Saved by a Pendulum

How funny that this article showed up today. My mother bought me a pendulum when I was 15 so I could align my chakras. It had been sitting unused in my jewelry box for the past five years, but about a month ago I pulled it out because I felt a sudden urge to realign my chakras. It's been sitting in a prominent spot on my desk ever since. I guess now is a good time to really start using it! These are very helpful tips. I can't wait to see what it has to say.

Muscle testing can also be used for assessing the subconscious. Anyone here familiar with Kinesiology, or simply muscle testing itself?

 

 -Daniel Efros

the truth is not out there. we are here.

Funny, hardly explains it. Sure Im a couple days late,, but Its still funny.. I have an auntie who is a... I really hate to call her names, espessially (that) name. So I'll just say that she is "transcending her spiritual realities". I have been able to conect with her on these spiritual ideals.. Well she had gone to New York city on a sister weekend. Sister weekends are somthing she and my mom and their other sisters do once a year. Funny.. she just called me.. as Im typing this Any ways, New York city is all the way across the states, whereas I live in Washington State. So I asked her to bring me back a crystal from New York, which it would mean a lot to me, and I would pay for it. Well just today, I had recieved it, for free as a gift from her to me. A purple crystal pendulam chain! It sits in my possession now, and I would have to say it is the single most beautiful most meaningfull most treasured gift I had ever recieved from any one. It is something that will remain close to me always, and I am very thankfull to my Aunt. and because it was a gift from specifically her, makes it even more valuable to me. Words couldn't explain how Im feeling right now. There is an energy in this pendelum, and Im estatic about it! Again I just got to say Thank you Aunt Tammy..

I would like to know if you all can take your swinging wights and ask the following questions...

How many children do I have?

1, 2, 3, 4?

Which one is my favorite food?

Speghetti
Steak
Pizza
Hamburger

What is my favorite color?

Red
Green
Blue
Yellow

How many people are in my apartment right now?

1
2
3
4

What was my nickname as a child?

Stumpy
Weener
Blue
Bubba

What am I holding in my hand as I write this?

Pen
Quarter
Goop
Pipe

How many keys are on my key ring?

1
2
3
4

What name was on my father's birth cirtificate?

Joseph
Edward
Charles
Peter

What was the name of my Godfather?

Dave
Richard
Mike
Bill

Who just called me on my phone?

My brother
My son
My ex-wife
A bill collector
 

OK, swing away...

OK, so I encountered this pendulum kit at my local Borders a couple weeks ago and it intrigued me, but I put it back on the shelf. Then a couple days ago I read this post when it was fresh without comments. I had the urge to comment at that time but held back as I wanted to see what kind of discussion would take place after the initial posting.

 

My initial reaction was to be intrigued but skeptical. Perhaps I misread the post or misinterpreted it. But, I was a bit dismayed by the prospective application of the pendulum for making nearly any and all seemingly ordinary decisions we make on a daily basis. This seems to me to be an unhealthy dependence on divination as a tool to guide one's life and discounts our own innate common sense and intuition. As exhibited by the last post, it is ridiculous to use such a tool to answer such mundane as "how many keys are on my keyring?". Of course, I think that that most likely the previous post-er's point.

 

I do consult a number of different types of divination tools from time to time. Just as I ask for help from my coworkers from time to time when I need advice. But I see these tools as helping me to access those areas of my unconscious or 'uber consciousness' that I seem to be blocking or are clouded for whatever reasons. I am also of the opinion that we all must be careful not to ever interpret any kind of divination, intuition, vision, advice, or what have you, in a literal and concrete sense. Unless of course the advice is similar to "don't eat yellow snow" or "pay your bills on time and you won't be evicted". However, to me, a literal approach is a slippery slope to fundamentalism and extremism of all kinds. I believe we were given the gifts of reason and rationale as vital and primary tools, although this has also become an unhealthy dependency and consequence of modern life.

 

I think it is important to understand all divination messages as mythological vs. historical fact or literal prophecy. This does not in any way diminish the potency of the message. In fact I believe it helps us inform our rational objective reality. I think of it as sort of a 'cosmic nudge' in the direction of divine synchronicity. In other words, helping get us in sync and connected to the world (and universe) around us. But my feeling is that it is dangerous to abuse these tools by acting directly on the messages as literal 'messages from beyond' or whatever.

 

I want to affirm that I am absolutely respectful and affirm the author's thoughts, investigations, and experiences. I think they are important and valid. I advocate a healthy investigation and experimentation into practical applications of these 'technologies', but these need to be coupled by use of reason and rationale. I am thankful that this community is available to facilitate such discussions as this.

 

Amituofo

This is probably one of the most artful pieces I ever watched on making decisions in life. Like I said above, "Sometimes all you have is your belt." And that might even work. Anyway, I guess you are not a weiner or loser.

I tried the pendulum thing yesterday. I thought about contacting an old lover of mine who never responds to me. Well the pendulum told me no that I should not try to contact her but my heart said otherwise... "Of course you shouldn't listen to this pendulum," said my heart. "Show her that you are thinking about her today -- it just might make her day. And so I just wrote her a little email note that merely wished her a Happy Birthday.

I'm glad I didn't listen to that pendulum... O and here's that artful vid about choices we make in life...  Life on the pot.

Why thank you, Kell..

