Dowsing and The Mary and Michael Ley Lines

Dowsing has been used for millennia to search for underground water and metals and even in recent times water and electricity companies have used dowsers to find pipes and cables. An experienced dowser can tell the difference between a telephone cable and a power cable. But dowsers claim that the same sense can be used to detect mysterious earth energies emanating from the ground. The rods or pendulums held by the dowser allow the senses to refine the signal. It is not the rods, whether they are L shaped or V, or the pendulum, which finds the object being sought. In a way not understood, many people, in fact many more than is generally recognised, can sense the presence of water, for example. When suitably relaxed the dowser experiences a certain tensing of the muscles in the presence of the object being sought. It is this tensing of the muscles that reacts on the dowsing instrument causing it to move.

Experienced dowsers can often dispense with the instrument and use only their hands. In ancient times the dowsing instrument was a thin rod held in front of the dowser. When water or an energy line was detected the rod would wag up and down. This is said to be the explanation of the passage in the Bible that refers to Moses smiting the rock and water gushing forth - he was dowsing for water in the desert. Similarly, the ceremony of 'beating the bounds' originated in dowsing, from a time when energy lines were often used to mark boundaries. In ancient times the dowser was checking and re-establishing the boundary. Modern re-enactments of the ceremony are usually done in ignorance of the real origins. Dowsers claim that it is possible to dowse for almost anything. Such occurrences are difficult to explain as no physically measurable phenomena have ever been detected although the detection of water, for example, has been an accepted ability of dowsers since ancient times.

Ancient religious sites, for example stone circles, seem to attract the energy lines. Or more accurately the ancients recognised the special nature of such an area and religious sites were deliberately placed in them. Many ancient religious sites were later taken over for Christian churches and so it is common to find old churches that have an association with energy lines. Although these lines can be found throughout Britain (and Europe) there are two particularly strong ones which intertwine and together run from Hopton on the Suffolk coast to St Michael's Mount and beyond in Cornwall. Swedish visitors to the cave claim that the lines are picked up again in southern Sweden. In England they are known as the Michael and Mary lines from the preponderance of churches dedicated to either Michael or Mary, which are reputed to lie on them and they are believed to have respectively male and female attributes. Miller and Broadhurst believe that the ancients went on pilgrimages along the lines and that they set up shrines along the route and that these gave rise to the churches dedicated to St Michael and St Mary. At a limited number of places the lines cross each other at significant religious sites like Glastonbury and one of those places is the Royston Cave. So the Cave could have been originally an ancient religious site taken over by the Templars for their own ceremonies.