paper until I asked for it back. I then wrote the numbers 1 to 27 down each line on a clean paper. As I began dowsing questions, I focused only on Article 1 (having no possible idea which topic or author it was), writing the results of my dowsing questions on the empty line next to the number 1, and then on to Article 2, and so on. After dowsing all my ques-tions for all the articles, after a couple of days, I asked for the original numbered paper with titles back to arrange order and in-clusion in the layout of the Digest based on my dowsing program. “I asked questions such as …‘highest good of all?’ and vi-brational level between 1 and 100, 100 being the highest number possible, and set 50 as a minimum qualifier: anything dowsing out 50 or higher would be included in the article ‘pool’ for publi-cation but further questioning determined which edition. Any-thing below 50 would be re-considered/re-dowsed for the next is-sue with additional edits or correspondence with the author. I did the same for advertisements as they were submitted. (One time I dowsed the vibrational frequency of an article below 50 that had a really good topic and then dowsed it’s potential of over 50, then the frequency of each paragraph, then lines that might be affect-ing the frequency, and so on, deleting unnecessary words to get the article up over 50 to a 58. I didn’t add to or change the voice or intent of the article, just removed what wasn’t necessary or in alignment with the topic to raise the vibration). The dowsing program seemed to work so well the first



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time that I’ve kept this up in subsequent issues. And with an ad-ditional talented, committed editor joining the team almost every issue, the vibration of the Digest keeps increasing! I have often needed and asked for help with dowsing articles. For this Summer issue, I was especially hurried and relied on others’ dowsing skills in the inclusion process, so I employed “buddy dowsing” along with “blind dowsing” for articles and advertisements. I called a few people asking them to dowse whether, for instance, Articles 12, 15, 22, and 26 and the Ads numbered were in the highest good of all for this issue and their frequency equivalent between 1 and 100 (again with numbers below 50 not published). I discovered a wonderful byproduct of this dowsing approach also. What might appear to be an oversight, exclusion, or delay turns out perfectly, as was the case with Libby Hopkins’ article. Libby submitted Flower Essences in March of this year, specifically to get it published prior to leading her course at Convention in Vermont. Once she received the Spring issue, she contacted me, disappointed that it was missing. I felt terrible and let her know that I really enjoyed reading it, apologizing profusely. After Convention, Libby contacted me to say, “No worries about it not being in the spring issue, I think that actually worked out for the best. As it so often does.” At that point, I had already begun working on the Summer Digest and noticed in my notes that her article had dowsed over a 50 in the Spring but had dowsed not to be included in that issue. So what I thought for a time had been a mistake or oversight on my part or the publisher’s part turned out for the best! What better way to manage the decision-making process of articles and advertisements for a Dowsers’ journal than by dowsing and relying on the dowsing community!?

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WATER FOR AMERICA:A PROPOSED PROJECT FOR EXPERIENCED DOWSERS

by Greg Storozuk

bout two months ago, I saw the projected drought map for the United States on the Weather Channel. Two states in particu-lar caught my eye, California and Texas. The announcer stated that these two states alone supplied approximately 30% of the U.S. food supply, and both states had severe and critical drought con-ditions in food growing areas. Since then, the map has been updated but, the projections remain painfully similar. The plain fact of the matter is that the water supply here in the U.S. is a major problem for ranchers, farmers, and some cities countrywide, and it’s not getting any bet-ter. Then I began thinking, “As a water dowser, what can I do about this?” Dowsing would have died out long ago had it not been successful. Many times, I might add, it has had far superior re-sults when compared to the scientifically trained ‘experts’ - a fact too often overlooked. Then I wondered, “What if I could get a group of experi-enced water dowsers together to dowse for these farmers, ranch-ers and cities?” I brought this idea up to ASD’s Education Com-mittee, which then passed the ball to the Trustees who discussed this at a teleconferenced meeting. We are looking for support of experienced water dowsers. Does “Water For America” have any merit or interest? This Water for America project is proving more difficult than it seemed. Years ago, water dowsers were the dominant spe-cies of dowsers in ASD, but now, not so much. In fact, it’s hard to find more than a small handful of water dowsers at conventions and conferences anymore. What I’m proposing is the following: A group of experi-

Advertisers in the American Dowser have the opportunity to reach a targeted audience of readers in 24 countries who are interested in dowsing, spirituality, alternative health, and metaphysics.



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enced water dowsers, (meaning those with at least 100 or more successful wells, preferably with 10 or more wells producing over 200 GPM), who are willing to volunteer their time and expertise only, to find water for ranchers, farmers and cities who desperate-ly need water the most. All expenses to and from the location(s) would be the responsibility of the clients. Many years ago, when we were beginners, our teachers gave us information, skills, tutoring and friendship, all free of charge. It’s unfortunate that as the years pass by, so do the ranks of experienced water dowsers, and especially now when we need them the most. This program is up to us, now. Most, if not all, of our teachers are gone and there’s nothing we can do to repay them for all that we’ve learned. What we can do, however, is to pass on what they taught us in the same way it was given to us - free of charge. ASD Trustees have given their approval, in principle, for the program but it won’t work without your help. This is strictly a humanitarian effort to help people in need. It’s not a competi-tion with the scientific community. It’s just one person helping another simply because we can. We also have an opportunity to repay the debt to our teachers for their kindnesses.

Participation is voluntary, and those who do can opt out at anytime. Only clients in dire need of groundwater wells will be accepted.

To volunteer your services, or contribute ideas for plan-ning and carrying out this urgent project, please contact me, Greg Storozuk, at (303) 274-4158 or email [email protected].

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WATER FOR HUMANITY NEWS

Condensed from a Report submitted by Steven Herbert, WFH Secretary to inform members of ASD.

Summary of Projects funded by Water for Humanity for 2013 Calendar Year:

* 3 Dug wells in western Kenya* 24 Bore wells: 1 in Uganda and 23 in India* 1 well renovation in western Kenya* Water filter distribution projects in El Salvador, Kenya, Tanzania & Honduras* 6 Composting latrines in western Kenya* 2 weeks water delivery on the Navajo reservation in New Mexico, USA* World Water Day sponsorship to 1 organization in India* Partial funding of a site visit to a group of 3 people visiting 2 organizations in IndiaDetailed reports including costs of each project are in the Wa-ter for Humanity Newsletters. Please get on the WFH email list if you’re not already on it. The testimonials and descriptions of community involvement and training and gratitude are truly heart-warming. If you have a few extra dollars, please consider donating to Water for Humanity, an outreach extension of our dowsing community. Find some way to get involved and make a difference in drinking water quality and availability in other parts of the country and world. Thank you to Steve and WFH commit-



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tee and volunteers and benefactors for all your extraordinary work and vision.WFH’s Indiegogo crowd-funding cam-paign report: On March 27th, the Wa-ter for Humanity Fund kicked off its first crowd-funding campaign through Indiego-go, with the objective of raising $4,000 for a project in India. The proposed project was to provide a bore well and pump for a vil-lage, build a composting latrine for an old age home, construct a rainwater system on the roof of the composting latrine, and in-troduce household ceramic water filtration

Local dowser Mr. M. Anbu dowses with an iron bolt.

devices. This project will be in partnership with the organization Health Education and Development Society (HEADS), a veteran of one past project.We are pleased to report that the campaign came to a success-ful conclusion on May 12th, meeting and even exceeding our monetary goal within the allotted time. The total raised on-line was $4,040. To this was added a total of $1,325 in conventional checks mailed to the ASD office to be applied to this project. The grand total is $5,365! There was a total of 56 donors, of which 33 were ASD members (59%) and 23 were non-ASD members (41%).

Community members ofArungari Mangalam in a training session.

Children of Nachathira Koil Primary School

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DOWSERS APPRENTICE WITH AWARD-WINNING BILL GETZ

by Albie Barden

ust prior to the 2014 ASD Annual Convention, Bill Getz led a two-day workshop on water dowsing. On Thursday before the convention, I had a free day and asked Bill if I could accompany his class for a field trip to North Danville, where a client, David Reed, wanted a well on his property. I joined Bill’s class crew promptly at 9 a.m. in the parking lot and rode in Bill’s car which led the short caravan of vehicles to the dowsing site. David met us at the foot of the driveway and guided us up a long hill several hundred yards off the road to his cabin site. We parked all of our vehicles in a row on the sloping land near a tree line which defined one boundary of the property. Bill opened up the hatch back of his vehicle and pulled out several limber recently cut long forked sticks. He also donned with a shoulder strap a white taped quiver of 1.5 inch diameter PVC pipe with its bottom closed. In this little holster he carried several surveyors flags and his heavy solid brass “L” rods. David gave us all a sense of the property line along the trees and Bill got ready to scan the area with his three or four foot-long forked stick. First, however, he stated out loud for Da-vid, the class, the land and the water below his standard protocol or program for dowsing a potable well: “Where is the best place to drill to get the greatest amount of good tasting, clean, potable water that will meet the needs of the owner on a sustainable basis, meet the requirements of the State, not interfere with any other wells and is accessible to the driller?” Bill them began to sweep his forked stick in an arc to find the direction of the asked for best well site. His rods soon dipped and quickly found a vein a few feet from where we had parked. He marked the direction of the vein with a sprayed arrow



