Lost (and Found) Keys

For as long as I can remember, I've always been fascinated with the books in the 100's of the Dewey Decimal System. This is where the philosophical, psychological, paranormal and metaphysical books are found. I remember being a young teenager spending hours sitting on the floor of those particular aisles immersing myself in knowledge. I still do that actually. I'm particularly interested in metaphysics and the paranormal. A lot of people, if not most, shrug this stuff off as bunk, or even worse, evil. (boo). But I've always been open-minded to the fact that we don't know everything there is to know about the world in which we live. So when I lost my keys yesterday and could not find them for the life of me I figured it wouldn't hurt to try some alternative methods of locating them.

Enter the pendulum.

This Rose Quartz pendulum was acquired by my partner at a local 'spiritual fair' a few months ago. It was nothing more than a cute plaything really. I remember asking the lady selling them about their potential uses. She replied that they could be used for a lot of things, one of which was to find lost objects. So I grabbed the pendulum from its hiding place and perused the Internet for instructions on how to 'dowse' for lost objects using a pendulum. The instructions I found were basically very simple:

1. hold the pendulum steadily and ask it to give you a 'yes'
2. watch the spin (my yes was counter-clockwise)
3. ask it to give you a 'no'
4. watch the spin (my no was clockwise)
5. ask it yes or no questions

It was that easy. My partner tried it first by following the steps above and asking if my keys were in the living room. "No." Were my keys in the bedroom? "Yes." Were the on this side of the room? "Yes." So we looked and looked. In my nightstand. In my dresser. On the floor. Under the bed. And we couldn't find them. I suspected that a friend of mine had taken them accidently the previous night but he said that he hadn't. So I 'setup' the pendulum and asked the same questions. Oddly enough, I got the exact same responses. Still, I couldn't find my stupid keys. Luckily, it was the first day of the 3-day Labor Day weekend so I had plenty of time to find my keys before I really really needed them for work.

The next morning I tried the pendulum again. Same answers! But where were my keys. So I started cleaning my side of the bedroom and looking in every possible location (for the third time, probably). And wouldn't you know it, my keys were, in fact, in my nightstand. How we both missed them there is beyond me. But they were right there where the pendulum said they were!! I was flabbergasted. This was more than some vague horoscope that could be applied to anybody. I had just witnessed a rock on a chain telling me where my keys were!

Apparently, the pendulum works by tapping into our subconscious mind. And almost any object can be used as a pendulum. Just tie it to a string and hold it out. Try it, I dare you.