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DIVINING EARTH SPIRIT by Alanna Moore Python Press, Australia, 2004 (2nd edition, revised and updated) ISBN 0-6462-1700-3 (225pp tpb) Availability: Python Press, PO Box 929, Castlemaine Vic 3450, website http:/;www.geomantica.com Gone: Alanna Moore has 20 years of experience in dowsing and working with Earth energies and has travelled to many sacred sites in her native Australia as well as in New Zealand and the British Isles. We reviewed her video, Dowsers Down Under, in NEXUS 9/04 and her book, Stone Age Farming, in 8/04. This book, Divining Earth Spirit, was first published in 1994 but Alanna has considerably revised and updated it for this second edition. She starts out with an overview of Gaian geomancy, discussing worldwide Earth Spirit traditions and systems of knowledge as well as modern understandings of the Earth's energy grids. Drawing the reader further into the Earth mysteries, she explains the intricacies of ley lines and vortex ener- gies, landscape alignments and stone circles, labyrinths and the enigmatic crop circles. All the while she reports on the dowsing experiences that she and others have had at various sites exhibiting these phenomena, and adds additional information on places she's visited since the first edition was pub- lished. Moore has a section devoted to Australasian geomancy and provides fasci- nating snippets of information and wisdom gained from Aboriginal and Maori elders and from dowsing sacred sites. Just as acupuncture energy meridians can flow smoothly or be blocked, so too can nat- ural Earth energies, and Alanna explains in APRIL — MAY 2005 @ REVIEWS her section on geobiology and electro- biology how geological faults, underground water and man-made radiation can affect the flow and create geopathic stress in the envi- ronment and electrostress in people. She gives useful tips on diverting and neutralis- ing bad radiations—techniques which, for example, have been used in transforming dangerous "black spots" on highways. There's even more to this subject when the spiritual dimension is taken into account, and Alanna provides a window on the world of devas or nature spirits and how to dowse them and work in harmony with them. She also introduces us to a number of gifted geo- mancers she's worked with and reviews some relevant books published recently on all these subjects. Finally, she covers her own and other geomancers' insights into working with Earth energies, including chanting within depleted sacred sites to help recharge them. Informative and insightful. tions, underground bases and strange broad- casts were all part of his experience, so much so that he compiled a dossier and alerted politicians and the media to what he perceived as an imminent threat to Earth from an alien invasion. This is the story of how a modern myth was made, told by Greg Bishop who is editor of the alternative jour- nal The Excluded Middle and the anthology Wake Up Down There! (see 8/04). Bennewitz was an annoyance to the US Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the CIA, the National Security Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency, but also a salvation to these agencies, argues Bishop, because he could be manipulated as a disin- formation agent to spread all manner of tales—which, for better or worse, have since become part of the ufological record. His growing paranoia—not all of his own mak- ing, considering his harrowing circum- stances and the intrigue going on around him—led to his downfall, but it also defined an era. In Project Beta, Bishop keeps us alert to the questions we can't let slip. ee ee ae Rak eee ey Cee ae eee tenants s S s $ or tn . Fanth's energy srids.. Drawing the reader PROJECT BETA: The Story of Paul anera. In Project | Beta, Bishop keeps us further into the Earth mysteries, she explains Bennewitz, National Security, and the alert to the questions we can't let slip. the intricacies of ley lines and vortex ener- Creation of a Modern UFO Myth _— °°; ay gies, landscape alignments and stone circles, by Greg Bishop labyrinths and the enigmatic crop circles. Paraview/Pocket Books, USA, 2005 All the while she reports on the dowsing ISBN 0-7434-7092-3 (278pp pb) experiences that she and others have had at Availability: Simon & Schuster, various sites exhibiting these phenomena, http:/www.simonsays.com and adds additional information on places ne of the names that has been part of she's visited since the first edition was pub- Olaigeal lore since the late 1970s is lished. Moore has a section devoted to Paul Bennewitz, an electrical physicist who Australasian geomancy and provides fasci- happened to live on the outskirts of nating snippets of information and wisdom Albuquerque, New Mexico, not far from the gained from Aboriginal and Maori elders Manzano subterranean nuclear weapons and from dowsing sacred sites. repository within Kirtland Air Force Base Just as acupuncture energy meridians can and the nearby Sandia Labs. Hovering flow smoothly or be blocked, so too can nat- —_Jights, UFO and experimental military craft ural Earth energies, and Alanna explains in sightings, alien abductions, cattle mutila- NEXUS = 69 www.nexusmagazine.com