Guest guest Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 Howdy Evie, > Cripple creek eh? My old stomping grounds. My dad was marshall of > Green Mountain Falls and a weekend in the rockies was to stay in > the Jail for free in Cripple Creek before it became a casino...I > miss Old Cripple Creek. Cripple Creek http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripple_Creek,_Colorado is probably the most active Ghost Town in Colorado. When my dad retired after 32 years in the U.S. Army, he went into the real estate business in Colorado Springs. A silver tongue devil he was so he did well .. but his main interest was antiques and clocks .. so he also opened a shop in the the busy tourist trap of Cripple Creek. Weekends he let a University of Colorado professor carve wooden Indians in the front window .. which brought in a lotta customers. The professor had his art sold before he could even finish it so they had a symbiotic relationship. Folks who visit that area should go to Cripple Creek .. one of the old saloons (Blood N' Guts I think) takes folks down the steps inside the saloon .. into a gold mine .. and they give folks a piece of ore that contains some gold. > You know my folks bought some land in Arkansas and my dad had the > well 'witched' and it was perfectly acceptable and his mother knew > what herbs could cure what ailment too. On water witching .. or dowsing .. there is a lot of controversy .. but there is also a lot of disagreement in all of the disciplines in science. I personally believe that witching is not only possible but it is logical. Lots of folks I've known have done it in areas in Kentucky where finding shallow ground water was tough. Here in Henry County, TN you can drill most anywhere and find water cause we're sitting on a monstrous aquifer .. my well pumped solid back in the summer of 2007 when we went 2 + months without rain. Martin Watt visited me in Turkey in the summer of 2000 .. http://www.aromamedical.com/articles/rosedistillation.htm .. and one of the places I took him to see was Gordion (Yassihoyuk in Turkish) outside of Ankara ... the Phrygian Kingdom of King Midas and where Alexander The Great was said to have cut the famous Gordion Knot .. http://archaeology.about.com/od/gterms/g/gordion.htm .. and .. http://www.turkeytravelplanner.com/go/CentralAnatolia/Gordion/index.html .. At that location is the largest tumulus in Turkey .. the Tomb of King Midas .. it is built over a natural Earth energy center and this fact is recognized and accepted by the scientists. I did not tell Martin this .. but when we were walking up the long path to the tomb he suddenly stopped and told me that we were in an energy zone .. blew my mind that did. Back at the ranch .. on witching .. the Missouri Department of Natural Resources says Show Me ... http://www.dnr.mo.gov/pubs/pub657.pdf But Dr. Strobel .. from the U.S. Geological Survey . .says there is strong evidence that humans can detect changes in an electromagnetic field. He goes on to say that .. " So, most scientists do not believe dowsing is valid. But there is much we don't understand about the world and about the human body (if we understood it all, us scientists would be out of jobs), so to discount dowsing entirely at this point would be premature and additional research would help answer many questions. " http://nevada.usgs.gov/barcass/articles/Ely15.pdf There are too many articles on witching on the net .. here is another one. http://www.motherearthnews.com/Modern-Homesteading/1970-11-01/Witching-For-Water\ ..aspx Y'all keep smiling. :-) Butch ... http://www.AV-AT.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 17, 2009 Report Share Posted October 17, 2009 Sad story....a friend and I had a chance pre gambling Cripple Creek to buy an old building that had a bar....her spouse played on weekends...said 'nope, took too much money to renovate this one'......that building sold less than two years later for almost 1.5 million bucks...had we bought it? 75 grand. yeah, we're REAL proud of that one. Hey, I graduated from St. Mary's behind the Holly Sugar building. Got my first kiss at the top floor of that building.....ah, those were the days. .hare kryshna, that old guy in hip waders with a sign on his old station wagon proclaimin the end was near...new type person on every corner and I loved every minute of it. Now the land around the Garden of the Gods is sold out and it was left by someone to never be built around....and you can see lights all the way up the mountain sides at nite now. I did go up to Gribbles Park and found a particular man made mound of earth...once we climbed that if you looked down it was a rosette formation, held in places with large rocks...but no one knows if the indians did it or the calvary as a watch post from all angles and the legends in that area.....awesome. Back then it was a great place to have kids, hippies had Manitou, I lived by the Castle there and home made soaps, candles, hashish LOL....but up in those mountains lived some real mountain men and by golly they lived old way all their lives on what they hunted, the structures they built, herbs they dried for medicine . Truly a