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of orange fluorescent paint. He then stepped several paces to one side of the vein and with his protocol in place began to triangulate the well site and marked a second arrow. He then stepped to the other side of the vein and dowsed for a third time to lock in the triangulated point and sprayed a third arrow. Where the lines met, he placed a flag. Class members were encouraged to use their forked sticks to confirm the location and several did. Close to the triangulated target spot, Bill put down his forked stick and took out his thick solid brass unsleeved “L” rods to more accurately pin point the site and asked his further ques-tions using the “l” rods as his dowsing tools. Noting that his homemade rods were heavy and unsleeved, Bill commented that the heavy rods are not disturbed on a breezy day and have proved to be more reliable for him than lighter weight sleeved rods. Although Bill’s standard protocol already asked for good tasting, potable water, he then asked additional questions just to be sure. With the rods ready, he asked: “Are there contaminants such as sulfur, iron, gases, or salt present in the water? The rods responded with a “No” confirming the more general statement of his original protocol question. Next, he asked: “Are there hazards for the driller such as caves or crevices?” Again the rods resp-onded with a “No.” Still using his rods, Bill then asked for the depth of the well and counted the measures in five foot increments until his rods swung wide at 55 feet. Similarly he determined the depth down to 75 feet. He then asked for the recharge rate of the well in gallons per minute starting at one gallon and the rods swung wide at six gallons per minute. He then asked for the reserve depth of the well and counted down to 95 feet. and then asked for the hydrostatic level that the water would rise in the well pipe and counted this depth down until his rods indicated the top of the hydrostatic rise at 30 feet. I had agreed to take notes of all of these measures which at the end Bill would enter in his field note book and also give a copy to the client, David. Bill then told us all that we needed to determine (in any

well drilling site) how the rock ledge was laying so that he could indicate exactly where the driller should place his bit. Depending on the rock formation, there is always some slight drift in the drilling bit, in this case, over the course of 55 feet. Bill, using his “L” rods and acknowledging out loud the need to find exactly where the driller needed to start his drilling in order to hit the target at 55 feet, found a spot just a few inches up hill from the target spot for the drilling to be done. Bill marked that spot with paint and explained to David and us all that it is important for the driller to drill on that prescribed spot. Noting to us all that some drillers choose to go beyond the target depth, Bill then asked if there were any probable hazards deeper down below the target depth and got a probable hazard “Yes” response at 210 feet and the probability that it was associated with radon. Bill cautioned David to make sure that the drillers stayed within the target zone that he had dowsed. Although Bill’s protocol had determined that we had found the best site on the property for a well, David wondered if we could look further uphill both on this vein and behind the cabin for possible potable well sites there. Bill politely agreed to dowse further up the vein and we found that the vein thinned out those yards up the hill and that the gallons per minute dropped by almost half. Behind the cabin, there is water there as well, but it comes in at only slightly over one gallon per minute. The first site dowsed remains the best and considerations of such things as location of a septic field will have to be adjusted accordingly. Before we finished, I asked Bill if he and the group could dowse for a water dome on the mowed lawn in front of the cab-in as a site where David can consider a meditation spot or the center of a labyrinth. About fifty feet away from the well, further down the sloping yard, Bill found a dome and triangulated it, and marked it with arrows and a flag. During our dowsing exercises, Bill at one point invited David to grasp one side of his long forked stick. As they neared the target of the question of the moment, the rod dipped sharply



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in both David’s and Bill’s hands. (This action reminded me that I was similarly introduced to dowsing as a boy when an old man named Silas near Killingly, RI, put his stick in my hand while he held the other. When we approached the water vein, the stick twisted sharply in my tight grasp, leaving bark and a bared branch in my hand.) For payment, Bill had arranged that the dowsing would be done at no charge but that a donation for Water for Humanity was requested, and David gladly handed Bill a check for the WFH Fund. Before returning to Lyndon State College, Bill led the class for a brief stop at the ASD headquarters building in Danville and showed us where a small group of dowsers a few months back had located the vein of water than ran under the lawn and driveway and under the corner of the brick building causing a constant wet condition in the basement, making it unsuitable for storing books and documents. Having located the vein, Bill and others inserted an iron rod in the ground and requested the water divert from its original path under the building establishing a detour and rejoined its original path in order to not disturb any neighbors’ basements across the street. Having stated their request and intention, the rod had been struck a few times sending vibrations and intentions into the ground. After each modest striking, the vein would be dowsed again to see if it could and would shift, and after the second or third try, the vein indicated that it could and would make the detour. Months later the detour was still in place. The basement is dry and the neighbors have no problems either. The class followed the line of the vein with the around-the-corner jog in it. Many years ago at a Beginning Dowsers School, I had seen Paul Sevigny demonstrate the struck iron rod water vein diversion technique. On my own dug well, Marty Cain found a heavy metal deposit in line with the water and asked with her rods or pendulum in hand if the water was able and willing to shift its course to avoid the heavy metal and it responded that it could and would. Marty asked that it do so and confirmed that it

would be completed in seventeen hours. No iron rod or striking was necessary, but the intention was the same in both cases. The struck metal rod approach hints that the water is forced by human intervention to move. The request approach suggests that the water moves willingly as a co-creator in the process. I asked Bill if he knew Vermonter Paul Sevigny when he was alive, and Bill said that he did not. One member of the two-day water dowsing class missed the departure from the parking lot and tried vainly to catch up with the class. In Danville, however, she found our client David at the post office and he agreed to take her up to the land so that she too could try her hand at dowsing his well site. When they arriv-ed at the cabin site, David parked his car on top of the flag and orange paint so that she could not see it. When she was done with her dowsing work, she had found the same site, the same depth and the same gallons per minute as Bill.

The dowsing community recognized and celebrated Bill’s remarkable dowsing skills and records during evening ceremonies with the Paul Sevigny 2014 award for dowsing over 1000 wells. Bill Getz is a remarkable man, gentle, honest, humble and always has a twinkle in his eye. Currently, he has two apprentices studying with him. I hope that more senior dowsers are taking on apprentices as well.

Bill Getz can be reached at [email protected] Barden can be reached at [email protected]

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I AM A LITTLE GREEN FROG

by John Wayne Blassingame and Katie Blassingame

ohn says, “Kids like to learn about new things and to have fun while doing it, so how do we make learning how to Dowse entertaining for them?” Katie says, “I think we need to make a game out of Dowsing. I propose that we turn our Dowsing lesson into an Easter Egg Hunt-type game. This will allow the participants to establish proper usage of the Dowsing tools that we give them in a fun and interactive manner. After we place the items that we will be using in their separate ‘hiding-spots’, we will allow one participant to go look for them while the others can practice asking questions or draw. If the participant who is searching for the hidden item with the dowsing rods, has trouble finding the items, we can help them. Once this participant gets back, we shall send another to find the items, until they all have had a chance to find them. We always want to make it a win-win situation for everyone. If there are enough participants, we will team them up in pairs and ask them to take turns finding the items, preferably put-ting a young participant with an older participant. My father will be teaching the older participants, while I will teach the younger participants, and during our game we will bring the two groups together.” John says, “Wait a minute Katie, all of that is great, but you are having them playing games with Dowsing tools before we make sure they all know about the fundamentals of Dowsing.” Katie says, “Oh, right... Anyway, my father will teach them how to use L-Rods with my help starting with the 4, 3, 2, 1 Basic Dowsing method.” John says, “After introducing the 4 Dowsing tools to every-

one, we will focus on the L-Rods because, I believe, that is the best tool to use while searching for a target and then getting informa-tion about the item that is to be found. What about that “Little Green Frog” idea you had? What’s that all about?” Katie says, “First, the participants move the L-rods to a “YES” response (either crossed or open). [Or ask the L-rods, “Show me my YES”.] Then they will get in the ready position again and say, “Is it true that my name is ______?” They will say their names out loud. When the L-rods cross or open on their own this time is when they realize that they truly can Dowse. Then the participants will go through the same process with the “NO” answer with the L-rods swinging apart on purpose to train their Dowsing system what a “NO” answer is. This time when the participants get in the ready position they will say, “Is it true that I AM A LITTLE GREEN FROG?”. When the L-rods swing apart (open or closed) on their own, once again they will truly know that they can Dowse. Every one always enjoys a laugh out of that process. That is when I will pass out little frog finger puppets and shamrock bracelets with frog charms on them. The participants can keep their finger puppets and bracelets to show that they took our class.” John says, “That is great Katie. As you know, you will be doing this at the ASD June Convention in Lyndonville, Vermont. You have also been asked to do this class for the Children’s Program at the ASD West Coast Conference at University of California, Santa Cruz over the 4th of July weekend. Would you like that?” Katie Says, “I would LOVE it.”

To reach John Wayne Blassingame: [email protected]

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by Eleanor Rost

ne time, I bought a beautiful crystal to wear as a pendant around my neck. Later, I discovered that I could use it as a pen-dulum, with a semicircular motion being my “yes,” and the reverse indicating “no.” Sometime later, I was up in New York State, where my friends were contemplating having a new well drilled, having had no luck with a previous one. They decided I should find the place for the well driller to dig by asking my pendulum. At first I thought they were kidding and paid no attention. Twice during the day, my friends asked me if I had done this but I still scoffed at the idea of my being the one to decide this very large question. Since these friends persisted, I finally agreed. I did not have my crystal with me, so I took off a ring I had worn from college days and put it on a piece of thread. I walked all over the acre of property and got "no" for every place except one. Here the pendulum went crazy indicating "yes." Then I began to have fun with it and thought, "What would it say to how deep the water is?" I asked, "100 feet, 200 feet, 300 feet?" At 300 feet the pendulum went crazy again. Then I asked if it would be adequate: "yes"; if it would be clear, sweet water: "yes"; if it would be bedrock water:"yes." Wow. They had the well drilled at that place, it gushed with pure, sweet water just as the pendulum said it would! Eleanor Rost was a long-time dowser. She was Director of Meditation Groups for the New Jersey Metaphysical Center, and studied with Hilda Charlton and Sai Baba. She was a seasoned world traveler and investigated evidences of lost civilizations. El-eanor passed a few years ago; her memorial service was filled be-yond the walls with people of all ages who traveled great distances and from many lands to honor her. [Thank you to Annette Weis, Co-VP of ASD, for this article submission and biography.]

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WHO ANSWERS OUR DOWSING QUESTIONS?HOW I EXPLAIN THE DOWSING SYSTEM

by Marty Lucas

hen you ask a dowsing question, who is it that answers?’ That is an excellent question that deserves an excellent answer. When my students ask this question, they are often seeking an answerer outside of themselves. Some see it as the Universe, or God, or perhaps even Satan or a demon. As long as the answer is accurate, does it really make any difference? It does for some, and that is the purpose of this article. The Universe resonates with truth. Since we are energy beings, when we resonate with the Universe we become stronger. So truth makes us strong and un-truth makes us weak. This explains why applied kinesiology (muscle testing) works. This simple explanation usually doesn’t satisfy the people who are concerned about Satan, but those who are more open and less fearful like this explanation. The more left-brained scientific types usually like additional explanation. Quantum Physicists teach us the Universe is a hologram. That means the ‘stuff’ we have around us is not really ‘stuff’ at all, but is the result of interference patterns in an energy matrix. The cool thing about the holographic theory of reality is that in a hologram, the entire picture is contained in every part of the picture. This means that the spiritual teachers from around the world have been right all along. Since all of the information of a hologram is in every part, then all of the answers to our questions are within us. The only thing that keeps us from finding those answers is our perception. So it isn’t an outside demon or even a God that is outside of ourselves. It is within us. In my reality, it is the Universal Consciousness within us. It is the God within us. In Huna beliefs, there is the Higher Self, the Middle Self, and the Lower Self. The Higher Self equates to the Christian view of the



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Holy Spirit. The Middle Self is the conscious self, the Me. The Lower Self is the unconscious. For the Huna, dowsing is simply a method for communicating with the Higher Self. The Higher Self doesn’t ‘listen’ to the Conscious Self unless it is in agreement with the Unconscious Self. So when we dowse, we occupy our Conscious Mind so that the Unconscious Mind can communicate with the higher Self and get the right answer. For dowsers, this makes some sense since we know that when we allow our desires to interfere with our dowsing, we cannot get accurate information. For those that prefer a more Christian explanation, I simply equate dowsing to a simple form of physical prayer. Instead of folding my hands and waiting for a sign from God, I simply take out my pendulum. My ‘sign from God’ is the movement of my pendulum. By definition, God is truth. Since truth makes us stronger, then it is easy to see if our answers are coming from the highest good or not. For some, it is much easier to accept miracles when they happened in Biblical times than to accept them happening to ordinary people today. Too many ‘church-going’ people don’t expect their prayers to be answered. To them, the act of praying is more social than practical. I prefer to see my entire existence as a daily miracle. Since everything is a miracle anyway, why is it unreasonable to expect my prayers to be answered? For me, many of those prayers (questions) come in the form of a swing in my pendulum. For those who worry, mundane questions are not important enough to trouble the Holy Spirit. I counter quite simply that in our vast and immortal Universe with untold millions of planets, and our Earth with billions of people, the MOST important thing in my life is pretty small potatoes. So the little things are neither any more nor less significant to Him.Another aspect of this same question has to do with our role in consciousness itself. In our egocentric view of reality we see ourselves as separate entities. This separation makes it easy for ME to think of MY stuff as being separate from YOUR stuff. It allows ME to do things for ME alone and disregard how those things affect YOU.

