5/45 Article written by Dr. W. T. Bidwell [GD's note: I sent
him ARB letter
5/22/45.] [Sent May 25, 1945 - L.J.S.]:
BIDWELL SANITORIUM
800 NORTH MAIN STREET
Telephone 1764-W
GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA
Dr. W. T. Bidwell
N.D., D.C., D.A.C., M.R.S.
THE PENDUL A MEANS UNTO TRUTH
TRUTH IS NOT JUST A STATEMENT BUT A POTENT POWER
"Sweep down the debris of decaying faiths;
Sweep down the cobwebs of worn out beliefs,
And throw your soul wide open to the light
Of reason and knowledge. Be not afraid
To thrust aside half truths and grasp the whole."
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
"In the daring efforts of scientists to extend knowledge as
far as possible, there arises an aura of faith. It is this
spontaneous faith that furnishes the most powerful incentive
and the best guide to progress."
- Dean George D. Birkoff, Harvard.
"I do not hold out any great amount of hope that the mass may
be able to get one hundred percent results from the PENDUL
SYSTEM, WHICH YOU SO DESIRE THAT THEY SHOULD GET. But I must
be honest with you, because the PENDUL SYSTEM DEPENDS UPON
TRUTH. The truth of the matter is, that only those can use
the pendul with UNVARIED SUCCESS who are themselves living a
life of truth and spirituality from the tips of their toes to
the hairs of their heads, for the substance within their
bodies must be permeated with strong, positive, constructive
forces that alone will send out reflexes of TRUTH, and the
PENDUL WILL ANSWER THE TRUTHFUL REQUESTS MADE TO THE INFINITE
(SUPERCONSCIOUS MIND).
"I consider it absolutely essential in order to do this work,
WHICH REPRESENTS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT TRUTH, or to come
anywhere near it, one must become conscious that HIS SOUL IS
A SIGN OF GOD - A MIRROR, AND IF IT BE FAITHFUL TO GOD, IT
WILL REFLECT HIS LIGHT. This background produces a spiritual
and mental poise, which is like a scale hanging at dead
center. When a thought is put upon one side of the scale,
the other side of the scale responds in kind, either pro or
con, or up or down.
"With the pendul it is the magnetic attraction of the center
of the earth and it has a direct magnetic connection and
bearing upon the earth's movement. Normally there is a
direct control between the mind and the hand that holds the
pendul by way of an invisible force. CALL IT WHAT WE MAY,
which activates the movement of the PENDUL. This is
absolutely separate from any motion of the hand whatsoever,
and any motion of the hand will interfere with a true record.
The hand acts only as a medium for a continuous circuit and
a suspension for the PENDUL. The correct answer to any
thought sent out produces THE QUALITY OF TRUTH IN ITS
ACTIVITY ACCORDING AS THE INDIVIDUAL WHO HOLDS THE PENDUL
REPRESENTS IN HIS OWN RIGHT."
- An anonymous contribution from an humble soul.
There must be a proper mental, physical and spiritual
posture. The physical must be free and flexible - relaxed
at all times - the posture must be easy and natural, and at
no time forced into ANY strained position. The mental must
be free from all problems, of inductive or deductive states,
- must be free from all save the specimen held, which is a
sensing rather than a feeling. The Concentration must be
of the quality of meditation, or rather of a meditative
state, in order that the concept may be formed, the question
formulated, and an intelligent question asked (sent forth
aloud) which may be answered "yes" and "no", or in values
on the chart of a predetermined correlation between mind
and pendul. The concentration-meditation must be such
that only the conceptively formed question held goes forth
from the mind in the form of a question, while the
concentrative-meditative powers of the mind are held on the
subject matter under investigation. The specimen entity and
the concept from which the question is formulated must
entirely fill the mind - blocking out the conscious -
allowing the superconscious, or the spiritual impulses to
come through for interpretation, according to the question
sent forth for a "yes" or "no" answer, or to values on the
chart already predetermined - correlated figures on the
chart between mind and pendul, which we have accepted as
such and built into the consciousness now being developed,
which can only result from the development of the brain cell
area through practice, patience and work.
