Richard Webster - Pendulum Magic for Beginners: Tap Into Your Inner Wisdom (For Beginners (Llewellyns))

A pendulum is more than just a weight at the end of a string. It's a powerful tool that has been used in divination for thousands of years. It's a truth teller that can communicate with realms of the unknown.

Author Richard Webster explains how to choose a pendulum, and even how to make your own. He teaches you how to practice with it and hone your skills. Webster says the pendulum is much too important a device to be used solely for party tricks. You can use it for a myriad of practical and magical purposes to enhance your life.

This book teaches you how to use a pendulum to help you make choices, locate lost objects, resolve health problems, communicate with spirits, explore past lives, identify self-imposed negativity, find a job, make decisions, set goals-and more. When you're ready for more advanced magic, in the final chapter you will learn about Huna, the little-known methods practiced by the Hawaiian Kahunas to create magic and miracles.

Whether beginner or advanced practitioner, you can use your pendulum to create magic in your life, and to make your dreams come true.

Richard Webster was born in New Zealand in 1946, where he still resides. He travels widely every year, lecturing and conducting workshops on psychic subjects around the world. He has written many books, mainly on psychic subjects, and also writes monthly magazine columns. Richard is married with three children. His family is very supportive of his occupation, but his oldest son, after watching his father's career, has decided to become an accountant.

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LIKE MOST SMALL children, I believed in magic. The world was an exciting place, full of unexplained mysteries. I believed in nature spirits, fairies, and giants, and knew I had the ability to communicate with them. I could talk to rocks and trees in the same way. I believed I could make myself invisible and perform all sorts of other feats of real magic. There were new and exciting things to discover every day. I never knew what might be behind the next corner. It was a special, magical time in my life.

Gradually, though, I learned that most people did not approve of, accept, or even believe in, the idea of magic. I was supposed to cast away my fanciful ideas and live in the real world. There was no such thing as real magic. It was a sad and disillusioning time.

However, despite the efforts of well-meaning people, the magic never totally disappeared. Every now and again, I'd experience or sense something that could not be explained away in rational terms. The magic was still there! Real magic. It was hiding, just as it had been before, but there were ways of releasing it. One of the best ways of doing this is to use the pendulum.

The pendulum is a simple device, consisting of a weight attached to a chain or thread. It is arguably the most underrated item in the magician's arsenal, as it can reveal information that could not be learned in any other manner. The pendulum reads energy patterns. It is able to extract information from deep inside our subconscious minds.

Consequently, it is hard to understand why it is not used more than it is, because miracles can be achieved when it is used properly. It is the perfect device to unlock the secrets of the subconscious mind. With the pendulum, information can be transferred from the subconscious to the conscious mind, easily and effortlessly. It can also work the other way. We can use the pendulum to deliberately implant information into our subconscious minds. The potential of the pendulum is almost limitless. Despite this, many people consider the pendulum a toy or plaything and fail to see the incredible magic that can be done with it when it is used properly.

The pendulum is deceptively simple. With just a few minutes of practice, anyone can use it. This simplicity is wonder ful, but it has probably led many people to experiment with it briefly and then move on to something more complex. The pendulum is like anything else that is worthwhile and valuable. It takes practice to become an expert at it.

Not surprisingly, people who played with the pendulum and received vague or incorrect answers became disillusioned with it. I have met many people who played with impromptu pendulums as teenagers. Usually, they asked questions about the sex of unborn children, or the chances of a date on Saturday night. Because they did not know how to use the pendulum, the answers they received were often wrong. Not surprisingly, these people came to consider the pendulum to be nothing more than a childish plaything.

Over the years, I have introduced many people to the pendulum. In at least one case, knowledge of the pendulum has prevented many hospital visits. One of my students was allergic to MSG (monosodium glutamate), which is added to many foods to improve the flavor. Despite constantly asking that no MSG be added, every now and again it was, and my student would end up in the hospital. Nowadays, she carries her pendulum everywhere she goes and uses it to test her food for any sign of MSG before eating it.

In my work as a hypnotherapist, people regularly ask me to help them find lost or mislaid items. Frequently, instead of using hypnosis, I give them a pendulum and we use that to locate the missing item. Several years ago, a man came to me wanting to find his passport. A relative overseas had fallen ill and he needed to visit her as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, he had a fear that his passport would be stolen. Consequently, he hid it in one part of his home for a few weeks, before deciding that that hiding place was not secure enough. He then hid the passport somewhere else for a month or two, before choosing another place to conceal it. He had done this so many times that he had no idea where his passport was hidden. He had searched the house without success and came to me in desperation. I gave him a pendulum to hold, and we went through his house room by room. Ultimately, the pendulum told us exactly where his passport was hidden. My client was not convinced, as he had already looked in that spot. However, he went home and phoned me shortly afterward to say that he had found it. His passport had slid further back than he had thought, which was why he had not located it when he looked in the same place earlier.