Our religions touch on this subject telling us to treat others as we would treat ourselves. That has nothing to do with being nice to someone else. It has everything to do with being nice to ourselves. As referenced earlier, physics teaches us that the entire Universe is a hologram. That means every part of the Universe contains the information for the entire Universe. Then it follows we are NOT separate from our fellow humans. In fact we are not separate from anything at all, except for our limited perspective. Further research also supports the concepts of a Universal Consciousness connecting all of humanity. So we are not only connected to each other but to everything else as well. So when we ‘ask’ a dowsing question, we are not seeking information that is even outside of ourselves. In fact, all we are doing is accessing information that is already IN us….. So when we pick up our pendulum, or pay attention to our intuition, it isn’t a question of something outside of us, but simply outside of our normal perception. So when we dowse, it isn’t some higher force, or some outside force that answers. It certainly is not a demon or spirit. I see the answers from dowsing coming directly from the information of the Universe itself. If that is how you see God, then, it is God that answers. If that is how you see your higher self, than that is OK as well. The point is simply this. The answers to all of your questions have always been there. The only issue is whether you are aware enough to ask the right question and accept the answer…. Throughout my life and especially over the last few years, I have found that find the correct question is even more valuable than the ultimate answer. As I have progressed upon my spiritual journey, the questions I ask today are of a totally different sort than I used to ask. My questions are bigger. I find myself asking about some of the basic beliefs I have carried with me since childhood. I even find myself asking whether reading certain books or associating with certain people is in my highest good.



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When I see a business opportunity, I ask if it is in my highest good. I ask that question before I ask any other questions. That way, I don’t waste time on dead end inquiries. I ask to see what percentage a certain course of action has for success. I ask if I have the resources needed to accomplish my goal. When I have a new project or goal, I even ask if I have enough energy invested in the project to bring it to manifestation.These are the types of questions I ask now. But when I ask about historical or religious events or people, I get even more interesting results. For instance, I can now dowse to see what the Level of Consciousness of an activity was and the levels of the participants. When dowsing shows that a historical figure has a Level of Consciousness of just barely honest, then it is obvious he wasn’t much of a hero. Dowsing also allows me to get answers I have no way to verify. But even without verification, the answers are still interesting. ‘Is the Earth hollow?’ ‘Is the Moon artificial?’ ‘Did aliens land at Roswell?’ And so on. By trusting my dowsing, I am able to ask questions that I would never have thought to ask before. I can ask these questions about the world, about history and even about me. While I know questions about me can have some personal bias, by asking the same question over a period of time, the answers give me a trend line. So even with the original bias, I now have an idea as to my progress. So without a doubt it is ME that is answering the dowsing questions. It is my arm and my muscles moving my arm. What the dowsing tool allows me to do is widen my perspective to the point where I can access the information. In the final analysis, it doesn’t matter where the answers come from as long as they are correct, and if they are NOT correct, then you aren’t connected properly to the Source of all truth (no matter what name you choose for it).

Marty Lucas can be reached at [email protected] or www.subtleenergytech.com

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THE CONDITIONS FOR “MIRACLES” AND CRICKET'S STORY

by Terry Ross[Excerpted from The Healing Mind: The Way of the Dowser. This book, newly published by ASD, is available from the ASD Book-store by calling (802)684-3417 or www.dowsers.org/bookstore]

n the architectural design of the house of consciousness, I’ve suggested that there are seven compartments or levels of be-ing, of which the fifth was previously described as the state in which complete cooperation with nature is possible. Machaelle [Small Wright] refers to her activity at Perelandra as “cocreative energy gardening.” I have felt free to include it with the examples of cooperative action with nature in order to make the distinction between working with natural processes and designing them. The devas, I take it, are members of a natural hierarchy, individual-ized, and responsible for a given task. As nature’s soldiers, they are obedient to a table of organization and an overall and compre-hensive design. With a subtle shift in emphasis, is it not possible for us to exert our own will and intent as co-draftsmen in that design? In this role we would be claiming the help of the angelic forces for a common project, and we would truly be co-creators.

It goes without saying that such an attempt could not suc-ceed without an overriding faith in and a profound affection for a universal plan. There can be no trace of arrogance or hubris to blemish the trust in the purposes and evolution of a shared and sacred universe. These are the conditions for “miracles” and the characteristics of a healthy bodymind. Performance at this sixth stage is by no means beyond expectation or even rare. What fol-lows is Cricket’s story.

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beloved dog was suffering from hemorrhaging through the skin, living solely on transfusions from other animals, and considered conclusively terminal, a candidate for prompt and merciful de-struction by the vet.

The call came on November 11, 1987, and after the pro-longed conversation and many questions, an uncomplicated yet orderly regime lasting no more than fifteen minutes was imple-mented. The questions had involved the address of the caller, the specific place or places where Cricket was housed, the location of the electric lines in relation to the home, the background and health of other pets and those of neighbors, and, on a hunch, the likelihood of previous occupancy of the area by Indian tribes.

Cricket, it turned out, lived in a small private run with access to the house. Yes, there was a pole with a transformer at the entrance to the property. Yes, there had occasionally been bi-zarre behavior on the part of the other dogs, especially the large French poodle that had suddenly stared at something unseen by her mistress and backed precipitously into the coffee table. Yes, the neighbor’s two horses were under veterinary care, and yes, the houses in that section had been built on what had once been Indian territory.

With these facts noted and put in order, it was not difficult to discover a series of harmful radiations emanating from the util-ity pole, the various faults and water flows beneath Cricket’s yard, the house, and, incredibly, also to find the residue from some vio-lent confrontation between the native inhabitants of long ago. In addition, there was severe chromosomal dysfunction in Cricket’s body, abetted if not caused by the ongoing environmental pollu-tion.

Proceeding according to the stages of knowledge and awareness outlined in this chapter, contact was established with Cricket and loving greetings transmitted, following which an as-surance of her true “Cricketness” was urged upon her, with the

suggested goal of a return to perfect balance, genetically and oth-erwise. All the sources of encroachment and interference, both physical and nonphysical, were addressed, dissipated, and cut off from the animal’s sensitivity and acceptance, and she was released with loving care and gratitude to her own innate bond and link with creative power.

The next day a phone message came stating that Cricket had begun to make her own blood at 60 percent efficiency. On the sixteenth there was a second call. Hemorrhaging had mostly stopped and blood was no longer flowing through the skin, but was beginning to clot. On the nineteenth a third report came, to the effect that Cricket was perfectly well. There was no sign of blood passage or other disorder. The vet was astounded, but had to believe what he saw.

A later chapter of this book contains a detailed description of this modality. Here I will only note that “dumb” animals are at least as responsive as human beings, are invariably true to them-selves, and are directly under the influence and care of a bounti-ful nature, needing only a nudge of the kind of timeless-spaceless thought we have been suggesting and outlining in the descrip-tions of stages four, five, and six to be restored to perfect health. Case histories, while no two are exactly alike, repeatedly confirm this opinion.

In the progressive order of consciousness that I believe is at play in these instances there must, inevitably, be a seventh and final stage. This is the condition in which the totality of the healer is activated in harmony with the creative plan. Each of us may ex-press a different note on the scale of creation, but the scale itself must encompass and resonate with each of its component parts, and the individual parts with the whole. We may reach full aware-ness of this belonging, this state of union, fitfully and in seemingly haphazard fashion, but it is logical to me that it is a valid goal. I like to think of it as the hope, the joy, the guidon [flag or streamer] of all of us who soldier on because we must.

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AWARENESS AND HEALING

by James Daniels

attended the Appalachian Dowsers Chapter conference near Asheville, North Carolina in 1993. My main reason for attending this particular conference was to meet and hear Terry Ross speak. Terry was a renowned master dowser, a founder and former president of the American Society of Dowsers (ASD). In Terry’s presentation, he talked about how he was drawn toward the use of dowsing in healing. After ASD had been formed and received its federal non-profit status, an attorney advised the association to prohibit the use of medical dowsing in its organization work. This advice was given to prevent detrimental consequences for the organization – mainly using dowsing in the diagnosis and treatment of health problems, which is the domain of traditional medicine. So ASD prohibited the use of dowsing for medical reasons in its organizational activities. Terry Ross’ dowsing abilities became so well known that he was traveling to Central and South America to dowse and find huge volumes of water for large companies. As time went by and as Terry’s dowsing successes became known, he was receiv-ing phone calls at home from people wanting him to dowse their health issues and to make recommendations as to their health concerns. Terry would tell them, he would do what he could and he always provided his health suggestions and healing efforts free of charge. This type of long-distance dowsing became such an inter-esting part of his overall private work that he resigned his official duties at ASD - so his work with dowsing and healing would not harm ASD in any way. So, he was officially involved in prohibiting medical dowsing in ASD’s early years and subsequently found his “personal” dowsing work with healing to be in opposition to ASD “organizational” policy! As Terry continued using dowsing to help people with

health concerns, he was having some successes. But his healing work seemed to have little positive results for some of his clients. As he was thinking about the unsuccessful cases, information giv-en in a book written by a monk gave him an idea. He wondered if a client’s awareness level was a determining factor in his dowsing/healing success. [Author’s note: An awareness level could be de-fined as the current level of human awareness or consciousness as compared to the ultimate, infinite potential as a soul incarnate on Earth. The author doesn’t know Terry’s definition of Awareness Level]. Terry started using an awareness level scale of 0 to 1,000 with 1,000 being the highest possible. So, when a person called him for healing assistance, he would dowse their awareness level, record it, and do what he could for their healing based upon his dowsing results and follow-up with them to see how they had been helped, if any. In short, what Terry found out through his own personal research was: if a client’s awareness level was below 500, his type of long distance/dowsing/healing work was ineffective. If a client’s awareness level dowsed below 500, their faith and belief system in healing mainly required the services of traditional (orthodox) medicine. By filtering out those below 500, his success rate in working with healing increased dramatically. Terry’s research shows that the “effectiveness” of the vari-ous methods of healing is linked to the awareness level of the in-dividual who is seeking the healing. In Terry’s 1993 conference presentation, he briefly men-tioned some of the healing techniques he was using. He also mentioned that his recent manuscript had been turned down by a publisher. The manuscript Terry was talking about could be the book, The Healing Mind, ASD is publishing. James Daniels has had an avid interest in dowsing for over 30 years. He was a speaker at a National Dowsing Conference in Danville. He was a founding member of the Great Serpent Mound Dows-ing Chapter in southern Ohio. James Daniels can be contacted at [email protected]

