Gt Holm Obelisk

Trip to GREAT HOLM

 We are sorry we’ve not done any new posts for ages.  We are extensively researching for a book we hope to write. Even if we don’t write a best selling opus, we hope to put the information out onto the Internet pretty soon. I’m afraid at the moment it is “Top Secret” but the subject matter is very exciting, making the reader take a unique look at an unlikely subject for Dowsing.

 Anyway – on to this post which is about a field trip we took on 31^st July 2012.

 Our aim - to dowse the Obelisk at Great Holm, Milton Keynes. We had read about it whilst researching our book and as there was very little about it on the internet our interest was piqued. Our starting point was Milton Keynes Railway Station as we decided to use our bus passes to take the bus rather than drive, although you can very easily reach it by road.  Leaving the station we walked across the overpass and into Loughton Park and then across the children’s circular play area. We walked along Redland Road into Linceslade Grove until we came to Holmgate, there we crossed Portway and we found ourselves in Great Holm, not as far away as we thought. We had read that Great Holm is one of the highest parts of Milton Keynes so we trudged up Attingham Hill (a steep climb!) to the top where the obelisk is situated.  Before the obelisk was in sight we had started to feel the energies and they weren’t very pleasant.

 

 The imposing obelisk is on an island in the middle of the road at the meeting point of Attingham Hill, (which ends there) Kensington Drive and Highgrove Hill. (I think you may have noticed by now that all the streets in Gt. Holm are named after stately homes and palaces!) It is a very modern, brick built housing estate. It is very strange and unnerving to find such a thing in such a place.

 The obelisk is made of brick, and is lit up at night by lights at its base. It is supposed to be 30 ft high, but does this include the base or foundations?  If not, it could possibly be 33 ft – a very significant number! There is no plaque or sign giving any information as to why it is there. Very strange indeed. Perhaps we are not supposed to know!

 Opposite the obelisk on the corner of Attingham Hill and Kensington Drive is a children’s play area. It slopes upwards and its uppermost point seems to be at the highest point in Great Holm. In fact, from here we could see much of Central Milton Keynes, including the Railway station, the Hub, the dome of Milton Keynes Church etc.

 

What’s more, there is a panoramic view for several miles around. Dunstable Downs, the mast at Bow Brickhill and Ivinghoe Beacon can be clearly seen. We have decided to return in the winter when the trees are bare and, hopefully, even more places will be able to be seen.

 The only part of Great Holm’s history that we can find, says it was known for its many springs. We noticed a building on one the the corners was called Spring Rise. Together with it being such a high point could it have been a sacred site? Is this why the obelisk is here?  We walked around the obelisk and picked up strong energies which our rods confirmed as negative. At first we thought these energies were coming from the obelisk but on dowsing found that they were flowing to the obelisk.  By doing a question and answer dowsing session we think that the obelisk is a collection point for these negative energies which are then neutralized and sent up into the ether. As the energies dissipated not far from the obelisk we think that it is protecting much of the estate. So even though we didn’t particularly like the obelisk we think it is doing quite a good job although our rods thought it wasn’t big enough or powerful enough to encompass the entire estate. We think the obelisk is actually protecting the sacred site.

All obelisks are masculine and usually have a feminine dome to counteract the negative masculine energies but we couldn't find any domes but it is set into a circular island, circles being feminine. Another thought as to why the energies were negative is that underground water courses can actually cause them!  If you want to research this phenomenon further Google ‘Geopathic stress’ for more information. 

 

If any readers of this Blog has any information about the Gt Holm Obelisk please leave a comment or email either of us.

Bury St Edmunds

Bury St Edmonds is on the Michael and Mary leyline and although it is not near us we were offered a chance to spend the day there and we thought it might be interesting so we took up the offer. Our aim was to dowse the leyline in the Abbey to see if we agreed with the findings in the famous book The Sun and The Serpent by Miller and Broadhurst, who dowsed the leyline, many years ago.

It was a cold but bright sunny day and we walked under the main gate and through some beautiful gardens to get to the ruins of the medieval Abbey where Broadhurst and Miller said the leylines ran.  We had difficulty picking up the energies, probably due to it being extremely busy with children on a school trip running around. We made our way to the main ruins and that at that point we were able to tune into the leylines. The pic shows that the new Cathedral has been built in direct line with the old Abbey on the usual East-West line.

The Sun and the Serpent said that the Mary and Michael line almost touch by the choir in the North-South transept and we found the Michael line and followed it to a small pillar, where strangely, instead of going onwards it went in a circle round this pillar!

We picked up the Mary line in the South transept and it followed an old wall round the abbey and took a winding course through the ruins, going past the choir to another ruined pillar, which it circled as the Michael line had done. The two pillars are close to one another but are not in "kissing" distance as stated in The Sun and Serpent!

We went back to the Michael line which we followed out of the ruins by St. Martins Chapel and then through the grounds to the Mostow gate which took us out into the town. We returned to the gardens where we sat and re-attuned into the Mary line, which we followed out through the main gate.

