CHEVREUL PENDULUM TEST

This interesting test can be used to demonstrate the powers of the subconscious mind and it requires no skills by either the hypnotist or the subject.

Several people may do this at the same time - it goes well at a party. You will need a large piece of paper or cardboard, a pencil, a piece of string or thread about two and one half feet long and a key.

• First make a circle on the paper as indicated in the sample, and the larger you make your circle the better and more effective the demonstration.

• Put in the two lines to create four quadrants and the Letters A, B, C and D;

• Tie one end of your string to the eraser part of your pencil.

• Tie the other end to the key.

• Have the subject grasp the pencil by its tip and stand at the edge of the chart with the rest of the pencil and his arm extending over the circle, with the key about one inch above it.

• Tell him to forget he is holding the pencil and to look slowly up and down from A to B and then from B to A.

• As he follows these suggestions the key will begin to move in the lines his eyes are traveling. There will be no motion by his fingers holding the pencil, whatsoever.

• Now have him look from C to D and from D to C. The key will respond accordingly and change directions.

The subject will be unaware of any physical action on his part and will usually be greatly surprised by the action of the key.

Next have him look around the circle clockwise, then counter-clockwise. By this time your subject will be sold on the workings of the subconscious mind and its many operations to direct physical action.

A further example of subconscious control is to have the subject remember the circle and close his eyes, remaining in the same position, and moving his eyes as if they were open. Once again the key will move in whatever direction the subject "looks."

With this demonstration you may now see how the Ouija Board works and why this test was used generations ago to determine the sex of an unborn child. When you consider the odds at 50-50 you can see how a superstitious person might view this test in the realm of precognition or clairvoyance.

Though there has been no scientific verification for the Chevreul Pendulum test, many that have studied autosuggestion insist that it has aided them to make decisions in their personal lives. You may wish to perform this yourself. Let us say that you have a decision to make or a problem that has perplexed you.

You wish to know how your innermost being (subconscious mind) may react to a question. You are asking you for an answer. You are holding the pencil with the key suspended an inch or so over the chart.

You have already determined that if the key moves clockwise around the circle this will mean, "yes," and if counter-clockwise "no." To provide for uncertainty, if the key moves up and down it means "I don't know." If it moves crosswise it means "I do not care to comment," or "no decision at this time."