Thomas Charles Lethbridge

Thomas Charles Lethbridge (1901-1971) was a British explorer, archaeologist and psychic researcher.

Life

Lethbridge was educated at Wellington College, before attending Cambridge University at the age of eighteen, where he discovered an interest in archaeology. Once he had completed his degree, he began working as a voluntary digger for Louis Clarke, the curator of the Archaeological Museum in Cambridge. Although he had a private income, Lethbridge became the keeper of Anglo-Saxon antiquities at the museum. He remained in Cambridge until 1957, bored with what he called “the academic trade-unionism” that existed within his profession. During this time he wrote a series of books about British history. These, however, are generally eclipsed by the much more famous and controversial series of books he wrote at his home, "Hole House", in Branscombe, Devon between 1961 and his death in 1971. Lethbridge claimed there is a link between the length of a pendulum and the object being doused for, (see 'external links' below).

Occult studies

Lethbridge was a dedicated researcher who considered matters known as "the occult" with a scientific approach and put forward theories on ghosts, witchcraft, dowsing, psychokinesis and even aliens. The pinnacle of Lethbridge's life's work, his book "'The Power of the Pendulum", documents his research into dowsing by means of the pendulum. Lethbridge died while the book was still in draft form.

Later works by others on the subject have never strayed far from the implications and solid developments brought out in this work.Fact|date=February 2007 The book is a conclusion to the author's lifelong study of the worlds of the unexplained and the occult. Through his experience with the pendulum and his work with dreams, Lethbridge concluded that there are other realms of reality beyond this one and that the soul is probably immortal.

Bibliography

*"Umiak" 1937
*"Merlins Island: Essays on Britain in the Dark Ages" 1948
*"Herdsmen and Hermits: Celtic Seafarers in the Northern Seas" 1950
*"Coastwise Craft" 1952
*"Boats and Boatmen" 1952
*"The Painted Men: A History of the Picts" 1954
*"Gogmagog: The Buried Gods" 1957
*"Ghost and Ghoul" 1961
*"Witches: Investigating an Ancient Religion" 1962
*"Ghost and Divining Rod" 1963
*"ESP: Beyond Time and Distance" 1965
*"A Step in the Dark" 1967
*"The Monkey’s Tail: A Study in Evolution and Parapsychology" 1969
*"The Legend of the Sons of God: A Fantasy?" 1972
*"The Power of the Pendulum" 1978

External links

* [http://www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk/articles/dowsing.html Lethbridge pendulum lengths]
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