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Pathways
Of
Consciousness
Booklet 2
Contents
Leylines
1) Leylines – Pathways of
Collective
Consciousness.
Pathways of
the
Collective
Consciousness
2) Pathways of
Consciousness.
3) Some further
observation on Ley-line
analysis and recent
changes in the system
before and after
Harmonic Convergence.
4) Beyond the Five Senses.
5) Some Thoughts on
European Ley-Lines
and Oriental Dragon
Lines.
Some years ago, you were kind enough
to give me the opportunity to address
you on the subject of “Dowsing Ley
Line Energies and the Search for the
Grail.” May I now be permitted to give
you an update on what has happened
in the last five years, and to what
extent one has learned more and put
into practice what one thought one had
learned.
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All the articles have
been written by Colin
Bloy.
Those involved are still, to all intents
and purposes, relatively sane, or at any
rate no one has publicly to account for
that reason, although that may of
course be due to not having anything
important to say. But if I may
summarise briefly what was said five
years ago, it was as follows:
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Due to a series of coincidences,
contrived or otherwise, a group of
dowsers seeking the truth about the
existence of ley energies stumbled
across a display of geometric forms
around the Templar Preceptory at
Shipley, Sussex, and subsequently at
other Templar Preceptories. They
found what was believed to be the ABC
of how the, so called ley system works
and subsequently the discovery of the
stone in the caves in the Pyrenees
produced what might be called the
syntax and grammar.
We were faced with certain compelling
conclusions, the first was self-delusion,
the second was that the material world
as defined by science or “scientism,”
the rational positivistic study of reality,
We tried to show how these
geometrical numerical forms related to
the Cabalistic and Gnostic tradition, to
the sacred architecture, and through
the work of Bligh Bond, to the basic
esoteric nature of true Christianity or
what might be equally well called, just
truth, whatever name it may take in
any culture.
What appeared to be the case was that
the material world is not the be all and
end all, some sort of Newtonian
Billiard table on which not even
Hurricane Higgins could make a
mistake. Of course Newton would be
the first to say that he had been misrepresented. He had only sought to
show how the grossest form of the
material world works, not to say there
was nothing else. Coming back to
Hurricane Higgins, he would know, as
we must also know, that whereas the
billiard balls may perform in a
perfectly predictable way, whether or
not it performs in the desired way,
depends on whether the mind and
body behind the cue has delivered its
input correctly of not.
that subtle energies may be shown to
exist by dowsing raises many
questions, and the self -confidence and
clarity of the observer may be the first
to be questioned.
On the other hand, it is equally selfevident that if you elevate, as the only
means of perception, the five senses
and a series of apparatuses,
functioning solely on input from gross
energy fields, they are incapable of
discovering anything else. As my dear
friend Michael Bentine said, “If you
apply the meters of the gas man to an
electrical cable he will tell you that
there is nothing.
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doubt that it is virtually a banal
phenomenon: it can be reproduced by
a significant percentage of the
population. There is more than
enough evidence to justify Uri Geller’s
statement. Here lies the greatest
problem of the positivist approach to
science, once isn’t enough, not ten
times, you really have to pocket the
billiard ball every single time to
Not long ago, in a radio discussion, a
leading physicist was asked whether he
thought that consciousness was an
objective reality. Now he had the
honesty to say, hesitantly, that he did
not know, and of course the nub of the
paranormal, I believe resides there,
should it be objective.
Uri Geller once said, “I’ve done it once
why do I have to do it again?” I recall a
story told to me by Andrea Puharich
about Uri Geller and Werner Von
Braun. Von Braun had said that if
what Uri Geller purported to do was
true he would have to change his
model of the Cosmos. Andrea brought
Geller to Von Braun’s laboratory and
in Von Braun’s hand his own door key
bent out of true. Apparently Von
Braun walked around his laboratory in
an agitated manner for some 30
minutes, returned to his desk, put the
key down, said “I don’t believe it”, and
walked out.
gain credence. That really is throwing
the baby out with the bath water,
because the one that behaves
differently is totally ignored, even if it
is observed correctly.
Many laboratory investigations have
been carried out, under supposedly
identical conditions, and sometimes
they work and sometimes they don’t.
But just what are these identical
conditions? Apparently conditions
that have to conform to a positivist
criteria. The Faraday cage is often put
forward as important, but so far as I
am aware, the Faraday cage only
screens out influences from the so
called electric-magnetic spectrum. Are
we to suppose, therefore, that there are
no other influences that bear on
reality?
Now spoons have been bent under my
own eyes by friends in my own home,
and many of us will be familiar with
John Halstead’s work at Birkbeck
College, where he has shown without
Often subjects of paranormal
investigation protest that the
environment is hostile, that
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One of Einstein’s close collaborators,
Eugene Wigner, once said he could not
conceive of a coherent system of
physical laws without taking
consciousness into account, and that
the evidence that material objects had
spiritual essences, have a very similar
form of reality, and had greatly
contributed to inner peace. In any
event he could conceive of no other
way satisfied the requirements of
quantum mechanics. Not to mention
all the problems presented to
contemporary physics by the difference
between particles, waves and fluids,
the ether, the Michelson Morley
experiment, and so on.
investigators present give off “negative
vibrations” so they cannot function.
Certainly the De La Warr radionics
camera did not work for everybody,
and never consistently, but that is no
reason to say that it was a fraud when
sometimes it worked brilliantly. We, I
believe, are obliged to say that when it
did work, something happens outside
the conventional positivist criteria, and
instead of turning our backs on the
problem, we have to account for it.
Human society being what it is the
most immediate source of Brownie
points is to echo the conventional
wisdom. You don’t ready get marks for
telling society and its institutions that
it is wrong. If you are out of step with
the regiment, it’s the guardhouse for
you or maybe a source of income cut
off. Here lies the sociological problem
of the discovery of true knowledge. I
am not knocking the scientific
approach to life completely. It is a
safeguard against total fantasy and
delirium. Nonetheless we really do
have to look more closely at the one
that gets away.
Now an even greater problem has
apparently presented itself. Closer
observation of the behaviour of
electrons, which may only have mass
when they are observed, reveals certain
characteristics of communication
which indicates that there is something
which actually works faster than light.
Thought, in an instant can transport us
to any location, (this is from the
International Herald Tribune, I might
say.) The one insuperable barrier and
limiting factor of positivist science,
nothing can go faster than light.
Indeed says one commentator, if this is
so then certain events can have their
cause in the future rather than the
past.
Heisenberg started to upset everybody
when he stated that not every particle
behaves in the Newtonian billiard ball
way, and further, the act of observation
influences the event, which really did
make everything relative. It is all very
well to make nuclear bombs, and to
send spacecraft on a calculated course,
to wherever, in a Newtonian Universe,
but the theory of probability places a
large question mark on the whole
positivist approach, because you really
do have to account for the one that
doesn’t work according to convention.
Well, all that’s a long way from the
billiard table physics, which certainly
gave man many technological goodies,
and for that matter, baddies. We
appear, therefore, to be left with a
problem: Newtonian physics only
works at the grossest material level.
When it does, it is entirely predictable
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state, pure love and energy, as being
those concepts we find help us most to
explain the phenomena we have been
studying. It’s a way of explaining the
bits that don’t fit the billiard table
physics.
and yields totally to statistical analysis.
What happens when Hurricane
Higgins does not pot the black?
What’s gone wrong? Why do some
particles not obey the rules? Why
apparently is communication between
electrons faster than light? What
bends spoons and distorts Geiger
counters? What is the factor that
affects paranormal success or failure?
Returning to an earlier question. Is
consciousness an objective reality? My
answer, in the light of the dowsing
experience is an unequivocal “Yes.”
There is no doubt, at the moment , in
my mind that there is a relationship
between form, number and
consciousness and subtle energies
which exist beyond the gross worlds of
the Faraday cage: and that is the true
message of the Holy Grail. It also
became clear to me of late, although I
would be the first to resent the
tardiness of such a realisation, that
consciousness, as manifested by the
individual, is in fact holistic.
Coming back now to Bligh Bond.
Some of you will be aware that in his
book, “The Company of Avalon,” he
makes specific reference to, “The Great
Return.” That is to say, when man
from the peak of ego consciousness,
and through the medium of love,
returns voluntarily to the group
consciousness.
The brain is not the seat of
consciousness, any more than it is the
seat of the emotions. Dowsing shows,
at least to me, that the brain maybe a
form of telephone exchange in respect
of orders to the to the body, but in
respect of our being, it thinks and
cerebrates, which is but one small
aspect of consciousness.
That may seem a big jump out of all
that technical, scientific stuff, into that
statement by Bligh Bond. But I want
to try to bring out the relationship
between consciousness, in its’ highest
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and we approach one palm to the
other, we may be aware, due to the
marginally heightened sensitivity, of a
form of resistance at about 6 inches
distance: it depends on the individual.
It is liked by some to the repulsion of
similar poles of a magnet, or holding
an invisible air balloon between our
hands, or by others as a tingling. But
what we are feeling, if we concentrate
in a relaxed way and let our higher
consciousness do the interpreting, is
the energy field around each hand
coming together.
