Programming your Pendulum

Programming your Pendulum for Circular Movement

by Geoff Stuttaford
edited by the ISD Staff

In the December Issue of the British Society of Dowsers Dowsing Today, I noted an interesting letter from John Wills Browne, who had done some statistical work on standard pendulum responses.As I was engaged, at the time I read this letter, in convincing a couple of potential dowsers in the USA to adopt different response programming for their pendulums, in order to get more qualitative responses, I thought that I might pass on that programming, in case others may like to try it.

Synchronicity ?

I understand that many in the US have adopted the programming suggested in the Letter to Robin article, where responses from sources are illustrated by straight lines. It is evident that some of John Wills Browne's contributor's pendulums have similarly straight line responses. It is my belief, and also that of others I have converted, that in order to obtain a more defined reading from your pendulum, it is necessary that the pendulum perform a circular (rather than straight) movements for a Yes or a No answer.

While I have nothing against straight line programming, because it obviously works, I find I can get different qualities of both Yes and No answers, by using circular programming. In other words, I can get responses like Maybe or Maybe Not, if my source is not sure of the answer. Also I cannot answer your question at this time or a normal Yes or even a WOW ! together with the equivalent movement on the negative side. Circular movements can give much more expressive responses and allow your source(s) a little more freedom of expression.

This is how I program my pendulum to respond to my questions.(mine is a half inch diameter steel or brass hexagonal nut on a 1.5" long bit of thread) When I pick up my pendulum it immediately goes into a straight line North/South READY swing.
(See note 1 below)

When I wish to get in touch with one of my sources, there will be a pause of a few seconds, before my pendulum starts to swing in a circular YES movement, with the pendulum being almost horizontal,indicating that a connection has been made. (I have found that, at in this particular stage, I am connecting with the high energy of an external source).

If the answer to one of my questions is a normal YES, the pendulum will circle at an angle of 45 degrees between vertical and horizontal.

If the answer is WOW! or DEFINITELY SO, the pendulum will circle as near as it can get to the horizontal.

The answers of normal NO and DEFINITELY NOT are the equivalent angles but with the pendulum revolving in the opposite direction. It doesn't matter which way the pendulum goes for a YES or a NO answer as long as they are in opposite directions and it follows a circular path.

There is one other circular motion when the pendulum rotates with a diameter of between one and one and a half inches in a YES direction . This can mean one of two things, when you are asking questions about certain things. First that the source you want to connect with is busy and cannot attend to you at that moment, (get back to in five minutes sort of thing); secondly, that you are not connecting with the source that you want to connect with , an interference, in fact. You have to dowse which is which.

MAYBE or MAYBE NOT (where doubt exists, on the part of your source, as to the possible accuracy of the answer) can be obtained by using elliptical (egg shaped) movements in either positive or negative directions.

Note 1 : If your pendulum continues to move in the READY position for some time and you are getting no response, you can dowse which of the following applies :

Is it because the answer is not known ? or
Is it because the question is not understood ? or
Is it because the question is too complicated ? or
Is it because should the question be re-phrased ? or
Is it because I am not allowed to know this information ?

You should get an answer to one of those questions.

Finally, I have found that we obtain information either from an internal (sub-conscious/ higher self) source, or an external source (whatever we may believe that source to be) depending on the nature and subject of the questions.

When you have programmed your pendulum to follow whatever response procedure you wish to adopt, your pendulum will respond in the same way to replies from all sources. I must admit that when I get a WOW! response, the pendulum movement is so strong , it threatens to take my arm off !

Geoff Stuttaford

Dalai Lama in Brain Scan Research

Scans of Monks' Brains Show Meditation Alters Structure &Function
By Sharon Begley
November 5 , 2004

The Wall Street Journal (Copyright (c) 2004, Dow Jones &Company, Inc.)


