This is not the post I had in mind when I wrote the above - I just came across it ... the title caught my eye..
This may tie some loose threads created by the different language of scientists and mystics - when talking about the same thing. And those who refer to 'Energy in the Temple' and those that 'Build Thought Forms' for achieving 'The Work'.
THE FATHER, THE SUN AND THE HOLY POST
Coogee Beach - Sacred Landscape Temple
A Brief Report of Observations of 'Our Lady of the Fence Posts' site over two years, by Alanna Moore and Billy Arnold.
Miracles are a bit thin on the ground these days. However recent investigations at Coogee, Sydney's own 'miracle' centre, have revealed an amazing development of the spiritual qualities of landscape there, in the three years since sightings of 'Our Lady' began.
'Our Lady of Coogee'
From the media stories of late January 2003, many people (in Sydney at least) have heard about the 'sightings' of 'Mother Mary', first reported in December 2002, on the northern headland of Coogee Beach.
Along a whitewashed fence line at a certain time in the afternoon on sunny days - a white, veiled figure would appear. The play of fence angles and shadows is said to have produced the image, which had never been noticed before.
People began flocking to the site to witness the 'apparition' and to pray there. Other types of visions also occurred, spirit voices were heard, and spiritual epiphanies and healing miracles ensued for some of the pilgrims. It continues to this day.
In February 2005 newspapers reported that some people were demanding a shrine be built at the fence post site, which now boasted statues, flowerpots, holy water bowls, Mary pictures and laminated press clippings all over it.
While believing it's all just an optical illusion, Coogee parish priest Fr Desmond Holm has seen it's therapeutic value.
"People have said that it is a special place, that being there gives them a general sense of peace and that is something good....If good comes out of it, then that's good," he says. 1.
But is it just a simple case of mass delusion? Looking at the site with my own geomantic perspective (with fresh eyes on an old childhood haunt) has revealed that what we have here is a special 'landscape temple' complex, a network of power centres, both on land and out to sea. Truly a modern sacred site.
Chain of Events
To really appreciate the site and the 'miracles' you need to look at the site's history and be able to dowse or sense the energies there.
Just weeks before the apparitions began, on 12th October 2002, Kuta Beach in Bali saw the horrific bombing with hundreds killed, including 22 from the Coogee area.
At some point in the following months it was proposed to create a memorial to the dead on the northern headland of the beach.
Saturday, April 12th 2003, saw the dedication of Coogee's memorial to Australians killed in the blast, at a ceremony where thousands of mourners vented their grief. In the form of an elegant metal sculpture, it became a sacred memorial to the dead, where annual rememberance ceremonies are held.
So it was not surprising that healing energies have been roused up there. At least three academic papers have been written which delve into the phenomena. In two the link is made between the outpouring of grief over the bombing and growing national insecurities, the looming war in Iraq, etc.
Dr Carole Cusack, senior lecturer in religious studies at the University of Sydney, has pointed out in the press that "Pilgrims to Coogee are joining in an age-old religious practice, older than Christianity, that functions to alleviate stress experienced by the community." 2.
Looking for energies
It was on Monday, October 27th 2003, that I was first told about 'Our Lady of the Fenceposts'. Being a geomancer meant that I would expect to find some interesting energies there, so I immediately went over for a brief investigation with my pendulum.
It was a windy day for dowsing and I gained no sense of special energies there. But I did see the white figure at the fence, and it did make old sceptic me gasp! and I was able to film it. More became apparent when I returned on Monday, March 15th 2004.
I saw a man there, who was praying intently with his rosary. He told me how, on Saturday Feb 1st 2003, he had seen a small Mary figure, like a doll, with outstretched hands, appear to him. Nuns were around him praying at the time, and Mary even spoke to him. (Several other people report seeing Mary in different spots around the fence post site, such as in cliff caves below the fence.)
Bit if there had been special energies there, they were still not apparent to me on my short visits ¬ so far.
But as I was leaving I had the vision, looking out to the Bay beyond the fence shrine, of a portal, shimmering in the air there. "Ah!" I thought, "that must be where Mary makes her entrance." (Portals being inter-dimensional doorways.) "That's why she doesn't manifest up at the memorial, she visits via the nearest suitable energy vortex point."
Devic Discoveries
When I next visited, I was with Billy Arnold, who can see the spirits of nature, the devas when he tunes in to them. It was Saturday the 16th October 2004 ¬ just four days after the second anniversary of the Kuta bombing, and many wreaths lay fading in the sunlight, beneath the plaque on the remains of the old Bath House entrance, not far from the fencepost shrine.
