Labyrinth building is a mathematical endeavor that also calls on intuition.   Master labyrinth-builder Alex Champion recently built a labyrinth in San Francisco, Sunset Park.

Cretan labyrinth, Sunset Park, San Francisco

Here he shares the process:

I haven’t made a labyrinth in several years, and I haven’t been advertising, so I was surprised to receive a call from CLW builders informing me that I was to do a labyrinth at Sunset Park in western SF.

I have been involved in making labyrinths at three sites in SF, and I give credit to John Thomas who was responsible for my receiving the earlier three jobs.

I was assigned to make the labyrinth with a paving outfit, but they didn’t have the right tool for the job. So I convinced CLW to hire David Jefferson of Decking Around located in Napa. I did the earlier three installations with David, we got along and the work was always professional.

I met him at a little after 1:00. I had brought down a young woman friend who wanted to observe the process. She was also very sensitive and had not experienced the Cretan (more commonly known as the classical) labyrinth design before.

I had already dowsed the site, a 34 foot circular pad painted red with a tennis court paint. There was a water line running through the middle, but none of the other energy lines that I normally look for. I had her stand in the middle and be aware of her feelings.

She didn’t feel much at that time.

Taping the labyrinth

David and Mike his helper has a tool that allows them to lay down two tapes, 2″ apart, in a circular arc greater than 15′ in radius, which was the largest circular arc that was needed.

The Cretan chosen for this job was one made with circular arcs from five “centers”, which I had found earlier in the week. So all he had to do was start putting down tape.

Painting labyrinth lines

The Cretan is made with 22 circular arcs (for those in to numerology, the Cretan has seven rings, 22/7 is a good approximation of pi). It took him about an hour and a half to lay down the tape.  Then he started painting the spaces between the tape with black.

Painting the Center of Labyrinth

After laying down the tape, I dowsed the site again and found two water lines and two Yod lines running perpendicular to each other through the middle. My young friend felt a little tingling but nothing else.

It took maybe 15 to 20 minutes to paint the space between the tape with black.

While the design was being painted, I dowsed the site for a solar energy band that together would make a power spot that would fill the entire design. It came in when the painting was ~3/4 done.

Pulling up tape from labyrinth

After painting between the lines, they waited about 15 or 20 minutes, then they pulled up the tape. The job was finished in 2 hours, 15 to 20 minutes.

My friend said that she was going to go in to the design but when she crossed the outer line she felt like she hit a wall at the place where I dowsed the edge of the power spot. When she walked it, she got uncomfortably dizzy, which is a labyrinth quality experience. My best guess is that the energy of the labyrinth altered her energy fields and there has to be a period of readjustment.

Cretan design Labyrinth in San Francisco

I really got a charge of making the design, and David and I have a great working relationship. I told him we should do this again, and he was all for it.

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Sharing this from Ralph Squire:

Did you know:

-Orbs tend to appear around groups of happy people and can be photographed with digital cameras?

-Dowsers could communicate over long distances well before telegraphs and telephones were invented?

-Alchemy is the basis of homeopathic medicine, and dowsing is a part of that?

-We can all learn to dowse (divine/scry) and are all natural dowsers?

Come to the West Coast Dowsing Conference and learn more about these and more than 60 other topics, beginning THIS FRIDAY, JULY 6^th at College Eight, UC Santa Cruz.

And while you’re here, you can

-Walk three different labyrinths

-Watch a gorilla dance (well, not a real one and, well, he’s not the best dancer, but he sure has fun)

-Meditate in the redwoods

-Learn qi gong

-Win raffle prizes

A registration form and a map are attached for your convenience, or go towww.dowserswestcoast.org for a complete list of speakers and activities.

Some of our renowned speakers include:

Susan Collins, Advanced Dowsing and Healing Techniques, Ontario Canada

Ed Stillman, Master Dowser, Sedona Arizona

Bette Epstein, Renowned Hypnotherapist, Dallas Texas

Richard Feather Anderson, Geomancer Extraordinaire, Grass Valley, California

See you soon!  Bring a friend and get a special hug!

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People use dowsing for so many different things!!! Here are a few stories from dowsers on how they use dowsing.

A Teacher’s Story

I teach middle school in San Anselmo. Every morning, the first thing I do is clear any non-beneficial energy in my classroom by dowsing. Sometimes, rarely, there is apparently nothing to clear (the response to my questions, “May I, Can I, Should I?” is a ‘No’), but most of the time there are different degrees of clearing to do. Also, the principal’s office is where difficult meetings take place, so I have used dousing to clear the energy there, too. Raymond Grace’s piece, “The School Project,” was just recommended to me, so I plan to read that and clear the entire school (why limit it to a single room?)!

Deborah Fugate

DOWSING: A PART OF EVERYDAY LIFE

I have a client who operates residential property on a former navy base. They have a serious problem with aging fences that need their posts replaced. Replacing the posts means digging into a maze of unmapped gas, water and sewage lines. I was reluctant to tell them that we could locate the lines by dowsing, until a construction laborer I was talking to about the problem (he was hustling business for his company) said “why don’t we just get a couple of welding rods and bend one end over and go look for them.”