We followed Mary line across the square and up into Abbeygate Road where the energies were so strong we didn't need to use our dowsing rods. We finished our day here as we just wanted to dowse within the ruins.

In conclusion to our mission to compare our experience with that of Miller and Broadhurst, we agree that the Mary line goes up Abbeygate Road and that the Michael line runs through the Norman tower opposite the Mason's temple. An interesting detail of the tower are the two dragons on either side. (see pic below). However, we disagree with the two lines meeting within the ruins, we reckoned they were about 20-30 feet apart, although experience has taught us that leylines flow and so can move.

Bradwell Abbey

This might be our last post for a while and our apologies for not posting for several months, but we are currently working on a new blog called Orb Pics and also researching an exciting project involving leylines. Watch this space for further developments. We are also hoping to start up a 2012 group, so as you can see we have not been lazy but occupied elsewhere.

But back to Bradwell Abbey. A friend read an article on Bradwell Abbey and thought we might be interested and she drove us to Milton Keynes and into an industrial area. What a surprise when we came to a beautiful rural site set amidst factories and the main London railway line. A beautiful peaceful site on a beautiful sunny day.

Bradwell Abbey was a Benedictine Priory founded in the early 12th Century. Only the tithe barn, malthouse, bakehouse and the 14th century chapel of St. Mary remain.

On leaving the car park we passed by what used to be the malthouse and other old buildings to a large open area of grass. Strong energies immediately engulfed us. In front of us was a concreted area that had been used as a modern piggery, the energies were seeming to flow towards us making us think we could be in a leyline. We dowsed and picked up a very strong and very wide leyline .

Sian set this photo as her wallpaper on her computer and can pick up the energies just from looking at the photo; Jackie and others can pick them up too.



To the right of this area the old priory fishponds still remain.

Turning to our left we walked across the site with our dowsers to the Abbey foundations which have been marked out. We again found the energies to be very strong, indeed our friend who is not a dowser was able to feel them. We felt these particular energies were not coming from a leyline but from the Abbey itself. Sian did pick up the usual East -West leyline that we find in churches.





Jackie's rods took us to the tiny Chapel of St. Mary and she took this photo of it. Looking on the computer later she noticed an orb on it by the front window. Later we were given permission, with a guide from the visitor centre who opened up the chapel especially for us and we were allowed inside to look at the very rare medieval wall paintings. The chapel had been built round a statue of St. Mary that was originally in the Abbey and was thought to have healing properties. The wall paintings depicted pilgrims coming to be healed. Jackie and our friend could feel energies coming from where the statue had stood.

We intend to go back to see if the strong energies flowing over this site are anything to do with our new project, also to see if they are affected by the railway line and electricity pylons which run along the side of this site.

Hulcott

In the book The Sun and the Serpent, it mentions that the MM line runs through the tiny church in the tiny hamlet of Hulcott so we thought we would take a look.

The weather wasn’t so good; it was spitting and showery, overcast and cloudy. But that didn’t matter as All Saints, Hulcott is set in a very picturesque setting on the village green. In fact, it is one of the prettiest churches we have seen in our dowsing travels.

We found a very wide, strong, leyline, running east to west, which ran the complete width of the church. Rather interestingly, when we dowsed against the colour chart, I picked up yellow (Mary) and Jackie red (Michael). Whatever the reason for this, and we rarely differ on our findings, it confirms that this church is definitely part of the MM line

Edlesborough

On the same beautiful spring day as we visited Billington church (see blog post dated 17th May 2010) we also went to St Mary the Virgin Church at Edlesborough. It is a beautiful church, set up high on a hill and with yet another panoramic view over Dunstable Downs and Ivinghoe Beacon.

As we looked out over Ivinghoe Beacon we could see an old footpath going straight from the side of the church to the top of the Beacon, but the authorities have built a electricity pylon right on this path. (See 1st pic above) This raises the question – does this lower the energies on the leyline and did someone “in the know” do this deliberately? Anyone who has read the book “PowerPoints” by Robin Heath might be suspicious! Whatever the reason, it really spoils the view, unfortunately.

Back to the dowsing. We found 2 leylines, one going east to west, which is the normal one we find in a church and the other South West to North East and is direct line with the Beacon. The latter resonated mostly yellow, on our colour chart, with a lot of blue and Jackie also picked up a bit of red. Yellow and red being MM line and blue is our local leyline which we found at Grove and Billington. So these places are all connected.

We also found a narrow leyline going down the side of the church, which resonated gray on our colour chart and is particular to that church but has no bearing on our research, but is still of interest if you wanted to dowse there yourselves.

Standing in the grounds looking towards Billington which we had visited earlier in the day, it is interesting to note that Leighton Buzzard’s spire is right behind it although hidden. This is extremely interesting because this means that you could draw a straight line through all 3 churches. Fascinating.

A couple of observations: Although we found 2 main leylines here the energies at this church are nowhere near as strong as at Billington and the lines were stranded today. Perhaps, as it was a really warm day, the lines metaphorically took off their winter coats and spread themselves out to sunbathe in the warmth! Perhaps when it is cold, the strands huddle together to keep warm! A whimsical thought, but we feel it needs more research all the same. We intend to keep a weather/stranding note in future.