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“RUNNING CORRECTIONS”A LEGACY DOWSING TOOL FROM WALT WOODS

With modifications By Sharron Hope, MA

alt Woods described dowsing as a method used to con-nect instantly with our subconscious, our higher self and our in-ner knowledge using a dowsing tool. The key to getting specific answers when dowsing is to ask specific “yes” or “no” questions, then using a pendulum or “L” rod, read the answers off a chart. This process makes life a lot easier by short-cutting our decision process, thus improving our life. In 1977, I first met Walter Woods and began taking his dowsing classes. One of the most important things I learned from Walt was how to run corrections. When we have health issues, discomfort, or other problems, we can improve our situation. Using a chart, we can dowse our highest overall reading and our lowest reading and ask if our dowsing system can “run corrections” on ourselves. This also works on animals. With a specific health issue, it is best to run corrections before going to bed because the body heals best while sleeping. The dowsing system “peels off layers while running corrections” and does what is necessary to improve the situation. You can specify what correction you want, keeping in mind how that will feel, look, smell and sound.

Walt used a chart with a 0 to +10 and 0 to -10 delineation. I use my own charts with a 0 to +100 and 0 to -100 because it is more detailed. I can also get a percentage reading on the same chart. Use whatever chart works best for you.

PREPARATION FOR DOWSINGRelax! Take 3 deep breaths and smile. ASK: May I? Can I? Should I? dowse for (myself ). Is it safe for me to ... (dowse for myself, run corrections, etc.). Clear charts of previous thought forms. Now we are ready to run corrections!

A Quick And Easy Way To Run Corrections

On the -100 to +100 chart, swing your pendulum over the ( ).Ask for the highest reading on (yourself ).Now ask for the lowest reading on (yourself ).Ask the dowsing system to please run corrections on (yourself ).The pendulum will go back to the low reading and swing back and forth between the low reading and the 0.When it stays over the 0, (or for the optimum level appropriate) ask if the dowsing system will bring (your) reading up to a +100.Say: “I thank the dowsing system for running corrections and improving my life and those of others.” That is all there is to it.

Suggestions on what to run corrections for: Your health: overall or specific issues, water wells, more gallons per minute, clarity, taste, quality, financial matters, relationships, home and property.

Remember what we focus on is what the universe thinks we want and will work to give us what we are thinking about.

Sharron Hope has been a Dowsing Consultant since 1980, and is happy to acknowldege special thanks to Walt Woods, Sky Dowser. [email protected], 530-570-3697.



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by Joan Nathanson first learned about ley lines from ASD founder, Harry Howell’s book, which I discovered in our public library one afternoon almost 20 years ago. He wrote about these streams of energy, which were usually six to eight feet wide, running in a definite direction. He mentioned that they could move a bit, depending on the influence of the moon. Some were positive, some were negative. Negative energy lines were preferred by cats, ants, and bees among other creatures, the negativity relating only to whether they were good for humans. How intriguing! My curiosity was piqued. From the library, I asked with dowsing how many ley lines there were running through our home, and whether they were positive or negative. My answer was that there were two positive lines, and when I got home, using my pendulum, I was able to determine where they were, and discovered that these two lines also ran west through nearby buildings, including a chiropractor’s office, a center for adult mentally challenged people, a physiotherapist’s office and a church. Dowsing can be used to locate the presence of ley lines and the direction of energy flow, and to identify whether they are positive or negative. At an American dowsing convention I attended a year or two later, in conversation Walt Woods, one of the fathers of American dowsing, mentioned that whenever he was travelling, he would check out his motel suite, and ask that any negative ley lines he found be moved in a way that harmed no one while he was there. A dowser can request that ley lines be moved! Later on, the question occurred to me to inquire via dowsing whether more positive ley lines could be requested if that would be beneficial. The answer was yes: I asked whether our home would benefit from more. Another yes. My pendu-lum swung for a while after I requested them. After it stopped, I

checked, and discovered that we had received two more positive ley lines. (A current check indicates that there are now 12, the rest coming without a specific request over the intervening years.) A dowser can request additional positive ley lines! A good friend of mine became seriously ill, though doc-tors found it difficult to diagnose her problem. Using Hanna Kroeger’s charts, I had dowsed that she was suffering from liver flukes: she asked the physician whether she could be tested for this, and the outcome was an affirmative diagnosis which could be treated. There seemed to be other causes, as she did not re-cuperate. When I visited her at home, she had set up a camp cot in the living room for sleep. I asked if she could have a positive ley line through her sleeping area in the appropriate direction, and was pleased to see my pendulum swinging as installation pro-ceeded. The next week, however, I was upset to see that she had moved the cot to the other side of the room: I had expected the line would stay where it was initially located. When I dowsed, I learned to my relief that the ley line had moved with the bed, and was still in place to assist her. That event helped me realize that I could refine my ley line requests by asking for the appropriate number of ley lines to be provided in the appropriate places for the appropriate length of time. That way, the effect would not be lessened by any future changes within a household or on a property. Discovering the value of that word, appropriate, also reas-sured me about Walt Wood’s story of dowsing motels. He report-ed that he always moved any negative lines back when he vacated his room to move on. It seemed to me at the time that a motel room would be better off not having a negative ley line. I would not have chosen to request its return! When requests include the adjective, appropriate, as noted above, I am reassured that no one will be endangered by any inappropriate restrictions I might otherwise have made, at the time or in the future. Through the CSD, your Canadian counterpart, I was once phoned to do a distance clearing of a property north of Toronto, where new owners had just moved in. When checking for nega-



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tive ley lines, I did not find any present. I went on to check if there were any positive ones, but received a no response. I then asked for the appropriate number of positive ley lines to be installed in the appropriate places for the appropriate time. To my surprise, when I checked to see how many had been added, the number was 32! The owner then indicated that it was a large property with a large house as well. I was relieved that it had not been my dowsing that had gone haywire! Dowsers can check to see how many positive ley lines have been added. Following a presentation by a chaplain at our regional detention center, the members of our local dowsing group com-mitted to asking for healing for the detainees, the staff and the volunteers, as well as the site. While I found no negative ley lines present, there were no positive ones. My request resulted in the apparent installation of 46 new lines. When I checked as I was writing this article quite a few years later, I dowse that they are still there, though some have moved. I have also dowsed for posi-tive ley lines for our local hospitals. When I dowsed for some specific schools, installations were made, but after checking on three, I discovered that all the other schools in the city had also been done, apparently because my intention for all the city’s schools had been taken seriously by the “invisible dowsing team” that picked up on my request. As a past president of the non-partisan, non-sectarian Na-tional Council of Women of Canada, I appreciate the difficulties any government has in doing its work, regardless of its political stripe. It seemed sensible to me, therefore, to ask for positive ley lines to be installed at City Hall, our provincial Legislature in To-ronto, and our federal Parliament in Ottawa. (Of course, I also asked that any negative ley lines be moved in a way that would hurt no one.) Even though I am not an American, while getting ready to write this article, I thought I should check out the White House. While there were no negative ley lines, there were no positive ones, either. My “appropriate” request resulted in the ap-parent installation of 52 positive ones. Could a simple request by a 75-year-old Canadian dowser help improve American

politics? How about it, American dowsers? What other in-stitutional buildings need positive ley lines? (While there were no negative ley lines at ASD Headquarters, when I first checked, there were no positive ones, either. I believe that dowsers there will find 14 new additions in place.) Reflecting back on my past experiences with ley line dows-ing was triggered recently by a comment made by a friend who had been experiencing a severe itchy face rash which had not sub-sided, in spite of her dowsing requests for everything she knew about. She mentioned that being at home was depressing her. Quickly I dowsed for ley lines at her home. There were no nega-tive ones, but again, no positive ones either. We asked for the ad-dition of “the appropriate number etc.” and there are 16 in place now. A few days after we met, she reported that her facial rash had cleared up, and that home felt much more comfortable. Just the other day, I was talking with a dowsing friend who lives in a nearby city. She has faced severe environmental allergy problems that have made life an ongoing challenge for many years. While her current apartment is not toxic for her, I discovered that it had no positive ley lines to assist her with her health: I hope to hear that she has noticed an improvement. Dowsing for the addition of positive ley lines is something we can request to enhance personal health for ourselves and others. I’d like to end on a humorous personal note. I realize that two of my grandchildren were conceived on ley lines in our home when their future parents were visiting us. (Or were they “lay” lines?) More seriously, I hope that other dowsers will see request-ing appropriate positive ley lines as something they can do to make the world a more productive and peaceful place. I’d love to read stories in future Digests sharing their adventures, because we can all learn so much from one another.Joan Nathanson is a daily dowser from Hamilton, Ontario, Cana-da. While she got a late start, she just gets more and more enthu-siastic about the potential of dowsing to change our world for the better: “Ask, and you will receive!” She can be reached at [email protected].