On a plane trip to a dowsing conference recently I sat next to an engineer who was working for PG&E and he asked where I was headed, so I told him. His reply: “I know about that. We use L-rods to find buried gas lines in parts of the desert where the soil isn’t homogeneous enough for us to use our electronic locators.”

On another trip I was in the shuttle to the hotel and got to talking with the driver about dowsing. He got all excited: seems his grandfather had taken him out one day, showed him how to use a pair of L-rods and asked him to find all the sprinkler lines in the back yard. Said that he found every one.

Richard Tippett

Dowsing and Fertility

Six years ago I dowsed a flower essence remedy for a client who was having difficulty getting pregnant after several years of trying.  The next month she was pregnant.  A few months later another client wished to get pregnant ‘in vitro’.  After several attempts and no successes, I gave her the same flower essence combination.  A month later she was also pregnant.  I had no idea what I had dowsed would be so successful till the same Flower essence combination helped conceive my second grandchild.  My daughter was thrilled.  She kept the remedy and whenever a friend had a hard time getting pregnant she gave the remedy to the friend, unbeknownst to me…and they all got pregnant.   I thought this quite wonderful and amusing, as I had no idea this was going on till she called me for a refill, and told me what had happened.

The power of dowsing for a successful outcome can lead one to the most unexpected results.

-D.A.

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A nice article about Gladys McCoy, this years keynote speaker at the 2012 Conference, and  dowsing:   http://www.bannernews.net/news/WireHeadlines/2012/06/20/arkansas-woman-continues-husband-s-dowsi-8.php

Arkansas woman continues husband’s dowsing tradition

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Hi Dowsing Friends, Karen Ashley, Conference Director,  will be interviewed on radio KSVY, FM 91.3 from Sonoma about the West Coast Dowsing Conference starting at 1:10 Pacific Daylight Time. The Show is Health Matters with Dr. Ned Hoke.  The interview will last about 15 to 20 min….then the rest of the show will be accepting callin’s from people asking questions about dowsing and how they use dowsing in their lives.  I am asking you to listen to the show, call in to the show and share a few stories and ways you use dowsing…and yes, put in a plug for WCC.  Please be be part of this show and help to add to our dowsing conversations to build community.

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The following is a response given to Alex Champion’s review of Ophelia’s Labyrinth presentation that was featured at the Golden Gate Dowsers Chapter Meeting in the Spring of 2012.  Ophelia will also present this Energetic Light Substation experience at the West Coast Dowsers Conference in Santa Cruz in July.

In response to Alex’s review of my labyrinth I would firstly like to say “thank you and I am so appreciative of the perspectives given.” At first I was somewhat put off  by his refusal to acknowledge it even as a labyrinth, even when I mentioned that the inspiration came from Toby Evans, Keeper of the Prairie Labyrinth in Blue Springs, MO. Yet such a wonderful validation is shown above.

These labyrinths are hand-painted and totally blessed through the entire creation process, on a mountain top with Yosemite in the distance and meditation and chants going constantly.

I have been shown to call it an “Energetic Light Substation”. Through the design, colors and intentions imbued within it pulses vibrations up and out. Walking in with the general intention is “I surrender all that is not in my highest good!” Then you just walk.

Standing in the center with feet firmly on the symbol of OM, breathe, ground and connect with Heaven, the Cosmos  above and Mother Earth supporting below. Feel the energetic pulse moving up, down and through you before walking out in reverse order with the intention “I claim and integrate the wholeness of the new potential within and without!”

Just as a dirty glass is emptied and cleaned for any new liquid to fill it…….walking this labyrinth acts in a similar way vibrationally……releasing, clearing and cleaning on any and all levels for new potentials and opportunities to be presented.

An interesting discovery I made is that if one looks at the design from above and “pulls up” the center OM symbol into a pyramid or what looks like a tree you can very easily see it represents a great pyramid generator.

Each person has their own unique experience, come walk it yourself to discover yours!

Ophelia

www.earthspiritjourneys.wordpress.com

This labyrinth has also been the inspiration for a series of cards and games called En-Lighten-MEnt, New Paradigm Tools and Games.

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Dowsing Green

We are all energy, and our dowsing can be used to express that energy constructively.

Here are some ways you can have a beneficial effect on the Earth using dowsing:

- Program your dowsing requests so that you do the least possible harm to the environment, for the highest good of all concerned.

- Learn how to transform energy, and purify and energize water.

- Connect and work with the Nature spirits in your home and garden.

- Use dowsing to communicate with the animals around you.

- Set up energy fields to control pests rather than use pesticides.

- Map dowse to narrow your on-site searches.

- Dowse for earth-friendly products.

- Use dowsing for clearing a home, a school, a park, a business, a prison, a government.

- Teach others about dowsing and how to dowse.

…and use your imagination to add to this list.

(reprinted from the 2010 Conference program booklet)

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Meet Paradigm Shifter Karen Ashley co-ordinator of the annual West Coast
Dowsers Conference in Santa Cruz July 6 – 10th (www.dowserswestcoast.org) an
invigorating seminar.

Who are the dowsers?  A broad spectrum of healers, purveyors of wisdom that
talk to etheric presences for answers.

