There is a saying:"Have faith, though it beonly in a stone, and you'll recover..."
As gadgets go, the pendulum is extremely useful and has been so since even before the wheel was invented. Legend has it that it was the inventor of the pendulum who also invented the wheel. Practically speaking, while the pendulum's uses are limited only to what we are yet unable to imagination, Dr. Deepak Chopra experiments with the idea our minds have the literal power to move objects, so the pendulum as an object to move is a starting point in developing the mind's strength.
First through minimal awareness in focusing on both our mind that we should have intimate contact with when, as they say, we're together, and onto an object and making it move as a direct result of exercising the power of the mind. Deepak Chopra's experiment (as demonstrated on the Oprah show) goes something like this:
He first suggests that the
pendulum be held between the thumb and forefinger, rest the elbow on the
knee (or a table top). Then mentally have the idea that the pendulum is
moving back and forth (say from east to west). Once it starts moving
back and forth in the desired direction, change the idea in your mind
that instead of swinging in that direction (east and west), instead
it is swinging in another direction (north and south). After it does
it, mentally have the idea it is swinging in a circle, and when it
begins in a clockwise or counterclockwise movement, have the idea that
it is swinging in wider and wider circles. While the pendulum is still
swinging in its wider circles direction, have the idea that its direction
is reversing from clockwise to counterclockwise or visa versa.
The experiment works because expectancy determines outcome. As long as
you're not attached to the (expected) outcome, the (expected) outcome
will be guaranteed. In the real deal world, by simply having a handle
on penduluming longer range weather forecasting than is offered by the
weather services is entirely possible. Finding lost or hidden treasure
is a pendulum claim to relevance. Getting answers to yes and no questions
is a breeze with pendulum in hand. Knowing just exactly how many tablets
or capsules of any food supplement or medicinal herb to take is simply a
matter of holding the pendulum over any number of such tabs or caps and
letting the pendulum do its thing, or learning if one should even ingest
the substance or not is just a matter of watching the pendulum swing
(back and forth - east or west might mean yes or no; north and south
might mean no or yes, or more or less. A circular swinging clockwise
might mean there is no answer, and some say, a swinging of the pendulum
counter clockwise means it doesn't want to answer that question.
One must feel out the pendulum and determine how you and the stone do
together; either to learn its language or to train it to learn yours.
These things take time. Maybe as much as a minute or two, or as little
time as your first time out. Oprah caught on in less than 30 seconds.
Holding the pendulum lightly by the handle at the end of the chain,
and directing its swing with the idea of the stone moving, you can begin
to learn how it is, and how it is you react and choose to interact
or not. Set your own rules. Make north and south mean "yes" for example.
Concentrate on yes, holding the pendulum very still and then watch it
happen. Same for no. Same for there is no answer, if you believe it's
that easy, and clockwise or counterclockwise for it not answering at all.
One thing that is interesting though, for amateur magicians or mind-readers
is that the pendulum will generally swing in a circular manner when held
over the hand of a woman and/or north and south and east and west when
held over a man's hand.
The pendulum can also serve as a lie detector
for anyone except those who could beat a lie detector anyway. Techniques
can be developed for all kinds of guessing games - horse races, the
lottery; the stock market. Making a decision about what color to paint
your house or car, or on who to date and what to expect, or who not to
date or when to take a trip or not. Problem with someone throwing a
skunk into your horseshoe pit? With the pendulum, techniques may be
developed on learning who the culprit might have been using the alphabet,
and developing strategies on what to do about it might come in a
moment of honest meditation and practice with the pendulum. There is no
hocus pocus here. Say you are having trouble with members of a local
fraternal or business-promotion organization that even though you are
a member they don't promote your business, or because you aren't a member,
they throw roadblocks in the way of your doing business. Send an
anonymous (pendulum) gift to the president of the organization
(without this booklet, of course). The results will amaze you. The
results will amaze your friends. The results will make the bad guys
wonder what the hell is going on. Or, if you want to be in love with
someone who not only doesn't love you but in fact thinks he or she is
in love with someone else altogether...
Techniques may be developed as
were alluded to the in the skunk and horse shoe pit scenario, or
anonymously send a pendulum to the one you care about's lover, and to
the one you love. Wait a few days. You'll definitely get results.
Pendulums are not necessary in carrying out one's will over another.
People do it all the time, with just one look, that's all it took was
just one look. Others just say a word here or there. The pendulum
however gives the wearer or holder an opportunity to check his or her
own conscience before ever getting involved in most any unpleasant
situation in the first place, and if there is a way out of such a
situation, the pendulum has the means, in that it doesn't care, and that
because it's only a rock on a length of chain with a small silver ring for
a handle. The pendulum's only relation to the Creator is that it was
created. It has no creative power of its own. It can at best recreate
as in recreation, and amusement.
