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You may have heard by now, but the Society’s long week end was washed out. Fortunately we were informed on the Wednesday and therefore had time to ring around everyone who we knew was coming. Well we think we contacted everyone, if we missed you please accept our apologies and we hope you enjoyed your swimming holiday. As you may have seen on TV the conditions in the region we had planned to visit were atrocious, wet even by our standards.
This trip was scheduled to take place earlier in the month than usual as it takes the place of the BSD Earth Energy Group’s usual crop-circle and sacred sites weekend, to which they have always invited us -they are going to Carnac this year instead. A report will appear in next month’s journal as it was too close to the meeting date to be included in this one.
The speaker for the June meeting was Maggie Dobson, who gave an entertaining talk about ghosts that had been encountered by residents from round and about the area where she lives, e.g. Bradford on Avon, Trowbridge, etc. The anecdotes are not dredged up from the dim and distant past, but were collected from the people who had actually had direct experiences of ghosts, poltergeists and other unexplained happenings.
Maggie became involved in collecting tales of local hauntings, and unexplained phenomena, when, as part of her job as a tourist guide for English Heritage, she was asked to do a “Ghost Walk” in Bradford on Avon, one Halloween a few years ago.
The research that she had done for this led to her being asked to give a talk to one of the local societies, one thing led to another, and she has now collected enough material to have recently had a book published on the subject.
During her work on the book, she asked Shaun Ogbourne, WDS Chairman, to do some dowsing at some of the haunted sites, so he appears in the book too.
Maggie is very sincere about the subject and also very humorous. One tale she told was of an incident that took place at a pub in Trowbridge, Peewee’s Four Ale Bar.
Peewee is a former sailor – down to earth and not easily upset by the haunting incidents at his pub. In fact he has had a friendly ghost that has seemed to have attached itself to him years ago and which follows him around.
One day the brewers’ dray turned up and the dray-men started to take the new kegs of beer into the cellar at the pub, only to run out terrified when some of the barrels started to move about of their own free will.
The next thing Peewee heard about it was when he received a letter from the brewery saying that they had done a Health and Safety Risk Assessment and that their draymen would not now be allowed to enter the cellar!
Maggie brought some of her books with her to the meeting, but if anyone wants a copy and didn’t manage to get one, Shaun will be able to put you in touch with her.
Given the unpredictability of the British climate it is not surprising that there are more superstitions and folk beliefs associated with it than almost any other topic. Our annual long-weekend trip was called off at the last moment when the campsite management ran up to say that the camp-site and much of the surrounding area was flooded. Mindful of the safety of our members we were left with no option but to cancel. However, having done all the research for the trip, we plan to run it at a later date.
Rain on June 29th signifies that the saints are sending water for the apple orchards and that there will be a bumper crop of apples, while rain on July 22nd means that Mary Magdalene is washing her handkerchief ready to weep on St James’ Day three days later.
Rainmakers are still highly regarded in some parts of the world. One method used is the burning of ferns or heather, or by sprinkling drops of water on the ground, or by dipping a holy relic into water. In parts of Europe statues of the saints were dipped into lakes and rivers in time of drought. Stepping on ants was reckoned to have the same effect, so if anyone has been doing this will they please stop now!
At the talk by Peter Vaughn last year, I was interested in the tale he told of having been severely chastised by a Tibetan priest for shouting an invocation to the weather gods just to see what would happen. Lo and behold, out of a previously clear sky came great rainstorms of a severe nature. Peter was told not to treat these things with levity, as dreadful consequences could occur. Thinking about this, I just had a nasty thought. Earlier this year we erected a long string of Tibetan prayer flags on the side of one of our rain collection tanks at our allotment. Perhaps we should take them down again!
In this country we usually enjoy seeing rainbows but in other cultures that are not so popular. Even as close as the Shetlands rainbows arching over a house were seen as a sign of imminent death Maybe this is a folk memory of the Celestial bridge over which the dead travel to reach Valhalla. Some cultures see rainbows as having evil influence, and some believe the rainbow is a supernatural serpent taking a drink from the clouds.
Rainbows’ influence could be negated by laying down two straws in the form of a cross, and you should never point at a rainbow or it could draw down bad luck or start off more rainfall.
You have been warned! S.C.
