The Power of the Pendulum (Arkana) [Mass Market Paperback]

T. C. Lethbridge (Author), Colin Wilson (Author), Mina Lethbridge (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1995 | Series: Arkana

This is a conclusion to the author's lifelong study of the worlds of the unexplained. Through his experience with the pendulum and his work with dreams, Lethbridge concluded that there are other realms of reality beyond this one and that the soul is probably immortal.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (March 1, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0140190465
• ISBN-13: 978-0140190465
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 4.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,322,929 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Scientist, explorer and dowser, December 12, 2004

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Jack Purcell (Placitas, NM USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Power of the Pendulum (Arkana) (Mass Market Paperback)

The publisher hasn't provided information about the surprising book and the impressive author while managing this title. I'll begin by restating information located in the blurb inside the front cover:

"T.C. Lethbridge, who died in 1971, was an archaeologist, psychic researcher, dowser and explorer. He was for thirty years Director of Excavations for the Cambridge Antiquarian Society and for the University Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He was on three Arctic expeditions, several Hebridean exploratory expeditions and two voyages to the Baltic in square-rigged sailing ships. He was also, as Colin Wilson wrote, 'one of the most remarkable and original minds in parapsychology'."

What isn't included in the blurb, but is offered by Lethbridge in his book, is that for many years he used dowsing to locate and identify archaeological ruins, establish excavation priorities, and many other matters in his life. When this book was written he made this admission because he was retired and the information could no longer bring sneers rebukes from his peers and damage his professional prospects. Lethbridge harbored no illusions about the open-mindedness of the scientific community concerning matters such as dowsing.

Lethbridge did his best to make a 'science' of dowsing. The methods he describes worked for him. Evidently, he believed those methods were necessary.

Other dowsers, myself included, use different methods which, we believe, work equally well. On the other hand, many of us have used Lethbridges methods and found them to be successful.

I recommend this book to anyone interested in dowsing, either as a practicioner, or just as an interested bystander who'd like to learn about dowsing from a scientist who dowsed but couldn't admit it to his fellow scientists.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It's Not Just About Dowsing, October 16, 2010

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Johns (London, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Power of the Pendulum (Arkana) (Mass Market Paperback)

T.C. Lethbridge's books are becoming ever more expensive as the years go by. This is his final, posthumous book, and also I think the first to have chapter titles. The titles give a clue to the contents of the book: Our Great Dilemma, Time, Mood & Dreams, Dreams, Debates on Dreams, Types of Dreams, Pendulum Rates, Bio-Electronics, Dreams, Breeding & Heredity, Telepathy, Future Memories, Heredity, 'George', or the Superconscious and Only Allah Is All-Knowing. J.W. Dunne's Experiment with Time and its implications for free will are discussed. If the future has already happened then is free will limited to how a person reacts to events that have already occurred? As for faith, Lethbridge declares that it is the last thing someone wants as it means the exclusion of powers of reasoning from the observation of facts. Following on from this he speculates that it would be boring for God if people did not try to evolve their minds. With his pendulum, he attempts to explore the after-death state. He states how he had assumed that once the body dies, the mind browses its storehouse of memories until it can't be bothered to continue its existence. But the pendulum indicated otherwise. I think that perhaps to get the best from this book that Dunne's Experiment with Time should be read first.