Past events and meetings
Monthly Sunday evening dates for future WD dowsing discussion meetings with a 7pm start
22nd Jan 2023 Dowsing for Shap stones - what we achieved in 2022 Chris Tonge
19th Feb 2023 Dowsing a new site - Sue Turnbull -This month’s topic is about dowsing a site new to you. It’s a chance to chat about how you approach a new site - do you do any dowsing, or research beforehand, or just dive in? Any protocols that you use? Do you take notes or not? And take plenty of cake for sustenance?
19th March 2023 John Collins - Talking about water
Saturday 4th March 2023
An Archaeology Dowsing Workshop with Don Bryan
Hampshire Archaeological Dowsing Society www.chrissellen.taureans.co.uk/index_files/HADS/index.htm
Don Bryan BA (Hons.) from Hampshire Archaeological Dowsers is booked.
The presentation is called "Seeing is Believing" and will include understanding the basic methods and principals from marking out a site with flags, to writing up reports and findings.
This involves drawing to scale sites, photographing, recording and using geophysics along with excavation to back up the results.
£35 for the Day
A couple of places have become available
please email if you are interested
westmorlanddowsers23@gmail.com
Don Bryan, an exceptional organiser, teacher and leader of workshops and field trips (BSD awards 2016*)
*British Society of Dowsers Don Bryan awarded The Avebury Cup 2016 http://www.chrissellen.taureans.co.uk/index_files/HADS/index_files/Page544.htm
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Pauline Richards
4th February 2023
Past Life Advanced Dowsing Workshop
Connecting in with your spiritual self providing the answers we start with a meditation to connect with your higher self.
Using our techniques previously learnt we will be practising the following;
• Communicate with the higher mind
• Grounding; techniques to avoid distortion
• Learn Finger Dowsing for on the go
• Learn your birth details; timing; words first spoken
• How to release any childhood issues
• Working with family lineages for more ease in life
• What were your past lives? Exploration with practical sessions
Bring along your own dowser or pendulum.
A fun workshop to bring you more clarity, confidence and insights to your life and why things might be repeating in this lifetime.
Alignments, Earth Energy & Ley lines: Co-incidence? What are the connections
Presentation by David Dickinson at Westmorland Dowsers, Shap
4th November 2023
David started by making us think about what we mean by coincidences and introduced us to his ‘coincidometer’ with its scale ranging from quite likely to almost impossible. As an example from the top end of the scale we were shown an alignment from Birkrigg and Swinside stone circles to the Al-Aqsa Mosque (Dome of the Rock) in Jerusalem. David’s presentation was enhanced by excellent photographs and helpful animated graphics.
Next, David took us on a tour of Gorton Monastery in Manchester which was opened as a church and Franciscan friary in 1872. Amongst the features, that scored high on the coincidometer, that we were shown were:
Misplaced tiles in the sanctuary that led the revealing of a scale plan of the Monastery in the surrounding tiles;
The alignment of the nave (not the usual East-West) that enables the sun shining through the windows to illuminate statues of saints on the opposite wall;
An alignment from Chartres Cathedral, through several Franciscan sites in southern England, Gorton Monastery, and a Franciscan church in the Gorbals of Glasgow;
Other global alignments passing through the centre the cloisters garden.
(It was found after the talk that the Chartres Cathedral line also passes very close to the Sanctuary of Healing at Langho in Lancashire.)
How did the architect Edward Pugin and master builder Brother Patrick Dalton embed such features in the building in the 1860s? It is only with the aid of Google Earth that we can fully appreciate these alignments. Even now we don’t understand why!
David gave us a fascinating and well-illustrated presentation that stirred the imagination and left us wanting to learn more. Fortunately David is keen to return to give us a further presentation next year.
For more information about Gorton Monastery see:
Gorton Monastery website www,the monastery.co.uk
‘Beggars and Builders – my Story of Gorton Monastery’ by Tony Hurley
AGM on Saturday 2nd December
at Shap Village Hall
Kettle on at 10 for 10:30 start
Bring and share lunch
Chris Tonge will be our speaker in the afternoon talking
about his spiritual journey and the influence of dowsing on it
'From the Mersey to the Ribble via Dragons'
ALSO
The Launch of WD Library