Dowsers West Coast

Here’s a piece written by committee member Alex Champion:

Last saturday at the Golden Gate chapter the speaker was Ophelia (http://www.earthspiritjourneys.com/).  I was a little nervous since I had recommended her but had never heard her speak.  She had been camping under my very old Oak tree for a while, tending my vegetable garden, and I liked her energy.  Normally at these monthly meetings speakers talk about some technique, but Ophelia just started talking to us and telling stories.  I have to admit I was getting somewhat bothered by that.  Later in the middle of the night I realized that I had been strongly affected by one of her stories in which she talked about how she had dealt with her possessions.  She concluded that the most important thing in her life was not any of her possessions but what she had learned and what was inside her.  She now travels around in her car and the only things she owns are in the car.  I have moved in the last year and have released huge amounts of things, but realize that she is at another level above me.  I can’t see myself parting with 10 of my late wife’s paintings or many of my books or family photos.

After her talk, many had the opportunity to walk her canvass labyrinth.  This was the strangest labyrinth I’ve ever walked (photo attached), as there are no visible turns.  My interest in labyrinths has been on the research and development side, and of course making them.  I’ve never been a labyrinth facilitator, so I was interested in her method.  Her approach was simple but powerful.  On the way she asked us to surrender all that was not in our highest good, on the way out, allow the energy of the labyrinth to fill and expand your field.  Then while people walked she drummed.  She measured our auras before and afterwards and everyone’s expanded.  She’s also an intuitive so she had a message for each person after their walk.  I noticed that several minutes later after others had walked, my body was still pulsing.

I am on the West Coast Dowsers conference and we are already thinking how we can use her at the conference next July.  It also occurred to me that she would be a great addition to have at a party.

She makes her canvass labyrinth for others, and when I checked out how much they cost, I was impressed how inexpensive they were.

The following was Submitted by Alex Champion, who attended the Southwest Dowsers Conference in October.   The Southwest Conference is held every two years…always a fun and information-filled event!!

I just attended the SW Dowsing conference held ever other year in Flagstaff.  As a    dowser for 25 years I, of course, dowsed which talks I should see and the ones I chose for the first day dealt with energy work or what some call spiritual healing.  They involved healing at an energetic level and not directly at the physical level.

Ellie Drew introduced a new technique, Way of the Lotus flower, which she channeled.  Her new program is a traditional form in which strong affirmations are used.  The book she produced, Way of the Lotus Flower, was just published (1st edition – Oct 2011) is not yet on her web site, http://www.consciouschange.org/ICC/Welcome.html, but should be shortly.  Her first talk was informational, but in the second talk the Mini version of the technique was presented and performed by the class.  I thought it was very effective and I felt like I was worked on.  My attitude seemed more positive the next day.  The goal of the technique is to clean out the unneeded energy, arising from significant experiences, that the soul has accumulated during many lifetimes.

She is sponsoring a retreat on 11/11 on the very subject (www.LotusFlowerRetreats.com) in Phoenix.  I quote, “This event is the Birth of a Movement to change the world, one person at a time, through the healing power of forgiveness & Renewal.”

The second talk on energy work was given by Darrell Brann (www.HarmonicsofHealing.org).  He has a set of CDs, each uses sound and is specific to a certain part of the body.  The subject is complex and I suggest that one goes to his web site to learn more about it.  I bought two of the many CDs that he has, each $20.  I’ve been having a minor problem with my left shoulder so he gave me a CD to listen to.  I could feel obvious sensations in my shoulder.  Then he gave me another CD, which I listened to for half an hour.  When I got up, again I felt that I had been worked on.  Earlier that day I had my aura looked at by Judith Jubb.  She uses watercolors to draw what she sees.  She painted a large black area over my left shoulder that extended partly down the left side of my body.  After my sound treatment I asked Judith to look at me again.  She informed me the color of the area on my shoulder had changed dark to ocre, indicating to her that a healing was taking effect.  I was impressed.

The final highlight for me was performed on the last night of the conference was a gong bath performed Faye Henry (http://www.touchstonevibrations.com/).  She brought five gongs, three of 3 foot diameter or larger and two small ones.  She played to a full room for 45 minutes.  Then there was a break during which she answered questions.  She then played for another 45 minutes to a smaller audience.  I stayed.  I could feel strong sensations in my shoulders, neck and head.  I left feeling strong.  Later that night during my daily session doing six Jin Shin Juytsu flows, pulses were felt immediately and were strong.  My impression was that the sounds from the gong blasted away unneeded energy in my fields.  They also must raise one’s vibrations of some aspects.

