Book Signing Greece B + N (Rochester) Saturday April 8th 2 to 4PM

What: Book Signing

When: Saturday April 8th 2 to 4PM

Where: Barnes and Noble in Greece NY
            Mall at Greece Ridge Center 
            330 Greece Ridge Center Drive 
            Rochester, NY 14626 
                    585-227-4020

I will be joining 18 local area authors for a book signing this Saturday at the  Barnes and Noble in Greece NY in suburban Rochester. I will be primarily promoting Sacred Sites in North Star Country: Places in Greater New York State (PA,OH,NJ,CT,MA,VT,ONT) That Changed the World.  I will also have copies of  Vortices and Spirals, Unlocking the Mystery of Our Dynamic Relationship With Mother Earth for sale.

Barnes and Noble has tied the event in with other efforts and possible discounts.

1. This event falls during barnes & Noble's Educator Appreciation Week. That means that active teachers and administrators are getting extra discounts and prizes. 


2. This Book Signing also falls during a Bookfair fundraiser for the Greece CSD Re-Engagement Center. They help students in middle and high school that aren’t performing well in the general population for any number of reasons. Because their students come from across the district, their budget is very limited and their classroom libraries are very small. This fundraiser enables the teachers to buy books that are topical or titles that students have expressed an interest in outside of the main curriculum. My understanding is that your book purchase benefits them.

Even if you don't want to buy one of my books, or already have one, please stop by and say hello if you live in the area.

Sacred Sites in North Star Country--Book is Out!

My latest book Sacred Sites in North Star Country, Places in Greater New York State (PA,OH,NJ,CT,MA,VT,ONT) That Changed the World is out.

It is available on Amazon and Barnes and Noble.

I will also have books available at my upcoming talks; $30, tax included. For more information go to (bottom of the page) Madis Senner's Upcoming Events  -Syracuse, Geneva, Norwich, N. Syr, Oneida... More coming cities and towns coming


ISBN 978-0-9908744-1-6
$29.95 
506 pages
Sacred Sites in North Star Contry lists over 125 sacred sites in 7 states and Canada--most are in NYS. It is made up of 3 parts. Part I tells the history of North Star Country, explains Fields of Consciousness and how to use the book and how to get the most out of your visit. Part II is the listing of sacred sites, Part III contains the Conclusion (Transformation not Revolution) and useful information--contact information, how to get involved, update sources, prayers, glossary, index...

From the Back Cover
Place matters. Sacred Sites in North Star Country shows how the land influenced the dramatic social changes that took place in greater New York State that shaped the world. It provides a listing of sacred sites to experience and even sense and feel that consciousness. 

North Star Country was the birthplace of the Women’s Movement and American Democracy, as well as the home to America’s Second Great Awakening. It has been called the Burned-over District for its spiritual wildfires and America’s Psychic Highway. It is a place where prophets walked, religions were born and great souls lived—Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Fredrick Douglas, William Seward, Gerrit Smith…

“One of the Holiest places in the world,” is how the Sikh mystic and guru Baba Virsa Singh described Gobind Sadan his North American ashram in North Star Country.

It was in the heart of North Star Country on the shores of Onondaga Lake (Syracuse, NY) that the great Iroquois prophet the Peacemaker planted the Tree of Peace and gave his people the Great Law of Peace that would serve as a model for America’s founders and inspire the Women’s movement.

It was here that the great mystic and teacher Swami Vivekananda, who introduced yoga and Hindu Vedanta to the West, achieved the highest meditative state of Samadhi, Nirvakalpa Samadhi. It was here that Clara Barton got her epiphany to start the American Red Cross. It was here that the lawyer Charles Grandison Finney walked into the woods one night and committed to God and started his path to be one of the dominant spiritual leaders of America’s Second Great Awakening. More…

That Spirit, that Consciousness, the motivated and inspired so many lies sleeping in the land. Come help reinvigorate it, tap into it and dream of a better world and in the process make a better you.

Reviews
This is a tremendous source book.  I found it to be easy to read, very thorough, well researched with a wealth of information—an epic work.  Madis’ love and respect for our beloved Mother Earth, Her bounty that is ours for the taking and how cooperation between Her and humanity is for the highest and best good, shines through every page.  If you are looking for a book with a unique and different perspective this is the book for you.
ASD Digest, Susan Kotcher (President Finger Lakes Dowsers)

Serpent Mound (Ohio, Pennsylvania) Trip and Survey

Over the next few days I will be posting about my trip to and survey of  Serpent Mound, in Peebles Ohio, the world's largest effigy mound. I stopped along Lake Erie in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and metro Pittsburgh to survey for Fields of Consciousness and sacred sites.

I was pleased to find Fields of Consciousness in Ohio's Western Reserve (NE OH), so far from the center of Mother Earth's Soul--the Utica/Rochester corridor. SWEET!

The heart of Mother Earth's Soul and Her Fields lays along the Rochester/Utica corridor, with Syracuse being the center. Fields diminish in potency as you get farther from the center. Meaning that instead of having numerous Fields, as high as 12, stacked upon each other you find single Fields, or only a few Fields stacked upon each other.

The following are three of the sites that have Fields in Ohio that I will be including in my upcoming book, Sacred Sites in North Star Country, Places in Greater New York State That Changed the World.