The Greeks maintained that the heart
was seen as the seat of the emotions
and modern material science has
rebutted that, but dowsing shows the
Greeks to have been right, just as it
shows that the contemporary slang
“gut feeling,” is also right. Many
feelings have to do with the abdomen
and not the brain.
Now human consciousness, as it
relates to the body, has fields which
may be determined by dowsing – not
that perplexing version of dowsing
represented by the pendulum, which
requires use to take views about the
subtleties of the relationship between
mind and body, but based on a very
slight extension of the tactile sense,
received through the hand.
Now I’m not special – not especially
sane, or especially sensitive, and
anybody can do what I do, if they want
to, so I claim no special gift or
revelation: however, it has been made
plain to me that, at least within the
electro-magnetic spectrum, in which
our five senses may be held to work,
their window of reality in relation to
the whole of the spectrum is
infinitesimally small.
Once we have recognised this
sensation, and it’s easier than learning
to ride a bike, then we may feel not
only our own aura, but those of others.
What is important here is the study of
chakras, or energy centres, which
appear to be a link between the spirit,
through the etheric to the physical
body. They have multitudinous effects,
such as their relationship to the
endocrine and glandular systems to the
subtle workings of the body, but what
is relevant to this submission is their
consciousness.
However, if we raise the sensitivity of
our hands by a small degree, by
rubbing them together or by clapping
them,
Interesting to note that there are 8
chakras in the general theory, although
there is a very arcane argument as to
how many sub-chakras there are. A
straight forward manual analysis of
any individual’s chakras may indicate
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Cabbalistic tree of life. An indication
of the extent to which our heads maybe
in the clouds, or our feet on the
ground.
his state of consciousness. For
instance, someone in a state of anger of
a visceral nature, or sexually obsessed,
momentarily or permanently, will
exhibit a large field around the lower
abdomen. Someone whose
consciousness is involved in loving
attitudes will exhibit a uniform field
around the heart region to a radius of
up to three yards. Someone who is
cerebrating, studying or worrying out a
problem will have an extended field
around the forehead. Someone who is
a practising saint will have a large
flaring field around and above the top
of the head. There are infinite
variations and conclusions based on
experience, which may be drawn from
distinctive profiles thus revealed. They
are not necessarily moral conditions.
A healer may be observed, from
behind, to have none of his chakras
working except his crown chakra, and
from the front a common field of
uninterrupted consciousness with the
person being healed. EEG’s reveal that
the healers brain pattern shifts, so does
that of the subject: implying that a
certain level of consciousness during
the act of healing, they are one being.
That is to say that they enjoy a moment
of collective consciousness at that
time. Maxwell Cade with his mind
mirror shows that not only did this
function when healer and receiver
were facing each other, but also when
they were separated by considerable
distances as well.
The conclusion for me, however, is that
consciousness, in some degree, is
measurable and quantifiable, and
therefore objective. It is not solely
dependant on the electrical activity of
the brain, although it is true that brain
rhythm and states of consciousness are
related.
A series of photographs taken of
healing in progress, shows that there is
something important happening. A
column as many contemplatives
perceive it, has totally descended on
both healer and healed. It conforms in
every way to descriptions of the Holy
spirit, in Christians terms, but it is also
a well-known phenomenon in Eastern
religions and many be called prana and
various other names. Cosmic energy.
Divine energy the stuff of life, because
it’s the force that heals once it is in
combination with four other energy
fields coming from the nearest point in
the ley system.
Now the last time I was kindly invited
to address this Society. I was hopefully
able to define in energy terms, what we
felt we had discovered or been
A study of the chakras reveals
ascending degrees of consciousness, as
if on a ladder, from the base to the
crown, a replica if you like, of the
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Now putting two and two together, and
possibly making five, and taking into
account the Templar phenomenon we
described in some detail in the last
lecture, we came to the conclusion that
what it all had to do with, was no more
or less that the collective
consciousness of the Western World.
The ley lines, the alignments and the
energy come together in that concept
of collective consciousness. There is
also a collective consciousness in the
Eastern World, and of course there it is
in the stories of dragons, Feng Shui the
dragon current and Lung Mei the
dragon paths.
permitted to observe about the ley
system. We have concluded that all of
it worked by number and form, ie the
number of parallels in the lines and the
geometric forms that the energy takes
when it goes into function. We had
observed that these change and
augment when some form of spiritual
input takes place by those present, in
any particular place of function;
indeed we concluded that the system
moved to accommodate ephemeral
situations just as a healer might
function in the middle of an open field.
The cross of ley energies comes upon
him during that spiritual act and he
draws in from the nearest terminal
point in the ley
Having observed how a healer works
within the ley system, and also having
heard from the protagonists of
Transcendental Meditation that
communities tend to go better when a
certain, very nominal percentage
We also observed that the mis-named
ley system is not merely horizontal, but
as Sig Lonegren has also commented
in “The American Dowser,” there are
vertical energies or what he called
“uppers.” And indeed the
phenomenon of the column of light of
the healer may be found in other
circumstances such as the altar of a
properly dedicated church, and other
places of organised spiritual activity.
Those blessed with hyper vision see
this phenomenon as a column of light
with different colours. Much work has
been done in Australia to show that the
parallels in the ley lines have different
colours, not colours in the physical
sense but using a Mager colour rosette.
There appears to be some form of
qualitative distinction that, that
particular colour rosette interprets as a
different colour, may be different
vibrations but he signs are that there is
more work to be done there.
practice TM, something like 2%, it
occurred to one or two of us one May
evening in Brighton, that if a healer
worked unknowingly but in real terms,
with the ley system, and if the ley
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system had to do with collective
consciousness, bearing in mind the
subtle nature of the other bodies of the
individual: particularly how a healer
combines his consciousness with that
of his subject, and if individual
diseases may be analysed in terms
relating to degrees of consciousness,
then collective beings in villages,
towns, and cities might also exist
which have collective diseases the
same way. Violence, traffic accidents,
largely produced through stress, high
incidence of stress induced disease and
so on. Physical manifestations which
have their origins, we feel, within its
collective consciousness.
Which Brighton revolves, just in front
of the old Palace Pier. It is called the
Old Steine because there used to be a
stone circle there, and some of the
stones have been left in the base of the
fountain. A very propitious place from
all points of view. Thus the idea of the
Fountain Group, (Fountain
International,) came into existence.
Consequently it occurred to us that if
the TM people were right and if our
observations were correct, a group
input into a group situation might have
some beneficial effect. Particularly
what is instructed in TM is more of a
passive, self- indulgent to some extent,
type of meditation. What we are
proposing was to use an altered state
of consciousness but put in an active
visualisation of the desired change.
Just as when a healer, working on the
rational approach uses visualisation, a
switching of the brain rhythm to
permit a higher state of consciousness
in which total visualisation can take
place.
Although it may seem out of sequence,
I would now like to deal with the
China, Hong Kong experience as it
relates to the pathways of collective
consciousness.
We used the analogy of the individual
one to one healer as well in relating the
collective body of the community. The
individual healer puts vital energy into
the person receiving through the hara,
or solar plexus. In Brighton the hara
just had to be the Great Fountain in
the centre of the Old Steine. That
circus around
It has long seemed to me that the
Chinese system of Feng Shui, wind and
water and Lung Mei, ought to be
related to what we have been looking
at in the ley lines. However, in the
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went and looked at sites together. We
struck a deal to share our knowledge.
sparse literature that has so far been
available, although the use of the
geomancers’s compass is shown, and
the complex schematic of factors,
relating to physical phenomena,
combine and to produce and enable
the geomancer to calculate, propitious
chi or noxious cha. I have never found
any reference to the use of dowsing as
a Feng Shui Method.
The first surprise was that when I went
to his office he produced a very heavy
dowsers rod which was carefully
machined. “You see,” he said. “We do
the same thing but we never write it
down. But I don’t understand your
method of numbers of lines and
geometrical forms. We identify good
and bad lines by whether the rod dips
or keeps it’s head up, and the intensity
by feel and intuition.”
It was with a long anticipated pleasure
that last week, for the first time, I went
to Hong Kong and Peking. Now Mao
banned all the “mancies” in
Communist China, but in Singapore,
Taiwan and Hong Kong the dragon
man or Feng Shui practitioner is a
prominent functionary, and no one,
not even the British Government of
Hong Kong takes them lightly. I am
also concerned with a new factory in
Hong Kong, and its orientation, date of
ground breaking and ceremonial
opening were all established by the
dragon man, and the director
concerned is a European who
consulted them.
We went out together and I hope to
recount the details of that exercise
later in an article for the British
Society of Dowsers, if they will accept
it. We finished the day entirely
satisfied, we were talking the same
language and looking at the same
things. Indeed, the following day we
had lunch together with more
members of his Feng Shui group which
included a Chinese Catholic Priest, a
Jesuit, and Eastern master and a lady
acupuncturist. I am happy to tell you
that at that luncheon the Hong Kong
Fountain Group was formed.
It was to this director I therefore
addressed myself on arrival and asked
him to arrange for me to meet a dragon
man. He immediately put me in touch
with a Hong Kong Chinese named Y.K.
