In this third and final part of our excursion to Yorkshire I talk about the fascinating experiments that we did at Bolton Abbey – site of a ruined priory and a working church. There was so much good dowsing work done at this site that it needed a whole post to itself to do it justice. I reckon we’ll still be discussing and debating these findings for many years to come!
6. Bolton Abbey. [Bing map]
Bolton Abbey is an evocative place for me. It is probably the first place that I remember visiting as a child. I remember that my mother really wanted to go for some reason. I remember a tall long hallway with a lovely grass surface and the early Spring sunshine shining through the glassless ruined windows. I also remember it being cool and windy. So, it was with some delight that I found that this place was easily reachable as we ventured around the various megalithic sites in the area. I also knew that it was the kind of place that would be ideally suited to us doing some experimental dowsing, and I had lined up a lot of questions to work through.
We managed to find the exact hall that I remembered and did our dowsing work there, even though the area was timidly fenced off. I wasn’t going to be put off from that – I had questions that needed answers and memories to evoke! We will shortly be releasing several Druid Diary MP3s of the long recording that we took while driving back to Cheshire that day – these recordings go over many of the results recorded below and put them in context. Watch out for those soon.
A summary of the results would be that we worked with magnets on male, female and neutral energies finding that magnets affect earth energies, but there is a cost. We also found that the site was now aligned with Deneb in Cygnus constellation, drawing upon blue/green/yellow spectrum of energies to promote fertility. Within those hallowed walls we got out a long set of questions to ask about various topics.
The questions we dowsed at Bolton Priory were these:-
COLOUR DOWSING
- Is the colour of subtle energy related to its resonant frequency? YES (Kal pointed out that this was a logical not a mystical question)
- Is the colour of subtle energy a form of light? YES (Again, Kal was unimpressed by the question, but I pointed out that I was re-affirming what we knew)
- Are there any colours of subtle energy that have only one consistent effect upon a human? YES, Black (the absence of colour or light frequency) is always detrimental to the human being because the body tries to get to a sympathetic vibration, which in the case of black is the frequency of DECAY.
- Does the effect of a coloured energy line depend on the human who interacts with it? YES. Some people can take action to mitigate the harmful effects of black energy, whilst others can exclude or include particular frequencies through intent.
- Can a human affect the colour of subtle energy? YES, by intending an effect humans can create a particular sympathetic frequency and thus affect the frequency of energy, changing its colouration.
STAR AND SITES
- Is this site aligned to a star that is visible now? YES.
- What is the original star that this site was built to align to, or be affected by? NO – the star that is affecting the priory has changed since it was built.
- What is the current star that this site was built to align to, or be affected by? The star DENEB in the constellation of CYGNUS, The Swan or Northern Cross.
- Which elements of the site are affected by this star’s energy? A power centre in the central hall in the ruined section.
- At what time of year was the site built to be most effective? Beltane, 1st May
- At what time of year was the site now most effective? Summer Solstice, 21st June. This fits with the fact that Cygnus is part of the Summer Triangle of constellations that dominate the summer skies in the Northern Hemisphere.
- Is there a cup-marked stone at this site that shows the original star to which the site is aligned? There was originally, but it has since been removed from the site.
- Which colour frequency does the star’s energy operate in at this site? The range is blue, through green to yellow. Primarily green energy.
- What is the purpose of the star’s energy at this site? To enhance the fertility of plants, humans and the land.
One might consider that it would be quite unusual for a Christian Priory to be utilising the energies of the green spectrum to promote fertility. This is especially true of its originally most active time, Beltane – a pagan fertility festival. I think this indicates that the site has a far older history, and that when the site was sanctified by the original priests (if we might call them that) then it was for its powerful fertility-enhancing qualities that the site was either chosen or created. We may never know which came first. Interesting, then, that I found this book that said that the Vale of Skipton in which the priory was built is one of the most fertile in England! Chicken meet egg – egg meet chicken! He also says:-
MAGNETIC EFFECTS
- Can this energetic line be affected by a magnet? YES. Neutral, male and female energy is affected by magnets.
- Does the energy line have a polarity? The neutral ley line has both a North and South polarity.
- Is the male / female energy aligned with a particular magnetic pole? Male is attracted to the North Pole and female energy to the South Pole.
I need to explain what we did with the magnetic experiments. I had brought two very strong magnets with me, but they were oblong shaped and I didn’t know which end or side was which polarity, really.
The Neutral Test
To test the neutral energy effects we identified the neutral energy ley running through the ruined hall (which coincided with the remains of a wall, or at least was marked by some bricks abutting the main wall). We had dowsed how wide the energy ley was – about one Megalithic Yard, or just short of three feet wide. Interestingly, when we dowsed how HIGH the line was, it also measured exactly one Megalithic Yard.