Conneaut Township Park, Conneaut Ohio

Sunset Park, North Kingsville Ohio

Geneva State Park, Geneva, Ohio

Misdirected

I had an interesting, or perhaps frustrating would be a better word, experience this past weekend at Grafton State Park. My dowsing was off kilter, or maybe it wasn't.
Whenever I make a long trip I like to use it as opportunity to look for sacred sites away from home, Fields of Consciousness in particular. When I booked a talk in Saratoga Springs to the Mohawk Hudson Dowsers I began doing some searching for places to explore.

I went to and scoured the Rock Piles Blog for stone formations and found the following listing in Grafton State Park, Cairns with standing Manitou Stones in Grafton, NY - from Norman Muller. What piqued my interest was the first pile of stones. A map dowsing, or should I say a picture dowsing indicated that a Field of Consciousness (S6- six Fields upon each other) was close by. By picture dowsing, I mean I look at the picture and visualize standing in front of it and ask my L-rods to point to where the Fields were.

What gave me further hope that Grafton state park had Fields was that it is close to the Peace Pagoda which I know has Fields. I had surveyed it years earlier and went back last year to take a fresh look and write a review to include in my upcoming book Sacred Sites in North Star Country—Places in Greater NYS that Changed the World.

It was cold this past Sunday and even colder at Grafton State Park when I got there about 9:30 in the morning. I parked at the Gartlers Trail and headed down the trail with my dogs Pepper and Jaeda Bear.

As I walked the trail my rods kept pointing straight ahead to indicate where the Fields were. When the trail turned right my rods continued pointing in the straight ahead, so instead of taking a right and following the trail I went off trail.  I walked between several hedgerows and came to an old stone wall with thick woods behind it. I looked for a place to cross and enter the woods.

As I continued I found myself zigging and zagging through thick woods and getting farther off trail  Although I had a compass, the sun and the noise of cars to guide me I was concerned that I might get lost, not so much totally lost, but lost for a few hours and being late for my talk. I also became concerned that maybe my readings were not correct, or that I was being misdirected. I say misdirected because as my rods kept directing me in one direction, but when I seemed to get there nothing was there.

Given time constraints of having to be in Saratoga at 12:30 PM and fearing I could get lost I decided to head back.

When I got back to where I first went off trail I still had a half and hour or more before I had to high tail it to my talk. So I decided to start anew and followed the trail.

The trail eventually took a left and was going in the same direction it was originally headed. I took out my rods and they pointed a little left of center—in the original direction they had pointed. As I continued the rods would increasingly point to the left—meaning that I was getting closer. When my rods pointed 90° to the left I knew that I needed to turn left and get off the trail. I was not more than a 100 yards from where I had been before.

But as I continued walking it became increasingly clear that my rods were not accurate. That there was nothing there, or that my rods had misdirected me, or was I being misdirected?

It is times like this that one has to do some soul searching. Intuitive skills can vary at times. While I feel confident finding Fields and other aspects of Mother Earth when I am at a particular site, map dowsing is another thing. Although I have been getting better over the years finding Fields in Canada, in Pennsylvania and other places simply by looking at a map. In the beginning of Vortices and Spirals I begin with a story of a Energy Vortex I found in a Vermont State Park several miles from where I began. But there are other times when my abilities are not so good.

There was also the possibility that I was being misdirected by a nature spirit; that some being in another realm did not want me to be there, or draw attention to a place; or perhaps at an even higher level it was felt that people should not be traipsing to a place, or that it was not ready. I often find at times like this my rods act funny moving this way and that and being highly inaccurate.

Was my dowsing off, or was I misdirected? You tell me.

Below are some of the pictures I took at Grafton. There were numerous stone walls 10-12 feet thick at times and with hollowed out centers(the dogs are sitting in one such place with a sunken center. )The surroundings and size of rocks is very similar to the pics in the Rock Piles Posting.

Earth Healing--The Gerrit Smith Estate, Muller Hill

This past Tuesday Jan and I did some work on the Gerrit Smith Estate and Muller Hill. You can learn more about them by clicking on  Gerrit Smith Estate and Muller Hill; although I must admit that those reviews were written long ago and my knowledge of Mother Earth, Fields of Consciousness and the sites themselves has improved dramatically. These are two locations I have been working for this past year and plan to continue. So in a way I am currently a Keeper for these places; that is I watch over and take care of them along with another small cadre of Earth Healers.

The Gerrit Smith estate has very potent Fields of Consciousness, but the vibe is neutral, like most of the world. We meditated at several locations and worked to clean the space. A few spots within the grounds have seen a slight pickup in vibe.

Below are pics Jan Woodworth took of both places.

Muller Hill is an incredible place with lots of Fields and an extremely positive vibe in places. We worked on the welcome circle, which has grown to a slightly positive to positive vibe--Nice.

This is a great time of year to work in the woods as leaves have not yet sprouted, so you have greater vision.

We spent most of our time on the Holy Ridge which is as loaded as any place in North Star Country.. The vibe in the Fields runs very positive to extremely positive; and has only improved since early last year. The feeling of the place is palpable and our meditation was deep and got our feel good chemicals flowing. SWEET!  

My upcoming book Sacred Sites in North Star Country will detail how to find the Holy Ridge and access the Fields.

We will continue to work on both places, particularly Muller Hill. Cleaning and fortifying sacred spaces is an illuminating process. As you clean and polish the places you work on begin to glow and shine, and in the process wake up other places close by that were in effect dormant (not charged with human intention.) As I have noted earlier Mother Earth needs positive and loving intentions to achieve Her Potential, and we need Her as well. 

It was a beautiful day, thank you Heavenly Father and Divine Mother Earth. Blessings.