Ouija Boards
Posted by Mitch Horowitz at 17:21, 23 Nov 2004I’d like to hear about good, bad, or indifferent experiences anyone has had with Ouija Boards, or talking boards, as they are more generically known.
If you want to visit two outstanding websites on this unusual phenomenon, check out: www.museumoftalkingboards.com and www.cryptique.com. You will not be sorry.
Everything old is new again. How do we understand talking boards in the 21st century?
Cheers, Mitch Horowitz, www.mitchhorowitz.com
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1 May 2004
1 year 15 weeks
One must be careful with these things.
They tend to open channels. Once a channel is opened, do you have to power to close it? Can you control what will come through it?
Hi Richard,
I have a little trouble with this theory that you can open channels to spirits with a ouija board.
Could you explain to me how this can be done?
I have fooled around with them and come to the conclusion that what we were channelling was each others' thoughts.
However I am open to your opinion which I have found to be honest and sincere.
shadows
11 May 2004
51 weeks 6 days
Hi Shadows,
It really doesn't matter functionally whether the operation of these boards, channeling and other areas "lifted" by the new-age movement from older occult sources operate via psychology or magic. In either case, there are good reasons the older occult traditions stipulate such safeguards as magical circles, stringent mental exersizes and complete rituals for "putting down" what surfaces again. They either provide a magical defence, or provide mental defences against the rogue operations of the sub-conscious mind. Take your pick but for Goddess sake do them!
Regards, C
Hi Cernig,
Years ago a group of us used to get together to muck around with the board and on one occasion we got some Russian chap who lived in the 12th century.He didn't give a name but said he had been hanged./Can't remember the details now but we checked it all out and found his name.I concluded that one of our group had read about him and was influencing the board.
I did find however that another friend who entered the room, who did not believe in ouija boards always stopped the action.We used to have to ask him to leave to get it going again.
This person strangely, has visions of things that have happened that he could not possibly know about, and later finds to be true.
They are actual visions of people appearing to him as he wakes up and they tell him something has happened.
Incredible.
I never understood how he could be so negative about ouija boards.
shadows
1 May 2004
1 year 15 weeks
Ouija boards open a channel into your receiver brain. It gives away your frequency and it can then be used by entities that don’t necessarily have a karmic contract with you, such as those that are responsible for interference through thought forms. It is like giving away a key to your lock and, once the door is opened, you must have the ability to close and lock it again. Problem is, you can’t change the lock.
Through the use of Ouija boards, the user broadcasts its vibration. It is like a radio message someone would send over short waves for instance, on a usually unbroadcasted frequency while there are entities that constantly scan the waves to find a connector.
These entities in turn, once they have gained access to this new psychic ground, use it to vampirize energy by triggering emotions, fears, beliefs and other such reactive systems.
The more a person is sensitive to these vibrations, the more that person can be affected. Similarly, the more a person has experienced depressive states, and the deeper they have been, the more likely is that person to fall into that energy-sucking trap.
The human mind, not under the control of the ego, cannot be said to be ‘ours’ just yet. One example that supports this is the lack of absolute control over thoughts, which should lead to the realization that we do not think what we want to but that we think what we are led to. This makes the mind prone to ‘possession’.
Possession is not what people think. We believe that possession’s sole manifestation is of the like of ‘The Exorcist’ movie or that they are marked with spectacular shows of unlikely behavior and mouth foaming. Possession is characterized by any behavior that is recurring (bad habits, tics, compulsory behaviors of all sorts, fixed ideas, pigheadedness and what not). Adding an additional link to an invisible and difficult to recognize source can only lead to potential for screwing up with our psychic territory.
Until the mind is sufficiently protected with a great dose of lucidity and awareness, until man has his own number, until he can recognize his own reality, he can’t make the difference between what is ‘him’ and what is not. This is where the danger lies.
The purpose of the personal progression and eventual evolution of the human mind is to be a finalized process, a terminal process that is. In order to achieve this, the whole of the psychic territory must be integrated and repossessed by the mind, effectively transforming it into a ‘dead free’ zone. This is what some have called the immortalization of the human consciousness.
Cernig’s warning is good advice. My advice would go somewhat further. Don’t look forward to open channels. If some channels need to be instated by your source, it will come. If it is part of your life plan to live the opening of a channel through the influence of the dead, it will happen too, independently of your doings. At least, it will be part of a plan that regards you and that has a purpose in relation with your own evolution. Otherwise, one may put himself on the path of initiation and burn a few neurons in the process.
Great answer Richard, thank you. I will save it with your other posts.
shadows
1 May 2004
6 years 51 weeks
I have a Ouija mousepad - do I need to be afraid, or will I just be vampirized by smaller entities? :D
Seriously, what's your take on this?
Regards,
khefre
"I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the shape of a Ouija board. You'd think about what kind of food you want, and the table would move across the floor to it."
--Stephen Wright
1 May 2004
1 year 15 weeks
The problem is the opening of a channel that you cannot close. Its a bit like giving your credit card number away and hoping that it won't be used against your will all the while not being able to take it back.
Ouija boards are simply a symbolic means of getting the mind focused. In our belief in our own powerlesness, we develop or entertain the need of intermediary artifacts that become the recipient of such energy. In principle, they are not necessary but they do paliate to the sense of inadequacy.
We were always taught that we were little creatures of the creator who were capable of nothing by ourselves. This is of course sustained by the thought process and our lack of will, realized of intuited. Interestingly though, when an intermediary medium such as a Ouija board replaces our low self recognition, we more readily manage to support a 'creative' vibration because we locate its reality outside of ourselves. The board becomes the source of the communication whereas in reality, it stems from within.
This is a psychic placebo effect, which is common with many so-called divinatory 'arts', like Tarot cards and such.
The other aspect is the ritual that in fact is a form of magic. This can have the effect of having unsuspecting adepts, even when they are just 'playing' (Ouija boards used to be sold as games, they may even still be) could open a channel because of the ritual which involves certain gestures and concentration of mental energy.
Ouija boards are objects that were created through intuitive insemination by the dead using a particular, although simple, organization of the symbology. The matter is that it automatically has a symbiotic connection with karmically linked entities.
In the end, it is less the board itself that is a risk but the psychic attraction to the concept and the enactment of the ritual when they are actively used.
14 January 2005
6 years 51 weeks
the reason you have trouble with the comment you made is because unfortunately the quija board is a load of bull... Dont take this the wrong way but the sooner you realise this the better, the board works for the people who need it to work because they have nothing in their life. It moves because they make it move, every single person i know who has tried the board has laughed at it. Dont get me wrong, i do respect people's views on the matter but all of my friends have been unsuccessful.
Your link on Oujia boards reminded me of a childhood experience. I often played with them when I was young---I thought it was great fun. One interesting experience, myself and my cousins played with one once during a family dinner. We wrote down numbers and asked the Oujia board to guess them. Everything seemed on the up and up, I don't think there was any hijinks (though there might have been lol)--but the Oujia board guessed the numbers very effectively---they were from 4-6 digits in length....
would ouija boards still work if the users were blindfolded ?
Also, i wonder if there is any connections or similarities with using a computer mouse (either alone or with friends) infact, i wonder what surfing the net would be like with a few peoples finger on the mouse and no-one speaking........think i might try it and post a blog, wish me luck !