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GIFTS OF A NATURAL VORTEX: TRANSCENDING TIME

by Madis Senner[The following is an excerpt from Vortices and Spirals; Unlocking the Mystery of Our Dynamic Relationship with Mother Earth due to be published in the fall of 2014.]

e have a dynamic and vital relationship with Mother Earth that goes far beyond the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat. Mother Earth nourishes us with a host of ener-gies and essences that few know about let alone understand. She even nurtures our soul. We also have a special bond with Mother Earth whereby we can co-create with her a new birth that benefits both her and humankind. One such bond is one I hold very dear--what dowsers call an energy vortex. Energy vortices are powerfully transforma-tive, healing, and have a unique way of transcending time by con-necting us to people in the past. To better understand this I would like to share with you an experience I had one summer. My years of meditating in the woods have made me sen-tient of Mother Earth and sensitive to the thought forms that cling to the land. Unfortunately much of the Earth is blanketed with negative thought forms that can give me a headache. When I left my home in upstate New York to speak at a conference in Vermont this particular summer, it did not take more than thirty minutes of driving on the New York State Thruway before my head began to hurt. Fortunately, when I arrived in Vermont I was able to find a campsite that was not cluttered with negative thoughts. The vibe at the conference center of this large ski resort was bad. After spending all day there I did not feel well so I de-cided to go for a hike and meditate in the woods. My intuition told me there was a particularly nice place nearby so I decided to use my dowsing rods to direct me. As I began climbing, my dows-ing rods pointed to my right hand side--indicating my medita-tion location was in that direction. When I reached the ridge trail

connecting several peaks, my rods pointed to the left, indicating I should take the trail. Then they immediately returned to pointing to the right. When I climbed a small peak my rods went totally perpendicular. I followed my rods and turned right and walked off the trail, now my rods were pointing straight ahead. I continued walking until they opened up (180’) at a small semi-clearing near the edge of a steep drop off. This was the place I had been looking for. I sensed there was something special about the place as it felt so good to be there. Indeed my dowsing rods indicated a posi-tive energy vortex had formed in this spot as they spun around in a clockwise manner. This is called an energy vortex because en-ergy spins around in a whirlpool-like pattern. Energy usually trav-els in straight lines, so vortices are something unique. I call them natural vortices because they form naturally in cooperation with Mother Earth from praying, meditating, selfless acts and positive intentions. What may have once been a clearing with a spectacular view was now overgrown and blocked by several large trees. I surmised it was the once majestic view that attracted people to this mountaintop spot. Given the size of the trees, I estimated the vortex had formed at least a few hundreds years ago, and was created by the prayer and or ceremony of Native Americans. The vortex could have been much older and been reinvigorated by the continual praying of generations of Native Americans. There was no way of knowing for sure. What mattered more than who created the vortex or its age, was it was very powerful. As soon as I began to meditate within it I could feel my subtle body being purged of the negative thought forms I had picked up the last few days. As I got deeper into trance I began to sense a variety of new and different sensa-tions beyond my normal experiences during meditation. Seem-ingly, my soul was glowing and being nourished by the energy vortex. I was connecting with the vibe and being of those who helped form this wonderful vortex. That is the beauty of a natural vortex, it transcends time and carries forward the consciousness, intentions and aspirations of all those who helped create it.



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I stayed there for forty-five minutes and would have re-mained longer if evening was not about to descend. Before I left I gave heartfelt blessings and thanks to those who had worked with Mother Earth to create such a divine structure. My meditation buoyed me for my talk the next day as well as the trip home. During my morning meditation at home on Monday I realized how much I had been blessed by my experience on the mountaintop. Instead of having to work through the mental de-bris I normally acquire after traveling, I went immediately deep into trance. Because my subtle body and consciousness had been stretched in different ways, I felt fuller and more complete. Natural vortices are like mother’s milk. Science tells us we build up immunity by being breast fed by our mother when we are young. Similarly, when we meditate in a natural vortex, we are fortified by the consciousness, thoughts and intentions of those who created it. Clearly my mountaintop meditation had nour-ished me with things I needed or lacked. Some of my most powerful spiritual experiences have been within vortices at sacred spaces in the woods and in hidden and out of the way places. By meditating in one you will be gain-ing from the years of effort and experience of those who helped create it. In many ways you will be transcending time when you fuse with consciousness of those who created the vortex. So get out your L-rods and begin exploring Mother Earth and sacred sites in your area. You should also consider visiting a local place of worship or a meditation center where people pray and meditate on a regular basis. Such places often have natural vortices form because of all the meditating done at them. Chances are you may find a natural vortex and if so sit down and meditate in it and be connected to the essence of those that helped create it. It will be a powerfully transformative experience.

Madis Senner, is a former global money manager turned seeker. He teaches and leads group meditations to help people connect with Mother earth. His website www.motherearthprayers.org contains information on vortices, Mother Earth and sacred sites in greater New York State where he believes Mother Earth’s soul resides. Vor-tices and Spirals is his third book.

SLEY LINES AND SPIRALS

by Hugh J. Vaughan

ome thirty years ago the ASD quarterly journal carried a very small notice about an experiment going on in Australia; something about raising community awareness, and inviting readers to inquire by writing to a certain person in Tasmania. I wrote, but there was no response for months. I figured they didn't want to communicate with Yankees. Then I received a package explaining the "Fountain Movement", which is one of the most fascinating stories imaginable but unfortunately too long for this current retelling. Perhaps later. The package was from a guy named Roger Brown, who lived in Adelaide, South Australia. We began to correspond, and that was the beginning of a wonderful friendship that lasted until he passed away fifteen years later. He was a marvelous human be-ing blessed with a delightful sense of humor and a master dowser.Over the years, many a letter went overseas in both directions and numerous trans-Pacific phone calls were exchanged. Roger was the prime mover of the Adelaide Fountain Group and issued a lengthy newsletter three or four times each year. Fortunately, I have retained dozens of copies and from time to time I review them to keep their dowsing insights fresh in mind. Somewhere along the way he put me in touch with Hamish Miller, another dowser of fame, (at least Down Under). Hamish was a wee Welshman who sported a prodigious beard, a dowsing ability to match and a rollicking sense of the joy of life. He had been a blacksmith, but when that trade went the way of many others he turned to producing works of art in wrought iron. Then a near-death experience, and dowsing, changed the course of his life. It wasn't very long before he put his new love to work. He lived in Cornwall on the southwest tip of England. It was there that he discovered a very strong ley line and decided to follow it just to see where it might lead. Together with Paul



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Broadhurst, an author/historian/doswer, and their respective wives, he started the search, moving eastward. Hamish and Paul co-authored a book, The Sun and the Serpent* (1990) recounting the entire adventure. Although an enthralling account in itself, for our present purpose the most important part of the story occurs at a place many miles from their starting point. But, for now, let's leave Hamish and Paul with their L-rods somewhere in England. We'll rejoin them soon. For the past twenty years, I have used the softball field in the local park as my dowsing laboratory. It has much to commend it for that purpose: it is large; it is usually devoid of people; it is quietly situated with home plate nestled among small hills and trees; there is a pond beyond right field, and the grass of left field goes on forever until it meets a path of the 18-hole golf course.Near the third base line there is a small parking area with a few trees to shade the golfers' cars from the blistering sun of summer. A few years ago I was roaming around the field, letting the L-rod swing away when I felt drawn to a specific spot near sec-ond base. There was nothing there, at least nothing visible, but it seemed I was being called to that spot repeatedly. Now, curiosity is a wondrous thing. It can lead to discover-ies of all kinds, or to disasters, but once it takes hold it's hard to ig-nore. For no apparent reason I decided to walk away from the spot in a straight line toward the southeast, fully expecting to walk into the fence behind home plate. To my surprise, the L-rod swung abruptly after I'd taken just one step, about a foot. Then after two more steps it swung again, and a third time after another three steps. There really was something there! A repeat performance gave identical results. I had found something new! It looked like the "spot" was the center of a series of con-centric circles. I had never heard of such a thing, but no matter, on the way home I was filled with a smug sense of self-satisfaction. Good old curiosity surfaced again and I was back at the park in a few days. This time I wanted first of all to confirm my

previous findings, but to vary the process I walked directly north instead of southeast. Right away, something was amiss. I did not take a full step to the first circle; the L-rod showed I had moved just a few inches. The next step was not two feet, it was maybe fifteen inches. (It is not pleasant to have your convictions overturned!) Just to be or-nery I turned and walked southeast again. Now I got the original series of steps between circles: 1, 2, 3, 5... I am embarrassed to admit that it took me a while to realize that I was not dealing with circles, but with a spiral! All right. I accepted that and went on to do more investi-gating, gradually discovering that there were many more "spots" and they were arranged in a matrix: columns going directly north-south, and rows in an east-west order. Eventually, even more in-formation emerged: there were left and right-handed spirals and they occurred alternately. I traced them onto the golf course and also to the parking lot of a high school five miles away. (A word of caution: never go out onto the links when golfers are in season!Most can whack a ball pretty well, but some don't hit it straight. At 80mph a golf ball can be a lethal weapon. Stay near the picnic tables. You will be safe there. Maybe.)

Now back to Hamish and Paul. Their book recounts the trek across England in great detail, with sketches to show prog-ress. The line they were following seemed to be fairly straight, but it had an unusual quality: it had a definite affinity for churches, abbeys and monasteries...some mere ancient piles of rubble...all dedicated to St. Michael. Quite naturally, it became the Michael Line. After proceeding well across the island, they found, by ac-cident, a second line paralleling the first. This was less robust than the Michael Line and was destined to pass through sites that had been known for their healing properties, places often associated with springs and wells. This became the Mary Line.

Gradually, an aspect of both lines became apparent: they occasionally crossed, and where that happened it was a site of pil-



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grimage. For instance, Avebury and Glastonbury. And it was at Glastonbury, situated on a huge hill, that Hamish found a gigantic spiral with its center at the apex, the most sacred spot. The tendency for the lines to cross at sacred places bore a similarity to what I had found close to home, ley lines passing through areas that once were sites of Mahican Indian settlements.The two lines left England's shore at East Anglia, but Hamish and Paul later traced them through part of Europe, down the Italian Peninsula and into Greece, to the Oracle at Delphi. Coincidentally, around that time there was a program on TV that focused on archeological discoveries in a cave in France. There were carvings on the walls of the cave and among the petro-glphs there were distinct representations of a group of spirals with alternating left and right directions. They were deemed to be around 5,000 years old. (My ball field spirals were nothing new, after all!) For the past several years, the spirals have had a pattern of steps between their lines: 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21...giving a radius of 53 feet and a diameter of 106. This is the size of a given spiral, because beyond that we meet up with an adjoining spiral. Recently, however, there has been a sudden doubling in size, and twice it has quadrupled and then reverted to the original size. Something is happening and I have no clue as to what it is. Along the way, several years ago, I had a feeling that those numbers were familiar. Again, it took time for me to remember where, but finally I found them in an old Math book, the kind that promises "Math can be fun". It was a two-page reference to Leonardo Fibonacci, the Italian mathematician who did his thing in the 1500's. He had discovered those numerical relationships in natural things...confirmation that my ball field spirals were duti-fully obeying Mother Nature!