A final form of healing that occurs at these meetings is hard to explain.  One of the goals of spiritual healing is to raise one’s vibrations of many aspects of one’s energy fields.  What those are and how many, I do not know.  i dowse that these areas are independent of each other.  Thus it is possible for others to have higher vibrations in one area where I am deficient, and visa versa.  So in some classes I felt sensations in my shoulders while sitting next to a complete stranger.

The last few years I’ve attended dowsing conferences has been primarily to see old friends and attend classes of people I haven’t heard before.  My view has now changed, I see them as a spiritual healing conference as well as a place to catch up with friends and learn new information.  The next dowsing conference on the west coast is the West coast dowsing conference (http://www.dowserswestcoast.org/) held on the college 8 campus of UC santa Cruz starting July 6, 2012.  I can hardly wait.

Thanks Alex!!!

West Coast Dowsers Conference Committee meeting and planning an exciting 2012 conference!!! Stay tuned for details.   The theme?  Dowsing a Clear Path Forward.   

Save the dates:  July 6-10, 2012, Santa Cruz, CA.

Bees have been popping up in my awareness of late.

-In the past three months I’ve met two beekeepers.

-I came across a great documentary that will be released this August. See www.vanishingbees.com to see the trailer.

-I was stung by a bee a couple of weeks ago, for the first time in Many years .

Last week I came across a posting in the Digital Dowsers yahoo group digital-dowsers@yahoogroups.com

about how we as dowsers can do something.  The following was posted July 13, by dowser Dale Lee and repeated here by permission  dale.lee3@qwest.com, www.SacredWaysCO.com .

“I read the article “The plight of the bumblebee” by Karen O’Leary in our local newspaper. The article is available online at www.blueridgepress.com.   In the article she talks about Colony Collapse Disorder, where bees abandon their hives en masse, a problem with an unknown cause.

I decided to dowse the primary cause of the Disorder. Here is what I found. The reason that scientists can’t find a physical cause is because the cause is not primarily a physical cause. It is a spiritual/energetic cause.

Here is how it seems to work. GMO crops are planted in an area. They contain the energy of greed. The energy of greed attracts, not demons themselves, but demonic energy. (this is my term for the specific vibration of the energy). The bees are fine until they, or the hive are attacked by the demonic energy. The bees then leave the hive, flying off to parts unknown.

A possible solution would be this. A dowser would clear the hive of any heavy/negative energy. Then create a negative energy receptacle around the hive that, as the bees fly into the hive, would permanently capture any negative energy that the bees have picked up. Then before placing the hive near crops to be pollinated, the dowser would clear all heavy/negative energy in the area where the bees would be working, especially concentrating on the energy of greed and any demonic energy.

I also get that the GMO crops themselves are not what makes them bad for consumption, but it is the energy of greed, and the attracted demonic energy that is the problem. If we could start clearing the energy of the crops in the field and raising the crops vibration, we might make them a little healthier to eat. Of course you still have the people harvesting, transporting, packaging, displaying, and cooking the crops that can add their heavy energy to it.

I will continue to energetically clear my food before I eat it.

Lets dowse and discuss.

Thanks
Dale Lee”

It would be interesting to hear what you come up with…

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Karen Berke, West Coast Dowser, offers insight into communicating with our animal friends:

Animals communicate with each other and us, both verbally and    intuitively, all the time. And everyone is born being able to communicate intuitively with animals and nature.  As we grew up we were conditioned to suppress this ability. But we can all learn to recover it.  Using simple verifiable exercises you can receive and send images, feeling, words and more with your animal companions.

These exercises don’t involve reading  body language or making guesses based on animal behavior.  This type of animal communication is usually done from a distance, using just a description of the animal but, of course you can use the same techniques when an animal is present.

To communicate intuitively you use your intuition to connect with another being, sending and receiving information mentally in images, words, feelings, or just an instant knowing.

Animal Communication can be helpful for many common problems with domestic animals of all kinds.  Here are some specific applications:

• Solve Behavior Problems – fear, aggression, separation anxiety, unwanted behaviors
• Enhance Training
• Address Quality of Life Issues – find out what your animal wants and needs; improve relationships
• Find Lost Animals
• Get Assistance During Illness and Death
• Get Help Introducing Animals to Each Other & Adopting Animals – find out about a rescued animal’s past

Intuitive communication can also be useful in making connections with wildlife, plants and other aspects of the natural world.

Now you can experience how you can hold “intuitive” conversations with the animals that are important in your life.  Practicing  your intuitive and dowsing skills will improve, deepen and enrich your relationships with animals.