There have been some exiting archaeological discoveries in this area recently, including the orientation of the Durrington Walls site which once held over 160 wooden posts in concentric circles. It is now established that it was oriented towards the midsummer sunset and midwinter sunrise, which is the reverse of Stonehenge. A trackway has also been found leading from this henge to a cliff on the bank of the Avon, matching the avenue from Stonehenge to the river.
Several dwelling houses have also been found, containing a large quantity of food debris, of the sort that could be expected to indicate lavish feasting. Pig-teeth found are from animals about 9 months old which suggest that the feasting took place at about the time of the winter solstice.
One suggestion is that Durrington Walls was used as a temporary mustering point for people coming from a wide area for ceremonies held at Stonehenge at the solstices. Another suggestion is that once the Bluestones from Preseli in Wales had been put in place, Stonehenge may have been used for healing purposes. Preseli is rich in healing wells and sacred springs and it may have been thought at the time that the properties of the curative waters got their power from the Bluestones.
An unusually high proportion of the skeletons found in burial mounds on Salisbury Plain show signs of disease and disability, which gives weight to this theory. Professor Timothy Darville argues this point in his recent book on Stonehenge, saying that it is not difficult to associate a healing cult with a sun-cult as they were both in the worship of Apollo.
“Stonehenge: The Biography of a landscape”. By Professor Timothy Darville.
For those of you who do not know Durrington Walls, it is a large (Avebury size) henge monument about 2 miles north east of Stonehenge, very close to Wood Henge. It has been very heavily ploughed out over the years but parts of the banks are still visible in places. When the A345, which runs through it, was widened some years ago two wooden palisaded encloses were discovered.
It’s been awhile since we printed an article by our late president Dennis Wheatley, so here is some information about Geopathic Stress from our newsletter of October 1994.
Adverse energies can create what is now known as ‘Geopathic Stress’ at certain locations and this can be inimical to health. These can be natural in origin by way of earth energies, water courses under-ground, aerial ley energies, highly radioactive regions such as the Rollright’s ‘Spook Road’, the underground Fogous in Cornwall, high in radon, the earth’s energy patterns such as gravitational fields or electromagnetic fields varying from location to location. Satellite surveys have revealed fluctuations in the planet’s gravitational fields. Large mineral lodes distort the earth’s magnetic field, and the earth’s meridian matrices such as the Hartmann and Curry grids are influenced by cosmic events from the sun, its solar flares, sunspot activities occurring on an approximate 11 year cycle, the moon and the planets. The earth is bombarded relentlessly by cosmic rays which annihilate atomic nuclei in their paths and in the process release alpha and beta particles and ultra-high frequency gamma rays. Water is more prone to this phenomenon and so if an underground stream passes beneath a dwelling place its course should be avoided. That is one’s bed, or chairs, should be located away from the course. If two streams should cross beneath a dwelling place, even at a great difference in depth, the malefic effect is compounded.
The Hartmann Net, discovered by Dr Ernest Hartmann, is an electromagnetic grid aligned N.S to the magnetic pole and it covers the planet from pole to pole like a gigantic fishnet. The grid lines vary from 2 to 2.5 metres apart and have positive and negative polarities. The polarities switch every six hours and the band widths increase during the full moon, at high sunspot activity and during changing weather fronts. This grid system is thought to be cosmic in origin. The Curry Grid was discovered by Dr Manfred Curry, a researcher at the Bio-climatic Institute in South Germany. Aligned NW-SE it runs diagonally to the Hartmann grid, its grid dimensions are 3.5x3.5 metres, and it also covers the entire planet. Its grid lines are also polarised + and - and when two similarly polarised lines intersect the geopathic stress is stronger. When this occurs over an underground stream the stress is compounded. Should such an intersection occur at the crossing point of the streams, then this is highly deleterious to health.
In 1952 Dr W D Schumann identified waves with a frequency of 1 to 20 cycles per second of frequency which encompass the human brain’s 8 cycles per second frequency. Schumann believed these waves were the planet’s biological tuning mechanism without which living organisms could not survive.
In experiments, animals shielded from the waves showed great stress and eventually died. Steel framed buildings attenuate the Schumann wave resonances and could induce stress symptoms in office workers confined to them for 8 hours days. Is this why, for example, there is so much neurosis in cities like New York? When I worked in the USA I was the only corporate director without a ‘shrink’ and I was considered to be ‘peculiar’ because of this.
The Schumann waves are highly attuned in high flying aircraft and account for the phenomenon of ‘jet lag’. The N.A.S.A space scientists noted that astronauts returning from space assignments had stress symptoms and so installed Schumann wave-generators in the space-crafts.
