Hi everyone,
as promised I've prepared something to (hopefully) gain more "objective" knowledge about the pendulum. Forgive me my awkward english as it's not my mother tongue - if something is barely or not at all understandable, tell me!
I would be really happy to see many people participate in this group experiment. Your input will be very important for everyone to see how the pendulum behaves. If you pick up the pendulum, your confidence to it more or less depends on your beliefs. If you are unsure of its possibilities, if you are afraid of weird astral entities communicating with you, if you think your subconscious tells you a story - why should you believe someone who says that there is no danger at all involved, that it is in fact some intelligent "other side" you are communicating with? We have people who trust it (maybe too much), we have people who question it (maybe too much). If you have different opinions about a certain thing, it often may lead to more insight if you manage to find a bigger model which embraces all the opinions - which can show how one person can be right and wrong at the same time, depending on the point of view, the definition of the vocabulary involved and the focus on specific details. Can the pendulum give objective answers? What is objectivity? Can it tell about things outside of your (sub)consciousness? Are its answers totally made up by your mind? What is true? Does truth exist? What is truth? I want to find answers to these (and many more) questions. Not only for myself, for everyone.
The following list of questions is very rough - just some things I collected during the last 3 days and which seemed suitable for this purpose. I believe this will give us only a blurred picture about the pendulums possibilities - if the results look promising, there will be many many things to delve further into by fine-tuning the questions and going more into detail together. The difficulty in finding good questions is that almost everything depends on how we see things. If you take as an example "Is meditation necessary for spiritual development?" you cannot simply ask the question, get an answer and that's it. What is mediation for you? Is it sitting in the grass, doing nothing? Is it listening to music? Is meditation for you a word which encompasses multiple different activities or concepts? Or is it only a certain, well defined technique you are thinking about when you say "meditation"? It could well be that 2 persons talking superficially about meditation are talking about completely different things, and this could be the case with almost every word we use. We attribute certain meanings to certain words, based on our education, our society, our personality and so on. We don't ask the same questions, even if they are identically if written down in words. "Spiritual development" - I hear this phrase so often, but what does it mean for a person talking about it? Is it showing love and being kind to everyone? Is it being able to astral project? Is it seeing visions? Is it being able to talk telepathically to a guide? So -
the answer depends not only on the question, but also on the questioner! It is by challenging your belief set and seeing how you "define" your world that you can change how you percieve it and be open for other possibilities you did not see before.
If you want to participate please follow these simple
guidelines:
1) Take your time! You don't have do to all the questions in one rush. Maybe you find a question about a topic you are interested in - dig into it, explore it. This will show you what the words you phrased the question with mean for you, only in this way will you be able to fully understand the answer. People who have difficulties finding things to ask may get some starters here, also.
2) For every question, write down the answer of the pendulum - and if you notice something peculiar about its movement please note it, too! Did it just go to the "Yes" swing, did it go clockwise or anticlockwise first, can't it decide between "Yes" or "No" and so on.. everything is important and has significance here, as we want to know more about the mechanics of the pendulum.
3) Please tell me also if you think you are using the pendulum correctly. Are sure about its movements? Do you clearly recognize the answer, or is it sometimes difficult? Or are you already used to it and have a good connection, a good feeling?
4) When you are done, please send me your results via Private Message or e-mail. Do
NOT post them in this thread, as everyone should get the answers independently, without the possibility of being influenced by other members' answers.
5) Feel free to write me any comments or ideas. I urge you to.
I will wait 7 days for your answers and post a summary/analysis afterwards. You may notice that there are different types of questions - but I'll leave that for next week.
The questions:1. Does 1 plus 1 equal 3?
2. Is meditation necessary for spiritual development?
3. Does God exist?
4. Did Atlantis exist?
5. Are extraterrestrial beings on earth?
6. Does karma exist?
7. Does eating meat make people aggressive?
8. Was Jesus born in a stable?
9. Is the sun a conscious being?
10. Did Ernest Rutherford die in 1937?
11. Do Dragons exist as they are commonly depicted?
12. Does everyone have a spirit guide?
13. Are all the secret chambers in the Cheops pyramid already discovered?
14. Can masturbation cause bad eyesight?
15. Are there persons living on earth today that are older than 150 years?
16. Does the pendulm always tell the truth?
17. Are plants able to feel pain?
18. Do plants grow on Saturn?
19. Are plants able to suffer?
20. Did Isis ressurect Osiris after his death?
21. Was Osiris the brother of Isis?
22. Is it possible to build a perpetuum mobile?
23. Do human beings normally reincarnate?
24. Do things stored inside of a pyramid get dehydrated and conservated?
25. Did Graham Bell build the first telephone in 1872?
26. Did the flood reported of in the bible really happen?
27. Is the average livespan of men higher than that of women?
28. Is a circle perfectly round?
29. Do people often have fear of changes in their life?
30. Does intelligent life exist on Jupiter?
31. Is it possible to cure diseases by prayer?
32. Should humanity show more respect to nature?
33. Was Abu Bark Muhammad ibn Zakariya Ar-Razi an Astronomer living in Bagdad?
34. Does a cat have personality?
35. Does a personality cease to exist after death?
36. Does the sun rise in the east?
37. Does a cold shower help with astral projection?
38. Does everyone have the same number of chakras?
39. Did Demokrit had bad eyesight in the last few weeks of his life?
40. Is telepathy between humans possible?
41. Do angels exist?
42. Are crop circles made by humans?
43. Does the calendar of the mayas end on 21st December 2012?
44. Does the pendulum give random answers?
45. Does smoking cause cancer?
46. Will medicine be able to cure cancer in 10 years?
47. Is astral projection only imagination?
48. Did members of the government of the USA know that the World Trade Center would be attacked on September 11, 2001?
49. Is the human body designed to drink milk?
50. Did Mohammed migrate from Medina to Mekka in order to spread his teachings?
51. Can anything move faster than light?
52. Are the pleiadians kinky creatures?
I seperated these remaing questions from the others because of their special nature. What you need to know: I hereby declare that the answers to the following questions about my personal life should be available to everyone. Particularly, every person participating in this group experiment should be allowed to get answers to these questions. This is my will. If you want, you can see the answers at
http://edi.ganymed.org/pendulum.html ... I wonder if this will work as expected

By the way, the Danube is the big river which flows through Vienna, the city I am living in at the moment.
The personal questions:53. Am I allowed to get answers to the following personal questions about Edi?
54. Does he have hair on his head longer than 5cm / 2 inches ?
55. Did he ever had a bone fracture?
56. Does he have a pet?
57. Is he able to run very fast?
58. Does he snowboard?
59. Does he think he spends too much time with computers?
60. Are martial arts an important part of his life?
61. Can he juggle with 5 balls?
62. Can he do the handstand for more than 30 seconds?
63. Does he drink much tea?
64. Does he own a skateboard?
65. Does he avoid eating meat whenever possible?
66. Does he like to dance to electronic music?
67. Did he ever swim across the Danube River?