Yeung who had studied under a dragon
man. Yeung explained that he was the
architect to the whole group, a large
construction company. He approached
me with some diffidence at first –
presumably Europeans were not
supposed to know these things – but
when I explained what we had been
doing he brightened up and started to
look me in the eye, proposed that we
The Eastern master later revealed he
had founded a group called Ling Su
International, (Ling Su means spiritual
truth,) which had over 5,000 members
in Australia, Japan and the Philippines
and Hong Kong. He had been a
member of the British Society of
Dowsers some 30 years ago, was also a
spiritual healer. He said he would be
pleased to organise Asian Fountain
International through Ling Su.
It seemed to me that the whole
Chinese attitude towards Feng Shui is
one of a passive role in the matter.
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If she were typical of today’s China,
then things were going well. I told her
about Fountain Groups and chatted to
her superiors, quite naturally, who
were just as interested. So it was a
very important hurdle for me to go
through to find that there was
absolutely no barrier in talking about
these things, even though they had
been banned by in Mao’s time.
You can divert it, send it out of your
house to someone else’s and in,
England we also agree with this. But it
is possible (and this is what “dragon
killing” is about in Western European
mythology) to transmute that negative
energy into positive energy through the
application of certain spiritual acts. I
think that is the one point where I had
something useful to say to them, and
they took the point because we went to
a place with bad cha, we both agreed
by dowsing where it was, and I was
able to show that one can transmute
that into positive.
Xu was a delightful guide companion
and interpreter. “Did I know Roger
Moore personally?” she asked. I
didn’t, but the question led me to
believe that all was well in Peking.
On my arrival in Hong Kong I had
picked up that the Hong Kong Line
system worked on a five factor, that is
5-10-20-25-50. Whereas Europe and
North America works on an eight
factor. I wondered whether this was
unique to Hong Kong or if I would find
this also in mainland China. When I
arrived in Peking I checked and it was
the same.
I was met at the airport by my
designated interpreter, a diminutive
20yr old graduate in English from
Peking University. Although I did not
know the form in Peoples Republic of
China, I intended to have a dowse
wherever I went and thought it best to
come clean. So on the journey to
Peking I told her my interests, to test
her reaction. She smiled and said,
“That’s lovely and exciting. Tomorrow
(Sunday) I’m taking you to the Great
Wall of China, you can do it there and
in the Forbidden City. That will be
interesting. And my friends will be
fascinated.” I breathed out a sigh of
relief and checked her chakras. Her
crown and heart chakras were superb.
Great Wall of China
We went to the wall the following day
and along the length I was able to
dowse a 25 bar line. Now that would
be a pretty strong energy line. I
subsequently found a postcard which
showed the fort to the Eastern end of
the wall which was called the head of
the dragon. I believe that the whole of
the wall was considered, at the time, as
putting a dragon down on the earth.
I’m quite certain that, just as in
Western mythology, the Eastern
dragon, to the initiate, is the energy,
the spiral energy. The way that you
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already dowsed nuclear arsenals in
Spain and found this split line with a 1
single either side to be synonymous.
It was fortunate that that had
happened while we were dowsing
together as he was able to confirm a)
negativity and b) the same numbers as
myself, (once he got the idea of
parallels.)
use it, through Feng Shui, geomancy or
whatever, is very important.
In the Forbidden City, the huge
imperial complex of the Ming
emperors, was a 10 x 5 line that went
on through the Hall of Chairman Mao,
the only place where his picture it to be
seen and where his mausoleum was
constructed, and through to a great
obelisk in People’s Square.
Coming back to the unidentified
building with the negative energy.
I found the only negative line in
Peking, and I dowsed 30 or 40, to be
coming out of a Ming style pagoda type
building, in front of which was the only
armed soldier I saw in the whole of
Peking. Nothing is marked on the map
to show me what this place is. There
are ways, through the healing process
mentioned earlier, of altering negative
lines and this I was able to do. When
dowsing I consider a line to be negative
if it is split once: this is confirmed by
Fountain Group members in Australia,
and also by my new friend Y K Yeung
in Hong Kong.
Before leaving Hong Kong I went to
see a business contact, a very senior
man in the People’s Republic, and a
close friend of Deng Xao Ping. I had
previously talked to him in London
about Feng Shui dragon lines: he knew
a little about it and was prepared to
discuss it. He told me that the
unidentified building was where Deng
Xao Ping traditionally lives. I told him
that all the dragon lines in Peking were
working well. “Oh good,” he laughed,
“that means that China will continue
her open door policy.”
Strangely enough when Y.K. and I were
looking at the hara in Hong Kong,
which is a clock tower of the old bus
station, a U.S. aircraft carrier, almost
certainly nuclear, came in and latched
itself on to the clock tower by a 1-1010-1. Now nuclear arsenals, plants and
bombs do get into the system. I have
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said that a Pan-like figure was dancing
in the middle.
This brings me up to date in terms of
the last time you were kind enough to
invite me. I implied then that
something very significant was to be
found in these studies, and it was
about then that the whole idea of
applying this experience in practice
with the Brighton experiment, was
burgeoning. The idea that ley lines
were pathways of consciousness had
formulated.
I also mentioned the theory of
nomadic man putting down roots, the
connection with water, the creation of
a focal point which can become the
religious focus as well. Interestingly
enough the Chinese Feng Shui people I
talked to, are clear that good chi is
associated with good quality water. I
won’t go into the work of Guy
Underwood and his analysis of
underground water, but there is some
evidence to show that sites are not
necessarily chosen because there is
good underground water, but that the
creation of good energy attracts good
underground water. There is a very
strange relationship between
underground water and subtle
energies. When Reich was doing his
experiments with his cloud buster, he
would always take a cable from the
tube and put it in the ground where he
knew there was a spring or
underground stream.
As I said earlier, experiments with
charged stones had revealed that an
energy line is created between two of
them when they are knowingly set
down on the floor. In studying the
Watkins alignments we had noticed
that not all of them have energy in
them today. I mentioned William
Beckford and Fonthill Abbey. Itsak
Bentov in his book, “Stalking the Wild
Pendulum,” theorises that the
attribution of godlike qualities to a
stone outcrop actually starts to create
them: they become a focus of
consciousness and start to function.
That accounts for the fact, in my
opinion, that certain places become
functional in the ley system simply
because consciousness focuses upon
them. Not necessarily in anticipation
of godlike qualities emerging.
In Spain once up in the mountains, I
had noticed that if you go into a stone
circle to dowse and start to relate to it,
it starts you off in a little dance and
lines are taken from stone to stone
which pushes you through a series of
patterns. We started to do this in the
remains of a stone circle we found in
the mountains and when an
experienced clairvoyant, who was with
us, was asked what she could see, she
I should also include some of the new
foci of consciousness that we observed
to be in the system of new ley lines. TV
masts, nuclear power stations, town
halls, football stadia etc.
We also noticed that the great pilgrim
routes of Europe coincide with the
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great energy lines. The maps of the
routes of Santiago, to take an example,
may be held to be the map of the
collective consciousness of Europe,
and it’s interesting to see how the
Templars took over the whole of these
routes as if it were very important to
them.
So we felt we had established that the
so called ley lines, in their
contemporary form, represented the
meridians, veins and arteries of
groups, communities, nations, and
continents and thus their collective
consciousness or collective being.
I was able to go last August to Santiago
and by our standards, it wasn’t
working: there was this negative
energy form in all the key places of the
Cathedral. That is the square, circle,
square, circle, downer rather than
upper
We thought it might be valid to
consider that there were, therefore,
collective diseases such as gratuitous
violence, random vandalism, civic
irresponsibility and so on. Stress, the
primary cause of traffic accidents and
certain types of physical disease. One
might expect a general improvement in
public health with this type of
community healing, as we call it,
through the transmutation of the
energies by the activities of groups
practising this type of meditation and
healing.
.
That was put right and seemed to be
working very much better when we
left. Curiously, in the crypt, where the
supposed remains of St James are,
there is a plaque commemorating the
Pope’s visit there some 18 months ago,
where it says, he cried out, “Santiago
de Compostella find thyself and be
thyself again.”
We have already mentioned Maxwell
Cade and his mind mirror and the fact
that different states of consciousness
exist. That of the dowser, according to
the latest results from the British
Society of Dowsers, is very like that of
the state of Zen meditation. Dowsing
too is related to altered states of
consciousness.
Brighton, the town in which I live, was
particularly prone to Bank Holiday and
weekend violence, and it seemed a
good place to start an experiment in
community healing. In no time at all
the word spread round and by June
1981 some 100 people pledged their
support. It was decided, for good
dragon killing reasons, that September
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it’s last legs if the activity of only 100
people or so could have augmented it
to such an extent.
29th, St Michael’s Day, would be an
auspicious day to start – St Michael
being that angelic being concerned
with changing the course of events.
James Holroyd, Vicar of St
Bartholomew’s Church, who was
associated with the activities and the
objectives of the group, held a service
that day with a thundering sermon, full
choir and orchestra. A group
meditation was held in which the
appropriate visualisations were made.
Another phenomena was observed.
Apart from a general boost in the
activity of the other lines in Brighton,
between the gaps in the lines a grid
pattern was emerging. A series of
unattached blank squares – about 2
yards square. Later on, as more input
occurred these joined up into a
continuous pattern and then in a
period of about three months became a
chequerboard. The so called black
squares were not really black, but more
detailed grid patterns – that is to say
that the black squares had 64 tiny
squares inside them. If you dowse one
of these quickly it looks like a
continuous field and you might say
that that’s a field in a square. It’s not
quite like that but at least it is distinct
from the vacant square and the
analogy of a chequerboard is, I think,
permissible.
