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.

From the Archives Copyright of Fountain International 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. 2

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

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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 4

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 9

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. 10

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 12

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 13

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 14

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 15

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 18

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

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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, 21

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

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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.

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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 25

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 26

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 27

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

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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

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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.

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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 31

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 33

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

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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 36