There is still more to this than meets the eye. If we look at this series of numbers, 1 2 3 5 8 13 21...we may be tempted to search for a constant which, if added to any number will produce

the next in the series. It won't work. Suppose we try a constant multiplier which, applied to any number will give the following one. That also fails. But there is a relationship among the num-bers. Take any one, beginning with the third, and watch what hap-pens: Try 5. It is the sum of 2 and 3. Take 13. It is the sum of 5 and 8. The 'magic' of the Fibonacci series is that any number is the sum of the two preceding it. There is definitely order in nature. But why the sudden fluctuations in the size of the spirals? Are they trying to tell us something? I have no idea. Personally, I think that they are not a part of earth energies. I see them as be-longing to a different level, a finer grade, so to speak. Could they be indicators of what is transpiring not in the earth, but on it.? The radical, sudden changes in their size seem to coincide with disastrous and very troubling events across the globe, things that would have been impossible to imagine even a generation ago. Could the spirals merely be reacting to world events or could they be trying to tell us something about ourselves? And should we be paying attention? I don't know the answers, but for now a wee bit of smug satisfaction is part of one dowser's life.Happy Dowsing!

* By Hamish Miller and Paul Broadhurst: The Sun and the Ser-pent. Other books by Hamish Miller: In Search of the Southern Serpent, It Is Not Too Late, The Definitive Wee Book on Dowsing (These are by Pendragon Press and not available in the U.S., but could possibly be obtained from The British Society of Dowsers, 2 St. Ann's Road, Malvern, Worcs. WR14 4RG.)

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USING DOWSING, MAPS & FLOWER ESSENCES TO HELP HEAL WILD ANIMALS & WILD PLACES

by Libby Hopkins“It was wonderful. We felt it first in our bodies – light coming in, cells getting cleaned, some tingles… The forest got brighter, clearer, sparkles in the trees and overhead in the air. They cleaned out the toxins and heavy energy that weighed us down so we became our true, light, sprightly selves again. Our food is cleaner and we can find it more easily. The soil is cleaner, too. Things can get stagnant down there sometimes – so now all the tiny ones living in it can move more easily, do their work, and even be happy.” – A winter wren

owsers and other healers have long known that flower es-sences can be used to help balance and heal people, plants, and companion and farm animals. More recently, they have been used to heal landscapes (see Patrick MacManaway’s work at www.patrickmacmanaway.com). They can also be used to help balance and heal populations of wild animals and the lands, seas and air they rely on. Wild animals face many difficulties, most of-ten caused by our own human activity. This approach to working with flower or nature essences and maps is one way to contribute healing to wild animal populations and the places where they live. Animal communication allows us to improve and refine the work over time. It is a simple process. I invite you to find a few flower essences and sit down – by yourself or with friends – to send the gift of the flowers to any animals who come to mind. Let inspira-tion guide you.

“We are tiny, but oh, so important! The flowers help the air – which is where we mostly live. The air gets ‘sticky’ with dirt and pollution; it af-fects the plants who are ‘breathing’ it and all of us. You humans can’t see it – the dirt – but it’s there. The flowers scrubbed the air clean and, as others have said, it sparkled… The essences made our land and air clean and bright and washed the dirt out of our systems, too.” – A dragonfly

Steps (1) Choose an animal group or public natural area to work with. Avoid privately owned land unless you have permission. Dowse whether it is timely and appropriate to offer a flower treat-ment (“can I, may I, should I?”) and whether you have flower es-sences that can help. As always, if you do not get permission, let it go - you can always ask at another time. If you receive permission, send a short “heads-up” message to the animals – in your mind – that you will be doing a treatment today. This is simply a courtesy. (2) Compose a statement of intention or blessing or prayer. It’s best to keep it fairly general; when in doubt you can always ask for the "highest and best healing" for the animals and area con-cerned and let the Universe respond to the intent. A longer sam-ple blessing is: “I/we ask that the healing power of these flower essences cleanse and balance all (chosen animals) – their bodies, food, land, water and air. May the essences bring them vibrant good health, peace and joy. And may the essences help people live in harmony with all life.” (3) Find or develop an appropriate map. For wildlife, look at some scientific or conservation websites for the animal of in-terest and get the latest range map, which shows where they are found. Allow extra room on your map for areas they may use that are not known. You can do this for the animals in one area (the insects in your garden; gray tree frogs in New England), or the en-tire species range. If needed, you can use a photocopier to enlarge or reduce the map to a useable size. A final map that's 8.5x11 is easy to use and store for reference. (4) Dowse the boundary of the area to be treated. It’s help-ful to first dowse whether to treat the entire colored area of the animals’ range and then dowse whether areas are to be left out or added. Then use a pendulum, ruler, L-rods or other intuitive method to discern the boundary. Some animals have populations living in more than one area so when finished, ask if you've includ-ed all of the important areas or if anything is missing. You may need to do this a couple of times until you get a Yes that you've



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included all of the relevant areas. You can mark the boundary of your treatment area with a pencil.

“I am a dolphin in the area. You may call me ‘Speedy’ because I am! The flower essences are very strong, so yes, we felt a blast of positive energy. It does dissipate over time, but it lasts a while and helps us stay focused and helps us hear what we need to hear and block out some of the rest. It helps keep the body wiring straight; helps clear the water of random negative energies. The water gives us purer sound. It’s easier to navi-gate. Hard to describe, but the flowers keep us on track.” – A dolphin visiting National Marine Sanctuary waters off the New England coast.

A Map After Treatment

(5) Dowse which of your flower essences are appropriate to use and how much of each. You can dowse the bottles or a list and then ask how many drops of each to use (generally 1-5, 7 at most). It's good to confirm that you've gotten it accurately by ask-ing: "Are these the right essences? Dosages?” (6) Create a place and space to do the healing. You can sit at a table or even a suitable place outdoors. Lay the map on top of a cloth or paper towel to absorb excess flower essences. You can add other things if you like – a photo of the animal (often helpful and fun), a lighted candle, a crystal, a bowl of water, and/or music. Invite your Guides to assist. Smile.

(7) Say the statement/prayer out loud and apply the flower essences. Spread the drops of each essence out so that they can reach the entire area. Just do what feels right, as you're guided. Then take a minute to quietly listen and be – you may receive a sensation, a feeling, an image or words from the animals. (If

you don’t, don’t worry! Trust that the flower vibrations were re-ceived.) When done, give a simple thanks. (8) Let the map dry in the sunshine. You may want to keep a record of your treatments.

“ It is pure energy, and the in-tent is positive and pure, so the resultant feelings we re-ceive are positive. Maybe it can be explained by saying the ocean becomes more vibrant. A flower, a prayer, an intent – doesn’t seem like much, but multiply it and send it and do it. PLEASE.” – A humpback whale

Ethics There are a couple of things to remember when we offer flower treatments: • We must have permission to do this healing on land that is owned by another person, such as your neighbor’s farm or a pri-vate wildlife sanctuary. (We never want to compromise or in-terfere with another person's free will.) For large-scale healings like the entire range of a species and healings in the oceans, that becomes impossible or irrelevant, but it's good in those cases to keep the intent positive for all.• Come to this practice without judgments. Different animal spe-cies are not “good” or “bad;” or “wise” or “dumb.” They are all of Spirit and deserving of our respect, compassion and loving kind-ness. It is an honor to work with and for them and they have much to teach us. They appreciate it when we show up with a smile and a light heart!

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ceiving extremely helpful information that continues to expand and deepen the practice. The animals not only validate the effec-tiveness of the essences and blessings at many levels, but also pro-vide insights and advice on how to enhance the healing. Simply offering the flower essence healing is a gentle and powerful gift. Adding an interested animal communicator to the process can be both fun and richly rewarding – for us and for the animals.

“This is truly remarkable. We feel the flowers in our bodies – head to tail – ever so gently cleansing and rebalancing. We are lighter, shedding the toxic things – the worry and sorrow – lifting out of us. The land is being gently cleansed and rebalanced, too. The waters – who know all about this – are quietly joyful. Water recognizes this healing and will ‘store’ and carry it through our lands. All is lighter – a burden lifted. It won’t fix everything – that’s too big a job for one flower treatment…but this is a wondrous gift. For a little while we can truly relax and know or recognize Earth as she is meant to be – as we are all meant to be. As the tiger said, ‘sacred.’ This is a blessing for us all.” – A jaguar

Thank you - the wild ones need and appreciate our help.

Libby Hopkins, based in western Mas-sachusetts, has been doing this flower essence practice for five years. She has taken courses on dowsing, earth ener-gies and basic shamanic skills with Dr. Patrick MacManaway. She is also a Reiki practitioner and has a Master's degree in ecology. She is available for workshops, and welcomes questions and suggestions at: [email protected]

Animal communications are kindly provided by professional com-municator Nancy Hohmann and friends. Based in Maine, Nancy works with pets and other animals and welcomes inquiries at: [email protected].

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HOW ROCK DUST CAN ENRICH AGRICULTURAL SOILS

by Steven G. Herbert

he common aim of farmers and gardeners applying an or-ganic approach is to improve the health of both plants and soils in environmentally responsible and sustainable ways. Maximizing (of ) the nutrition and appeal of fruits and vegetables is the ulti-mate goal. This organic approach traditionally involves balancing the chemical, physical and biological requirements of crops and soils. We can go beyond this, however, when we consider the en-ergetic needs of plants and soils, and how paramagnetic rock dust can meet these and even spiritual needs.

Defining and Measuring Paramagnetism Paramagnetism refers to a phenomenon with polarities, where certain materials are very weakly attracted or repelled by a mag-net. It is distinguished from classic ferro-magnetism where metals such as iron, nickel, and cobalt are strongly attracted to a magnet. Furthermore, these ferro-magnetic materials can be themselves magnetized. By contrast, paramagnetic materials cannot be mag-netized. Under the broad term “paramagnetism”, paramagnetic materials are attracted to a magnet, and diamagnetic materials are repelled by a magnet. Though extremely weak, the attraction or repulsion can be measured by very sensitive in-struments. What is measured is the portion of one second that it takes for one gram of a substance to move one centimeter toward or away from a magnet. The result is expressed as Gauss, the centimeter-gram-second (CSS) unit.

Positive Effects of Paramagnetic and Diamagnetic Rock Dust in Agriculture

Pertinent to agriculture, certain rocks can be weakly to highly paramagnetic or diamagnetic, neutral, or alternating from one to the other. The stronger the paramagnetic or diamagnetic force, the greater the positive effect, which is observed in the plants in



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its proximity. Such rocks ground into chips and incor-porated into the soil have an almost wholly energetic effect only. However, such rocks ground into dust will have an effect as fertilizer as well as on an energetic level. The combined effect can produce a multi-tude of benefits. These include the balancing of pH, increased wa-ter retention capacity, spurred growth and higher yields, pest and weed suppression, tolerance of thermal extremes, proliferation of microbial activity, protection against disease and fungus, greater germination ratio, reduction of salinity and reduced mortality. The right balance of paramagnetic and diamag¬netic forces along with good organic matter content can increase drought resis-tance. We find produce to be improved in quality, taste, nutrient content and brix (definition needed) levels. In general, plants are not only healthier, but seem to indicate an increase in life force. The superior quality of fruits and vegetables so raised not only create better physical health in those who consume them, but also seem to produce a certain sense of morality and resiliency in fac-ing life’s problems that improves society as a whole. This we at-tribute to the presence of spiritual forces as well.

