Twinn
Earth Energies Group - Suffolk - 2009
Catching up - then moving on
The EEG enjoying the sunshine in Suffolk
Such is the agreeable ambience of EEG gatherings - and the prowess of the speakers - that even in these financially-challenged times the Spring Meeting was a sell-out. It was nice to see that the usual smattering of more established dowsers was liberally interspersed by an influx of new faces, with new ideas and new perspectives.
Given the varied experience of the participants, it was fitting that those latter-day leviathans of the EEG, Jim Lyons and Billy Gawn, chose to formulate their presentations as a combination of a consolidation of their work to date, together with indications of where their respective spheres of investigation were leading them.
Jim Lyons, now largely freed from his need to avoid the antagonism of the academic mainstream, used the morning sessions to explain the unashamedly scientific dowsing scenarios he has been developing over the last couple of decades. His animated presentational style only served to emphasise that the ideas he is putting forward are as exciting as they are profound. We were led with great gusto through an esoteric landscape populated by vortex rings, toroids and laminar flow. Jim explained the relevance to the interface of dowsing with the material world of the natural harmonic scales found in music, Cymatic Patterns, diatonics, numerical progression applied to religious symbolism and the emerging understanding of chaos theory.
Using a veritable blizzard of mathematical matrices, from the essence of Pythagorean equations to the impact of the Fibonacci series, Jim was able to demonstrate how everything from the natural evolution of cell structure to the configuration of the cosmos can be understood - and sensed by the dowser - through an appreciation of the numerical building blocks on which is it all based. If that sounds a bit complicated, it is - but having now heard chunks of it on a number of occasions over the years, it is becoming clearer how the deep interconnectedness that the dowser can sense on a spiritual level, can also be demonstrated through a process not a million miles away from an extension of 21st century scientific theory. The holy grail of sacred geometry!
If Jim Lyons is one of the standard-bearers of the academic wing of the EEG, Billy Gawn is certainly one of the doyens of the school of Practical Persuasion. Billy has been divining and creating stone structures for many years, initially on request and more recently by intent and design. For those who have concerns about the wisdom, and energetic impact, of plonking great lumps of rock into the physical landscape, this man is the adversary’s antidote.
Billy’s work on the purpose and impact of megalithic stone constructions, especially in relation to the rebalancing of detrimental energy, is legendary - and is described in the very readable, and recently revised, publication Megalithic Structures: Why?. The scale of the benefit of the stone circle and chamber, which he has built in his own garden, on a great swathe of the energetic environment of Northern Ireland is quite difficult to internalise - but it is out there to be tested and verified.
His investigations into the effect of placing items such as charcoal, pottery and bone - often found in chambered graves - into equivalent recently created structures is opening up a whole new area of practical research. A discussion on the measurable impacts of positioning items of some mass (from granite boulders to wheelie bins!) in strategic locations led on appropriately from the morning session. It moved the emphasis from grasping the concept of relevant ratios to putting them into practice on the ground.
Billy summarised the work he has carried out over the years into the impact of energy lines - and in particular the implications of the dowsable effect of water lines. He introduced the idea of broken energy lines, which create dowsable spirals used in the design of some ancient structures. He even gave a trademark practical demonstration of how a ‘reversal point’ can be determined and used to negate the adverse impact of the detrimental energy associated with the edge lines of water emanations.
Sunday afternoon saw us out ‘in the field’ with Billy. We had the pleasure, indeed privilege, of helping him to determine an appropriate location for a new stone structure to be erected on the land of local farmer, John Agnew. For those who had never seen the Ulsterman in action, this might have been something of a revelation. While many of us have taken tentative steps towards deviceless dowsing, few have yet realised Billy Gawn’s ability to ‘look at’, and then point to, the relevant spot - with astonishing accuracy.
With the help of various members of the group, a series of water and earth energy crossing points were marked out in the corner of a field and the potential positions of marker stones determined. If this circle (well to be strictly accurate, ellipse) is duly constructed, it will be of great practical interest to investigate if the beneficial effect on the detrimental energies of this seemingly sleepy sector of Suffolk is as great as that achieved against the more volatile energetic environment of Northern Ireland.
In between these two heavyweights of Earth Energy dowsing, we enjoyed a very different type of Sunday morning, in the company of Jim and Wendy Doyle, who run the home team in these parts - the East Anglian Dowsers.
Much of their presentation was devoted to a case study of the removal of detrimental energy from a house near Carcasonne in southern France. (I know, it’s tough, but someone has to do it.) There, serious adverse energy issues had caused physical, social and spiritual repercussions. After much dowsing and not a few personal problems, Jim and Wendy were able to clear much of the ‘black’ energy - apparently associated with the presence of burial pits dating from the 13th Century. As a result of their intervention the social and emotional problems were improving and hopefully the physical manifestations would heal over time.
While this was a fascinating cameo in itself, the real lessons learned from their work concerned the use of, and need for, a pragmatic attitude to the use of protection when undertaking healing work of this nature. Wendy followed up Jim’s energetic travelogue with a more general discussion on her experience of requesting and applying the help of angels and devas - again using an accessible and down-to-earth approach to a subject that sometimes generates more heat than light.
Many thanks indeed go to Liz McGain for all her hard work in making this event happen, to John Agnew for his willingness to host the event - and to Adrian Incledon-Webber and Helen Lamb for keeping the show on the road.
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Nigel Twinn, April 2009