‘BUILDING A LABYRINTH’ WORKSHOP POSTPONED TO 1st JUNE
‘BUILDING A LABYRINTH’ WORKSHOP – POSTPONED.
CHANGE OF VENUE AND DATE
The Discover Dowsing in Devon workshop on ‘Building a Labyrinth’ has been postponed and will now take place on SATURDAY 1st JUNE 2019 on DAWLISH WARREN BEACH starting at 10.30am.
We will meet on the beach between groynes 3 and 4 whilst the tide is going out!
There is easy access to the beach from a large pay and display car park, together with toilets, food, drinks, ice creams (and clothes shops) nearby!
Members and Guests only.
We are also planning to follow this with a BBQ in Dawlish – numbers limited due to parking.
More details to follow nearer the time.
This is now FULLY BOOKED.
CHANGES AND MORE DETAILS TO THE PAPER COPY OF OUR PROGRAMME
MORE DETAILS AND CHANGES TO EVENTS IN OUR PROGRAMME
Discover Dowsing in Devon Workshop on ‘Building a Labyrinth’ – further details available soon.
Field Trip to Scorhill and other Stone Circles on Dartmoor will now be on the actual solstice Friday 21st June (not the Saturday as stated), meeting in the late afternoon and evening. More details to follow.
Holy Wells in south east Cornwall is on Sunday 18th August in, and in the area of, Halton Quay.
Talk on Tuesday 12th November – Andy Burnham has been booked for this. More details later.
DD’s Christmas Dinner on Tuesday 10th December – will be at the Tom Cobley Tavern, Spreyton. By popular demand we will return once again to this popular venue.
You can now renew your Devon Dowsers membership online
We hope you agree with us that 2017-18 was a memorable and exciting year to be a member of Devon Dowsers. However, each year your membership subscription expires on 31 October. If you would like to continue to be a member and have not renewed your membership subscription yet, you can do this online by clicking on this link and submitting the form. We look forward to seeing you again soon!
If you haven’t joined yet, and would like to become a member, you can apply online by clicking here and submitting the application for membership form.
Devon Dowsers Members forum on Facebook
There is now a forum for members of Devon Dowsers on the Devon Dowsers Facebook page. This gives members the opportunity to share their interests, and discuss any issues, questions or problems you have encountered regarding dowsing.
If you would like to participate in this forum and you are not currently a member, you can renew your membership or apply for membership online.
Happy New Year!
My New Year’s Resolutions for 2019
I look in awe at my favourite Dartmoor Logan Stone at Thornworthy Tor. To me, it transmits an intangible energy and represents a metaphor for life: being rounded, balanced, and unashamedly “different”, which as humans we may aspire to.
Despite what the News and Social Media would have us think, I believe the majority of people on our planet are kind, considerate and pretty decent. We each do our best to look after those we love, and sometimes even those we will never meet.
At the same time, we could be excused despairing at the behaviour of some nation states, political leaders and people we don’t happen to agree with. In Douglas Adams “Life, The Universe and Everything”, Ford declares, “My Doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre … and therefore I am excused from saving Universes”. I have every sympathy with that view, given the enormity of the task!
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn summed up life’s central problem by saying “the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart”. So that seems like a good place to start with my new year resolutions.
I am giving up giving up “-ings” (such as drinking, over-eating, speeding etc), as I am my own best saboteur! Jordan B. Peterson in his “12 Rules for Life” suggests, “You can begin by treating yourself as if you were someone you were responsible for helping”. Dowsing for my own health and well-being regularly would help fulfil that “rule”, so I will take that one on as another resolution.
Finally, I resolve to emulate the pivoting act of the Logan Stone, by finding my centre of gravity, getting balanced physically and spiritually, then making life rock !
Happy dowsing in 2019
Gwynn
Happy Christmas everyone!
There is something magical about Christmas time. Perhaps it’s the fascinating combination of secular and sacred traditions, having overlapped from the beginning. Celebrating the birth of Jesus and waiting for Santa Claus aren’t mutually exclusive in my view, in the same way as ‘The Holly and the Ivy’, ‘Good King Wenceslas’ and ‘Away in a Manger’ sit comfortably with each other on a carol service list, to be sung in a candle-lit church decorated with holly and woodland greenery.
I have spent many interesting hours dowsing in beautiful and interesting Devon churches in 2018, respecting the sacred space present, moving trapped souls to the light, finding the earth energies flowing through the buildings, discovering Green men and the three-hare motif in the wooden roof bosses and enjoying glorious stained-glass windows, such as Archangel Michael in Spreyton church, with the Michael earth energy line flowing beneath, pagan and Christian symbols combining to create that sacred space.
By dowsing we can both find and create our own special spaces, which will remain dormant until we activate them with our Intent to foster greater love, compassion and kindness this Christmas, embracing the messages from our wonderful ancient traditions.
Merry Christmas to one and all.
Gwynn
Death of Christopher Strong
Christopher Strong Obituary
30 June 2018, Cambridge, with thanks to Patricia Finn Litchfield.
We have just lost one of the brightest stars in the Dowsing firmament. Christopher Strong passed away yesterday evening.
We have lost not just a Master Dowser, who was in a class of his own, but a beautiful man, whose amazing dowsing skills were matched by his kindness, generosity, egolessness, warmth and humility.
Devon Dowsers have benefitted from his insights and knowledge through his talks and workshops run in Devon as well as in other locations, for many years, the last one being in February 2017.
I have fond memories of Christopher, having attended his “Dowsing for lost objects” workshop in Oxfordshire, where he introduced me to my Parking Angel, which I am for ever in his debt, as I have without fail found parking spaces in the most improbable situations, ever since. His workshops at BSD conferences were always full of great stories one could learn from.
Three years ago, the two of us escaped the music and dancing at the BSD Conference at Leicester University, and sat together watching the Rugby World Cup cheering on Japan over our pints.
Veronika, Christopher’s wife was also a gifted dowser. Now they can once again be reunited in their love for each other. We say our sad goodbyes to Christopher with love, and a big “thank you” for enriching our lives with his passion for dowsing.
Gwynn Paulett
Chairman Devon Dowsers
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MEALS AT THE RED LION, CHULMLEIGH PRIOR TO DD MEETINGS
MEALS AT THE RED LION, CHULMLEIGH PRIOR TO DEVON DOWSERS MEETINGS
I have been asked by the Administrator of the Red Lion, Chulmleigh to ask members who would like a meal before the DD meetings, to let them know the day before what their choice is from the menu. The menu is on their website and their phone number is 01769 580384.
Also please make sure that you arrive by 6.30pm in order to give you plenty of time to eat comfortably.
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