History of Paramagnetic Effects in AgricultureBeing opposites in a polarity, paramagnetic and diamagnetic ma-terials can attract each other. The most ostensible example is the effect of the strongly paramagnetic Moon and the highly diamag-netic waters of the earth, creating the tides. The paramagnetic effect in general was known to the ancients, evidenced by the intentional use of paramagnetic rocks in construction of towers, arrangement in circles and alignment in sacred sites. Much of the purpose in doing this we see was for the benefit of agriculture. An Irishman by the name of John Tyndall is recognized as the first to scientifically describe the paramagnetic properties of rocks. The Austrian Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposo¬phy and Biodynamics, was the next to take this a big step forward in the early 20th century. The American Phillip Callahan became the principle investiga-tor in modern times. He was a physicist and mathematician also

versed in other sciences as well as the arts. His study of paramag-netism and diamagnetism, therefore, tended to produce explana-tions in terms of classic physics and the known electromagnetic spectrum. These phenomena, however, have also much to do with more subtle forces, and for an understanding in that respect, we must turn back to Rudolf Steiner.

Steiner’s Rock Classification CategoriesIn Steiner’s explanation, rocks and rock materials were placed in three very broad categories of silica, lime and clay. Silicon and ox-ygen vie for position as the most abundant element in the earth’s crust, with quartz being the most common mineral. Silica-based materials are generally paramagnetic. Calcium is a macronutri-ent for plants and also a prominent and widespread element in the earth’s crust. As the most prominent element in this class of “lime” rock powders, it functions as the opposite pole to silicon. Therefore, calcium-based materials are generally diamagnetic. Clay is defined as having a particle size of .002 mm in diameter or smaller, and unlike silicon and calcium-based materials does not have a fixed polarity. It can be both, and so has similarities to both. Aluminum, the most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust, is the most prominent element in this class of materials. Aluminum forms the central position in every type of clay. Steiner called alu-minum the “rhythmical metal for the soil”, giving clays the ability to alternate between paramagnetic and diamagnetic. A: SilicaSilicon, as well as potassium and sodium, are examples of a very small group of elements which cannot exist in isolation in nature. Only in the Sun can silicon persist as an isolated atom. The most common form it does take is silicon dioxide, SiO2, the raw ma-terial for glass. The most common mineral of silicon is quartz, one of the most common minerals in the Earth’s crust. The crys-talline form exemplifies a state of perfect balance, harmony and equilibrium. The crystal takes in energy and sends it out in that manner continuously, transforming that energy while remaining unchanged in itself. The more paramagnetic the soil or rock mate-



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rial, the more potent silica minerals can be at this. Rudolf Steiner explained that silica draws in the forces of what he called “the far planets”, referring to Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. These forces are not taken in directly, he says, but indirectly through “the spiritual warmth” of the Sun. The silica in the soil then rays these forces, transformed in some way, upwards for the benefit of the plants. It helps move plant saps from roots to leaves, influencing mainly the flowers. Paramagnetism in the general sense, that is, referring to both polarities of paramagnetism and diamagnetism, refers to the ability, and degree of ability to resonate with, take in and pass on cosmic energies in this way. Appreciating this, we may be tempted to attribute a kind of “aliveness” to paramagnetic materi-als, and this is how we have come to use the language “enlivened rock powders”. The class of silica-based rock powders includes not just those of inorganic origin, but also those of organic origin. Marl is an ex-ample but an even better known one is diatomaceous earth. These deposits were formed from the accumulated skeletons of diatoms which lived long ago in the sea. Such silica, from having been a part of a once-living system, has retained certain cosmic imprints. B: LimeLime materials compose the second category representing the diamagnetic substances and the polar opposite to the paramag-netic materials. This class of materials draws in the forces of what Steiner called the “near planets”, referring to Mercury, Venus and the Moon. Again, these are taken in not directly, but indirectly, also through “the material warmth” of the Sun. The kind of “di-gestion” that goes on in the aerial parts of the plants requires the influence of lime to draw down plant saps from leaves to roots, mainly influencing leaves in the process. Calcium carbonate (limestone) and dolomite mainly typify the lime materials. How-ever, this class of materials also includes inorganic rock phos-phate (apatite), gypsum (calcium sulfate) and organically derived seashell or coral deposits. There are also processed lime products such as burned lime, hydrated lime, feeding lime and stack lime,

etc. However, the less the material has been processed, the more potent the diamagnetic force will be. Stack lime is the result of using lime to help remove sulfur content. Steiner extolled the vir-tues of sulfur, but stack lime is a processed product and may not be allowed under organic certification, so care must be taken in choosing. Limestone or dolomite is most efficient when ground fine, such that at least 60% passes through a #100 mesh (100 open-ings per inch) screen or sieve. Potassium and sodium-based minerals as rock powders are also diagmagnetic and are included in the class of lime substances. These are less abundant since they are soluble. Chile saltpeter (NaNO3) is an example. Slyvanite and Langbenite are the princi-ple ones of potassium. In the lime class there are examples of rock materials which have their origins in living systems. Steiner theo-rized that in the distant past, the line between the mineral king-dom and the plant and animal kingdoms were much less distinct. He considered coal to be the result of a primordial mineral-plant life form, and ancient lime deposits to the result of a primordial mineral-animal ancestor. C: ClayAs said before, clay does not have a polarity, but it is also unique because it continues to operate after the Sun sets. It receives energetically from the constellations, which are always present night and day. Like silica and lime, clay receives this energy in-directly, but for clay it depends on whether the Sun is shining or the Moon is shining. Technically clouds do not interfere night or day. Thus, while silica and lime operate only between sunrise and sunset, clay works round the clock. On any given day, however, the type of energy that clay receives and transmits to plants will depend on which constellation the Moon happens to be passing through. During daylight, clay is paramagnetic, and alternates to diamagnetic at night. When both the Sun and Moon are out at the same time, clay is diamagnetic. If neither Sun nor Moon is in the sky, clay becomes neutral. The chief function of clay is taking the en¬ergy which has been drawn into the soil by paramagnetic



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silica and given to the roots, and transporting it up into the aerial parts of the plant.

Hard-To Categorize Rock MaterialsThere are some rock materials which are anomalous to the cat-egories just outlined. An example is taconite, which is an iron ore mined in Minnesota. Iron is one of the rhythmical ele¬ments, but in taconite is not very magnetic. This mineral cannot be called a clay because there is no aluminum, but nevertheless, it acts like a very good paramagnetic clay as it does have the ability to resonate to a cosmic force. Neither (are) perlite nor vermiculate are clays, but they demonstrate the paramagnetic properties of clay. Zeo-lites are aluminosilicates, but with a porous crystalline struc¬ture and are found primarily as volcanic ash deposits. The name “zeo-lite” means ‘boiling stone’ as they are characterized by their loss of water when heated. They are not clays but act in a similar way and are paramagnetic.

Applications to Agriculture The polaric forces of paramagnetism and diamagnetism should be balanced in the soil, but should be insulated from one another such that they don’t short-circuit. Within the soil, organic mate-rial serves as the insulator. Thus we can better understand the detrimental effects of chemical agriculture. When a chemical salt fertilizer dissolves, especially in soils short on organic matter, it creates an ionic solution which is conductive. Without proper insulation, the paramagnetic and diamagnetic forces cannot be balanced. Similarly, we see how nature within a tree has provided an insu-lating layer of the cambium layer between the outer downward moving phloem cells and inner upward moving xylem cells. Soluble salt materials should never be used in the soil. Sugar so¬lutions, however, are not ionic and will not conduct current, and thus are acceptable. From this follows the rule that only one rock powder should be applied per year and always together with hu¬mus, and this should be given time to “digest” in the soil.

Besides direct application of rock powders as fertilizers or amend-ments, these can be indirectly applied by addition to the compost pile. Sprinkled between the layers of dry brown carbon materials and moist green nitrogenous materials it should amount to about ten percent by volume of the pile. Paramagnetic rock powders will be even more effective having been previously digested. There are a multitude of other benefits of paramagnetism in agri-culture as well. A well-aerated soil will allow highly paramagnetic oxygen to invigorate it. Foliar applications of rock dust can help deter insects. Spread on the soil surface around plants it can pro-vide an effective physical barrier against slugs and snails. A bit of paramagnetic rock dust added to the water used for irrigation can improve it energetically and pass on the benefit to crops. Rock dust can balance pH with a more gradual and gentle shift than ap-plication of lime. Odors can be reduced in animal manures. It can be used as a dietary supplement for animals. Agricultural “teas” can be made from paramagnetic rock dust. It is even claimed that electromagnetic or geopathic radiation may be remediated with rock dust.

Man-Made Devices That Emanate and Enhance Paramagnetic Forces

Extremely low frequency (ELF) electro-magnetic radio waves can be detected being emitted by paramagnetic substances. After this phenomenon had been observed and applied for ben¬eficial pur-poses for some time, technology was developed in the form of man-made devices which could emanate and broadcast paramag-netic force in a greatly enhanced form. The late Slim Spurling formed rings of twisted wire to create a device that in¬duced a super current field within it, acting like a dielectric anten¬na that would amplify paramagnetic forces. Spurling’s Agricultur¬al Harmonizer was measured at 18,000 cgs, and demonstrated it could enhance plant health and crop yields. In fact, it had positive effect on all living things within its range. All of Slim Spurling’s tools, including the agricultural harmonizer can be seen at light-lifetechnology.com.



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Alternatively, we can revive the technology of the ancients, erecting paramagnetic standing stones, arranging stone circles, or building Irish-style round towers. Paramagnetic stone mulches can improve the health of the trees and plants they surround. A more modern option is to fabricate and erect a “power tower”, a specially constructed tube filled with paramagnetic material which stands erect a few feet high in your field or garden. Dowsing can help you choose among the options, select the right placement, and guide all aspects of construction. All of these op-tions serve as antennae to draw in and concentrate beneficial cos-mic energies to again ray out to the immediate surroundings. When employing rock dusts as fertilizer, it is extremely important to remember that the varieties available are each suited to differ-ent crops. Explore the quarries in your area to see what is locally available. In some cases they may have available a min¬eral analy-sis of the dusts.

