The Sideric Pendulum

The Sideric Pendulum

by Arthur Conan Doyle and Rafat Allam
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/08/2025

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The Sideric Pendulum is an obscure pamphlet or article about a unique divination tool – a pendulum used for psychic communication – which includes an introductory note by Arthur Conan Doyle. In this piece, Doyle introduces the concept of the "sideric pendulum," explaining that spiritualists have employed it as a medium of communication with the unseen. The pendulum, typically a weighted object on a string, is said to swing in response to questions (for example, circling or swaying to indicate yes/no or spell out messages), potentially guided by spirits or the user's own subconscious psychic ability. Doyle likely recounts a specific anecdote: how a pendulum helped locate a lost item or answered a perplexing question, causing a stir in the press. His introduction endorses the pendulum's validity as a simple yet powerful psychic tool, framing it as part of the repertoire of spiritualist practices. The main content, possibly authored by someone else, would detail instructions and testimonies about using the sideric pendulum. Doyle's involvement lent credibility and publicity to this modest publication. The Sideric Pendulum serves as a fascinating footnote in Doyle's work – evidence of his willingness to explore even the small, homey methods of divination in his quest to normalize communication with the beyond.

ISBN:
9780595240364
9780595240364
Category:
Fortune-telling & divination
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-08-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
​Al-Mashreq eBookstore
Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930. Within those years was crowded a variety of activity and creative work that made him an international figure and inspired the French to give him the epithet 'the good giant'.

He was the nephew of 'Dickie Doyle' the artist, and was educated at Stonyhurst, and later studied medicine at Edinburgh University, where the methods of diagnosis of one of the professors provided the idea for the methods of deduction used by Sherlock Holmes. He set up as a doctor at Southsea and it was while waiting for patients that he began to write.

His growing success as an author enabled him to give up his practice and turn his attention to other subjects. His greatest achievement was, of course, his creation of Sherlock Holmes, who soon attained international status and constantly distracted him from his other work; at one time Conan Doyle killed him but was obliged by public protest to restore him to life.

And in his creation of Dr Watson, Holmes's companion in adventure and chronicler, Conan Doyle produced not only a perfect foil for Holmes but also one of the most famous narrators in fiction.

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