With the explosion in industrial growth over the past 50 year the planet has been polluted to the extent that we are poisoning the earth, the oceans, the rivers, the air we breathe, and are breaking down the ozone layer. As every nation is geared to continual industrial growth, to sustain the planet’s abnormally expanding population a global catastrophe seems unavoidable. We are deforesting the planet at an alarming rate and the earth’s resources such as oil and gas will be gone within 100 years. Chernobyl style disasters are ticking away in the hundreds of ill-maintained nuclear power plants across the old Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc states. Nuclear reactors, dumped into the seas by the ex-soviets are rusting away and eventually that radioactive waste will be washed by the currents around all of the oceans in a major catastrophe. But the ‘invisible’ pollution is increasing. This insidious pollution takes the form of X-rays, microwaves, extra low frequency magnetic fields (ELF), radiowaves, and so on. Much of this pollution comes from radar, radio and T.V transmissions, VDUs, microwave ovens, CB Radios, computers, cellular telephones, electrical power lines and electric wiring in homes and offices, and a host of other appliances. These all pervading energies are increasing unrelentingly and, apart from being detrimental to health, they distort the earth’s natural energy systems creating further disharmonies to organic life forms.
As an example of a single radiation source, if one sits directly in front of a TV set, one’s aura shrinks to one third of its size.
Jose Delgado, an internationally recognised neuro-scientist, experimenting with electromagnetic fields as low as one-fiftieth of the earth’s magnetic field found that eggs incubated in these fields produced grossly deformed chicks. Colonies of fruit flies suffered lethal genetic mutations. Yet when we stand under a fluorescent light we receive a far greater energy intensity than this.
A seven-year study by the US Navy showed the ELF fields altered this behaviour of cells, tissues, organs, hormone levels, cell chemistry and time perceptions in animals and humans. The report shows that ELF can inhibit bone growth and cell differentiation and protein kinase production, can affect calcium bonding in cells, destroy and rupture cells, entrain brain waves and DNA transactions. They concluded that certain diseases could be cured by altering the ELF frequency.
We live in an ever increasing world of electronic smog. In our homes we electrify everything from the main laundry and cooking centres to electrical food mixers, knives, toothbrushes, razors, blankets hair dryers and other gadgets. In our cars we sit in electric and magnetic smog from the engine electrics, the radio and all of the other electrical and electronic functions.
Meanwhile, those interested may wish to make their own counteracting device. It is called the Premo Diffuser after its inventor, C A Premo. He studied dozens of reports on the effects of electromagnetic radiations and which could, in time, prove to be lethal due, in part, to the possible resonance with nerve pulse systems all over the body.
The diffuser appears to change the ambient electrical conditions from concentrated energy lines to a homogenous mix which has no evident adverse effect on a person. This leaves the immune system to proceed in a natural, unhindered fashion to do the adjustment and regeneration for good health. There are fewer parts in the diffuser than in a two-cell flashlight. The type of electrical output of the device might possibly be described as in the phenomena group known as ‘chaos’. Placed in a home it will decontaminate electrically those energy forms within its capacity. Carried, the field will travel with the person. Certain people who have used this device in America have reported direct and positive health gains. The diffuser is said to change, also, energies of earth and cosmic origins. The accompanying diagrams show how to make a diffuser of the 6-volt type which gives a protective radius up to 150ft.
Parts Needed
12 feet of 24 to 30 gauge insulated copperwire
1 3-volt diode and socket (¼"drill size)
1 10,000 ohm, ¼ watt resistor
1 1/8" wire clamp
1 ½" wire clamp
1 9 volt battery
2 screws for lid
1 screw for battery security
3 screws ½"
2 alligator clips, 1 red and 1 black.
Variations can be made in the construction provided that the coil, the diode and the resistor are wired as shown and connected to the battery via the crocodile clips. One battery will last up to a year when ‘on’ 100% of the time. The voltage will gradually fall but even at 3 volts the protective radius will be 60 to 70 ft. A simplified version would be a single piece of plywood with the components attached to it with cleats and connected as per the diagram. Alternatively, the components could simply be free-standing, without support and placed in a cupboard, or drawer, or on top of a wardrobe. All of the components are available at electrical distributors - solder joints are the most efficient connection methods.
(Sorry this is all in imperial but that is how it was originally published. No guarantees that this will work, we have had people build the device, some of who swear by it and others who swear at it.)