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 by Dorothy K. Fraser
When Dorothy, a highly-qualified molecular biologist, abandoned University research and teaching to move to the wilds of Western Canada, she happened to learn dowsing, the ancient practice best known for locating water with a forked stick. She soon found that there are small-scale dowsing 'fields' around every living thing. Her scientific training led her to study this phenomenon in depth. She since documented the structure and behaviour of these 'fields', which are apparently concentric, and spread like warmth from one thing to another. Green Grass and Stones is the story of Dorothy's thoughtful investigation of a little-known, invisible world that surrounds us all.
An excerpt from Green Grass and Stones by Dorothy K. Frazer:
As a subject for study, the energies surrounding charged objects or living things seemed at first to have a reassuringly familiar sort of structure, quite like a simple school investigation of magnetic fields, for example. And so, after I got some confidence in dowsing, I began studying them. I soon found out that these phenomena absolutely do not behave like the recognised scientific fields. They seem to have a different sort of logic of their own, and that is what I have been exploring.
It's common to think or write of these fields as energy, and to imagine energy transfer from one to another. I have to say that, so far, I am not fully convinced that what I am looking at is really energy or power in any common scientific meaning. If it is energy, it must be in some quite different form. Measurable physical phenomena of many kinds -- magnetic, electric, sound, movement -- do appear connected with dowsing fields in some cases, in auras, and in the study of the big stones in Britain, as examples. (The Secret Language of Stone, Don Robins, 1988, Century Hutchinson Ltd., London). But the dowsing fields are definitely not to be explained by these physical forces alone.
 There might be a transformation back and forth from known energies to the unknown kind, under some circumstances, or perhaps it is more that dowsing energies and physical ones might have a common cause in some cases. So I continue to think of these fields as energies, but with some reservations. A lot of intelligent work, outside of science, has been done with the energy patterns that seem to be associated with the earth itself, which is only a much larger version of a material object.
A fascinating aspect of this kind of magic is that men of about 3000 BC and earlier knew far more about it than we do today. The integration of their monuments into the astronomical cycles astonished everybody with what appeared to be a keen understanding of science. But the Bronze Age man could feel the earth energies around him, and I think it is quite likely that he could see them too, as many people can today. He grasped the wheeling of the universe in intuitive ways of understanding. He didn't have to figure out the 'science' at the back of his knowledge. He simply didn't think or see the way we do. He wasn't trained in logical, precision thinking as all of us were. Today we have to learn to shift out of scientific thought to be able to dowse, and to use the other capacities of the mind, more adept at thinking in shapes and analogies.
There is nothing simple or unsophisticated about the work of Bronze age man. He must also have been a sort of genius to visualise what could be done with the energies he could feel and see. His engineering feats with magical power are now just beginning to be understood (but still not in scientific terms), and they work even now, although some have been dismantled or destroyed. His stones and his patterns of stones radiate power today which can be detected by any dowser, and lots of ordinary people.
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When we settled on Vancouver Island, I soon discovered a group of dowsers, led by Frances Nixon, who had virtually re-invented and renamed the subject, and taught the others, and me, a method of dowsing using bare hands, with no instruments. We were not looking for water or gold; we were looking for earth power, the sort of thing that Stone Age man was dealing with.
When I knew her, Mrs Nixon was a tall woman, perhaps in her seventies, keenly perceptive and with enormous personal power. Sometimes we visited her at her home on the rocky shore of Thetis Island in the Gulf of Georgia, a beautiful place to learn about anything. Mrs Nixon was a good teacher. She told us to believe the first results we got, even if they seemed crazy. She said they were probably right, and they would make sense later. And that is often true.
She taught us that we each bear a connection to the spot on the earth where we were born, or actually just before we were born. We can each draw energy from that connection with the earth's field, by facing into a line towards the Vivaxis spot, and being receptive to its influence. A connection is set up between an individual and his Vivaxis, if he is in tune with it and if he is oriented towards it in space.
It's clear to me now that Mrs Nixon didn't teach us everything that she knew; I have tracked down a number of things that she had only hinted at. And she would suddenly withdraw something we were all working on. Now I think she thought that some things were too dangerous -- she came close to saying so once. Mrs Nixon died a few years ago, and the group has fallen to pieces. Much has been lost with her death.
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Dowsing is quite clearly a matter of first forming a connection between an image in the brain and some external system, image or object. It is resonance, using the word in a somewhat wider sense than usual. It works on a mind-like basis. It is simply not science at all, but intuition.
It seems that the only kind of detection device for dowsing that we know of is a living organism. Most people can feel these power fields, a few people can see them, and some have learned to detect them by the traditional dowsing methods. In dowsing, the actual detection is done by the subconscious body-mind, and the results are not consciously available. The trick is to get the conscious mind into contact with information that the body already knows. So perhaps everybody can potentially dowse, if he has not already made up his mind that it is impossible.
The subconscious mind, which may include the body's psycho-neuro-immunological system, then can (but usually doesn't) translate information about external power into some kind of muscular motion, which can be detected in the ordinary way, by the senses. We can learn to do this. Part of the body-mind has to tell another part, which controls the muscles, about how to respond to whatever the body picks up. This is done according to some quite arbitrary convention accepted between the two, like the communication between two partners in a bridge game. There is always a connection between mind and muscle involved in dowsing. The rules have to be clearly laid out, or confusion results. This is true no matter which form of dowsing you may use.
All this makes it of doubtful use to science, which demands objectivity among its rules. Instruments have to work without the influence of the human mind. Recently, doubts have been raised about the possibility of any true objectivity in a highly interconnected world to which we belong ourselves. We change whatever we look at. We are part of the system, not observers.
So ideas about this are shifting, but dowsers are still considered to be on vague and shaky ground in the twentieth century. Still, perhaps that situation is not quite as bad as it was earlier. Our scientific confidence in brutal materialism has been jolted a bit by some very peculiar findings. Nothing is solid in atomic physics, and perhaps the particles don't have defined positions in space either. And things which were once linked together are still together in some way. It seems as if a large number of modern physicists have taken flight from traditional science, and they haven't been actually excommunicated.
I'm not pretending that my findings can class as scientific facts. They are more like natural history, observations which I may interpret differently as time goes on.
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