The power of the pendulum

By Thomas Charles Lethbridge

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1850630038
• ISBN13: 9781850630036
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Law Book Co of Australasia
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.5" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Scientist, explorer and dowser

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.