Steve Herbert is an earth scientist, anthropologist, writer, gardener and international dowser. He currently serves as Secretary on the American Society of Dowsers’ Water for Humanity Fund Committee. He can be reached at (603) 616-7872 or [email protected].

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ASD CHAPTER DIRECTORYUpdated July 2014

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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: Robert KyankoPhone: 928-776-1346Email: [email protected]: Meetings are on the first Saturday of the month at 1:30pm, at Yavapai Title Conference Room, 1235 E. Gurley St, Prescott.

City/Town: SedonaChapter Name: Verde Valley ChapterContact Person: Carolyn StillmanPhone: 928-204-1828Email: [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 Water of Life Met-ropolitan Community Church, 3269 North Mountain Ave. Check website above for current information.

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

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,



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Contact Person: Jeannette or BarneyPhone: (Jeanette) 530-222-2024 (Barney) 530-474-1938Mailing Address: PO Box 493499, Redding, CA 96049Email: [email protected]: www.norcaldowsers.comMeetings: Meetings usually held once a month in Redding. Check website for schedule and calendar.

City/Town: SacramentoChapter Name: Sierra DowsersContact Person: Donna AhlersPhone: 916-564-9552Email: [email protected] [email protected]: Hagan Community Cen-ter, 2197 Chase Dr., Bldg. #1, Rancho Cordva. Sunday from noon to 5pm - 4 times a year. Call for details.

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.

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: 530-534-3516Email: [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 Dowsers

City/Town: San JoseChapter Name: San Jose ChapterContact Person: Cathy CoultripPhone: 952-462-8576Email: [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.

Contact Person: Terese M. BrennanPhone: (Home) 203-283-5983Email: [email protected]: 23 Clinton St., Milford, CT 06460. Please call or email for meeting dates and times. No meetings Jan, Feb, July or Aug.

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.

FloridaCity/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 De-cember, from 6pm-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: Santa RosaChapter Name: Sonoma County DowsersContact Person: Dianna CoulombePhone: 707-575-9237Email: [email protected]: www.sonomacountydows-ers.blogspot.comMeetings: TBA

City/Town: WinnetkaChapter Name: Valley of the DowsersContact Person: Jim or Susan SchultzPhone: 918-667-4417Email: [email protected] [email protected]: Valley Village Community Room 20830 Sherman Way Winnetka(DeSoto Exit off the 101) Meetings once a month Sept.-June. We don’t usu-ally have meetings in July or August.

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

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City/Town: Palmetto BayChapter Name: Miami Dade, Broward Monroe ChapterContact Person: Carroll WilliamsPhone: 305-917-3696Email: [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]: Meets from 4:00–5:30 with a yes/no dowsing lesson @3:45 for be-ginners

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.

GeorgiaCity/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.

IdahoCity/Town: BoiseChapter Name: Idaho Society of DowsersContact Person: Amelia “Amy” LoomisPhone: 208-315-1075

Email: [email protected]: Meetings are held quarterly. Please email for details on the next upcoming meeting. VP - Frank Jordan 208-344-9188 • [email protected]

IllinoisCity/Town: Des PlainesChapter Name: Northern Illinois ChapterContact Person: Lee PattersonPhone: 630-968-2804Email: To Be AnnouncedMeetings: Meetings are on the 2nd or 3rd Sundays of February, April, June, August, October, and December, from 1pm to 4pm. Meetings are held at The Dance Building, 1330 Webford Rd.

IndianaCity/Town: NewburghChapter Name: Tri-State DowsersContact Person: Mary BuchananPhone: 812-359-4949Email: [email protected]: www.tristatedowsers.orgMeetings: Newburgh, IN. Library off Bell Road Diamond Room Chapter Information: Meetings the last Thurs-day of the month, Jan.-Oct. at 6:30 pm. Check website for changes or cancel-lations.

IowaCity/Town: TamaChapter Name: First Iowa ChapterContact Person: Scott DavenportPhone: 641-328-4946Email: [email protected]: Meetings every other month, in January, March, May, July, September, and November, from 9:30am-3:30pm held at the Tama Civic Center. Contact for more information.

KansasCity/Town: Kansas CityChapter Name: Dowsing Society of Kansas CityContact Person: Joy SchwartzPhone: 913-381-7152Meetings: Call or email for information.

MaineCity/Town: BangorChapter Name: Northern Maine Contact Person: Albert BeanPhone: 207-942-0214Meetings: Chapter is currently in-active, but does meet occasionally. Please contact us for info on the next meeting.

City/Town: FalmouthChapter Name: Rollie Moore Chapter of Southern MaineContact Person: Cathy DolloffPhone: 207-318-2775Email: [email protected]: Meetings are the last Thurs-day of the month, at 6pm, at St. Mary’s Church in Falmouth.

MassachusettsCity/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.

MichiganCity/Town: WarrenChapter Name: Southeast Michigan DowsersContact Person: Dan PraterPhone: 586-202-4166Email: [email protected]: www.michigandowsers.orgMeetings: Meetings are usually held on the third Saturday of each month at 1pm at Macomb Community College, 14500 E. 12 Mile Rd., Building M, South Campus, Warren, MI 48088.

MissouriCity/Town: St. LouisChapter Name: Gateway Society of DowsersContact Person: Faith ParrishPhone: 618-876-1771Website: 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.

MontanaCity/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.



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

New HampshireCity/Town: ClaremontChapter Name: Living WatersContact Person: Carol GaderPhone: 603-357-4699Email: [email protected]: Meetings the third Tuesday of every month except Jan & Feb, at 6:30pm for instruction, and 7pm for the meeting, at the Claremont Savings Bank, but location does change from time to time, so contact to be sure.

City/Town: LittletonChapter Name: Littleton Area Dowsers GroupContact Person: Sarita KhanPhone: 802-578-7103Email: [email protected]: The Center for Collabora-tive Energies, 103 Cottage Street, Lit-tleton, NH. Meetings held the second Thursday of the month.

City/Town: PlymouthChapter Name: White Mountain DowsersContact Person: Sandi RuelkePhone: 603-444-5494Cell: 603-724-5622Email: [email protected]: Meetings are the second Monday of the month, September thru May at 6:30 p.m., Starr King UU Church, 101 Fairground Road. Dows-ing instruction prior to meeting.

New JerseyCity/Town: Morristown area -Chapter Name: North Central NJ DowsersContact Person: Christina Lynn Whited Dian FreemanPhone: 908-638-9066 973-267-4816Email: [email protected] [email protected]: Sept 28, 2013 Call or email for schedule. New chapter pending

New MexicoCity/Town: Las CrucesChapter Name: Dona Ana DowsersChapter Contact: Jeanne GehringerPhone: (575) 522-4667Email: [email protected]: This chapter is currently in-active. If interested in helping run it; or in becoming a member, please contact Jeanne. It will meet quarterly in Feb, May, Aug and Nov on the first or sec-ond Sunday from noon to 5, and will have dowsing instruction, as well as, guest speakers.

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. Please contact us for current location.

City/Town: Santa FeChapter Name: Kokopelli DowsersContact Person: Angellyn RosePhone: 505-216-1614Email: [email protected]:www.kokopellidowsers.comChapter Information: Next meeting

will be held in February 2014. Please call for details. Workshops will be held on Sundays, when possible. Please callor email for time and location as thechapter meets in several locations.

NevadaCity/Town: Carson CityContact Person: TBDPhone: TBDMeetings: TBD

City/Town: Las VegasChapter Name: Silver DowsersContact Person: Osvaldo AdamicskaPhone: 702-521-9125 Email: [email protected]: Email or call for dates, times, and locations.

New YorkCity/Town: Ballston SpaChapter Name: Mohawk-Hudson ChapterContact Person: “Trent” Aime MilletPhone: 802-473-2836Email: [email protected]: www.mhdowsers.orgMeetings: Are held at various venues. Please contact us for information.

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: Inactive

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.

City/Town: New York CityChapter Name: The Anne Williams Manhatten ChapterContact Person: RochellePhone: 212-472-8688Email: [email protected]: Studios 353 353 W/ 48th Street, Second Floor between 8th and 9th Avenues New York, NY 10036 (Subway C & E to 50th Street Station)Meeting are the last Tuesday of the month, except July, Aug. & December.

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: Kay InglinPhone: 607-272-7965Email: [email protected]: Contact for details.City/Town: Walker Valley



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Chapter Name: Catskill Mountain ChapterContact Person: Stanley DobrowolskiPhone: 845-336-8565Website: www.wiandwellness.comMeetings: Please refer to website for information.

North CarolinaCity/Town: AshevilleChapter Name: Appalachian DowsersContact Person: Richard CramPhone: 828-685-7945Email: [email protected]: www.appalachiandowsers.orgMeetings: Held on the third Saturday of Feb., May, Sept., and Nov. See web-site for directions and time.

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 2nd Sunday, from 1:30pm until 4:30pm. Meetings are announced via email & posted on website 10 days be-fore the meeting, along with directions.

OhioCity/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.

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.

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

PennsylvaniaCity/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. Call 215-968-2897 for a meeting notice message or join email notice list by emailing [email protected]. For meeting notices only, NOT for contact.

Rhode IslandCity: JohnstonChapter Name: Dowsers Rhode IslandChapter Contact: Elizabeth DesrochersPhone: (401) 447-3671Email: [email protected]: www.ancientwiz.comMeeting Address: Check back for up-dated meeting information.

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.

TexasCity/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: Vernell BoydPhone: 713-826-3772Email: [email protected]: www.freewebs.com/lonestardowsersMeetings: Second Tuesday of each month upstairs at Central Market, 3815 Westheimer at Weslayan.

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.

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.

VermontCity/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 American Society of Dowsers, 184 Brainerd St., Danville, VT 05828

City/Town: RutlandChapter Name: Jack O’Handley ChapterContact Person: Phone: Email: Meetings: Meetings are the second Thursday of the month, at the Rutland Police Station on Wales St. No meet-ings in June, July and August.



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City/Town: ShelburneChapter Name: Chittenden County ChapterContact Person: Inactive - Contact ASD Headquarters for more informa-tion. 1-802-684-3417

VirginiaCity/Town: LivelyChapter Name: Chesapeake Bay DowsersContact Person: Bill BonnellPhone: 804-462-5518Email: [email protected]: Chapter is inactive.

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.

WashingtonCity/Town: LynnwoodChapter Name: Energy Dowsers ChapterContact Person: Don BlackPhone: 560-299-2514Email: [email protected]: 5630 200th St SW Lyn-nwood, WA 98036. Bi-Monthly Meet-

ings held the 3rd Sunday of the Month,starting April 2014, followed by June, Aug, Oct and Dec.

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

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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.

*As amended 4/16/11.

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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