The San Jose Chapter's Newsletter

July/August 2005 ( also viewable as a pdf )

San Jose Chapter of the
American Society of Dowsers, Inc.
whose mission is to embrace those who wish
to experience higher consciousness through dowsing.

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We meet the second Saturday of each month at 12:30pm. The suggested donation is $5 ASD members, $7 non-members.

Body Soul Alignment
July 9th, 2005

On Saturday, July 9th, Sandy Fawcett will be speaking on "Body/Soul Alignment." Body/Soul Alignment is a vibrational healing process that identifies what is really driving you on a subconscious level. It identifies where the body and soul are out of alignment due to physical illness, unresolved emotional trauma, or metaphysical issues. Communication with the "subtle body," using a pendulum, gives your body a voice, identifying unresolved anger, fear, or sadness that may be causing emotional stress,
physical symptoms, dysfunctional relationship patterns, indecision and confusion.

Past-life trauma, pre-natal issues, childhood issues, or memories that you may not be aware of on a conscious level can block your health and vitality. It is important to release these blockages now so that they don't result in physical symptoms later on. Clearing the energy fields (the chakras and meridians) releases the blockages and reestablishes the flow of chi throughout the body, directly affecting the muscles, organs and cells.

Sandy's presentation will describe (a) how to manage your energy field, (b) how the chakras and meridians affect your body's health, (c) how to communicate with your subtle body, and (d) how to release unresolved emotional trauma from the body's cellular memory.

Sandy Fawcett is a certified Bioenergy Balancing Practitioner, Holistic Health Counselor, Holistic Massage Therapist, and has a BA in Healing Arts. She has a private practice in San Francisco, California. Phone: (415) 695-2716; E-mail: slfawcett@earthlink.net; Website: www.bodysoulalignment.com.

Using Feng Shui and Dowsing Solutions to Enhance The Energy in Your Home.
August 13th, 2005

Lynne Ashdown will be presenting "Using Feng Shui and Dowsing Solutions to Enhance The Energy in Your Home."

Lynne is the Founder and first Chapter Director for the Northern California Chapter of the International Feng Shui Guild. Lynne is a Certified Consultant of the Qi-Mag International Feng Shui & Geobiology Institute, under the tutelage of Dr. Jes T.Y. Lim. She is a graduate of the American Feng Shui Institute, taught by master Larry Sang, and has studied with masters Peter Leung and Raymond Lo. She also studied Tibetan Black Sect (BTB) Feng Shui with Edgar Sung, James Moser, and Seann Xenja. While integrating all schools into her practice, her major focus is on the ancient, classical Chinese Feng Shui: the schools of Form and Compass, using Flying Stars and other forms of analysis.

She has studied personal and environmental clearing with Eric Dowsett and Denise Linn. A practiced dowser, Lynne can detect and remedy negative earth and underground water energies, and harmful Electro-Magnetic Fields. She is also skilled in earth acupuncture, where it is called for. She has experience in releasing other harmful energies as well.

MEETING LOCATION & DIRECTIONS

The Divine Science Community Center, 1540 Hicks Avenue, San Jose, CA 95125.

Directions from the North: Take 101 South - Take 85 S towards Cupertino/Santa Cruz - Take 280 towards SF/San Jose - Continue on 280 S towards San Jose - Take Meridian Ave. exit South - Turn left on Minnesota - Turn right on Hicks Ave. to 1540.

Directions from the East Bay: Take 880 South - Exit at 280 toward downtown San Jose - Merge on 280 South. Exit South on Meridian Ave - Left on Minnesota - Right on Hicks to 1540.

Directions from the South: Take 101 North - Continue on 85 North - Take the Almaden Expressway - Continue towards Lincoln Ave - Bear right on Lincoln - Left on Pine Ave - Right on Hicks Ave. to 1540.

MEETING SCHEDULE

11:30 Room set-up (Volunteers & Officers will meet again on Sept. 10th)
12:30 Doors open
1:00 Announcements
1:30 Speaker
3:00 Refreshments ~ buy your raffle tickets
3:15 Raffle drawing
3:30 Workshops ~ Basic Dowsing School: Learn the basics and how to use the various tools.

Dowsing For Health: Learn techniques for clearing and correcting physical and metaphysical energy imbalances.
Trouble-Shooting Clinic: Learn tips for improving dowsing accuracy.
Map Dowsing: Learn techniques for finding lost people or pets and clearing discordant energies in your home.
Harmony Word Therapy and the Speaker's Workshop.

5:00 Pot-luck dinner *Please dowse what to bring and include the serving utensils. We will provide bread, desserts, all paper/plastic products, and the usual tea and coffee.

ONGOING MEETINGS

Dowser's Roundtable Gathering (July 2, August 6) at Barry Smith's home in San Jose. Call (408) 238-1301 or e-mail: dowsing@pacbell.net for more information. Free for ASD members; $10 non-members.

Dowser's Roundtable Gathering (July 17, August 21) at Barbara Schneider’s lovely home in Milpitas. Please RSVP by calling (408) 942-1647 or emailing twelvesouls@yahoo.com. Free for ASD members; $10 non-members.

SPECIAL NOTICES

"Group Self-Healing Sessions/Classes" with Pete Warburton. Dowsing is a mental phenomena of asking a question from the mind, and getting a physical response (interpreted as a “yes” or “no” answer) from the physical body. The theory of dowsing for "power of mind self-healing" is that the body will heal itself, if the subconscious understands the cause of the problem.

The dowser "plays detective" to find a disharmony in their physical or psychic body, then asks their subconscious inner healer to clear the disharmony, which may be ungrounding an emotional block, or some other disturbance. The subconscious inner healer clears you of the disharmony and brings you back into harmony (balance). We, as dowsers, are not medical practitioners and thus, we do not diagnose or treat, we only tell you dowsing stories for you to take into account in managing your health.