We had learned that visualisation in
the altered state was the clue to shifts
in this type of energy. It cannot be
separated – it is related to certain
states of consciousness. The world is a
Platonic world of idea and a change
can be made by rebuilding the idea in
the higher states of consciousness.
That works in individual healing and I
believe it works in community healing.
Now I mentioned something about the
chequerboard energy form in the last
lecture. The single square with the
grid inside it does relate with vital
energy. When a healer puts basic
energy into a person the dowser can
find that grid square around him.
I was very surprised later when I
reluctantly attended a bullfight in
Barcelona, and noticed that when they
killed the bull this grid square
appeared in and around the bullring. I
couldn’t relate as to why this
apparently cruel act should produce
the same energy form as the loving act
of healing. Later I worked out that
bullfighting is the continuation of a
Anyway there we were, naïve,
unknowing, but at least honest in our
intent. We went down to the Fountain
afterwards and previously the main
line had been a triple 64. Now it was
2400 X 64 bar lines. I was very
astonished by this. I later realised that
if the ley system was in a very real
sense the corporate body of collective
consciousness, it must have been on
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and had started a lot of Islamic
esoteric traditions.
long Mithraic religious tradition where
the bulls were killed to re-vitalise the
community. The fact that I had
identified that energy form as a basic
vital energy, took on a new logic in that
context.
During the initial period in Brighton,
whereas the grid pattern occupied the
conurbation of Brighton and Hove and
then stopped. On the London road it
started to creep northwards at an
exponential rate, until it reached
Purley. We could not understand why.
From an aircraft leaving Gatwick
airport, I was able to dowse that it
covered the motorway and railway.
Finally the penny dropped, as the
prime protagonists of Brighton
violence came from London, “the
energy” had worked it out that in order
to achieve success in Brighton, it had
to get to London, so that those coming
for a punch up were exposed to the
field immediately they left London,
and as the field shifted consciousness
marginally out of the base chakra, by
the time they got to Brighton, by road,
or rail, that adrenalin fed desire was no
longer active.
More facts emerged. In Brighton from
that day, with one exception, group
violence and associated phenomena
stopped. The one exception was when
a crowd of Chelsea supporters came
over from Portsmouth. Strangely
enough we noticed that the field at the
time had decayed and the squares had
separated again. The lesson was
learned that you never relax in this
type of work and the field must be kept
together and cultivated continually.
Oddly enough the chequerboard is, of
course, the flag of the Knights Templar
In dwelling further over the reasons
why a chequerboard had emerged
another penny also slowly dropped. In
the last talk we made reference to this
energy form of the double E, that is an
E with a reversed E facing it. We
identified this as Elohimic energy.
Rudolph Steiner describes the Jehova
Elohim as that aspect of God which has
the programme of the evolution of
consciousness on planet earth. We
also found the double E with a bar
separating the two as if some beneficial
influences were being held in check.
The removal of that bar produced the
double square as the squares come
together.
But was that a coincidence? Maybe,
but we had already a shrewd suspicion
that the Templars were not just the
guardians of the pilgrim’s routes, but
also the guardians of the European
collective consciousness. It may be
that one of their objectives has been to
combine that collective consciousness
with that of the Islamic world, in an
attempt to bring greater harmony and
peace to the then known world. They
certainly had had contact with the
Sufis and the Order of the Hashashim
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Last June the Teutonic cross faded to
be replaced in its turn, by the Maltese
Cross, the triangle pierced to make an
eight pointed cross or the cross of the
eight Beautitudes. That too was used
by the Knights Templar. Their fourth
cross was the cross of Lorraine.
In the chapel of Mary Magdalene, in
the church of the Holy Sepulchre, in
Jerusalem, it is actually spelled out on
the floor, black stone on white showing
the two double square rectangles
coming together to form the equal
armed cross within the square. If we
multiply this up again we find the key
component of the grid pattern that
represents the vital healing energy. It
thus evolves into the chequerboard
form. It seems that the chequerboard
comes from basic Elohimic energy, and
that could be very important. It is also
the repeated form on the arms of
Parsival.
I began to wonder whether the
Templar progression in the evolution
of their emblem, from the equal armed
cross to the cross of Lorraine, was
perhaps a reference to this sort of
esoteric knowledge. We have yet to
find the cross of Lorraine as an energy
form and it will be interesting to see if
this occurs.
All Fountain Groups get this grid going
in their communities, when they first
go to work. However after three years
existence, Fountain International, as it
had become, decided to hold a festival
at the University of Sussex. This was a
great success and attracted speakers
from various countries. Shortly
afterwards the chequerboard squares
in Brighton, became smaller and
smaller until it was about the size of a
fingernail, then it disappeared for 24
hours to be replaced by what is called
the Teutonic Cross: the four triangles,
which was used by the Teutonic
Knights – the German Templars. I
subsequently learned that the Knights
Templar had also used that cross.
I also wondered whether we were
looking at a progression of fields which
relate to levels of collective
consciousness through the collective
chakras as it were.
However, after the second annual
festival this year, and a particular
group meditation, the Maltese cross
was displaced, as a continuous energy
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was the people who know and
understand their own being who are
there on their own account. They are
not there because they have been
whipped in by their local organiser. It
has to be voluntary, self-starting, with
total comprehension and
understanding. That is the way it has
been kept from the beginning.
Form in Brighton, by the eight circle
phenomenon everywhere. The eight
circle phenomenon being that column
repeated and repeated. I don’t know
what that means at all but I take it to
be good. I don’t know whether it
supports the theory of eight chakras
going up the ladder of consciousness
or anything like that yet, it is too early
to tell. But now there are Fountain
groups in at least thirty different
countries. It was specifically envisaged
that it should never have any structure
and would simply be a basis for
communicating experience within this
context, and the whole idea of
community healing, so that every
community could have groups taking
care of negative energies or creating
more positive energy.
May I therefore, summarise my
conclusions:Consciousness is an objective field and,
in its highest form, it is the essential
entry point to the spiritual sciences
which may be far more potent than
material sciences. They ley lines, not
alignments, are the pathways of
consciousness which affect our lower
states of consciousness, but may be
affected by our higher states of
consciousness in their turn. In their
manifestations to the dowser, these
pathways and fundamental points
appear as number and form.
I am not sure where Fountain Groups
will end up, but we are learning more
and the results are encouraging, but
not always in the way that we first
thought. One lesson I have learned is
that it does not necessarily affect
individual behaviour: it is not an
imposition on the individual. It tends
to affect group behaviour. It does not
necessarily mean that individuals do
not manifest violence, but group
violence diminishes, and that may be
important. Certainly in places around
the world where violence has
threatened, Fountain Groups have
nipped in and got the right energies
flowing and none of the expected
violence has taken place. It may be
The reason why there should be no
structure or organisation is because
many institutions, with a spiritual
objective, form themselves then all
their energies get dissipated in
hierarchies and committees and so on,
and they become more important than
the work. Quite a number of people
have joined Fountain Groups, in
Brighton, and then left because they
were looking for some sort of authority
which Fountain Groups were not there
to give. Some people even-thought
there should be an annual dance! But
after a general sorting out period, it
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more important at that level than at
the level of the individual.
Pathways of
Consciousness
What we are observing may be a way in
which, those who wish, can participate
in the evolution of our planet and help
it through some of its grosser follies.
The suggestion by Dr Arthur Bailey
that the dowsing of ley lines as
pathways of consciousness, may in fact
be the result of dowsing one’s own
imagination, really opens up an area of
fundamental discussion as to the
ultimate nature of reality. I do not
wish to comment further on the use of
“radionics” artefacts, save to say that in
my experience they are extensions of
consciousness and do what is expected
of them. In the first instance, so far as
my own observations are concerned,
and those of the group with whom I
worked, the initial approach to ley line
dowsing was purely speculative, and
the same attitudes were applied as to
say, the dowsing of water or pipes.
The highest form of consciousness is
PURE LOVE, and that is the ultimate
energy in the universe. Personal
discovery and self-knowledge are a
prerequisite to effective participation.
It is a re-discovery of ancient
knowledge and many clues lie in
Frederick Bligh Bond’s work. It is not
for nothing that he spoke of the Holy
Grail, and the Knights Templar were
great disseminators of the Grail
legends and mythologies. Fountain
International, in a sense, is taking part
in neo Templar work, but in its
understanding of this ancient
knowledge it is still in its infancy and
has very much more to learn. But what
we think we have learnt so far, I have
been very happy to share with you.
Once satisfied of their objective
existence as some form of energy line,
it was later observed that they change,
in intensity, direction, and in what
they manifest in certain places.
Briefly, the number of parallels in the
lines appear to indicate intensity and
geometrical forms that arise at “node
points” appear to indicate function –
an interesting support for the esoteric
notion that all is form and number in
the cosmos. Changes that occur
appear to be caused in the main by
certain activities by human agencies,
which may be held to be produced by
altered states of consciousness and the
associated use of visualisation – they
may also be produced unknowingly –
but still associated with altered states.
