Adventures in Dowsing: Recent Episodes
The British Society of Dowsers
We chat with dowser and spiritual coach Hope Fitzgerald, who tells us about her life-changing experience at Findhorn where she channelled a spiritual energy that she calls The Infinity Wave. Content warning: Contains a guided meditation, so please don't listen to this when you are driving or otherwise in a situation where you can't be in a quiet place. (64mins, 80MB)Visit Hope's website: Spread Infinite HopeGrahame's events: Western GeomancyMusic in this episode: Marble Machine (piano version) and Provence by Wintergatan.Tracks can be downloaded for free at wintergatan.netFree licence to use tracks can be downloaded at wintergatan. Meditation track by Gary Malkin
A chat at the 2022 West Coast Dowsing Conference with hypnotherapist and dowser Alan Handelsman, where we chat about his work and the similarities with dowsing. (29 mins, 40MB)Alan's websites: Mind, Body, Spirit HypnotherapyResonance TunerMusic in this episode: Marble Machine (piano version) and Provence by Wintergatan.Tracks can be downloaded for free at wintergatan.netFree licence to use tracks can be downloaded at wintergatan.net
A Skype chat with Susan McNeill Spuhler, organiser of the West Coast and Flagstaff Dowsing Conferences, where we discuss water dowsing, finding lost items, vortices, portals, New England oddities, and of course... the Flagstaff Dowsing Conference (56 mins, 68MB)
Click here for Flagstaff Dowsing Conference page.
Music in this episode: Marble Machine (piano version) and Provence by Wintergatan. Tracks can be downloaded for free at wintergatan.netFree licence to use tracks can be downloaded at wintergatan.net
In this final part of our interview with Jon Appleton, we speak of talking stick, favourite instructional resources, constructing megalithic sites, and lots of other stuff. Jon is a veritable mine of information so many things, and I'm so grateful to have any opportunity to spend time with him (49 mins, 61MB).
Visit Jon's website: jonappleton.org
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Music in this episode: Marble Machine (piano version) and Provence by Wintergatan. Tracks can be downloaded for free at wintergatan.netFree licence to use tracks can be downloaded at wintergatan.net
In this second part of our interview with Jon Appleton, we find Jon in a more philosophical mood. He tells us how he developed his love of nature and community camps such as Oak Dragon, more about his adventures in Avebury, his discovery of the Appleton labyrinth dance, and lots more (53 mins, 52MB).
Visit Jon's website: jonappleton.org
Music in this episode: Marble Machine (piano version) and Provence by Wintergatan. Tracks can be downloaded for free at wintergatan.netFree licence to use tracks can be downloaded at wintergatan.net
A fireside chat with the remarkable (and largely unrecognised) Jon Appleton, talking about all things megalithic, his theories on ancient astronomy and his discovery of the Great Sky Goddess at Avebury (27 mins, 26MB).
Visit Jon's website: jonappleton.org
Music in this episode: Marble Machine (piano version) and Provence by Wintergatan.Tracks can be downloaded for free at wintergatan.netFree licence to use tracks can be downloaded at wintergatan.net
A Skype chat with Annette Rugolo, who hails from Minneapolis and is a practitioner and teacher of the 'Diamond Dowsing' system. (62 mins, 61MB).
Visit Annette's website: annetterugolo.com
Music in this episode: Marble Machine (piano version) and Provence by Wintergatan.Tracks can be downloaded for free at wintergatan.netFree licence to use tracks can be downloaded at wintergatan.net
A dip into the archives with this recording of a talk from the BSD's 2013 Conference at Cirencester.
