Community Healing
By Colin Bloy (Summer 1985). Reproduced here by permission of Suzanne M. Thomas of Heart and Thought
The idea of applying healing to communities was something that evolved over several years, particularly as a result of observations through dowsing of the nature and function of what are loosely called “ley lines.”
By 1st May 1981, the subconscious mind had done its work, and suddenly the idea was on the table. Eric Bosshard of Washington DC and myself were reviewing the dowsing work we had done together in various countries and we had reflected on a number of apparently significant observations, and it all came together in a “Let’s see if it works” conclusion.
The idea of dowsing to see if ley lines carried energy we had started some eight years before. What we had determined was that the Watkins type alignment was perfectly valid, in the sense that they combined the sacred sites of megalithic man and medieval churches, for they were built, in the main, on sites of pre-Christian religion. But as energy lines, many of the old alignments no longer functioned – indeed, the dowsing showed that the old node points had, in many cases, been replaced by modern ones – town halls, political party HQ, TV and radio transmitters, contemporary war memorials, modern fountains, football stadiums, and even nuclear power stations and, one day, as his father was chief engineer of the Great Lakes chain of reactors, Eric dowsed inside the heart of a closed reactor – it was really in the system.
Not only were there new permanent points in the system, which caused the energy lines to flow in new directions, but as a result of some experiments in a 12th century church in Andorra, we had come to realise that these energy channels were related to consciousness and that spiritual activity changed them for certain periods and by spiritual activity, I mean input from higher states of consciousness – states associated with meditation.
Pathways of Consciousness
The “pathways of consciousness,” as we now call them, function in terms of form and number – the number of parallels in the line, and the geometrical form that may be dowsed when it hits a node point and goes into function. Indeed, we eventually came to realise that the ley system was, in fact, the basis of the collective consciousness of humanity, the pathways were the meridians and the node points, in the Tom Graves sense, were the acupuncture points – and in a very real sense the collective consciousness was an objective field in the collection of fields that surround the physical globe and all of which go to make up the being – Earth.
What was even more important was the observation, through dowsing, that someone who momentarily puts himself in the higher states of consciousness, plugs into the nearest node points and the nearest available form of a cross of energy lines forms him – and if he is, in particular, placing himself in the healing mode, then a vertical line, seen by sensitives as a column of light, descends upon the healer. It has been photographed and in Christian culture may be seen to be the Holy Spirit. It is an energy which corresponds to Mana, Prana, the Primum Mobile, the Odic Force of Von Reichenbach, the orgone energy of Reich, the etheric energy of Oliver Lodge, etc. Whereas many of its characteristics conform to the electromagnetic spectrum, to the behaviour of light, the gravitic field, weak radio-activity, none of these are
adequate to properly define it, and it defies positivist scientific attitudes because one of its more critical aspects is its relationship of the higher states of consciousness – fields which do not yield to positivist analysis. The alchemy of the spirit is intelligible in the context of the results of the proper use of this energy; Rudolf Steiner’s “Spiritual Science” takes account of it.
Nikola Tesla observed that the frequency of the physical globe was around about 8Hz: Schumann observed a similar frequency in what is now known as the Schumann Resonance Cavity, between the earth’s surface and the ionosphere: 8Hz is the onset in EEG terms of the well known Alpha state, when the brain exhibits a shift in frequency due to dowsing, meditation or healing.
Dowsing reveals that a healer apart, from plugging in vertically and laterally, forms a common etheric field with the person receiving the healing. All the charkas and vital energies disappear from behind each to combine in one field – common consciousness, and the subject takes on the healer’s brain rhythm – thus successful healing takes place – in proximity or at a distance when an energy pathway is created between the tow even if they are in separate countries. Map dowsing shows that consciousness can expand around the world – for consciousness does not reside in the brain – it is holistic and resides in being – and we in the highest states can be everything. When the motive is correct, that is the higher expression of LOVE, that much abused and misunderstood word. To heal spiritually, you must love, and embrace the subject with your total being.
Healing by groups works – absent healing works. This it occurred to us that collective healing might also work. The Maharishi has spoken at length about the gains for communities that accrue when more than 2% meditate and has set up brigades of spiritual commandoes to go into communities to do it. Once done, they leave.
We felt that this was a step forward in spiritual science, but that it should be possible to go even further. In the first instance, we had come to realise that for non-intuitive healers, the “visualisation” was the key to the exercise in the higher states of consciousness – in the second, passive meditation was one thing, active another, thirdly by dowsing you could actually measure the input and monitor the results – fourthly, that if the collective consciousness were a reality and expressed through the ley lines, then communities were also beings, and fifthly, that individual diseases might well have their counterparts in collective diseases such as violence, stress and unloving attitudes. Collective healing should yield results just as one to one healing.
In that May of 1981, we decided to put it to the test, and sent out a call to the healers of Brighton to join in. They did. Within a few weeks, more than 100 people were ready to take part. It was suggested by Father James Holdroyd, that the 29th September, St Michael’s Day, was an auspicious date to start. The Dragon is held to be the murky subconscious from which the dark thoughts come, and so far as I am concerned, it is also the “Woivre” of the Celts, the spiral earth energy that comes out of springs, valleys, stone circles, earthworks and so on, and which, when with the Spear or Sword of evolved consciousness, it is channelled into the community in straight lines, creates harmony between man and earth. After all, there are no dragon bones in the museums and the Chinese dragon-men are in total agreement.
Every individual has a “hara” in oriental terms, round the Solar Plexus, the portal through which a healer puts basic life energy. We had to look for the “hara” of Brighton, which we found to be the fountain in the Old Steine, the physical hub of Brighton, and on the main energy line. The stones of the old stone circle are still in the base of the fountain.
