The biography of Jackie Queally shows her goal is to awaken people to the magnificence of the Earth as a deeply cosmic being, sensing the ever-changing patterns and moods that lie at its divine core. The effect of people re-establishing a natural relationship with the Earth offers vast healing, and offers hope for the future, for both nature and humanity.
First Steps of Jackie Queally
What is my story? I was born in West London in the 50s, and hold warm memories of friendly relatively car-free streets, and open parks to play in. After grammar school and voluntary work in the mid 70s, I became one of the first students on a newly designed future-oriented science degree course entitled Human Ecology. It was a liberating, slightly dizzy period of my life where my horizons expanded fast.
Questioning
As the meetings and conferences with radical thinkers on physical energy resources and conservation rolled on, I started to question whether the grass-root politics of this emerging green movement would indeed solve the environmental problems of the world. I avidly read all the books on spiritual ecology that our progressive college possessed, and felt grateful for the space this afforded me to contemplate. Gradually I felt uneasy with the physical world of natural resource management that my degree was preparing me for. I sensed we were applying scientific models to nature that would serve to prolong our pattern of over-consumption, rather than learning how to co-exist with nature.
Thatcherite times were preparing us to become wholesale consumers, and I felt critically aware that there was a fair degree of ungrounded thinking accompanying this trend. The overall assumption was that the Earth, as a separate entity, could survive as a bi-product of our growing consuming habits. By my early 20s I realised I had to carve a more spiritual relationship with the Earth if my soul purpose were to flourish.
Jackie Queally Broadens her Horizons
During the external year of studies in the late 70s I left West Yorkshire and by a series of happy “accidents” took an interesting job near Kyoto in Japan with a Shinto organization – Shintoism being the native nature–oriented religion in Japan. I also made a long film on nine Japanese Shinto and Buddhist communities that I refused to sell to the BBC at the time!
The totally different way of thinking I encountered in that somewhat exotic year led to my taking another year out, where I researched my thesis on the spiritual role of the social worker in community development in rural South India. I had the great fortune to be invited to participate in this small project which has long since been recognized by the UN as one of the best small projects for developing countries. The stay was a most formative experience for my spiritual side. I learnt to meditate deeply and encounter other realms of reality through this practice.
Searching for a Role for Jackie Queally
After working in various cultures for a few years I felt ready to complete my studies (multi-cultural education) and even start a family. By then I had become very involved in meditation practices, and I was convinced that the inner worlds were equally important as the outer world we moved around in. I gravitated toward what I termed spiritual geography, due to many experiences.
Raising a family was my first and foremost role for many years. It exposed me to the work and philosophy of Rudolf Steiner, and we sent our children to a Steiner school for some or all of their education. I trained as a Steiner teacher, worked in a kindergarten, became a puppeteer, storyteller and ESL teacher at various periods. While they were young I practiced spiritual healing with real results. Later I taught reflexology in the community at many centres. I also studied theology although I never became a minister. I was still searching for my true role in society.
A niche was borne for Jackie Queally
It was during my children’s teenage years that I set up a niche tour business. This felt more like my soul purpose. With the encouragement of a good friendm(now deceased), I researched the Picts and the Celts in Scotland. A dear deceased friend and I decided to channel all our local discoveries into creating day tours from Edinburgh, and so Celtic Trails was born. Many visitors seemed genuinely attracted to the early Celtic saints, and the Knights Templar. It seemed that such historic groups were small in number but significant in effect. They practiced the ancient art of geomancy, which is the art of sensing the land. This determined where they prayed and resided. Visiting so many sites off the beaten track on my tours in Scotland awakened in me a deep sense of the healing power of nature. I also started to decode the landscapes using my own methods.
Jackie Queally finds Other Realms
William Buehler at Chiswick House grounds in London
I inadvertently came across the work of William Buehler, a mystic and geomancer who lives still in Colorado. His articles had appeared in study materials of a local mystery school (now defunct) in the Highlands. William used many strange words about the Metatronic realms and the various presences. They frequent the realms where time and space, as we know it, do not exist. Unbeknown to me at the time, the sites I had chosen for my tours exactly mirrored invisible patterns he had discerned in the landscape round Edinburgh. This included many places close to Rosslyn Chapel. We began an almost daily e-mailing in the late 90s. Visitors on my tours would often experience something that dovetailed with his latest spiritual research.
I taught people to dowse ley lines at sites that form part of an invisible network of ley lines that create “Metatronic” patterns, overseen by archangel Metatron. It became increasingly apparent that the Earth was a multi-levelled complex being who is able to respond to the consciousness of the humans passing through. It would make a story book in itself to explain how this two-way interconnection manifested.