After the question has been sent forth (spoken aloud) the
meditative-concentrative, mental state gives way to the
contemplative state, which is a deeper state of the soul
than meditation.
It is a state, attainment and condition both mentally and
physically of the devotee - IT IS PURELY A STATE IN WHICH
THE SOUL IS RECEIVING WITH ITS SPIRITUAL CAPACITY. IN THIS
STATE, THE SOUL, OR "RATIONAL FACULTY" IS NOT MORE THAN A
SENSITIZED FILM ON WHICH THE LIGHT IS IMPRINTING A PICTURE
THAT WILL BE LOOKED AT WITH THE EYE OF THE SOUL, AND SENSED
WITH THE SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM - WHICH IS NEITHER
ENTIRELY PHYSICAL, NOR ENTIRELY SPIRITUAL, BUT A CONNECTING
LINK BETWEEN THE TWO.
NO INDIVIDUAL CAN MASTER THIS WORK WITHOUT FIRST HAVING
DEVELOPED A BRAIN CELL AREA THROUGH TIME, PATIENCE, PRACTICE
AND WORK, THROUGH WHICH HE MAY RECEIVE, INTERPRET AND RECORD
THE RADIO ACTIVE IMPULSES GIVEN OFF BY THE SPECIMEN. THE
DIAGNOSIS, IN ITS CORRECTNESS, DEPENDS UPON THE QUALITY OF
MIND OF THE OPERATOR, HIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE FUNDAMENTALS OF
HISTOLOGY, ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY, AND HIS ABILITY
TO FORM ENTITY CONCEPTS AND TO ASK INTELLIGENT QUESTIONS
REGARDING SAME - AND IN TURN RECEIVE AND INTERPRET THE
IMPULSES FLOWING IN. THE CAPACITY AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE
OPERATOR WILL GROW FROM DAY TO DAY AS THE TRANSITORY LEVEL
OF CONSCIOUSNESS MOVES UPWARD TOWARDS COSMIC INTUITION,
FOREVER PUSHING FORWARD THE CONSCIOUS MARGINAL. EVERY
PHYSICIAN DIAGNOSES AND TREATS FROM HIS CONSCIOUS LEVEL AND
EXTENDED FRINGE OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
Everything in the universe has its own individual emanation
- its own radio active rate of vibration. Every organ and
tissue in the animal body has its own normal rate of
vibration and any change in that rate expresses a change
from normal condition. Diagnosis is for the determination
of the condition of every organ, every tissue, in its
individual relation to the whole, and the relation of the
vibratory state of the whole and its component parts to
their one hundred percent of normal - or what we would term
one hundred percent health of an individual at the time the
diagnosis is made.
To make the diagnosis possible with the pendul it is
necessary that we have something from the individual carrying
his composite emanation of the whole, and the parts. A piece
of blotting paper saturated with saliva, or a drop or drops
of blood upon a paper, or a signature made with a soft pencil
upon a slip of paper, is a specimen for diagnosis. Next, we
have the pendul as the instrument to be moved by the "rhabdic
force" emanating from the specimen, and acting on and through
the nervous system of the operator produces "cryptesthesia".
This "rhabdic force" does not act directly on the muscles
but on the nervous system that moves the muscles, and
interpreted it can reveal facts about things (objects or
bodies) that our normal senses cannot reveal. We know for a
fact that unknown forces - invisible forces - emanate from
things, and these forces are amenable to measure and
comparison by physical means - THE PENDUL. We know that
these unknown forces do not register with our conscious
senses, or physical instruments, nevertheless, they act
(according to unknown laws) very energetically on the
subconscious organism producing cognitions that the normal
senses cannot give.
