The pendulum exercise There’s a lot of info out there on this topic. Here’s what I have to say: You hold the pendulum, and it moves by itself. You ask a simple Yes or No question. The pendulum moves as if answering the question. The answer can be right or wrong. Since the pendulum isn’t...

The brain exercise One day in my late 30s when I was commuting to work on the Vienna metro, I started to wonder, “Where in the brain is the conscious mind located?” I sought out my conscious mind and located it at the front of my brain, almost as far back as the centre, but...

Hand levitation Sometimes people relate to an historical person so strongly that they think they might have been that person. I discovered a way you can use to find out if you were that person. It’s the hand levitation exercise, using a written list of names. I discovered this way quite by accident, like discovering...

Affirmations We all remember writing on the blackboard 15 times, “I will not chew gum in class.” That’s an affirmation. After school, I forgot about them. I learned about them again when reading one of Scott Adams’ books: The Dilbert Future [included in The Dilbert Omnibus, published 2002 by Boxtree, an imprint of Pan Macmillan...