magical place. I hope we dont lose those stories so pass em on to your kids and grand kids I know as Emilee who is 2 and quite the virgo, she'll learn some old ways , old irish customs and cures and indian , her grandpa on two sides is mixed so she'll dance and have her shawl and learn to find the wild flowers, early green onions .. I just dont think you can give a child a better gift then the gift stories of all peoples who came together , old ways and the connection to the earth. I knew my dad and I knew he was right about that witchin. They'd done if generations before him and its still practiced and from what I hear in the oil field in some cases. Gosh I miss those Rockies in spring and summer...so much bounty to be offered . e --- On Sat, 10/17/09, Butch <butchowen wrote: > Butch <butchowen > OT: Cripple Creek & Water Witching > > Saturday, October 17, 2009, 6:53 PM > Howdy Evie, > > > Cripple creek eh? My old stomping grounds. My dad was > marshall of > > Green Mountain Falls and a weekend in the rockies was > to stay in > > the Jail for free in Cripple Creek before it became a > casino...I > > miss Old Cripple Creek. > > Cripple Creek http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cripple_Creek,_Colorado is > probably the most active Ghost Town in > Colorado. When my dad retired after 32 > years in the U.S. Army, he went into the real estate > business in Colorado Springs. A silver tongue devil he > was so he did well .. but his main interest was antiques and > clocks .. so he also opened a shop in the the busy tourist > trap of Cripple Creek. Weekends he let a University of > Colorado professor carve wooden Indians in the front window > .. which brought in a lotta customers. > The professor had his art sold before he could even finish > it so they had a symbiotic relationship. > > Folks who visit that area should go to Cripple Creek .. one > of the old saloons (Blood N' Guts I think) takes folks down > the steps inside the saloon .. into a gold mine .. and they > give folks a piece of ore that contains some gold. > > > You know my folks bought some land in Arkansas and my > dad had the > > well 'witched' and it was perfectly acceptable and his > mother knew > > what herbs could cure what ailment too. > > On water witching .. or dowsing .. there is a lot of > controversy .. but there is also a lot of disagreement in > all of the disciplines in science. I personally > believe that witching is not only possible but it is > logical. Lots of folks I've known have done > it in areas in Kentucky where finding shallow ground water > was tough. Here in Henry County, TN you can > drill most anywhere and find water cause we're sitting on a > monstrous aquifer .. my well pumped solid back in the summer > of 2007 when we went 2 + months without rain. > > Martin Watt visited me in Turkey in the summer of 2000 .. > http://www.aromamedical.com/articles/rosedistillation.htm > .. and one of the places I took him to see was Gordion > (Yassihoyuk in Turkish) outside of Ankara .. the Phrygian > Kingdom of King Midas and where Alexander The Great was said > to have cut the famous Gordion Knot .. http://archaeology.about.com/od/gterms/g/gordion.htm > .. and .. http://www.turkeytravelplanner.com/go/CentralAnatolia/Gordion/index.html > .. At that location is the largest tumulus in Turkey .. the > Tomb of King Midas .. it is built over a natural Earth > energy center and this fact is recognized and accepted by > the scientists. I did not tell Martin this .. but when > we were walking up the long path to the tomb he suddenly > stopped and told me that we were in an energy zone .. blew > my mind that did. > > Back at the ranch .. on witching .. the Missouri Department > of Natural Resources says Show Me ... > http://www.dnr.mo.gov/pubs/pub657.pdf > > But Dr. Strobel .. from the U.S. Geological Survey . .says > there is strong evidence that humans can detect changes in > an electromagnetic field. He goes on to say > that .. " So, most scientists do not believe dowsing is > valid. But there is much we don't understand about the > world and about the human body (if we understood it all, us > scientists would be out of jobs), so to discount dowsing > entirely at this point would be premature and additional > research would help answer many questions. " http://nevada.usgs.gov/barcass/articles/Ely15.pdf > > There are too many articles on witching on the net .. here > is another one. > http://www.motherearthnews.com/Modern-Homesteading/1970-11-01/Witching-For-Water\ ..aspx > > Y'all keep smiling. :-) > > Butch ... http://www.AV-AT.com > > > > --- > > The information contained in these e-mails is not a > substitute > for diagnosis and treatment by a qualified, licensed > professional. > > Absolutely no forwarding or copying, in whole or in part, > of any messages or postings to others outside the list > without the express, written consent of every author of a > message included in the forward or copy. > > To adjust your group settings (i.e. go no mail) see the > following link: /join! > Groups Links > > > -fullfeatured > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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