Maria Wheatley talks about the work of legendary dowser Guy Underwood. (55 mins, 50MB)
Visit Maria's websites: mariawheatley.com and The Avebury Experience
Music in this episode: Marble Machine (piano version) and Provence by Wintergatan.Tracks can be downloaded for free at wintergatan.netFree licence to use tracks can be downloaded at wintergatan.net
Palden Jenkins is a remarkable man. He is a true polymath with one of the most vibrant intellects that I’ve ever encountered. We started by talking about his Ancient Penwith alignments map, but things developed into an altogether more expansive chat fairly quickly. (75 mins, 72MB)
Visit Palden's websites:
Palden's personal website Ancient Penwith website Possibilities 2050
Visit the new home of the BSD dowsing forum and the EEG newsletter archive: British Dowsing
Legendary labyrinth maker Alex Champion chats about labyrinths, leys and life in general at the 2018 ASD West Coast Conference in Santa Cruz. (49 mins, 45MB)
Visit Alex's website: Earthsymbols
Sadly, Alex passed away on 14 November 2021. He will be missed.
An interesting and wide-ranging chat with Glasgow University archaeologist Dr Kenny Brophy, better known as The Urban Prehistorian, where we discuss leys in the archaeological as well as the dowsing context, cursus monuments, Alexander Thom, Harry Bell's Glasgow Network of Aligned Sites, and much more! It is so rewarding to have the opportunity for these cross-disciplinary conversations, and I think this comes across clearly in the podcast. (67 mins, 46MB)
visit Kenny's blog: The Urban Prehistorian
American dowser and author Ned Wolf joins us from Flagstaff, Arizona to talk about his work as a healer and his new dowsing-related children’s books “The Nandia Trilogy”.
Plus, the latest dowsing news, and Grahame has a bit of a rant (56 mins, 40MB).
Visit Ned's website: Nandia's Copper
A day spent in the delightful company of Dr Margaret Rainbird from Australia, who has set herself the challenge of walking a different labyrinth every day for a year. I managed to take her round 6 Scottish labyrinths during her time in the UK (27 mins, 20MB).
Yes, we're back after almost a year of no podcasts!
David Kane gives a talk to the Canadian Society of Dowsers' 2017 convention about white powder gold, or Ormus as it's perhaps better known (56 mins, 39MB).
Visit Riki & Dave's website: Humanna Gold
Update: Sadly, Dave passed away on Dec 25, 2019, following a massive coronary. He was 66.
A fascinating chat with architect and geomancer Richard Feather Anderson, recorded at the American Society of Dowsers' West Coast Conference in Santa Cruz, California. Feather runs the American School of Geomancy and has been a large influence on the west coast American geomancy scene. He offers many fascinating insights into the art of the geomancer (72 mins, 50MB).
Visit Feather's website: American School of Geomancy
At Spring Equinox 2016, we attended the last public event at Glasgow's Sighthill stone circle, constructed in 1979 by local astronomer and science-fiction author Duncan Lunan. The circle has been removed to make way for a housing development, but due to public outcry the Council have agreed to relocate it nearby once the housing construction is complete. Duncan answers many questions about the circle's design and construction, and we talk to Kenny Brophy, the Urban Prehistorian, and Kevin Andrew Morris, a local artist who is co-ordinating a rather interesting art project in the circle (29mins, 20MB).
16 September 2015
In which we attend a test excavation at the Cochno Stone, the largest example of prehistoric rock art in Scotland, which has lain buried beneath the earth for over 50 years (40 mins, 28MB).
Visit May's website: The Devil's Plantation
Visit Kenny's website: The Urban Prehistorian
Visit Ferdinand's website: Factum Arte
1 September 2015
An interview with David Franklin Farkas, who is an American psychic specialising in house healing and spirit release work. He also hosts a weekly internet radio show on Empower Radio called 'The Farkas Files', where he investigates mysticism, shamanism and the paranormal. Grahame has been a guest on his show twice, so we thought it was about time to return the favour. (62 mins, 43MB)
Visit David's website: househealing.com
Empower Radio: The Farkas Files
28 July 2015
Ivan McBeth is a Druid, Geomancer, builder of stone circles, an amazing DJ, and all-round wonderful human being, originally from England but now living in Vermont.
Ivan is the builder of many stone circles, and with his partner Fearn, runs the Green Mountain Druid Order in Worcester, Vermont. We chat about his stone circle building, his music and ecstatic dancing, Druid training, and death and dying in modern Vermont, where they have recently passed assisted dying legislature. (29min, 20MB).