Billington

It was a lovely sunny day when we arrived at St. Michaels Church, Billington. Please see pics at top of post We first of all stopped to look at the stunning view by the gate overlooking the valley and towards Grove.

Please see the movie above to get an idea of what it looked like.

In the far distance you can make out the spire of

All Saints Church in Leighton Buzzard

and the

lock-keepers cottage at Grove.

We moved into the churchyard and started to dowse by the east-west end of the church looking towards Grove, where we picked up a leyline, which was stranded at the edges, but the main bulk of it was the exact width of the church. We dowsed the line to the colour chart independently of each other and we both found the line resonated to blue and yellow. We were really pleased because that meant it was definitely connected to the ‘blue’ leyline we had found at Grove (please see blog dated May 1st 2010) – and also proving they were both part of the Mary (MM) line. This leyline also physically pointed towards Grove.

We moved to the main church door overlooking Dunstable Downs and our rods pointed exactly straight to Ivinghoe Beacon which is the main Michael Mary line.

Our conclusions: Billington Church is connected directly to Ivinghoe and Grove. So, we have a local leyline which resonates to blue and we think it is a tributary coming off the MM line (yellow) and paying us a visit from Ivinghoe Beacon.

2nd Visit to Grove

On Monday 19 April we once again set out to dowse the area around Grove. Although it was slightly hazy from the Icelandic Volcano ash cloud, the sun was getting through and we felt warm as we walked along the canal path. We climbed over the stile and went across the field, full of sheep with their lambs and it really felt like spring at last!

We crossed the footbridge and were soon on the site of the old monastery fish ponds. We had been here before (please see entry 1st July 2008 for the details). We both felt our chests tighten as the energies of the area flowed around us. We dowsed for ley lines and picked up three but only two were important. We were interested in finding out if we were near a node point. Unfortunately, because this field is enclosed with fencing and barbed wire, we were unable to follow the main leyline directly, instead, guided by our rods, followed a marked path across the field, over another very small bridge, continued along the path about 200yds and came out by the quarry.

Last year this ground had been churned up by the heavy plant vehicles and was very muddy but today it was now dry and covered with the seedy heads of coltsfoot and other ground plants and a Skylark was singing above us, and, to make it perfect, ahead of us was our beautiful old Oak tree. It was lovely to see it again and we were very pleased when we discovered that Jackie’s crystal offering that we had made last year was still there. Although old and many branches now dead there were still signs of this year's new growth.

The energies in this area are, literally, breathtaking. Reading the history of Grove (Jackie’s specialist subject!) this area was well known for its meeting point of several ley lines. These 'node' points hold the energies of all the crossing ley lines. Sian did a “helicopter” dowsing and the rods pointed to Ivinghoe Beacon, Billington Church, St Michael’s Church Grove and All Saints’ Church. We again picked up our two major ley lines. One ran across from All Saints to Ivinghoe Beacon and resonated to the colour Yellow; the other ran from Billington Church to St Michaels Church at Grove and resonated to blue. The latter possibly went on to the tree circle (See our entry dated 5th Nov 2008). Jackie was rather disappointed to find that the All Saints to Ivinghoe Beacon resonated to yellow as this signified it was part of the Mary Line as she felt this was part of the St Michael Line, as this has resonated to Red in the past. (But do the ley lines resonant with different colours on different days depending on weather, strength of the energy etc. Something we may need to check each time we go dowsing.) We felt this meeting point (node point might have been very near the site of the old hamlet of Grovebury and Grovebury Priory.

Sian took a panoramic photo from where we stood.She started facing the magnificent spire of All Saints, in Leighton. She moved around across thenew buildings of the housing estates and up to Billington, where we could see St Michaels Church on the top of the hill. Then on to see the outline of the Downs in the distance, on to the Beacon, with the tower of St Mary's Church at Edlesborough in the fore ground. Then round to St Michael's church Grove and in the distance Wing Hill, then back to All Saints. The hills surrounded us and we were standing in the flat valley bottom that covers several miles. The ancient energies of Ivinghoe Beacon seem to sweep down and wash the whole area. What a special area this is, and we wondered what the magnificent oak tree had seen over the years. Perhaps Nuns and monks had sat under its branches.

We plan to visit Billington, Edlesborough, Ivinghoe, Stanbridge, Tilsworth and Eggington churches to see if the blue leyline and also the other we picked up flow through them and confirm what we had found today. We were now starting to feel hungry and decided to go back for lunch. This however was delayed as Sian, AGAIN, lost her rods (again please see entry for 5th November 2008). Rather wearily, we made our way back to the oak tree, and Jackie's rods once again came to the rescue and found Sian’s rods on the ground. I do wish she would look after her things!! Sian here – I’m soo sorry Jackie – What a complete idiot I am. But at least it shows how utterly brilliant you are finding lost things with your dowsers. Is that enough grovelling?!!!