Colin Bloy – Second Lecture for
RILKO 25/10/1985
A very strong working hypothesis has
emerged from this study, and from
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studying the human aura by
augmenting the sensitivity of the hand,
namely that consciousness is an
objective field: that is to say that it is
palpable and measurable – not by
conventional scientific instruments
other than certain clues that may be
deduced from the use of the EEG, but
by dowsing and hyper-sensory
perception – not ESP but HSP. Visual
observation is empirically valid: so
should tactile data be.
like renaissance pictures show the
aureola. This, one assumes, is the
highest state of consciousness. All of
these may be felt with the hand in the
hyper-sensitive state, (achieved by
brisk rubbing together of the palms,)
and may also be photographed.
Now, not only do ley lines manifest in
numbers of parallels but also in
different colours, or different
vibrations that we may have care to
distinguish by colours. So do the
chakras. Clive Beadon and Roger
Wood of Adelaide have produced some
solid data on this point, and the
association between ley lines and
structured consciousness is striking.
Now if consciousness is an objective
field, and it is important to distinguish
between this and the electro-chemical
processes which go on in the organ of
the brain, which is to do with thought,
which is different – then the whole
idea of the imagination and its
potential takes on a different
dimension.
It is axiomatic, I believe, that one may
dowse anything that one may conceive.
For instance, country dowsers over the
millennia have never reported straight
energy lines – only water. They were
only looking for water and the concept
of ley lines did not exist. One does not
dowse what one is not looking for and
one cannot look for what one cannot
conceive. On the other hand, if one
conceives of something, to what extent
is it thus called into being? And some
dowsers call the water.
It is apparent, by these tests at any
rate, that consciousness is not only
objective but structured, and thus
holistic, or all embracing.
Its objective nature is apparent by
dowsing and so is its structural nature:
the word “chakra” is the best available
to describe the points around which
palpable fields appear in and outside
the human body according to the
predominant states of consciousness:
for instance, a person in a violent,
lustful or dark and greedy state,
manifests his consciousness in a field
around the base of the abdomen.
The extent to which ley lines may be
held to be pathways of consciousness is
based on the observation that they
change in relationship to the states of
consciousness of the people on them,
near them, or feeding into them – the
reverse is also apparently true.
There are intermediate states and
various profiles exist between the two
extremes: but a saint or someone in a
saintly state manifests their
consciousness in a great corona in the
crown chakra around the head, just
Ley lines and pathways of
consciousness spring up between focal
points of communities, be they sacred
or profane centres, and change
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both healers and spoon benders plug
into the ley system.
according to the criteria mentioned
above.
However, what is more impressive is
following these pathways until they
reach back into the earth through the
primal spirals, at springs, tree circles,
or heads of valleys, the primal spiral
that appears to be the origin of the
myth of the dragon, raw earth energy –
true in the West and the East, and
which would appear to indicate that, if
the ley lines may be considered to be
the veins and arteries of the collective
consciousness of humanity, then that
consciousness is inseparable from the
so called physical earth, and that the
contention that the globe, Gaia, is a
being, an organism, of which each
individual, as a point of consciousness,
is a cell, is correct – and the
responsibility of knowingly being such
a cell is demanding.
Such changes in the material world
require visualisation in the altered
states, when the will dominates the
consciousness to devote itself to the
visualisation of the necessary change.
Most magical systems are based on
this idea. The imagination is what
permits us to conceive of new
dimensions and objectives in any
infinite world. Ritual, mandalas and
mantras are means of achieving the
necessary states.
Now back to dowsing, and the
imagination. It also appears correct
that individuals may be trained or
illumined, or simply woken up to
higher states of consciousness: various
systems, mainly oriental in origin, exist
for the purpose although a clear
Western tradition has been exposed by
Alice Bailey and Dion Fortune. One of
these techniques used is visualisation
in altered states induced by meditation
or other disciplines. It is also true, in
my experience, that the crown chakra
may be opened through visualisation
by those who desire so.
May dowsing or tele-radiesthesia must
imply the ability of real to go
everywhere and is further evidence of
the holistic nature. Indeed, Sir James
Jeans’ notion that the universe seems
more like a great idea than a great
machine may well be one of the most
valid aphorisms of all time, and if
consciousness is an objective field, and
as Einstein intimated, on various
occasions, there is such a thing as the
unified field, and thus consciousness is
part of it, then ultimate reality depends
on the imagination, or our ability to
conceive – visualisation is the bringing
of the concept into reality, and is only
effective in the higher states, because
the lower states are incapable of
The effect and intensity of ley lines
may be changed by similar techniques,
even created in the first instance. Thus
behavioural patterns change, and
spoons bend, healing is carried out,
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sensitives as columns of light and have
been photographed around a healer
when healing. Clairvoyants see the
eight circles as having different
colours, just as the lines, or the
different chakras. This column of
energy may also be felt with the
hypersensitive hand in a palpable way.
Just how high they go, there is no
means of knowing that I am aware of.
holding an image in total
consciousness.
The basis of what is called “New Age
Thinking” may be held to be a belief
that man is not a prisoner in a
mechanistic universe, a random
accident in a meaningless continuum,
but is the receptacle, at least on this
earth, of consciousness – not rational
thought – which is capable, in its
purest form, of transcending matter
and Newtonian physics and creating a
dynamic of its own which actually
changes reality as currently perceived
by conventional modes.
But it is also interesting to observe
than an open crown chakra on the
individual also has this eight circle
phenomenon, when it is being used
constructively – it diffuses when it is
being used in a merely contemplative
mystical state.
When this is done in love, that is to say
with total personal identification with
evolving consciousness on this earth,
setting aside ego based considerations,
and with a voluntary and deliberate
return to group consciousness, then
what in that state we may imagine to
be ideal will actually come into being,
and that may be why the concept of ley
lines as pathways of consciousness and
the means of transformation of the
being Earth, is producing ever more
clearly dowsable effects, and the more
our imaginations move in this
direction, the more they will be so, and
the stronger the new direction will be.
It is fundamental raison d’etre of the
Fountain Groups.
It recently occurred to someone to ask
if it were a vertical or “cosmic”
connection, what happened to it when
the person in question is lying down?
In an appropriate space, people with
such chakras were invited to lie down
and without exception it was possible
to dowse the crown chakra proceeding
for about fifteen feet in the horizontal
– then it narrowed to a point – a gap –
and then occurred the eight circle
vertical column, presumably of infinite
height.
So whereas the pathways of
consciousness are rooted in the earth
through the dragon spirals, the eight
circle vertical “cosmic” connection or
“uppers” as certain US dowsers have
called them also exist, implying, at
least to me, not only that
consciousness is related to the planet
earth but also to the cosmos as a
whole.
The most important observations of
all, however, is that just as these
pathways recede into the dragon
spirals of the earth, at certain points,
altars, healers sanctuaries, or around
the beds of spiritually aware people, to
name but a few such places, appear
eight concentric circles who dowsed
planographically. They appear
And this prompts the question, that if
through higher consciousness, we can
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Platonic rather than Aristotlean world,
and if ideas are objectives, in that
context, we would appear to have a
duty to ensure those ideas are right,
that is to say, based on the
comprehension that love, in its strictly
unsentimental sense, is the only rule
which should permit us to do anything,
whether to heal an individual, a place,
or to “improve the planet”, or build an
atomic bomb. And love implies
submission, thus Terry Ross is right,
but the scientific method, based on the
five senses, must give way to super –
sensible awareness, and the notion
that ultimate reality is what our
imaginations, in love, can finally
conceive, and that may change
positivist reality. Thus belief is
significant.
get our planet right, wither super
conscious man in the universe?
Lest I get carries away in some sci-fi
cosmic fantasy before its time, and lest
we fall into the trap of assuming that
spiritual elitism is valid, until man has
enabled his fellows, through the
application of true love, via
visualisation, imagination and will
through higher consciousness, to
achieve personal fulfilment in all the
best senses on this planet, man’s
cosmic destiny inevitably remains a
deferred objective. That does have
socio-political consequences but they
are not to be found in any materialistic
dialectic.
No change will occur until individuals
change and learn to love in the true
sense of the word, and begin the group
consciousness as volunteers. It’s the
group consciousness that achieves.
But when they do, as many are doing,
it ain’t ‘alf dowsable, Mum!
Strange that both Newton and
Descartes have their names taken in
vain as scientific positivists, when both
were men of highly spiritual
understanding.
If we can see esoteric dowsing as a
form of prosthetic clairvoyance, or the
use of supersensible faculties as
Steiner describes them, rather than a
physiological reaction to external
fields, then it may take place as an
invaluable discipline on the road to
HSP and ESP which lift man further
out of the slough of materialism and
rational thought, into the better worlds
that enlightened imagination makes
possible.
Visualisation changes reality. But you
cannot visualise without belief. You
can only visualise responsibly in love.
I do not wish this to be interpreted as
some facile intellectual argument in
favour of self-indulgent flights of
fancy, but to suggest that dowsing is
one of the routes open to man by
which he may determine that it is a
Whither ultimate reality?
