July 11th. 10:30-12:00. Whitminster Village Hall. GL2 7NN.
The Consciousness of Trees with Andrew Edgar.
The likes of Peter Wohlleben (author of The Hidden Life of Trees), and botanist Dr Suzanne Simard have argued that trees are capable of profound experiences of the world around them, and that they can communicate these experiences to other trees (through root systems, and the mycelia of fungi).
Dowsers have long recognised that trees have auras, and indeed that these auras will expand as the dowser makes contact with the tree – an expression of the tree’s awareness that they are in contact with the dowser.
In this talk I will explore, through my personal experience of dowsing with trees and in communion with spirit of place, how dowsing and botany can give us an insight into the world of trees, and how we might come to understand and communicate with those trees.
I will explain how we can trace the networks of communication that link trees, how we can find the protective mother tree within a group, and how patterns within the aura of a tree hint at the messages that the tree might have for us.

Andrew Edgar
Now based in East Sussex, and after living and working some thirty years in Cardiff, I help to run a dowsing group under the auspices of Lewes U3A.
I have been dowsing, and a member of the BSD, since 2010.
I have recently been co-opted as a trustee to the BSD council.
My primary interests are in Earth Energies, although I am sympathetic to all uses of dowsing.
I am particularly interested in possible explanations for dowsing, and in the implications that the fact that dowsing works has for our understanding of the world around us.
Dowsing, for me, is a way of communicating with the natural and spiritual world we inhabit and share.