We know that the "rhabdic force" that acts on the human
organism and produces muscular contractions reveal to
consciousness facts that consciousness alone cannot reach,
and that the unconscious muscular action is a revealer of
vibrations which emanations from actual things arouse in
our subconscious intelligence. We know that the vibrations
of the emanations from things can be, and are measured with
the PENDUL, when the human nervous system is acted upon by
the emanatory "rhabdic force" which produces unconscious and
involuntary contractions, according to the intensity of the
force to be measured.
Given the specimen to be diagnosed, and the pendul as the
agency of measurement, we have completed a composite chart -
based on the investigation of Dr. Adolph Selige, and ten
years clinical experience of Dr. W. T. Bidwell; for the
purpose of interpreting and measuring the intensity of
"rhabdic force" emanating from a specimen. We have built
into out consciousness a correlation between certain degree
numbers of the circle and certain pathological conditions
which we have first agreed to consciously, - as for instance
110 for inflammation, 160 for streptococcus, etc. Given
the specimen, the PENDUL, and the composite chart with its
correlations, the percentage of correctness of the diagnosis
will depend upon the understanding by the physician of the
fundamentals and detailed knowledge of histology, anatomy,
physiology and psychology; and his ability to form clear
concept, ask intelligent questions based on fundamentals
and detailed knowledge that may be answered in the
affirmative or negative while mentally tieing the individual
entity to the specimen, and mentally viewing the organ, or
tissue under diagnosis in the light of histological and
anatomical structure, physiological function and normal
or pathological conditions; and with this mind-concept
formulate intelligent questions for the PENDUL to answer
"yes" or "no", or in percentages of 100% normal, or of
pathological conditions, and indicate their intensity.
This must not be a question of mere words not consciously
understood to their fullest, but the question must be
asked in a consciousness of the fullest, understanding of ALL
the foregoing factors, to which the PENDUL WILL GIVE A TRUE
ANSWER and produce such quality of truth in its activity as
the individual who holds the pendul represents in his own
right. THE PENDUL WILL ANSWER TRUTHFULLY REQUESTS MADE TO
THE INFINITE.
Understanding diagnosis of a patient is in the realm of
reality, and a one hundred percent diagnosis is a cure.
Both the diagnosis and the cure. Both the diagnosis and
the cure, however, depend upon the understanding and
spiritual capacity of the physician.
"The pendul is a very reliable source of diagnosis in the
hands of a nearly one hundred percent spiritually balanced
person (balanced spiritually, mentally, physically). Such
accomplishment can only be developed (acquired) by time,
and it may take from TEN TO FIFTEEN YEARS to develop in the
individual that proper humility and subserverviency to a
higher supreme spiritual BEING which will then make the
power available to produce a true diagnosis with the pendul,
to discover the different vitamins, minerals, hormones,
foods, laxatives, and all that is necessary to normal
metabolism."
To those who would with time, work and patience develop
PENDUL consciousness and become MASTERS OF THE PENDUL, by the
same arduous efforts as one who masters the violin or piano,
or science, or art, - can through the development of sense
perception and the material agency of the PENDUL open to
their consciousness vistas of the unknown.
There can be no skipping of grades. All lessons must be
learned in their progressive order and the spirit of faith
and certainty, otherwise, there will be uncertainty, doubt
of self and the PENDUL, incorrect diagnosis and failure,
and in the end to "justify self" for failure the operator
will condemn the PENDUL and all who use it, though the
fault be within himself. NOTHING STANDS UNLESS IT IS
WELL GROUNDED ON A SOLID FOUNDATION AND THIS APPLIES TO
THE PENDUL AS WELL AS TO EVERYTHING ELSE.