In conclusion, may I cite Barry
McWaters’ book, “Conscious
Evolution,” in which he expresses the
theory that we need not be passive
spectators of evolution, but in higher
consciousness, active participants in
the evolutionary process, using our
imaginations.
Colin Bloy – Andorra
January 1986
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in June 1987, whilst wandering up a
mountain valley in Guadarrama,
Spain, I thought I’d have a look for
curved lines.
Thus visualising I came upon one. It
was running parallel to the straight
energy line, it was eight bars and in the
form of a semi-wave, but it was not
static. It was writhing like a serpent:
that is to say within the bounds of a
distance of two metres, the curves were
moving from side to side. I timed the
movement and it was 10 per minute.
Moving to the other side of the energy
line, I found a similar serpent line
thrashing about but this time at six per
minute.
Some further
observations on
Ley-line analysis
and recent
changes in the
system before and
after Harmonic
Convergence.
Many years ago, we had determined
that the straight line energy oscillated
at four per minute.
They say it is good for the soul to have
to recant, therefore I am now going to
enjoy myself. In the past I have
implied that energy lines are always
straight, although I do recall that the
pathway from the market square to the
Bishops Palace at Wells, about 30
degrees of a circle, has an energy line
which follows the curve but when
Hamish Miller, dowser extraordinary
to Fountain in Cornwall, started to
report curved lines across the
countryside, I thought I’d better have
another look.
Later in Madrid, on the main energy
line of the city, down the Paseo de la
Castellana, the same phenomenon was
in evidence, and subsequently in
Britain. This I am tempted to believe
that it is a universal feature of the ley
system. These may be the yin and
yang energies of the Chinese that
accompany the pathways of
consciousness.
But it still wasn’t what Hamish was
referring to. I conclude from all of this
that we still have a lot of work to do on
this phenomenon and I would
certainly for one welcome comments
from anybody who would have a look
at it.
Of course, we have always said in
general terms that you only use
dowsing to find what you can conceive
of, and apart from the spiral dragon
forms in woods and valleys, I had only
looked for straight lines. Thus one day
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So far as recent changes are concerned
a number of factors are bearing on the
situation, which are making
substantial changes in the system. But
it would perhaps be useful to make a
brief review of the last 10 or 12 years.
pathways of consciousness. If we
thought a 49 was a big deal, now after
Glastonbury 87, a major line in various
countries appears as 1000 X 64. So
does a line on a healer. Something has
happened!
The first lines encountered were based
on a 7 factor and ranged from 1, (about
12 inches wide,) 3, 6, 7, 14, 21, 28, 35,
42, and 49. A major line like a
cathedral line or the main artery of the
city would be a 49 bar line and a parish
church a 1, 3 or 7, generally speaking.
I really do not know how to evaluate
this. If the lines are representative of
the health of the planet, then by God, it
was on its last legs, now all is well?
What next?
As Gurdjieff said, “I have not come to
teach you. I have come to wake you
up.” I believe that to be right. Left
brained knowledge limits the spine. It
is the right hemisphere which holds
the key to its plenitude when full
consciousness exists.
From the day of Good Friday,
21/03/1978, the seven factor became
eight. What happened that day was a
form of deliberate input, to do with the
Grail knowledge, and the change
occurred across most of those
countries that may be considered to be
within the Western ethos. It was a
basic shift, I believe, in the collective
consciousness necessary to
accommodate the advent of the
Aquarian Age.
So what of the serpentine lines? More
work needs to be done, (at least for me
they exist.) We are still neophytes, (or
at least I am,) in this great adventure.
How are the lines of the Gulf States
now? Did the work of the Fountain
Groups on either side of the Berlin
Wall two years ago achieve anything?
The re-connection of the Jerusalem
Pyramid line appeared successful. Are
we doing enough? I doubt it.
17th June 1979, saw a further extension
of the eight. Based on input at Rennes
le Chateau, in the Eastern Pyrenees, a
four bar line became an eight and so
on up the scale and a 64 bar line
became a triple 64.
Fountain and allied groups must unite
evolved people in all the nations across
the earth. It’s beginning, I don’t
believe if you were No 144,001 it
matters. It’s a mystical number, bit if
Alphaega is to get off the ground in the
final healing of the planet, such people
must come forward. It will happen.
But how will the lines be then? We will
have the luxury of hindsight analysis,
but while Hamish goes on discovering
new aspects of the system, we can only
stand back and keep going until our
But of course, since all that so much
more has happened. Fountain Groups
exist in so many places in so many
countries, that their input has
stimulated the system enormously, still
within the eight factor.
Simultaneously, if one may presume, it
seems to me that the general
quickening of consciousness is taking
place, all of which has contributed to a
transformation of the ley lines – the
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of Chinese civilization as being
superior to the foreigners, may all be
the consequence of a 3,000 year old
tradition of seeking to accommodate
the dragon, rather than integrate with
it, of seeking to adapt to it, rather than
doing a St George or St Michael on it.
left brain understanding catches up
with him.
Somewhere in the line system the new
feminine principle will be reflected. I
look forward to that discovery. In
general, I do feel that things are
advancing rapidly but how far down
the track to healing the planet we are,
no one can know. It may be a lot or a
little. At least we know it has begun.
Colin Bloy
15th September 1987
It has always seemed to me that the
western symbology of the dragon has
specifically to do with overcoming it,
with bending it to the will, albeit the
superconscious will, and this is of
course, more dangerous and, in the
end, for the purpose of this
monograph, possibly more productive.
Beyond the Five
Senses
Debating further with various groups
of friends over the Chinese business,
and what the 5 factor as opposed to the
8 factor meant, the idea of a difference
in collective consciousness in a
structured sense became more
striking.
In a sense, the experience in Hong
Kong, which seemed to demonstrate
the fundamental difference, is crucial
in this argument. In the house where
there was cha, identifiable by the split
dowsable line, and where the attempts
of the local Feng Shui man to divert it
has failed, in spite of moving stoves in
the kitchen and furniture and so on, it
was recognised by those present that
the operation to transmute the
negative cha into positive chi was
successful, to their surprise. All of
which seemed better than trying to
divert negativity away to one’s
neighbour, which has given rise at least
in Hong Kong, to the famous mirror
wars, summoning police, and
The more one studies the whole Feng
Shui business, the clearer it becomes
that the Chinese attitude is passive.
The object of the exercise is to divert,
avoid, and isolate ones’ self from bad
cha. And in a sense, it may be here
that the real difference is most
apparent.
It may of course, be a facile western
presumption on my part, but the
traditional idea of Chinese patience
even unto the n’th generation and
Chinese passivity before events, always
prepared to wait until later, the notion
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or handed down version – in a sense,
the awakening of Western
egocentricity.
threatening law suits, the stuff of
comic operas.
Now, if what we have recently learned
about these matters in the West was a
revelation to practitioners in the East,
from whom we had learned much in
the first place, does it indicate that as
an 8 based community, is in a different
state of collective consciousness to a 5
based community, and that this may
have a lot to do with the perception of
ego consciousness.
However, the rules of such an
investigation were what later came to
be known as positivism – that is to say,
that any advance in understanding had
to conform to repeated and repetitive
experiments within the confines of
sensory experience – all of which set
man further away from God – because
experience of god, by definition later in
this offering, cannot come through the
five senses.
It has often seemed to me that after the
Renaissance, Western man went on an
ego trip with a vengeance. Now this
may have been inevitable, rather than
presumptuous, although the
consequences are the same.
The Church, by this time, had long
since sold its birth-right to temporal
considerations. Constantine had
Romanised the Christian Church,
instead of, as popular belief has it,
Christianising the Roman Empire.
In very general terms, pre Renaissance
man may be held to have been
submissive before the cosmos, living in
a God-ordained world, and with no
particular desire to change it. In a
sense the feudal system was a
reflection of this, and there are those,
perhaps rightly, who will say, that the
feudal system was not all bad, at least
everyone knew their place, and the
uncompetitive nature of such a society,
except as between noble families had
aspects of a Rosseau – esque type
tranquillity. Be all that as it may.
The Christian church became a tool of
state politics, and indeed, at certain
periods, became the only institution
which continued the notion of the
Roman Empire. It saved itself as an
institution by assuming unto itself the
power to make and unmake Kings and
Emperors, and through various murky
deals and concordants, survives to this
day as a state, with ambassadors, civil
The Renaissance was the introduction
or re-introduction of the humanistic
ethic into Western society, the
transition from a God-centred to a
man-centred community. Thus the
Aristotelian version of man began to
predominate – the man of the five
senses, who had the right and the
means to investigate reality on his own
account, rather than accept a revealed
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service, treasury and all the trappings
of a secular organisation.
problem remained agnostic, and thus
liberal democracy emerged.
Small wonder, when, on the way, it
denied the world was round, that the
sun was not the centre of the solar
system, and that the practise of any
sort of authentic spiritual love was
heretical without its imprimatur, the
emergence of individual rational
thought after the renaissance resulted
in conclusions that set thinkers apart
from the Church, created reformations,
atheism, new social and political
systems, the material sciences, and the
affirmation that whatever the true
nature of reality, man could create
Utopia by binding to his technologous
will the world, as his new materialist
ethics saw it. Suddenly, man assured
responsibility for himself, based on a
five sense world.