Sadly, Ivan himself passed unexpectedly in 2016.
Green Mountain Druid Order
20 October 2014
An interview with Egyptologist, archaeologist, dowser, tour guide and adventurer Dr John Ward, who talks about his life and work in Egypt, where he has been instrumental in locating archaeological discoveries at Karnak and Luxor temples and is currently involved with excavating a site at Gebel el Silsila (45mins, 35MB)
25 August 2014
In a presentation from the BSD's 80th Anniversary 2013 Conference, Nigel Grace talks to us about his several trips to Bosnia to investigate the mysteries of the Bosnian Pyramids (70 mins, 48 MB)
Official site for the Bosnian Pyramids
6 July 2014
Fresh from the American Society of Dowsers' 54th convention in Vermont, Grahame talks to their Operations Manager Blair Wolston, ASD President Sandee Mac, and the new President of the Canadian Society of Dowsers, Nancy Bradley. (60 mins, 41MB).
American Society of Dowsers: dowsers.org
British Society of Dowsers: britishdowsers.org
Canadian Society of Dowsers: canadiandowsers.org
11 December 2013
Grahame talks to Merlin Beltain of the Canadian Society of Questers about her work as a geomancer and what it means to be a Quester rather than a Dowser (64 mins, 44MB).
Canadian Society of Questers: questers.ca
13 November 2013
Deb is a professional water dowser from the north-east of England and a long standing member of the BSD. In this talk from the BSD's 2012 Conference, she shares some anecdotes and experiences from her life as a water diviner. (54 mins, 39MB)
visit Deb's website: dbellandco.com
13 October 2012
Joey Korn talks to our 2011 Conference about his Simple Blessing Process for transmuting detrimental energies and shows how we each affect the energies of a place, individually and cumulatively (70 mins, 49MB). visit Joey's website: dowsers.com
29 June 2012
First Nations shaman, healer, counsellor, teacher and storyteller Doug Gray (White Eagle) shares his wisdom with us at the Canadian Society of Dowsers 2012 Conference in Hamilton, Ontario (67 mins, 47MB). visit Doug's webpage: click here
22 April 2012
A fireside chat with Susan Collins, Past President of the Canadian Society of Dowsers, and Grahame Gardner, President of the British Society of Dowsers; who give a talk to a local dowsing group in Elgin. We didn't stay on topic very well, but it was a very interesting discussion nonetheless (83 mins, 57MB). visit Susan's website: dowser.ca visit Grahame's website: westerngeomancy.org
28 March 2012
A workshop from the BSD's 2011 Conference with Health dowser and NLP practitioner Melinda Iverson Inn, who demonstrates her method for resolving deep-seated emotional and psychological blockages (65 mins, 60MB).
visit Melinda's website: melindaiversoninn.com
7 March 2012
A day out in the company of American vortex researcher and modern alchemist Dan Shaw, who talks about World Grid theory and shares his philosophy on life (29 mins, 27MB).
visit Dan's personal website: danshaw.com Vortex maps website: vortexmaps.com
18 February 2012
Our final podcast from Christian features an extract from his workshop at our 2011 Conference, where he shares some of his house whispering techniques. Plus, a roundup of the latest news and forthcoming BSD events (44mins, 39 MB).
visit Christian's website: The House Whisperer
5 January 2012
In his second podcast, Christian performs some gong therapy, talks about finding the soul of a building, and demonstrates a Golden Mean Harmonic during his talk to our 2011 Conference (61 mins, 59MB).
visit Christian's website: The House Whisperer
8 December 2011
Architect, House Whisperer, Philosopher, Writer, Telepath, Architectural & Environmental Psychologist, Interior Designer, Film-maker, Composer, Musician, Feng Shui - Vastu and Geomancy Consultant Christian Kyriacou talks to us about his work during our 2011 Conference (36 mins, 33MB).
visit Christian's website: The House Whisperer
30 November 2011
In this episode, Grahame turns the microphone over to new podcaster Dougie Birrell, who interviews him about his dowsing work (68 mins, 47MB).
visit website: You'll Never Know Until You Try
10 November 2011
An update from the BSD's 2011 Conference on the progress of the two water charities that the BSD supports - Village Water in Africa, and Water for Life in India (33 mins, 23MB).