Join Karen Ashley and Veronica as they share the transformative magic of
individual Dowsers that amp up ascension and The Shift.

Tuesday June 12th 8 – 9 PM PDT 11 PM east coast, 4AM in the UK, 1 PM in the
UK…where are you?
Listen online at: http://www.bbsradio.com/radiancebydesign/radiance_by_design.php

RADIANCE BY DESIGN   Let’s Talk about YOU and how you are working through
your own ascension now in 2012  - your growth and learning to become multi
dimensional, to connect with your soul’s concurrent realities.  To create a
oneness of being and purpose.  We will share a meditation using our sacred
geometrics to create a shared workshop for your healing and our own.

Call in or email your questions.

Thursday June 14th, 2012 7 – 8 PM west coast time,  11 PM east coast time,
4AM in the UK, 1 PM in Hong Kong…where are you?… and  on
www.bbsradio.com the voice(s) of inspiration round the world!

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What is dowsing and how does it work?  What kind of experiences can you look forward to at the West Coast Dowsing Conference, coming up in only 4 weeks!!!

Learn more about Dowsing in this Audio file as Paula Nunes, from the Tazz and Paula Show interviews Karen Ashley, director of the West Coast Dowsing Conference.

More info at www.dowserswestcoast.org and http://tazzandpaulashow.com/

Click here to listen to the interview:  TazzandPaula show interviews Karen Ashley, Director WCC

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One of my favorite things about the West Coast Dowsing Conference is walking the labyrinths that Alex Champion creates in Santa Cruz during the conference.  This year we’re in for a treat!!  On Friday July 6, Alex will lay out the design and attendees can assist (and learn in the process) as this master labyrinth maker creates another masterpiece!

This year Alex will be making a Jin Shin Jyutsu labyrinth. The following is a little background on labyrinths and his process in creating the Jin Shin Jyutsu pattern labyrinth:

“For years I have been somewhat interested in Jin Shin Jyutsu (see The Touch of Healing by Alice Burmeister or go to http://www.jsjinc.net/).  Then for a reason, now lost, I started a daily Jin Shin Jyutsu practice in November of 2010.  in January the next year, I went to a 5 day workshop and was further intrigued, and increased my practice to about an hour daily.

Holding the Fingers. One of the techniques one can use in JSJ is to simply hold one’s fingers/thumb and listen for a pulse.  Each finger/thumb represents a specific attitude (worry, grief, anger, fear and pretense), and a particular depth.

The depths refer to levels of vibration from the highest source down to eventually the crystallization of the energy into matter.  A stepped down spiritual energy begins to interact with humans at the 6th depth.  The relative depths important to humans are the 1st through the 6th depth.  Each depth is represented by a digit and a color:

1st depth – hold the thumb (worry, yellow).

2nd depth - ring (grief, white).

3rd depth - middle (anger, green).

4th depth - index (fear, blue/black).

5th depth - little (pretense, red).

6th depth - Palm of the hand.

Notice that in going from the 1st depth represented by the thumb, one goes three fingers in for the 2nd depth to the ring finger, and then comes back one for the 3rd depth (middle), back one again for the 4th depth (index), and then forward three again for the 5th depth (ring).  That is the same path as the meander pattern, the order of rings going into the Cretan labyrinth, starting from the outside (0) is 03214.  From the thumb (1) it goes, depth wise, 14325.  The same pattern.

Meander pattern

The meander pattern in one of the oldest known geometric patterns.  It was found in Mezin Ukraine on a bracelet made from a mammoth ivory tusk, and was dated to around 20,000 years ago.

Cretan labyrinth

The Cretan (Classical, 7 circuit) labyrinth is easily 3,000 years old,

Chartres labyrinth

and the Chartres labyrinth, 800 years old.

By dowsing many have shown that the meander pattern brings in feminine water energy and a male solar energy band, which together produce a higher level energy called power spot energy where one can have interesting, including spiritual, experiences.

So why not make a meander pattern type labyrinth that mimics the sequence of holding the fingers in going from the 1st to the 5th depths.  So I came up with the following design:

Each depth is represented by a color, so the semi-circular arc (a barrier line over a ring) is chalked the appropriate color.  Adding color also expands the energy of a two dimensional design to fill the entire design.

Following the Depths

In walking the design I want people to hold gently the finger/thumb indicated by where they are in the design.  While walking a ring, one should walk slowly, listening for a good pulse.  When the pulse is achieved, then move on to the next ring (depth) and repeat.

In the center one places the thumb of one hand on the palm of the other (6th depth).

As one walks through each ring, one should hold the digits of one hand or the other.  Which one?  Dowsers would say – dowse it.

The Jin Shin Jyutsu labyrinth, Following the Depths, will be, for the first time, at the Dowsers’ West Coast Conference, held on the College 8 campus of UC Santa Cruz, July 6 – 10.   What will happen?  We will find out.

I will lay it out in chalk Friday morning at 10 AM or so.  I am always looking for volunteers to help with the layout.

The Cretan labyrinth will be laid out on grass at about 4 to 4:30 on Friday near the registration building.  Volunteers wanted.

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