Geomantic Roots - Part 4

Other Americans

Terry Ross

Terry Ross, also studied with Bruce MacManaway. He was President of the American Society of Dowsers and one of the early people to bring the idea of dowseable leys to the United States. He taught my mother, Virginia, how to dowse, and she taught me in the late fifties. In 1970 or so, my mother took me to a meeting in Woodstock, Vermont at Betty Sincerbeaux's home. Terry was one of the speakers. The next morning, we went to see the Summer Solstice Sunrise at an astronomical platform at Calendar II. That sunrise, I had an experience in the chamber that changed my life. Terry became my teacher, and we worked together throughout the seventies. He has now passed on, but in his time, he was a true Master Dowser.

Sig Lonegren

While his mother taught him to dowse in 1959, Sig Lonegren began his serious work in Geomancy in the early seventies with Terry Ross. He then went on to received a Masters Degree in the Study of Sacred Space from Goddard College in Vermont in 1978. Sig served in many capacities for the American Society of Dowsers, and was head of their dowsing school for several years with Ed Jastram in the early eighties. After moving to Glastonbury, England, he was elected to the Council of the British Society of Dowsers. He has written a number of books including “Spiritual Dowsing” and “Labyrinths: Ancient Myths & Modern Uses.” He is Webmaster here at Mid-Atlantic Geomancy.

And now a Brit in Australia

Tom Graves

As Editor of The British Society of Dowsers Journal in the seventies, Tom Graves rekindled the fires started by Reginald Alendar Smith and Guy Underwood. His articles captured the imagination of a number of dowsers who were getting in to Earth Energy dowsing at that time. But it was his book Needles of Stone (now “Revisited”) that really fired imaginations. Tom showed how to approach a sacred site with dowsing rods, and what to look for. He was a strong voice in these Mysteries in the seventies and early eighties.