Karen Berke, is an animal intuitive and dowser from California who will be speaking about animal communication at the West Coast Dowsers Conference in Santa Cruz in July.

She helps people and their animal companions on behavioral and training issues, uncovering  past experiences to optimize their health and happiness. She also assists in finding lost animals, and connects with animals who have crossed over. She teaches animal communication and is also a certified Light Resonance healer.

Fairfax filmmaker Jo Carson’s new documentary Dancing With Gaia makes the connection between earth energy, sacred sexuality, and the earth seen as the Goddess, or “Gaia”.   Dancing With Gaia will be shown at the West Coast Dowsers Conference Monday night, July 5 at 7:30pm.

Dancing With Gaia takes viewers throughout Europe, the Mediterranean and the US.  It highlights the sacred sites of many ancient earth-centered religions.   With this backdrop, fifteen visionaries stir the imagination with new ways of looking at the world. They also explain how to release conditioning that keeps people from experiencing the earth as part of their own body, and provide tools to begin personally feeling the life of the planet.

Dowser and geomancer Richard Feather Anderson and dowser and labyrinth-builder Alex Champion are two of the visionaries that are featured in Dancing With Gaia.   Both are long-time participants of the West Coast Dowsing Conference!!  Richard is a speaker and Alex designs and builds the labyrinths on Friday that grace the courtyard and the upper lawn.

Director Jo Carson worked for 20 years to bring the film to completion, and feels strongly about her central motif:  Our culture needs new myths to live by, which include the experience of earth and our bodies as sacred.  As author and KPFA radio producer Joan Marler says, “As long as we conceive of divinity as outside or above us, there is no way we can change our course.”  But by honoring our relations with all beings, the sacred earth and our own bodies, we can create a future of balance and beauty.

From skilled Dowser and presenter  Bette Epstein, director, Heartsong Hypnosis TrainingCenter in Dallas, Texas:

I  just want to tell you and the committee how much I appreciate the work you are doing to make my life more joyful… of course it is all about me, isn’t it.

This will be the 22^nd conference I have attended with Cassie .. since she was six and the only child on campus for so many years.   For many years we were able to attend both WCC and the Danville gathering, but once there was a conflict in dates,  there was no doubt where our hearts were.

WCC is more than a dowsing conference,  it is a gathering of family year after year and the new folks attending immediately become new cousins.    Not only is there always a lot to learn, but a lot to do when one gets saturated with learning and needs a day off, or even an afternoon.     I always start my day with a drive into Santa Cruz for amazing coffee and pastry and newspapers to read as a I  ground myself for a full day of conversation and laughter.   The speakers just get more and more informative each year and your ability to schedule them so that we can often repeat a favorite, amazes me.

Off campus there is a myriad of things to enjoy and I know you didn’t arrange that just for ME… but thanks for the boardwalk,  the shopping downtown,  the trip to Carmel and Monterrey,  walking through the tall trees with some interesting new friend,  sunning on the big red sculpture up by Porter,  visiting the campus gardens.    Just about anything one is interested in is available.    Then, there is the icing on the cake:   the gathering each night to share stories and  new thoughts and ideas…. And to sing or peruse the photo albums which take us down memory lane.

I’ve already started packing and my arms are gearing  up for lots of dowser hugs.   Thanks to you, especially, and to Irene who tries to take care of my personal requests for roommates, but to everyone who works so hard to make my escape from the Texas heat so meaningful.

Perspective from Laurie Baum, Conference presenter:

An unprecedented level of celestial activity in our lifetimes will reach a crescendo during the week of the West Coast Dowsing Conference, as our conference coincides with two eclipses and a rare alignment of the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.

The celestial alignments of 2010 set the stage for the dramatic planetary transformation in 2012 to a higher level of consciousness and greater dimensions of thinking and feeling. Contrary to what you may have heard, the world is not coming to a cataclysmic end in December 2012. All that will be ending are old, ineffective ways of living on the planet. We have much to look forward to. The wellbeing of everyone on the planet depends upon our working together as equals. But, before the new and better can come in, the old and unproductive must be cast away.

The summer’s planetary alignments will inevitably bring sudden changes to your life to rouse you a higher level of consciousness. It will help if you let go of those things that are no longer working in your life. You will feel lighter as you release that which is restricting you. You will be moved to implement more evolved, quickly moving, and liberating ways of being and doing. You will feel different from how you think you “normally” feel. You will crave new experiences and interaction with others who are different from yourself. You also will need time alone to integrate new aspects of yourself, qualities that have always been there, but have not until now been catalyzed into action. You will need space to experience these new qualities, and freedom to grow, evolve, and become more of who you truly are.