Village Water website: villagewater.org Water for Life website: rtuindia.org
5 September 2011
Conventional Western medicine tends to focus on symptoms and ignore the underlying causes of ill health. In this talk to the BSD's 2010 Conference, Elizabeth, author of 'Dowsing: The Ultimate Guide to the 21st Century', argues that dowsing is the ideal tool to investigate the other causative factors involved (47 mins, 33MB). visit Elizabeth's website: gentlepowers.com
3 May 2011
Susan is a past President of the Canadian Society of Dowsers, and will be a guest speaker at our Conference in September. We talk about her dowsing practice and discuss differences in technique on both sides of the pond (58 mins, 41MB).
visit Susan's website: dowser.ca
18 April 2011
The Belinus Line is a long-distance alignment running the entire north-south length of the UK. Researcher Gary Biltcliffe has been investigating the line for over 15 years, and here he shares his latest discoveries at the BSD's 2010 Conference (67mins, 47MB).
visit Gary's website: beliniusline.com
6 March 2011
Renowned Scottish dowser David Cowan chats to us about his many years of earth energy research, and shares some interesting stories from his casebook (60 mins, 42MB).
visit David's website: http://ley-man.co.uk/
14 February 2011
A talk by parapsychologist Dr. Serena Roney-Dougal from our 2008 Conference, exploring the relationship between subliminal perception and psychic awareness (52mins, 38MB).
visit Serena's website: psi-researchcentre.co.uk
29 December 2010
Dr. Andrew Tressider introduces us to the healing properties of flower essences in this workshop from our 2010 Conference (49 mins, 34MB).
visit Dr. Andrew's website: drandrew.co.uk click here for a list of flower essences
5 December 2010
Megalithic researcher and author Robin Heath shares some of his latest research with us at a meeting of the Earth Energies Group (77 mins, 56MB).
visit Robins's website: robinheath.info
12 November 2010
Down Under dowser and geomancer Alanna Moore joins us for a chat at our 2010 Conference, and tells us what she's been up to since her last visit to the UK. (29 mins, 20MB)
visit Alanna's website: Geomantica.com
29 October 2010 John Baker, Chair of the BSD Archaeology Special Interest Group, talks to us about the archaeological dowsing scene, and we hear presentations from two group members, Don Bryan and Jim Andrews. (53 mins, 39MB).
24 August 2010
By popular demand, we once again feature Peter Knight. This is a talk he gave to BSD Conference about his research on The Wessex Astrum, a monumental geometric pattern of alignments in the West Country landscape. A geomantic adventure very much in the tradition of 'The Sun and The Serpent' (61 mins, 42MB)
Peter's website: Stoneseeker
13 August 2010
A magical megalithic mystery tour to Avebury, Europe's largest stone circle, in the company of local author and earth mysteries researcher Peter Knight.
Binaural stereo - listen on headphones for best effect. (62 mins, 45MB)
visit Peter's website: Stoneseeker.net
27 June 2010 Summer Special - a conversation about life and all things labyrinthine with labyrinth facilitator Tony Christie, founder of Labyrinths Ireland. (39 mins, 28MB)
visit Tony's website: Tony Christie
The BSD represents the national and international face of dowsing in the UK - but what happens in the dowsing scene at a more regional level? Here we talk to three of their Affiliated Local Groups to see what it's like out there. (45 mins, 32MB)
Kinesiologist and author Jane Thurnell-Read talks to BSD Conference about 'Geopathic Stress and Individual Susceptibility'. (61 mins, 43MB)visit Jane's website: https://www.lifeworkpotential.com/
A late-night conversation with BSD Director John Moss, where he tells us the story behind the construction of the stone circle in his garden in the Forest of Dean. (32 mins, 22 MB)
Read about the May Cottage stone circle here.