I thought innerev and Cj both brought up some good points in this discussion. As useful as these tools may be, when consulting a pendulum (or whatever your mode of divination may be) on literally every possible decision one may make throughout a lifetime, one runs the risk of voiding their own free will and relegating themselves into the position of a mere channel or medium who simply receives cosmic or otherworldly information without actually making any of their own choices. This amounts to too much of a good thing. I agree with innerev on the fact that these experiences are completely relevant and important, yet must be integrated with our own personal experience, rather than following its answers without any thought. I also have to whole heartedly agree with Cj on the fact that in a world filled with relentless clamor and noise, it can be difficult to find a quiet refuge within yourself. We often get in our own way and hamper our own abilities more severely than anyone else ever could. Sometimes I think that many of the problems we're faced with as individuals, as well as on a macroscopic level, are due to an overabundance of thought rather than lack of it. What is that Alan Watts quote? "Belief clings and faith lets go."? Sorry, I digress..

It's kind of funny how much I agree and disagree with you simultaneously. So many of your words ring true and strike chords within me that make me want to shout out "yes, man!", yet other sentences have the exact opposite effect. Gotta' love a living and breathing paradox. I suppose I have to blame any disparities on language itself. I feel that we both are most likely on the same page, yet we're swimming in a sea of semantics and getting lost in the context of it all. In no means do I imply that you're twisting my words, because I don't believe that to be the case. Yet when I uttered the phrase, "too much of a good thing", I really do believe that this simple and proverbial statement can apply to many of the situations we encounter throughout our crazy and often tumultous lives.

As you previously mentioned, even "honorable" or "purposeful" acts, such as singing or meditation, can be detrimental if practiced in excess. If one chooses to practice meditation excessively, then that person chooses to think and meditate about life rather than actually live it. If one chooses to sing excessively, (and being a musician, I can attest to this fact) it is likely that one will cause damage to the vocal chords, which in turn will hamper their very own capability to sing. Again, words are nothing more than symbols, so it's hard for me to ever disagree with anyone, much less someone as insightful as yourself...I feel that we are all pointing towards the same, or a similar ideal, yet because we use different and subjective symbols to interpret and categorize reality, it is easy to disagree with someone who sees the exact same picture as yourself, yet in an alien and unfamiliar perspective. The difference is negligible.

And as far as cosmic mumbo jumbo goes...I guess I can't really differentiate between mumbo jumbo and meaning. Both are preconceptions, nothing more than ideas and opinions which we have already formulated in our minds due to our past experiences. If we believe the pendulum will work, it will. If we don't, it will not. How could it? The only point of reference, of truth, is yourself. Yet "yourself" may be more vast than imaginable. It's reminiscent of the conundrum of quantum physics...is there such a thing as reality without a conscious point of awareness to observe it? This is a fascinating subject because it points to the interconnectedness between all things, inanimate or alive. Although a pendulum may be an inanimate object, a mere weighted string, it is our collective energy that makes it swing. A string is just a string and a weight is nothing more than a weight. The meaning which we assign to these objects is completely and utterly subjective and dependent upon personal experience. Revelation is the predecessor of revolution. It is not the pendulum which reveals revelation, but our very own selves. It's nothing more than a silly self-deception that operates on many levels, whether we are aware of it or not.. A good old fashioned iceberg principle.

For starters, the iris sees and forces us to accept what we see as our literal vision of reality. Because, if you see something, it must be real...right? Pfffft...Not to mention the fact that we all think in language, and any attempt to do otherwise is impossible. Seeing as how every thought we think, even the very thoughts we hold most private, personal and dear to us, are comprised of borrowed symbols from our ancestors, how can we truly say that we're thinking our own unique thoughts? Language has done unfathomable wonders for us, yet we can no longer deny its limitations. We must play our role in the dance of evolutionary ridiculousness.

Again, I digress...I guess I'm the Holden Caulfield of RS. Yet, I can't help but giggle when we attempt to speak about one aspect of life as if were possible to separate and section off a particular moment from the endless string of moments that either precede or follow it. These efforts are all in vain. It is useless to try to describe one isolated event when it is clear that there is truly no such thing as an isolated event, or even such a thing as isolation...period. These are nothing more than human conventions that exist only within ourselves, and have no fundamental validity in the external world.

Essentially, we influence our world much more than we'd like to believe. Many folk like to fashion themselves as helpless pawns being tossed about by the winds and waves of chaotic whimsy, yet neglect the most important fact that one could ever learn; the single most important facet of humanity at large: CHOICE! To paraphrase the upanishads (and certain esotetic schools of quantum mechanics), we literally create our own existence. For this reason, I believe in the benefits of different tools of divination whether or not I may or may not personally participate in their use. Whether it be a pendulum, the I Ching, Tarot cards, mushrooms, or even a coin toss, I have a nagging suspicion that these methods only corroborate and affirm certain and inexplicable things that have already existed within ourselves since time immemorial, things that we have already known to be true, despite the fact that they may not have been actualized by our conscious minds, left to dwell in the depths of our unconscious psyches until, due to their suppression, explode into our realities without warning...

arghhhhhhhhh...it's a lot to wrap your noggin around.

I just find the heart a much better tool.

It is important that you don't get invested in the outcome. If this is the case, you should remember the answer may be clouded by your personal investment.

 

Well, If I wasn't invested in the outcome, I wouldn't need to ask the question! Fortunately, or unfortunately for pendulums and myself...I am invested in all possible outcomes.

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