There are those who will not pay the price in time, work
and patience to attain to PENDUL CONSCIOUSNESS, but prefer
to ascertain their truth of diagnosis on the physical, or
mental-physical planes. There are those who wish to use
machines as an agency to this truth in preference to paying
the price required for pendul consciousness, which is
spiritual in its essence. We have no fault to find with
such an one, and advise them to stick to their physical,
or mental-physical agencies and to close the book on
PENDUL CONSCIOUSNESS - and forget it. It is not something
to be played with, or to be subservient to something material
because, as one of our most brilliant investigators of this
day expressed it to us - meaning all planes - "in the end
it all depends upon consciousness." Many of our greatest
electronic operators in America today have used machines
as stepping stones to higher levels of transitory
consciousness with its ever expanding marginal, and are now
using the pendul, or other human reflexes (individualized)
more and more each day. Because the pendul and the human
reflexes have no limitations as have the physical machines.
In the summation all depends upon consciousness, and
consciousness depends upon the understanding and spiritual
capacity of the individual, and accordingly is he an avenue
of expression for the QUANTITY of Divine Mind - the quality
of which is single-One-Omnipresent. Either be determined
to master PENDUL TECHNIC and ATTAIN TO PENDUL CONSCIOUSNESS
lesson by lesson, and become a MASTER, or let it alone and
forget it. Half way measures is like a house built on
shifting sands, and will lead only to disappointment and
failure.
It is our advice that the student practice daily with the
PENDUL, with a chart of a circle marked in degrees before
him. Hold the PENDUL lightly in the right hand, just
cradling it between the thumb and fingers with the elbow
resting on the table or desk, while seated in an easy and
relaxed condition. Hold the PENDUL one half inch above
the center of the chart, then issue the command "aloud"
for the PENDUL to cut across the circle arc at any marked
degree named and numbered, as "cut 160" - then give the
PENDUL, or rather the force acting through the nervous
system, time to go into action and swing across the circle
arc at the designated degree number. Continue this practice
hour after hour, day after day, with patience.
At first give plenty of time for the command to be carried
out. After the first command has been carried out "aloud"
command to the PENDUL to cut some other degree number at
some other arc of the circle and await the action-result.
At first the PENDUL will vacillate, seemingly searching for
the number. At times it may, like a young bird dog being
trained, do the opposite of the command but patient
persistent efforts will in time cause the PENDUL to jump
into action at command, and with a snap strike the beat
asked for.
This takes time and patience, and we warn you that unless
you are willing to practice, practice and practice more to
build and develop PENDUL CONSCIOUSNESS, or attain to it, do
not attempt to diagnose with the PENDUL, because the results
will be disappointing.
After you have become proficient with the PENDUL with the
numbers technic place around the circle chart at intervals
the names of various organs and tissues of the body, and
practice with your PENDUL to have it search out and come to
a beat - swinging from the center of the circle - across
the organ or tissue named in the command. IN GIVING THE
COMMAND TO CUT ACROSS ANY DEGREE NUMBER, OR ORGAN, OR TISSUE
ALWAYS FOCUS THE GAZE ON THAT WHICH THE PENDUL IS COMMANDED
TO STRIKE THE BEAT ON - SWINGING FROM THE CENTER ACROSS THE
CIRCLE ARC AT A DESIGNATED PLACE. If you say "cut 160",
concentrate the gaze on 160, and think 160. If you say,
"locate the liver", gaze on the word "liver" marked on
the practice chart, and mentally visualize the liver
anatomically and physiologically in function.
It is our earnest request to those who contemplate taking
up PENDUL PRACTICE as a means to the development of higher
consciousness that they read, re-read and study carefully
the foregoing so as to get the full significance of the
import of this message. Our intent is that of guidance
to those who would be fitted for this work, and moreover,
a caution and friendly warning to those who would consider
it as an easy way to TRUTH without preparation and
fundamentals of the art in which they practice. We are
trying to impress upon all that it takes persistent work and
practice, time and patience, knowledge and understanding,
spiritual development and capacity to be attained - a
condition of sensing and awareness before the mastery of
the PENDUL may become a reality and the transitory higher
levels of consciousness ever expanding unto successive stages
of cosmic intuition - ever expanding to the discernment of
TRUTH. The quality of such discerned TRUTH in its activity
will be such that the individual represents in his own right.