This time we both looked for devic activity and were most happy to discover a huge green and blue deva that dominated the headland. The giant energy field of devic consciousness was peacefully stationed there, full of compassion and healing qualities, and hosting a range of other spirits in it's wings ¬ an old Earth spirit and several ancestral Aboriginal spirits. There were also two big sea spirits, as well as resident Banksia and other tree spirits in the vicinity that Billy was able to see.
"This spherical blue-green devic being is at peace working for the benefit of living humans and the dead" Billy reported.
"The being likes to be looked at and responds by directing energy to us and to other people nearby. It is difficult to perceive the whole spirit when in a meditative state at the fence post because you are actually standing in it"
Coogee Beach Nature Temple
Our next visit together was a year later, on Friday 22 October 2005, and were blown away, even more so, by the increased energy of the site. Again, it was not long after an annual commemoration ceremony had occurred and floral wreaths in the Bath House marked the occasion.
The whole place had a vibrancy we had never felt before. Plants and trees were flourishing, glistening even, and a couple of small flocks of cockatoos and ravens hopped around happily, the ravens hanging around the fencepost shrine like shiny black guardians caaaawing.
Billy saw the same huge spherical being, and it was much larger than the year before.
"It's covering all of Coogee Bay and the northern headland. It's very, very impressive and definitely evolving into a much more sophisticated and multi-dimensional being, because of the natural development in the groups of human spirits and nature spirits involved, I imagine" he said.
We visited again on the Monday afterwards, on 25 October. It was a damp, misty day, with sparse visitors. Moist, mysterious and peaceful. Sitting in the car facing the site I undertook an intense dowsing session, a question and answer interview with the great deva there, trying to discover some more about this amazing place.
From this dowsing, assuming my questions were not too flawed, I learnt that the big (female) deva is basically a sea spirit, a bit like a mermaid, whose 'tail' connects down via the fence shrine and into the waters of Coogee Bay.
I distantly dowsed that the deva's 'tail' connects into an Earth energy centre out to sea. Billy's later discovery, on geological maps, was consequently not surprising at all. Back around 250 million years ago, in the Jurassic Age, it turns out, Coogee Bay was the scene of high energy volcanic activity.
I asked the deva, on a hunch, if she had once been stationed at Wedding Cake Island, not far off shore. Yes, indeed she had. She prefers the atmosphere of the headland now and has taken on healing work under the tutelage of the Great Mother Mary, who visits occasionally, due to popular demand. (Some people consider Mary to be the greatest of all the water spirits.)
Before the Bali bombing the great deva of the Bay was always interested in the welfare of swimmers and surfers at Coogee Beach, I discovered, and now her healing abilities are really coming to the fore. (And people who have been drinking from the holy water container at the fence post have reported a host of cures, as noted in press clippings there.)
After my dowsing session, Billy took a yogic inner meditative look at the site and was amazed to perceive the spherical spirit so much more powerful than on the Friday before, with brighter colours and energy radiating in every direction.
"Not only were its blue and green colours brighter, it now had flashes of gold and white, like lightning bolts, inside it's field" he said.
"I thought the spirit must be evolving rapidly from the sentiment and emotion of people attending the site on the weekend before, perhaps."
Or maybe it had been stimulated by our interview, I wonder?
We walked on up through the old Banksia trees atop the headland and over to the Bali memorial. The powerful devic field there was quite palpable and exhilarating to experience.
Who would have expected such a thing, in a land where the white man has long been hell bent on destroying sacred sites, in the name of the god of progress?
Here, in the midst of suburbia - a blessed place. An evolving sacred site complex. A timeless Landscape Temple.
References:
1. The fathers, the sun and the holy post
By Kelly Burke, Religious Affairs Writer, Sydney Morning Herald
January 31 2003.
Source:
www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/30/1043804464591.html2. No rest in the quest for Coogee's holy rail
By Linda Morris, Sydney Morning Herald, February 5, 2005
Source::
www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/04/1107476802796.htmlNote:
Alanna Moore will be talking about the Coogee Beach Landscape Temple, as part of her presentation to the NSW Dowsers Society meeting at Hunters Hill on Sunday Feb 19th at 2pm.
Then on Thursday March 8th it is tentatively planned that she will lead a field trip / workshop at the site, from 10 ¬ 12am. Bookings ¬ email: info@geomantica.com
www.geomantica.com/geom30.htm#5On a personal note - I was fortunate to have Alanna dowse for negative energies in my own home last year. Negative energy lines under beds are particularly bad.
She only dowsed one such line which literally cut off a very small corner of the house - and it was a place where nobody sits or spends time - so it was not an issue. What I found interesting was that when she pointed it out ...
I could actually feel it with the palms of my hand whenever I crossed the line of its flow.
Maat