Thomas Charles Lethbridge

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

1 Life
2 Occult studies
3 Bibliography
4 External link

[edit] Life

He was educated at Wellington College before attending Cambridge University at the age of eighteen, where he discovered an interest in archaeology, and 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 ended up becoming the keeper of Anglo-Saxon antiquities at the museum, and 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. Mr. Lethbridge claimed there is a link between the length of a pendulum and the object being looked for, (see 'external links' below).

[edit] Occult studies

Lethbridge was a dedicated researcher who considered matters known as "the occult" with a scientific approach^{[citation needed]} and put forward theories on ghosts, witchcraft, dowsing, psychokinesis and even aliens. The pinnacle of Lethbridge's life's work, the book The Power of the Pendulum, documents his research into dowsing by means of the pendulum, a skill that he claimed to possess. 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.^{[citation needed]} 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.