Each class is complete in itself. You are welcome to attend as many or as few classes as you wish. Mondays, 6~8pm at the Divine Science Center, 1540 Hicks Ave, San Jose, CA. Suggested donation $7 ~ no one turned away. Call Pete Warburton at (408) 733-9657 between 2-8pm or Cathy Coultrip at (925) 462-8576 for more information. This class is sponsored by The San Jose Chapter of the American Society of Dowsers, Inc.

The next pendulum dowsing class is on Sunday, September 4th from 1-5pm in San Francisco. The suggested donation is $40, $35 for ASD members and includes a pendulum and a packet of useful information, including charts, to use at home. The class is limited to ten, so register now by e-mailing: dowsershirley@hotmail.com or calling (510) 551-3136. Sponsor a class in your home and receive the class for free. Classes are held every other month on the first Sunday in various Bay Area locations. Call now to sponsor a class on Sunday, August 7th.

On Saturday, July 16th from 1-4pm, Paul Stone and Shirley Runco present an outdoor workshop titled "House & Garden Cleaning Using Various Dowsing Techniques," at Barbara Druker's home in Oakland. Paul will show how to alter the energetic qualities in and around your home by identifying and transmuting detrimental energies using an L-rod, a pendulum and prayers. You will also learn how to generate "spiritual energy" by means of several simple Egyptian techniques and how to test the effectiveness of these techniques with the virtual cone pendulum ( a regular pendulum and a gold object can substitute for the virtual cone pendulum).

Shirley will show up and have fun or rather show you how to dowse for underground water, noxious energy lines, vortexes, entities, electromagnetic fields, geopathic stress, spirits and other detrimental influences such as discordant thought forms. It is very easy to transform these energies and to change the direction of the flow of underground water. She will also discuss how to work with the devas of the garden. $40 for Non-ASD members, $35 for members. Bring dowsing tools, a notebook and pen and your drinking water. RSVP for directions by contacting Shirley.

Don't forget to bring your donations for the raffle drawing and your used books and videos for recycling. Raffle tickets are one for $1, six for $5 or 12 for $10. All money received from the raffle drawing, the speaker's donation from their product sales and the used book and video donations goes towards our attendance at expos, fairs and festivals to promote dowsing to the general public.

At regular monthly meetings, older children and young adults get in free if accompanied by an adult.

We have a Health Crisis Hotline for situations that may benefit from absentee healing and/or prayers. E-mail: dowsershirley@hotmail.com.

THE PRESIDENT'S CORNER
Shirley speaks

The "dog days of summer" are upon us. I was wondering why we call these days "dog days" and discovered the following.

In ancient times, when the night sky was unobscured by artificial lights and smog, different groups of peoples in different parts of the world drew images in the sky by connecting the dots of the stars. The images drawn were dependent upon the culture: The Chinese saw different images than the Native Americans, who saw different pictures than the Europeans. These star pictures are now called constellations, and the constellations that are now mapped out in the sky come from our European ancestors.

They saw images of bears, (Ursa Major and Ursa Minor), twins, (Gemini), a bull, (Taurus), and others, including dogs, (Canis Major and Canis Minor). The brightest of the stars in Canis Major (the big dog) is Sirius, which also happens to be the brightest star in the night sky. In fact, it is so bright that the ancient Romans thought that the Earth received heat from it.

In the summer, Sirius, the "dog star," rises and sets with the sun. During late July Sirius is in conjunction with the sun, and the ancients believed that its heat added to the heat of the sun, creating a stretch of hot weather. They named this period of time, "dog days" after the dog star.

Today, dog days occur during the period between July 3 and August 11 and the heat of summer is a direct result of the Earth's tilt, not the added radiation from a far-away star.

With that in mind, I hope you are enjoying these wonderful days of summer with your loved ones and making plans for the upcoming conferences which are posted on the website: www.dowsersofthewest.org.

A deposit of $50 and a completed registration form is due now for The Dowser's Cruise Conference, April 10-14, 2006. The Carnival ship "Paradise" departs on Monday at 5pm from Long Beach and after visiting Catalina Island, Ensenada and spending a day at sea, will return to Long Beach on Friday morning. Send your $50 deposit and completed form to Journeys Unlimited, Inc., 118 Avington Rd., Alameda, CA 94502. More information and the form to fill out are on www.dowsersofthewest.org under "Conferences." Direct all your questions to Susan Askin at 1-800-523-6301.

A big welcome to Pat Smith our new webmaster. Be sure and check out her website: www.yellowbellywebdesign.com.

Where there's a will there's a way. Every day:

Do your best
Own your own power
Wear a smile
Seek the truth
Envision peace on Earth

Officers

President: Shirley Runco; dowsershirley@hotmail.com; (510) 551-3136.
First Vice President: Bill Mundy
Second Vice President: Kalena Luxon
Secretary-Treasurer: Regina Polsinelli

Volunteers

Refreshments/Map Dowser: Don Harmon
Technical Support/Map Dowser: Clay Smith (when he's in town)
Mailings/Map Dowser: Dr. Syd Furman
Registration Assistants: Martha Sager, Charlene Rittenhouse, Marianne Saum
Beginning Dowsing Instructors: Kalena Luxon; Marianne Saum
Trouble Shooting Instructor: Nina Brown Miller
Dowsing For Health Instructor: Pete Warburton
Harmony Word Therapy Instructor: Joe Wippich
Newsletter Production: Tina Kay
Products Table Coordinator: Kathleen Young; Lianne Davis
Greeters/Support: Roger and Devera Venable (when available)
Senior Advisor: Barry Smith

WebMaster: Pat Smith; www.dowsersofthewest.org; pat@yellowbellywebdesign.com