“Seth material” search engine (Jane Roberts)

Your own positive action with the pendulum and in your personal life with Ruburt has been most beneficial, and resulted in the kind of support he needed at this time.

The dreams he had tried to give him warning of probabilities, and he should have questioned me or used the pendulum. [...]

[...] The pendulum sessions are helping indeed. [...]

^* In 1974 I wrote in Jane/Seth’s The Nature of Personal Reality: “The pendulum is a very old method. [...] By mentally asking questions, I obtain ‘yes’ or ‘no’ answers according to whether the pendulum swings back and forth, or from side to side.”

[...] He begins with the pendulum and drops it, but neither do you encourage him to persist.

[...] The pendulum is excellent, particularly when you do it together. [...]

[...] Unknown to me Jane used her pendulum in her workroom. When we sat for the session around 9 PM, Jane said her pendulum told her that the symptoms were caused by the house we lived in, and, specifically, by the original owner. [...]

[...] We had no idea if Jane’s pendulum data was the magic we were looking for, but at least we hadn’t considered this idea before. [...]

[...] Is he saying that these influences were those indicated by Jane’s pendulum this evening?)

The pendulum work and the ideas on the part of the intuitive self began the process, but then the emotional state had to be quieted from a peak condition in order for the session to proceed.

[...] According to my own troubles, my pendulum insisted that I did not have a cold, even though I had all the symptoms. [...] My pendulum also told me that communication problems involving Jane, other than the TV show question, caused the “cold,” etc.

(Since I have great faith in the pendulum, I wanted to know why it insisted that I did not have a cold—when I had felt poor indeed all week. I hadn’t tried to do any in-depth probing with the pendulum.)

(I spent the afternoon using the pendulum and compiling a list of foods Jane shouldn’t eat, according to my own subconscious ideas. [...]

[...] (Re Jane’s own use of the pendulum after breakfast.)

Were it not for the close connection between you, you would not have been able to receive the material that you did through the pendulum.

[...] You should discuss any daily issues that seem troublesome when they occur, or check them with the pendulum—one or the other. [...]

You can, of course, always use the pendulum, as you used to, both of you, to indicate what portions of the house you each personally prefer to use for certain activities. [...]

[...] On June 5 I held a two-hour pendulum session of my own, concerning Jane’s symptoms, and received some revealing answers about the role I have played in them. [...]

[...] Perhaps my pendulum session recently helped her become aware of her own feelings in this way.

[...] I also missed it in my pendulum session. [...]

[...] You hit upon several important items in your own pendulum sessions. [...]

You spoke of the pendulum (at last break). Again, labels are somewhat implicated, for you each thought you worked well with the pendulum, but that Ruburt did not. [...]

The pendulum will not work, of course, if your self-disapproval is paramount, for then you cannot trust your own answers. [...]

(I told Jane that the other day the pendulum had told me I hurt the rib as self-punishment because of my resentment of the visit of Tom D’Orio and friends. [...] My own bout with using the pendulum had been very brief. [...]

[...] I don’t know if you’ll agree: You can check with the pendulum. [...]

You are of great benefit when you help Ruburt with the pendulum sessions. [...]

(“I’m probably not correct on all the conclusions I make during the pendulum sessions, though.”)

(I told Jane I’d thought of using the pendulum after the session to get at the cause of the hand phenomenon, since I didn’t want to interrupt book dictation by asking Seth about it. [Briefly for those who have asked me: The pendulum is a very old method. [...] By mentally asking questions, I obtain “yes” or “no” answers according to whether the pendulum swings back and forth, or from side to side.]

[...] The pendulum would be a method of allowing you to view conscious material that is not structured to recognized beliefs. [...]

(“That’s what the pendulum told me a few months ago.”)

[...] The few simple suggestions he knows I mean are to be given with the pendulum night and morning. [...]

[...] Just before the session I asked my pendulum a few questions — keeping in mind that I wasn’t so sure this technique should be used to explore other than physically oriented data. Usually I get excellent results with the pendulum; I learned now that the visual-interference effects had been caused by my unsuccessful attempts to perceive a thought-form sent out by a survival personality. [...] Usually we use the pendulum to reach information that is just below normal waking consciousness.

(I also learned that no particular painting of mine was involved, nor were my efforts to project this afternoon; that the survival personality was unknown to me, and that the pendulum couldn’t tell me who the personality was.

The other still-lingering symptoms will quickly vanish also; the pendulum sessions, quite apart from our sessions, should be maintained as a kind of personal psychic hygiene until the habit of communication is thoroughly established. [...]

[...] The note used as object concerned work we had been doing with the pendulum recently, and which has also been discussed to some degree in recent sessions. [...]

(There is also some factual connection in the displacement, since by using the pendulum recently we have learned of the rather important role Blanche played in some of Jane’s earlier associations; due to a complicated variety of events Jane has been bothered lately by some physical symptoms we are in the process of eliminating. [...]

[...] Your pendulum help is all important because of what it represents—on emotional levels, and because Ruburt then does not feel so alone in his dilemma. When you give pendulum directions however other portions of your psyche come through in a loving directing fashion, and the greater contact is made than you realize.

[...] Your help with the pendulum has many significances, therefore: you are taking the time out to help. [...]

(On July 3 and July 5th, I held long pendulum sessions, trying to learn what subconscious role I have been playing in Jane’s symptoms. [...] Jane at first did not agree with my findings, but her own pendulum verified my results.

[...] The strength of Ruburt’s telepathic communication terrified you because you then felt the terrific burden that had been upon you, and this set you to work with the pendulum.

(In the last three days I’ve learned a number of interesting things about my continuing physical upsets—and will list some of my pendulum material should any portion of this session refer to them. [...] My own insights through the pendulum tell me, for example, why Seth in that last private session said I have a “nervous stomach,” but nothing about the other hassles like, say, the side or groin. [...]

[...] I mowed some grass, worked with the pendulum, helped Jane walk—she’s still taking steps—and wrote these notes. The pendulum insights may be most valuable, however.

[...] Your pendulum exercises were most beneficial. [...] The pendulum also serves of course as a dialogue between the two of you at various levels, conscious and unconscious. [...]

[...] Your own improved mental habits of the week, your pendulum work and his own improvements, released energy that under those conditions sought release—and his impulse showed him in what direction.