All the ingredients must be there
(in conscious thought) when working the pendulum (handle, chain and stone)
to affect or effect anything. In the idea, you can think of the rock as
the song, theme or a chant, reverberating within the bounds of the
(actual) non-conceptual universe, the closest thing in physics to that
which is actually created and infinite at the same time. The logic here
is that the universe doesn't have edges, whereas the Yin-Yang
(no relation) as demonstrated does. It's good to know the difference.
The reverb chant continues for the moment within the conceptual idea or
reality of time, i.e., also without beginning or end, unlike life time
as we know it. The chain may be thought and thought of as the link, which
it is, to the stone (idea), and to the small ring, a handle on which to
hold but not direct from. The rest is left to the imagination. For your
information and amusement.
AGATE Worn as a protective stone against: spiders and the scorpion
Pick up a tried and true pendulum
at any of the usual places:
Cheap Frills - Vintage Jewelry
Newport
Dad's Coins and Collectabes
Port Orford
Health 101
Waldport
Health Gallery
Gold Beach
Kaylan & Ashley Gifts - Jewelry
Aquarium Village
Dr.Yang's Herbs and Gems for Health
at mALLoregon.com
Planet
Yachats - Jewelry Healing Gems
Yachats
Silver Lining Boutique - Jewelry
Florence
The following excerpt from Bill Butler's I.F.
Stoned Newsletter may be of use. Obviously, some of these tricks should
not be played at home but if you do, some of these stones might be fun.
ALEXANDRITE A variety of Chrysoberyl. Shows green by day and red by artificial light. A parlor games and majickq show show stopper.
AMBER Aligned with the Sun, it protects against evil fortune and attacks from witches.
AMETHYST A protection against sorcery if the names of the Sun and the moon are inscribed upon it. The amulet is then tied to neck with the hairs of a peacock and the feathers of a swallow. Amethyst is also used as a protection against drunkenness, gout, poison, and outbursts of temper. It was said to improve memory, make its wearer gentle and amiable, and to give pleasant dreams when placed under the pillow.
AQUAMARINE A gem which is related with happy marriage. It has the property of being more brilliant in artificial than natural light. Fortunate for Scorpio, for Aries to a lesser degree. Curative value for disease of the throat, jaws, teeth. Preventative value for diseases of the stomach and liver.
BERYL The stone of St. Thomas. Protects against hypnotism. Green beryl is used for treating eye disease. Yellow-green beryl was employed in the treatment of jaundice and other liver complaints.
CAT'S EYE In an amulet this stone protects from witchcraft and death. It confers invisibility in battle.
CRYSTAL Earliest meaning is frozen ice, but it soon acquires its primary significance: for healing and protection and as a tool for seeing. Several Scottish clans had Crystal as a Stone of Victory. It was sometimes used as asubstitute for (divining with) diamond or polished coal.
DIAMOND Significant for both its extraordinary hardness and for its usefulness as a scrying glass. Reckoned since ancient times to be one of the most powerful of stones. Because of its hardness it could drive away the Devil himself; it protects against Evil Eye, renders all poisons neutral and cures madness. Symbolic of great power and sometimes of great wealth.
EMERALD is used to cure diseases of the eye, to protect against the Evil Eye and to ward off hypnotic influences. It is also a protection against epilepsy. It was said that the sight of an emerald struck such terror into the viper and cobra that their eyes leaped out of their head. It preserves a man from accident, and stimulates mental powers. Emeralds are symbolic of fidelity, unchanging love and can help the wearer to forecast events.
FIRE OPAL A hyachinthine-reddish variety of opal from Mexico. Opals are reckoned to be an evil stone, possessing the evil eye. But they are also said to be capable of relieving pain from eye diseases and of increasing the powers of the eyes and of the mind.
LAPIS LAZULI One of the most used stones in Egypt, India, Persia (Iran) and Mesopotamia (Iraq). It was used for seals, scarabs, memorial tablets and wearer of an amulet made from lapis lazuli was said (when worn by Royalty and the high) to be the wearing of God. Powdered it is administered for sleeplessness, fever, gallstones and melancholy. As late as the 19th Century it was still being used in Northern Greece to ward off calamities in general and to prevent miscarriage and abortion.
MOONSTONE Protects men against epilepsy. Insures good crops on fruit trees. Assists vegetation generally. Also protects against wandering of the mind and insanity.
ONYX Worn in India and Persia to protect against Evil Eye. Said to reduce pain in childbirth and to assist in delivery. Among other peoples it is thought to induce strife, cause contention between friends, bring nightmares and cause premature births.
RUBY Used to protect from witchcraft of all kinds, plague, pestilence and famine.
TURQUOISE Associated by the Hindus with Buddha who employed turquoise as a is believed to change color to warn the owner of impending death. It is said to protect from poisons, reptiles and eye disease. Turquoise also figures in ritual jewelry of New Mexico, Arizona and Northern Mexico.
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