Only the charismatic Churches had
anything to say to stem the tide from
the religious point of view. The
established Churches were left behind
in their self-made morass of
compromise, self-seeking, and
abandonment of original truths in
favour of survival as institutions.
Indeed, they had discouraged rational
investigation of reality, out of fear,
when if they had more honestly said,
“Let us together investigate how God
works,” all would have been well.
Voltaire, Giderot, Rousseau, Comte,
Darwin, Freud and many others
participated in a process which had
one inevitable conclusion, the
dialectical materialism of Karl Marx,
The five senses approach to reality was
the inevitable reaction to the
established churches hostility to any
honest enquiry into ultimate truth and,
has produced the many problems that
Western man is trying to cope with
today.
For a start, a man-centred universe is
terrifying. Once the process was
started of separating man out from
God, the responsibilities are
frightening, once the selfcongratulatory, self-confident,
scientific method starts to creak.
the vision of a man as being alone in
the universe, self-sufficient, and, as
there was no such thing as a soul,
survival, the etheric body, which do
not belong in a five sense, sociallyengineerable Pavlonian, conditional
reflex world. Some attitudes to the
Newton, Descartes, Darwin, Freud,
and Pavlov have been shown only to
have described a certain aspect of
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view of the world, but it has not
triumphed.
reality. Billiard ball physics, which got
space ships to the moon are now no
longer able to claim they describe all
reality. Some particles behave in nonNewtonian ways. Man is not a totally
sensually motivated being, not all
fossils support Darwin, Pavlov’s
conditional reflex has not been able to
organise a harmonious social system.
Reason is not all. There is the X factor.
The Romantic movement was the first
reaction to modern materialism, a
vague dream-like exploration of
subtler feelings and emotions, an
attempt to restore a more platonic
vision. Ossianic self-indulgent
mysticism gave way to a much more
vigorous and directed attempt to
analyse reality in a new esoteric, rather
than exoteric way. It was an attempt
to penetrate the material world, cut up
into sections and compartments by the
material science, all neatly checked
and filed away, and create a new
background unity of subtle
correspondences and spiritual
essences. Such was the Symbologist
movement, giving rise to Cubism and
Surrealism in art, which sought to
show that reality could be looked at in
many different ways and re-arranged if
necessary.
Einstein struggled to provide
equations for his unified field theory,
his intuitive understanding of the
oneness of all things. He even
published equations that did not work,
so others would not go up the same
blind alley, generous. Eugene Wigner,
one of his associates became convinced
of the spiritual nature of ultimate
reality and that within the unified field,
consciousness had to be taken into
account as an objective field.
There lies in the ruins the false hopes
of the Renaissance and its great, great,
grandchild, dialectical materialism,
and a man-centred universe, so far as
the scientific method is concerned.
Not that this is a plea for a flight into
fantasy. The honest empirical method
remains: but the five sense prison it
has been forced to work in is too
constraining, and the empirical
method is what is being applied to
honest enquiry into parapsychology,
an ugly, clumsy word, but there it is.
As a background to all of this, many
plunged into esotericism, finding new
explanations in spiritualism, the
Theosophical Society, new religions
and so on – for anyone not totally
immersed in a man-centred world and
its application, was beginning to
experience all the desperate horrors of
the new independence, and selfawareness. The pseudo-science of
psychology and psychiatry grew up,
whose basic objectives are to placate
man’s fear of loneliness in the universe
– the inevitable conclusion of positivist
thought.
While the humanists were applying
their new criteria to the investigation
of reality, the poets and artists were
finding increasing difficulty is seeing
the world in such terms. Granted,
Marxists art demanded a materialist
The Symbologists, dissatisfied with all
of this, set out to find the absolute, that
state of being and knowledge which
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would abate thinking man’s terror and
bring him back into the God-centred
cosmos. They had seen enough to
know that within the man centred
world, self-awareness was leading to
what they called the Abyss – that state
of consciousness, which is no longer
satisfied with the material view of the
world – but does not know of any way
of finding a better, and can lead to
insanity, by falling into the abyss of
desperation.
is reason to cast doubt on the veracity
of some of his celebrated cases, but
Jung came forward with much subtler
concepts about the nature of
consciousness, and pose the concept of
the collective consciousness as
something beyond the individual. Now
if that were objective, in what
continuum could it have an objective
reality.
Certain advanced and liberated
scientists were already at this problem,
Sir Oliver Lodge, for one, who posed
the question of the existence of the all,
pervading fluid or field – the ether,
which Einstein referred to as the
unified field. The famous but
inconclusive Michelson-Morey
experiment was directed at this
problem, in respect of the nature of
light.
Of course, the answers all lie in the
message of the Gospels, but they had
fallen into disrepute because of the
cynical use to which they had been put,
and, for political reasons, man had
been separated from direct contact
with God, by the outer position of the
priestly class, and basically told to
mind his own business.
What was emerging from the attempts
to find an alternative to materialism
was the first glimmerings of an
awareness of consciousness as an
objective phenomenon. Man
separated from God by the Church,
was beginning to use his reason to find
non-material reality on his own
account.
No scientific proof of such a field was
established. Indeed, one is entitled to
say, that by definition, it must be
incapable of resolution into
mathematical equations or repetitive
experiment because of its essentially
ephemeral and permanently transient
nature.
Paul Valery, perhaps the last and most
perceptive of the Symbolists, in his
search for the absolute, or what we
would now call Nirvana, used the
expression “Je me voyais me voir,” I
saw myself looking at myself, thus
identifying different states of being,
and stating that each state of being was
capable of perceiving reality
differently.
If it exists, it cannot conform to
positivist analysis because it is nonpositivist.
Freud had diagnosed consciousness in
the crudest of terms, and indeed, there
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understanding, which may help all
humanity, North, South, East and
West.
Thinking folk in the Western world,
and setting superstition aside, as well
as charlatanism, and self-delusion,
particularly those not entrapped in the
institutions dedicated to materialistic
attitudes in science, and recognising
that physics is at a dead-end until it
stops inventing even newer and more
esoteric particles to save it equations
from falling apart, started to explore
the true nature of consciousness –
wherein lies the abyss if you don’t find
the bridge to the absolute.
The exploration of the inner worlds of
consciousness through meditation and
a deliberate and organised attempt to
view reality from different states of
consciousness is revealing.
Colin Bloy 20/05/1986
Awareness of the abyss usually is the
cause of the reversion into the sense
world, alcohol, sex, drugs, violence,
excitement, hedonism, anything that
detracts our attention from this new
and frightening awareness – insanity is
another way out of this terror – but for
those who press on – a whole new
awareness is now becoming available.
Some thoughts on
European LeyLines and
Oriental Dragon
Lines
The triumph of Western man in the
material sciences, the rise of the
individual ego, that awful isolation of
self-awareness, has resulted in the
agony of Western man.
Chinese Geomancy or Feng Shui is a
complex affair and for all , of Western
interpreters like Stephen Skinner, or
Stephen Feuchtwang: An
Anthropological Analysis of Chinese
Geomancy – Ventiane, Loas, I am not
sure if we have really penetrated it in a
way which would permit a Westerner
to perform as a “dragon man” – for
earth energy is the dragon for them.
What is certain, however, is that the
majority of Chinese landscape and
urbanisation has been developed
according to a complex system of
criteria relating to earth sky energies
publicly unrecognised in the West.
But it may be that, in his desperation,
it was the Oriental world that supplied
the answers that gave emergency first
aid, and in the rational expectation of
consciousness as an objective field and
it’s consequences, all that agony was
the necessary price for a new
Vocabulary and imagery are divisive.
Fritjof Capra showed how the dance of
the shiva may be seen as the motion of
the electrons of an atom around its
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nucleus. Yet it has been a Western
scientific convention for hundreds of
years that if a concept is not expressed
in Greek or Latin neologisms it cannot
be valid. That is not a plea for a
Gadarene flight into the subtle imagery
of Eastern philosophical and religious
systems but simply to point out that
Western modes of expression have no
particular monopoly of truth.
The perfect site, or dragon’s lair, is,
says Skinner, like the description of a
blind spring. (He does not mention
Guy Underwood or his seminal work,
“The Pattern of the Past,” – but it was
Underwood who spoke at length about
the dowsing of the blind springs at
sacred sites – 7 looped spiral.)
Skinner, “It is logical to postulate that
here the dragon is, of course, in his
lair, because it is from here that the
water (ie the dragon,) emanates before
crossing the land as a stream, or being
evaporated, to form dragon clouds.
Water courses are the most obvious
flow lines of “chi” and a curved and
tortuous course is the best existence of
existence of “chi” concentrations.”
In pre-Marxist China, for several
thousand years past, to construct
anything without consulting the FengShui master was the height of folly. In
Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore
they have always been accepted and
consulted; and in post-Mao China,
they have surfaced again.
Whereas the Feng-Shui master
operates with the compass with a
complex scale around it, which tells
him many things on an astrological,
geographical and meteorological basis,
and he describes the energies he is
looking for or seeking to avoid in terms
familiar to the ley line fraternity in
Europe, he does not apparently dowse
for these energies but works out where
they are by topographical observation
and basic common sense. Indeed,
where the dragon a particular hill
formation, lies down with the tiger,
another, the Feng Shui is good –
combined with meandering rivers and
undulating hills. “Secret Arrows,” like
straight avenues, railway lines,
highways, straight escarpments, or a
line of projecting hills or even
buildings are to be avoided, as these
drain away the good “chi” too quickly.