The quantity of the ONE MIND capable of being expressed
will be such perfection as the individual as a worthy and
developed avenue is capable of expressing.
ANY DIAGNOSIS MADE AND TREATMENT PRESCRIBED IS ALWAYS AT THE
LEVEL OF THE TRANSITORY CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE PHYSICIAN, AND
IT IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH HIS UNDERSTANDING AND CAPACITY - OF
WHICH, IN ITS ENTITY, THERE ARE NOT TWO ALIKE IN THE WORLD.
The PENDUL, in itself, has no power within it other than an
acting material agency through, and by which, the state of
concentration may be attained, and further as a means of
interpretation of the intensity of the emanations from the
specimen (things) acting upon the human nervous system as
"Rhabdic force", and producing involuntary action of the
muscles.
It has been expressed thusly, "the operator of the PENDUL by
means of its action (as a means of concentration) blocks out,
locks out or blanks out the conscious mind and allows the
SUPER-CONSCIOUS MIND to flow through." IN THE END IT IS ALL
"CONSCIOUSNESS" THAT GIVES US OUR FINDINGS AND THEIR
INTERPRETATIONS, AND THE PENDUL IS A PHYSICAL AGENCY FOR
THE EXPRESSION OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS, AT THE LEVEL WE HAVE
ATTAINED TO THROUGH DEVELOPMENT.
Through practice first make the PENDUL obedient to the
conscious-mind command, as a musician studying a scale and
expressing it consciously on an instrument instrument is
co-ordinating mind and muscle - building a consciousness
for what he is doing - developing potential brain cell
areas for the execution of the technic. The PENDUL,
through practice becomes obedient to the conscious-mind
commands. Then when the operator closes out the
conscious-mind - turns off that power house, as it were -
and opens the way for SUPER-CONSCIOUS MIND to operate
through him, the PENDUL is ready for prompt obedience to the
higher command.
With the foregoing in mind we will proceed to make a complete
diagnosis, prescribe the proper treatment of vegetable teas,
enema, bath - check the food harmonious for the patient at
the time. This can only be limited by our capacity to form
intelligent concepts based upon our (now) understanding of
fundamentals and details of knowledge, and from which to ask
intelligent questions, and to receive and interpret
intelligent answers according to that understanding and
capacity.
Practice charts will be mailed to those desiring to take up
this work for $1.00 each.
Desk type penduls, made of metal, chromium plated, $2.00
each.
The SELIGE-BIDWELL PENDUL CHART, for diagnosis and treatment
by TEA THERAPY together with full course of instructions,
sample diagnostic sheets and sample classified food charts,
$25.00.
Address: Dr. W. T. Bidwell, 800 N. Main St.,
Greenville, S.C.
11/18/46 HLC's ltr. to Mr. [
2431]:
Mr. [
2431] (folder)
New York, N.Y.
Dear Mr. [
2431]:
In checking back through our files, I have come across
your correspondence, and I remember most pleasantly our
discussions.
Remembering your interest in the pendul therapy, I wanted
to send you a copy of the enclosed article [attached] [see
below] by Dr. W. T. Bidwell [William Thomas Bidwell, D.C.,
N.D., etc.]. You may be entirely familiar with his work,
or possibly you have missed it. Dr. Bidwell is a very fine
person and is rendering a great deal of service to many
people.
Under separate cover, we are sending you some data regarding
our present operation. I believe you would find some of our
regular publications of considerable interest and we would
certainly welcome you as a member of our Association.
The work of studying and presenting the remarkable records of
the readings is going forward under the Association. I wish
that it were possible for you to visit us here and see just
what is being done in order that you could make some
suggestions regarding our activities in several directions.