All of the Dalai Lama's guests peered intently at the brain scan
projected onto screens at either end of the room, but what different
guests they were. On one side sat five neuroscientists, united in
their belief that physical processes in the brain can explain all
the wonders of the mind, without appeal to anything spiritual or
nonphysical. Facing them sat dozens of Tibetan Buddhist monks in
burgundy-and-saffron robes, convinced that one round-faced young man
in their midst is the reincarnation of one of the Dalai Lama's late
teachers, that another is the reincarnation of a 12th-century monk,
and that the entity we call "mind" is not, as neuroscience says,
just a manifestation of the brain.

It was not, in other words, your typical science meeting.

But although the Buddhists and scientists who met for five days last
month in the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India, had different
views on the little matters of reincarnation and the relationship of
mind to brain, they set them aside in the interest of a shared
goal. They had come together in the shadows of the Himalayas to
discuss one of the hottest topics in brain science: neuroplasticity.

The term refers to the brain's recently discovered ability to change
its structure and function, in particular by expanding or
strengthening circuits that are used and by shrinking or weakening
those that are rarely engaged. In its short history, the science of
neuroplasticity has mostly documented brain changes that reflect
physical experience and input from the outside world. In pianists
who play many arpeggios, for instance, brain regions that control
the index finger and middle finger become fused, apparently because
when one finger hits a key in one of these fast-tempo movements, the
other does so almost simultaneously, fooling the brain into thinking
the two fingers are one. As a result of the fused brain regions,
the pianist can no longer move those fingers independently of one
another.

LATELY, HOWEVER, scientists have begun to wonder whether the brain
can change in response to purely internal, mental signals. That's
where the Buddhists come in. Their centuries-old tradition of
meditation offers a real-life experiment in the power of those will-
o'-the-wisps, thoughts, to alter the physical matter of the brain.

"Of all the concepts in modern neuroscience, it is neuroplasticity
that has the greatest potential for meaningful interaction with
Buddhism," says neuroscientist Richard Davidson of the University of
Wisconsin, Madison.

The Dalai Lama agreed, and he encouraged monks to donate
(temporarily) their brains to science. The result was the scans
that Prof. Davidson projected in Dharamsala. They compared brain
activity in volunteers who were novice meditators to that of
Buddhist monks who had spent more than 10,000 hours in meditation.
The task was to practice "compassion"meditation, generating a
feeling of loving kindness toward all beings.

"We tried to generate a mental state in which compassion permeates
the whole mind with no other thoughts," says Matthieu Ricard, a
Buddhist monk at Shechen Monastery in Katmandu, Nepal, who holds a
Ph.D. in genetics.

IN A STRIKING difference between novices and monks, the latter
showed a dramatic increase in high-frequency brain activity called
gamma waves during compassion meditation. Thought to be the
signature of neuronal activity that knits together far-flung brain
circuits, gamma waves underlie higher mental activity such as
consciousness. The novice meditators "showed a slight increase in
gamma activity, but most monks showed extremely large increases of a
sort that has never been reported before in the neuroscience
literature," says Prof. Davidson, suggesting that mental training
can bring the brain to a greater level of consciousness.

Using the brain scan called functional magnetic resonance imaging,
the scientists pinpointed regions that were active during compassion
meditation. In almost every case, the enhanced activity was greater
in the monks' brains than the novices'. Activity in the left
prefrontal cortex (the seat of positive emotions such as happiness)
swamped activity in the right prefrontal (site of negative emotions
and anxiety), something never before seen from purely mental
activity. A sprawling circuit that switches on at the sight of
suffering also showed greater activity in the monks. So did regions
responsible for planned movement, as if the monks' brains were
itching to go to the aid of those in distress. "It feels like a
total readiness to act, to help," recalled Mr. Ricard.

The study will be published next week in Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences. "We can't rule out the possibility that there
was a pre-existing difference in brain function between monks and
novices," says Prof. Davidson, "but the fact that monks with the
most hours of meditation showed the greatest brain changes gives us
confidence that the changes are actually produced by mental
training."

That opens up the tantalizing possibility that the brain, like the
rest of the body, can be altered intentionally. Just as aerobics
sculpt the muscles, so mental training sculpts the gray matter in
ways scientists are only beginning to fathom.

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