T.Edkins writing in 1872 said that the
dragon may be traced to its source. It
is observable in the flow of the
mountain stream or in the contour of
the earth. The hollow river bed, and
the variety of hill and valley are caused
by the dragon. Trace the water of a
valley to its source. That is the point
from which commences the influence
that controls human destiny… Since
the dragon gives prosperity… it is
important to consider the position of
the water…”
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If you follow Guy Underwood’s work,
as a dowser, there is an important
thing to remember, Guy Underwood
was only looking for underground
water – the fact that he did not find
over-ground energy lines may be
explained by the fact that he was
simply no aware of them and dowsers
do not generally find what they are not
looking for.
Elsewhere Skinner says, “In some ways
the organic lines are as typical of
Chinese civilization as rectangular
Descartian lines are the hallmark of
Western civilization. Basic to the
nature of dragon lines and Chinese
civilization generally is the curve as
opposed to the straight line which
expresses itself not only in Western
architecture, but also in the ley lines
which have been often suggested are
the European equivalent of dragon
lines. They are in fact, diametrically
opposed. Straight lines, as we have
seen, are anathema in Feng Shui for
they generate “cha” and secret
arrows…”
However, if you do dowse a Guy
Underwood type site you will find the
meandering, sinuous underground
water course, but if you “think” ley
lines, you will find that overlaying the
dragon is the straight line, through its
median as in the stream from the head
of a valley, viz.
As said above, Chinese geomancers do
not apparently dowse, and this may be
the reason for the apparently
erroneous conclusion suggested by
Skinner.
I have followed the rod the “chi” of the
dragon up water courses to the head of
the valley in the Pyrenees on many
occasions. Whereas the water course
in sinuous, the energy is effectively
straight, dodging in dog-legs from rock
to rock, on either side of the stream
and have found the dragon – he looks
like this.
In an earlier issue of the journal of the
British Society of Dowsers, I suggested
that underground water may not have
been determining in the choice of
sacred sites but the result of choosing
them, viz, Lourdes and Guadalupe in
Mexico – the springs burst forth after
the apparitions, Moses summoned the
water.
What appears inseparable, is the
relationship between flowing water,
both underground, and certain states
of human consciousness. “Stalking the
wild pendulum,” by Istvak Bentov
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suggests how the focus of human
consciousness on a particular site
makes it sacred and phenomena thus
result of “religious” nature.
interpreted by Western
commentators?
Curious that the dragon is a common
feature of Western and Eastern
geomantic lore and no dragon bones
have yet to be found. Thus it may be,
in a Jungian sense an important
archetype to humility generally, and I
always feel that the idea represented
by St Michael or St George killing the
dragon, and God knows how many
such dragon deaths are preserved in
European legend, is not so much some
form of medieval elimination of
predators, but the organising of the
“chi” or ley energy out of its primal
spirals down the valley and into
constructive co-operation with
evolving mankind, by using the spear
or the lance of higher consciousness.
I would advance the hypothesis that it
is all to do with the evolution of
consciousness. Now, much play has
been made with the concept of
Western individual ego-consciousness,
as opposed to Oriental patience and
submission. Indeed, the philosophical
crisis in Western evolution may be
seen in what was called in France, at
the end of the 19th century “Le mal de
fin de siècle,” – “End of the century
disease,” and many authors and poets
spoke in depressing terms of plunging
into the abyss in their search for the
absolute, their word for nirvana.
(Baudelaire, Gerard de Nerval,
Mallarme, Valery et al.)
As far as I am concerned, it is a basic
tenet of life that humanity is a unity.
We are all going the same way, in the
same boat, at the same time – but that
doesn’t mean to say we are all the same
in terms of consciousness. Nor does it
necessarily pre-suppose that one
particular state is better than another.
What does, however, seem apparent is
that Western man has evolved further
The alternative image of the dragon,
being base chakra consciousness
taking up the spine as the Kundalini to
bring nirvana or total awareness is also
relevant; it appears in alchemical
symbology for similar reasons – the
transmutation of the spirit.
It may be observed, and one of the
raison d’etres of the fast multiplying
Fountain Groups around the world,
that hyper-states of consciousness
applied through meditative techniques,
visualisation and projection have a
discernible effect on the ley lines, and
that if the mixture is right, the effect is
beneficial for the community. Thus
the dragon is killed with the spear.
from tribal consciousness into ego –
consciousness than Oriental man. This
is not a moral comment, The fact that
Japanese only travel in groups, and
that you never meet or do business
with one Japanese alone, is not
necessarily without relevance. The
whole organisation of Japan is
collective, in consciousness terms,
without being drastically materialist in
philosophical terms. Thus it is in
China. Patience and submission to
Why is it then, that straight lines are
anathema to Chinese geomancy, as
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events, in favour of longer term issues
transcending individual lives.
lines – but not grid lines – radiating
lines and low rise buildings.
Western ego-consciousness and
subsequent disillusion gave rise to the
age of reason, and the materialist ethic,
plus the idea you’ve got to make it in
this life time. In science, medicine,
philosophy, the arts, many individual
names from the West, as original
thinkers, are enshrined in various halls
of fame. Not so with the Orientals, yet
their collective application to
technology is awesome – we are just
seeing the beginning of the Chinese
application – give China another 30
years.
Adolf Hitler, see Nigel Pennick, “The
Secret Sciences of Adolf Hitler” –
Neville Spearman understood how
energy and town planning worked.
Albert Speer records it well in his
memoirs, with extraordinary
photographs of the models for the new
Berlin. What matters is how you use it
and what’s at the centre.
What I am, in fact trying to suggest, is
that Chinese Geomancy is, perhaps
sentimentally, rooted in the past, and
it is certainly a deliberate attempt to
maintain a form of collective
consciousness in being, which prevents
ego developments in a Rosseau-like
way. That may be good, bad or
neutral. I make no attempt to judge it
– but the maintenance of traditional
forms in complete harmony with
naturally occurring earth energies
should certainly achieve that. That
may to some be a form of responsible
guardianship. One cannot quarrel
with it. And the fear of the straight
line may be to do with the break out of
the ego. I would nonetheless venture
to suggest that as well as conducting
good “chi” out, a well-constructed
avenue, and they certainly existed at
Imperial level in China, can equally
conduct good “chi” in.
Frederick Bligh Bond the excavator of
Glastonbury speaks cogently in his
book, “The Company of Avalon,” of,
“the great return,” that is to say the
voluntary and aware submission of
Western egocentricity to the collective
consciousness as a virtually religious
act and “The New Age,” awareness is
part of the process.
What has this to do with straight and
sinuous energy lines?
It is sadly very true that the worst
excesses of Western town planning
exist in the USA where a grid based
town is simply socked into the
landscape. Most UK new towns are
very like that. Great psychological
disorientation is a result.
The emergence of the straight line
occurs when man starts to separate
himself from nature, when his
consciousness is no longer totally
related to the water veins of the earth
but the emerging ley lines. They do
seem inseparable from emerging
consciousness. It will be interesting to
Strangely enough, one of the most
beautiful man-made cities, (not San
Francisco, that is a city born of its hills,
where man has submitted,) is in the
USA, namely Washington, designed
by, for, and with comprehending
Masons. Yet it is based on straight
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dowse China shortly “in situ,” but I
suspect the fear of the straight line is
the fear of ego-consciousness, and all
the agonies and glories that has
wrought for the Western world. It is
perhaps arguable that for ego –
consciousness to emerge, pass through
its spiritual transmutation and go
forward to its voluntary re-submission
in an act of pure conscious love, is a
process we are involved in, willy-nilly.
through a conscious understanding of
how ego may be transmuted
alchemically into conscious love, and
made the basis for a future
millennium. The intermediate phase is
fraught with danger, as the legend of
Atlantis instructs us, but the eventual
outcome, if we make it, is a
consummation devoutly to be wished.
P.S I have just dowsed a railway line
for the first time, frankly it never
occurred before and railway lines are
not things to which one has easy
access. It exhibited negative energy.
Some more work must be done!
Some may say the Oriental has already
been through it. I am not sure about
that, but I am sure that Western man is
now going through it, and has got to go
through it and make the “Great
Return,” if this planet is to survive, and
I do offer the thought that Chinese
geomancers’ abhorrence of the straight
energy line is more to do with the
repugnance of individual ego
consciousness rather than its intrinsic
“badness.” The fact remains that overground subtle energy lines are straight
and the question is as to whether a
civilisation harmonises itself with
underground subconscious sinuosity
or over-ground straight line ego
consciousness.
Colin Bloy 09/07/1984
The continuing focus of consciousness
on sites important to man, be they
religious or secular, sacred or profane,
creates the straight energy line, thus a
TV transmitter can exhibit the same
energy lines as a standing stone – but
it is evidence of a moving away from
that harmony with the earth that is the
quintessence of natural man. I am
quite sure we must return to it, when
we have surmounted our straight line
phase and get both working together –
not for reasons of sentimental
nostalgia for a lost millennium but
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