I expect to be in New York from November 19th through the
26th, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David E. Kahn of 56 East
80th Street - Telephone Butterfield 89841 or 89890. If you
have time for a chat, please call me.
Sincerely, Hugh Lynn Cayce [HLC/dm] Encl.
[GD's note: Above letter was returned marked ADDRESS
UNKNOWN.]
6/47 Dr. Bidwell spoke at A.R.E. Congress; his talk, MIND
THE BUILDER, appeared in 9/47 A.R.E. Bulletin.
4/27/53 Congress program [sent
5/06/53 NL/& note hope he would
come to Congress, HL would write when he gets home. GD.]
DR. W. T. BIDWELL
Naturopathic Physician
EDWARDS ROAD - ROUTE 3
TAYLORS, SOUTH CAROLINA Telephone GREENVILLE: 2-5085
My dear Hugh Lynn:
Enclosed find card [see below] announcing my lecture at
the Woman's Club in Hollywood. Today I received the tape
recording of this lecture and I think it is real good.
Have had several letter from L.A. saying it was one of the
best lectures ever given at the Woman's Club. I would like
to meet all my old friends again and would like to attend
this Congress this year and bring the tape and my machine
along if you consider it would be of any interest to your
meeting.
The Radiation Research Fellowship is the Brunler organization
for the measurement of brain wavelengths which has a definite
place in the advancing world today. I have one of the
Bovis-Brunlet Biometers for measuring the brain wave length
and could bring this along also.
Now here is a remarkable coincidence that Edgar Cayce and
myself have the same brain wave length and the same clockwise
characteristic and Dr. Brunler's widow talked some on these
two brain wave lengths on this tape.
I met with your L. A. group at Peter's house and he and his
wife gave me a most enjoyable dinner and I had a good time
with the group.
We enjoyed the visit of Lydia and Miss Winn [Wynne] when they
stopped by to see us.
Whether you desire the tape recording or not I am going to
make every endeavor to see you in June, GOD willing.
Sincerely [signed] Dr. Bidwell
Stopped for a nice visit today with Rudy on my way out and
talked with him on the phone today.
THE RADIATION RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
gives you the opportunity to hear, during his short
visit here, the foremost exponent in the use
of the Pendulum in America-
DR. WILLIAM THOMAS BIDWELL
Greenville, South Carolina
lecture on
"THE USE OF THE PENDULUM,
FOURTH DIMENSIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS
and
MUMMIFICATION by THOUGHT PROJECTION."
Astounding facts of Mind Power photographically verified.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH, AT 8 p.m.
HOLLYWOOD WOMAN'S CLUB 1749 N. La Brea Hollywood
Contribution $1.00 Refreshments
HEmpstead 0878 Questions and Answers
6/04/53 HLC's ltr. to Dr. Bidwell:
Dr. W. T. Bidwell
Edwards Road Route 3
Taylors, South Carolina
Dear Dr. Bidwell,
It was certainly good to have your letter of April 27th for
me when I returned yesterday from a six week's coast trip.
I heard quite a bit about your Hollywood activities when I
was out there.
It is a pleasure to know that you plan on being with us for
the June Congress. By all means bring the tapes along. We
have a Webcor recording machine which runs on speeds of both
3 1/2 and 7 1/2 which can be used if it is not convenient
for you to bring your machine along. However, if you are
driving it will probably be quite easy for you.
We are planning some playing of tape recordings in the
afternoon for those who are interested in hearing them.
Your tape can certainly be scheduled on this program. I am
sure that a great many of those attending the Congress will
be interested in it.
I missed seeing Rudy on my trip west, but I did talk with him
by telephone in Chicago. He has certainly been quite busy.
The Los Angeles Group members were complimentary with regard
to your trip out there, and tell me you are planning that
you will move in that direction.
My best regards to both you and Mrs. Bidwell.
Sincerely yours, Hugh Lynn Cayce [HLC/ha]
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