An interview double-bill with dowser and author Wilma Davidson, and former BSD Vice-President Adrian Incledon-Webber. They talk about their dowsing background, their spirit rescue work, and why they prefer to work remotely. (38 mins, 26MB)
Dowser and geo-biologist Roy Riggs gives a talk at BSD Conference on the topic of technopathic stress -a recent phenomenon caused by chronic exposure to electromagnetic fields and the pulsed microwave radiation that is increasingly becoming part of modern life. (65 mins, 44MB) visit Roy's website: royriggs.net click here for Grahame's Guide to Technopathic Stress
Former BSD President Dr. Patrick MacManaway talks about geopathic stress and shares some stories from his geomantic casebook. (40 mins, 28MB)Visit Patrick's website: patrickmacmanaway.com
31 August 2009
Geoff Holder, chronicler of the strange and mysterious, joins us at a Top Secret location to tell us about his passion for holy wells and stone circles; and we attend the launch of his book, 'The Guide To Mysterious Glasgow'. (45 mins, 43MB)
Visit Geoff's website: geoffholder.com
8 August 2009
Radionics practitioner Doris Frankish gives a talk to the BSD Earth Energies Group about colour dowsing, and shares some fascinating stories from her casebook. Plus, the latest BSD news. (43 mins, 39MB)
Download talk handout (PDF)
28 June 2009
Join us on a special summer solstice walk of the Edinburgh labyrinth, where Grahame talks about the history and magic of these ancient symbols, explains why they are so fascinating to dowsers, and talks to labyrinth creator and Chaplain of Edinburgh University, the Rev. Di Williams. (28 mins, 26 MB)
Visit the labyrinth website: Edinburgh labyrinth Click here for the World-wide labyrinth locator
5 June 2009
In this episode, we continue our field trip in the company of Paul Devereux with a tour of the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire, where Paul tells us about some of the findings of the Dragon Project. Plus, a roundup of forthcoming BSD courses. Binaural stereo. Listen on headphones - it's like being there! (28 mins, 26MB)
Visit Paul's website: pauldevereux.co.uk Click here for Rollrights survey plan
31 March 2009
Renowned earth mysteries researcher and author Paul Devereux takes us on a walk along a Medieval corpse road in Warwickshire. Plus, news about this year's BSD conference. Binaural stereo. Listen on headphones - it's like being there! (28 mins, 27MB)
Visit Paul's website: pauldevereux.co.uk
12 February 2009
We foray into the fascinating world of earth energy dowsing with master dowser Billy Gawn, who tells us why he's built a stone circle in his garden, and continue our lessons by looking for energy leys and practising deviceless dowsing. Plus, a roundup of forthcoming BSD events and courses. (30 mins, 22 MB)
22 December 2008
We take a look at the work of Village Water, a charity set up by former BSD Vice-President David Dixon, which dowses and provides water supplies for remote communities in Africa; and continue our lessons with a short session on finding the depth of a water source. (38 mins, 27MB)
Visit Village Water website: villagewater.org
12 November 2008
Legendary dowsing author Tom Graves talks to us about the changes he has seen in the dowsing world in the 30 years since Needles of Stone was published, tells us what he's been up to in Australia, and shares his model of the 7-circuit Classical labyrinth as a metaphor for the skills learning process. (19 mins, 14MB)
Click here for Tom's labyrinth model visit Tom's website: Tetradian Books Click here for Tom's blog
We talk to professional water diviner Aaron Bray about his work, and Grahame teaches a student how to find water using L-rods. (29 mins, 20 MB)
visit Aaron's website: Discover Dowsing
We talk with former BSD President Patrick MacManaway and Director John Moss about their dowsing experiences and their thoughts on the BSD. (22 mins, 15MB)
Grahame talks about dowsing theory and spends some time in a country park teaching a student how to dowse with the pendulum. (24 mins, 16MB).