Of course, according to modern science and the International System of Units (SI) the Megalithic Yard is “pseudo metrology”, but actually I think it is just an ancient system and it has far more justification than the current system, which was adopted purely for its simplicity. The ancient system is based upon the measurement of the Earth itself – what could be more natural than that? Take a look in the “Books” section on this site for books by Alexander Thom, Tom Flowers and Robin Heath on this subject, not to mention John Michell. You will then come to see how the inch, foot, yard (and the Imperial System that then emerged from these measurements) in general has been denigrated but I for one was never taught where this system came from, so that’s why it always seemed strange. I was indoctrinated with the SI system at school but its measurements make no sense in relation to the Earth, its megalithic sites or its energies. This we have proved for ourselves, and it is Imperial measurements that you will hear us talk about on this site.
Knowing the width of the neutral energy ley I then asked the dowsing rods to show me a place where I could best demonstrate the effects of a magnet upon this line. The rods took me to the middle of the line and about six inches outside of one of the edges. I placed the magnet and we began to dowse the effect. The effect was immediate – the line now bulged on the one side where the magnet had been placed, and the edge of the line now passed through the magnet. The line had been attracted to the magnet! We repeated the exercise on the other side with the same results.
When we dowsed it, it seemed to us that the neutral energy line had a north and south polarity running in opposite directions and that the magnet’s appropriate pole had attracted the north pole of one side of the line, and the south pole of the other.
The Male Test
For the male energy test Kal located a male line that went from a male power centre in the middle of the priory’s ruined hall. The line travelled out to the hall’s northern wall and then wavered along the edge of the wall until it went out through the blocked up arch, a northern exit, on the slightly raised area of the hall where the large east window used to be.
Again I asked the dowsing rods to regulate the test. I placed a magnet where the rods indicated, which was on the raised area, about ten feet beyond the exit point for the male line through the priory’s northern wall.
Kal dowsed the line he had just traced once more. This time the male line swerved out of the hall much sooner than before. The male line was now further away from the point where the magnet was. The magnet had therefore repulsed the male line, pushing it backwards.
We later worked out that Male energy is attracted to the North magnetic pole, and repelled by the South pole.
The Female Test
Kal used his dowsing rods to find a female power centre (a vortex or spiral) which was situated on the raised eastern end of the hall. The form of the female energy emerging from this centre was an anti-clockwise spiral that took three turns outwards (we stopped dowsing it at that point, but it seemed ‘hemmed in’ by the walls).
Again I asked my dowsing rods to show me a suitable place to affect the female spiral and I was taken up onto the raised platform near the east window, except I was in the opposite corner to the female power centre. I placed the magnet on the floor and this time I dowsed the spiral fromt he female centre.
Instead of walking round several times in a circle I was straight away pushed out to the edges of the wall. As soon as I was in open ground the female line headed in a shallow arc towards the magnet, where the line ended.
The magnet had pulled the female energy line in an extreme way, deforming the female spiral into a shallow arcing line. Later we dowsed that the female energy was attracted to the Southern magnetic pole of the magnet, and generally to the South Pole region of the planet. Of course, it is also repulsed by the North Pole, as you would expect by now.
Additional Information
One final note about the use of magnets on earth energies – it’s a bad idea! According to our dowsing the use of magnets for more than 20 minutes will permanently deform the form and elasticity of the earth energy. The result of deformation is that energy does not flow in a natural form, and being unnatural it turns into the harmful black stream variety over time. Suddenly for us this has massive implications for all those products around your home that use magnetism to operate – telephones, microwave ovens, stereo systems, computer and their monitors, CRT TVs, I suppose there are quite a few. Not very beneficial to your house energies, as Kal will tell you from his vast house dowsing experience.
In addition I asked whether there were any energetic ‘drains’ or ‘sinks’ at this priory – there weren’t. On the way out I walked past some gravestone and couldn’t help but ask about the presence of shades. None there. We wondered why, until we turned the corner to find a series of stone plaques that marked the deposit sites for cremated remains. Ah…was there a link between cremation and the destruction of an energetic shroud or shade? Something we will have to answer soon.
As we walked back I speculated about the return of the male energy. It was not yet Imbolc truly (which is Tuesday 1st February) so why were there some weak male energies here? We dowsed and found that the male energy had been drawn back up to the surface of the earth by the gravitational pull of the full moon on the 19th January. Obviously, to celebrate the return of the male energies on the 1st February is a safe date because no matter how much the full moon date moves throughout January, by 1st February they can be guaranteed to have returned. Ingenious timing for a festival!