What was curious was that the line had been a triple 64 an about 20 yards wide – but the moment more than a few people had taken the idea into their consciousness, the line began to expand, indeed to an extent outside our experience – even before any operation was undertaken.
The Archdruid of France stated that there was a macro-system in Europe, combining earth faults, cathedrals, ancient sites and so on. We checked – he’s right, and it conforms to the great pilgrim routes. Thus a pilgrimage can alter your consciousness.
On 29th September, we performed, in group terms, as one individual healer, but towards the collective being of Brighton and Hove. Meditation, prayer and visualisation. That through the Fountain, the “hara”, came the healing energies from above, revitalising the veins and arteries of the community. The visualisation was involved in various matters – the disease of weekend violence, of which Brighton was a notorious victim, a reduction in stress which would have potential consequences in public health, road accidents and civic awareness – and we would monitor the results.
First consequence: the main line of Brighton multiples by 2,400 times. This staggered me, for we had no idea what to expect. We eventually concluded that the “patient”, and indeed the world system had been on it’s last legs, and what we had thought to be a vital main line, was but a vestigial memory. More important was that a series of squares about 2 yards each side appeared and eventually formed into a chequerboard pattern, just as appears around individuals when healers have given them initial healing.
Consequences in behavioural terms; first, with one notable exception, weekend violence has disappeared, and Brighton is no longer prey to this sort of group aberration. The fact of the greater civic awareness is far less easy to quantify, but there is general agreement that it is so: general crimes of violence present a serious difficulty. First, they are classified on an East Sussex basis and secondly, the police computer programme classifies them in a way that does not limit them to crimes where violence was committed, but includes crimes where violence could have been committed, all of which could be misleading. More time is necessary, but what is important is that elsewhere where Fountain Groups have come into being, weekend violence has virtually disappeared – viz; Isle of Thanet.
But whereas we had no idea what to expect either in terms of results or dowsing effects, some important new dimensions have been appreciated. It was curious that whereas the chequerboard field extended over Brighton, Hove and their environs, and stopped for a period of three months, a sort of finger of energy went up the main road, and railway line to London. It took sometime for the penny to drop as to what that was all about.
Just as in one to one healing, the healer cannot know exactly what to do in all cases, yet the energy gets on with it, thus in the case of Brighton, the energy decided for itself to extend itself to London to achieve the major objective.
This chequerboard field, it now appears has the effect of shifting the brain rhythm of those who enter into it. As the vast proportion of the contributors of violence come from London, what more logical than to start the consciousness shift the moment they left on their way to Brighton, either road or rail, so that on arrival the Base chakra desire of violence would be mitigated.
I said earlier that consciousness is holistic when someone is in a state of violence, all their energies congregate in the Base chakra, just as in a saint, they congregate in the Crown chakra. There is an associated brain rhythm. Just as the healer shifts the brain rhythm of the sick person, so a community healing has a tendency to shift the collective consciousness, or so it would appear, a little bit upwards, thus rendering gut based violence less satisfying.
The police, when asked whether the Fountain Group activity had been the source of the improvement, attributed it to better policing methods, and, of course, they are right, but any spiritual work has a subtle first cause, and quite a lengthy chain of subsequent effects in order to achieve the desired objective. I feel that more understanding and less provocative police methods may also be involved in a general raising of consciousness. I also feel for the young policeman who knows a punch up is likely, but he, too, can get his base chakra going and over react.
The affair of the Brighton bomb was revealing. I live about 100yards away, and was a sad witness to that terrible morning. Whereas in Madrid, where a similar grid pattern exists, the terrible accident on the runway, and the affair of the discotheque had ripped a huge hole in the grid, which had to be gently put back by the Madrid Fountain Group, the bomb in Brighton had no such effect, to my great surprise, but then I reasoned that, in a consciousness sense, unlike the events in Madrid, it had nothing to do with Brighton. It was perpetrated by outsiders. I hope that is a proper explanation: the being of Brighton is about people rather than locations.
It is no longer possible to know how many Fountain Groups or groups practising Fountain Work there are in the UK – more than 200. 26 different countries have Fountain Groups – two behind the Iron Curtain.
What constitutes membership? Fountain International claims to be an idea rather than an organisation, and studiously avoids hierarchy and structure. Too many well meaning spiritual groups have involved themselves so much in structure, that its preservation and in-fighting becomes more important than the work itself. Thus there is no membership fee. (Although any donations gratefully received.) Fountain cannot be competitive with other groups, nor does it seek to be authoritarian. It is about doing the work and nothing else. It is not a refuge nor a club; it offers nothing, save the sharing of an idea and the communication of the results. If a person is ready to become a member, then he knows and does. If someone understands the spiritual truths and the notion of love, then he is a member, and for no other reason. It is not really necessary to make oneself known, just get on with it, but two or three gathered together are more effective than one.
It’s all still very naive and neophyte, but many encouraging signs have emerged. It’s great to fly over Europe or the States and dowse a Fountain chequer board below the plane. What if every community in the world eventually has a group working?
The problem of institutionalised violence and unloving attitudes is a higher citadel to crumble, but just as individual consciousness rises through the charkas to the Crown, perhaps the collective one can do the same. Human beings make institutions, and in the main they are based in fear and desire for power. Those who live in the Crown Chakra have neither. There is, therefore, hope but only if those who know do.
Whereas violence may be held to be a principle disease of humanity, be it physical or emotional, just as in individual disease, states of consciousness are still a major contributory factor for good or ill, and the raising of planetary consciousness may be held to have a direct bearing on our survival as a race.
The key of course is love, which unconditional, seeks no reward, knows no fatigue and is boundless. Strange it is dowseable and affects the ley lines. They truly are Pathways of Consciousness and therefore Healing.