Jackie Queally starts to Write
My itineraries meant I in effect became the first external guide to take people to Rosslyn Chapel, where I would explain how the carvings related to esoteric mysteries. I wrote two esoteric guides to the chapel as well as other books of poetry and legends. As the Da Vinci Code book and film took their grip on the media, the landscape changed in some ways. It became harder to create the space for visitors in which the outer and inner worlds could collide, as more and more man-made rules intruded at the various sites.
In 2008 I came for a sabbatical to Ireland where my parents were born. There I wrote more books on the spirituality of ley lines and nature. I stayed on longer than first intended, and in between doing some longer tours I learnt more healing modalities, and became very interested in learning how sound can be used in healing. Like my interest in sacred places, I had always been practised a little healing locally. My latest training is in Biofield Tuning which is a method using tuning forks on the human body and in the nearby energy field to integrate trauma and balance you. I was one of the first to train in this in Europe.
Resonant Activities of Jackie Queally continue in Scotland
For 16 years I chose to live on the edge of an area of outstanding natural beauty in the west of Ireland, known as The Burren. I often used tuning forks before toning with the energies that resonated with each place. I also used my special gong as this is such a healing instrument. Why?Well, Sound helps you tune into the resonance. or vibrations, of a site. It brings you into the here and now. Dowsing also helps you link into the specific energetic imprints of a site. Our energetic bodies both reflect and respond to the energetic bodies of the Earth. Can you spot the aura round my head on the left as I am dowse? I believe this occurs when dowsing as I draw on my higher self to sense the energies and so the energy fields are magnified enough to show up in photography, Often the most magnificent lights appear when I play my gong in nature. It is possible to rapidly expand your energy body by simple exercises performed outside in tune with nature.
Learning to dowse on an Earthwise Course
Eventually in 2017 I trained in Biofield Tuning where I found a steady demand for tuning with clients from all over Ireland. Then in May 2024 I moved back to Scotland, hopefully to write another book and also to continue my workshops that combine Biofield Tuning with trees in addition to with people. I base the tree work on my research into the annual cycle of the trees.
I currently (2024) am studying the sacred movements of the Universal White Brotherhood started by Peter Deunov in Bulgaria who lived around the same time period as Rudolf Steiner.Both of these great mystics brought enlightened thinking in the western world. To me the movements with chants of Deunov’s Paneurythmy is akin to moving the Qi in Qi Gong but with a more focussed intent. Both are based on knowledge of the subtle bodies.
Jackie Queally’s Love of Trees and Honouring the Earth
Since then I revisited the Celtic theme I wrote of in my first book in 1999, creating Celtic tree workshops. So far I have worked a month in Nova Scotia, and also all over Ireland and in the UK. I based these workshops on information in my latest book Reconnecting with Celtic Trees. In 2017 I led a series of Celtic festive walks that follow the Celtic Tree calendar. In 2018 I spoke on the Celtic Trees at a series of live talks. Celtic Trees hold many keys to understanding the shift taking place. I view this talk as an ignition key for an online series I am creating in Tree Wisdom. I continue to offer new experiential workshops that connect with the earth.
For example, in 2014 is an instance of when I felt there was something else I could offer. One day, while going to deliver some of my books to an art gallery on the coast, I saw a special book on sale. The author was Slovenian healer/artist Marko Pogacnik. His book Sacred Geography touched a deep chord, as my own thoughts were mirrored throughout the pages. So I immediately signed up for his course, which was taking place in Germany. It entailed a long journey across Ireland and Germany to get there. However it was well worth it. His Gaia Touch exercises carried elements of Rudolf Steiner’s knowledge which I respect. (I am a trained Steiner teacher.)
Marko’s style of delivery is similar to my own. He allows people to experience the mystery and power of these life-affirming exercises, always in their own way, in freedom. I find a profound simplicity in Gaia Touch exercises that enable people to feel the Earth as a divine, multi-levelled presence within them. I feel I met a kindred spirit in Marko, whose dedicatory research and work with Gaia began many decades ago. To my delight he invited me to work with him in 2015 in Ireland and Scotland as his assistant and guide respectively. I decided it was time to launch Earthwise, which is a composite site for the various things I do. I hope it will help people become aware of the Earth as a living cosmic being In 2017 I led a series of Celtic festive walks that follow the Celtic Tree calendar. . Celtic Trees hold many keys to understanding the shift taking place. I view this talk as an ignition key for an online series I am creating in Earth Wisdom.