Blessings,
Flora Green

When I was a teenager (now 40 years of age) I spent the weekend with a friend who wanted to pull one over on his mother. We had decided to work my Ouija board honestly but would begin to make things up if nothing happened on its own.

My friend’s mother wanted to contact her deceased sister (her sister was murdered by a deranged boyfriend- a man who worked with my stepfather). The mother was having what today would be called a Jerry Springer moment. She had fallen in love with the murderer and visited him in prison. She wanted her sister’s approval for the relationship.

We set the mood by working by candle light. For the first 15-20 minutes we acted in good faith and attempted to let the board talk. When no messages emerged my friend began to steer the planchette. I followed, not knowing until later that he was faking it. Shortly after he began to spell out answers to his mother’s questions something strange and unexplainable happened. An emergency flashlight mounted on a nearby wall turned on by itself.

The flashlight was unique in its design in that it did not have a power switch. The batteries were separated by a forked tab which was part of the wall bracket. In times of emergency, one could grab the light from its mount and the battery contact spring would push the batteries together creating a completed circuit, thus, turning on the light.

The light came on spontaneously on three occasions during our session each time my friend faked another answer. I attempted to cause the light to come on by moving it while in the bracket and by pounding on the wall around it but could not recreate the problem. Upon returning to the board the light came on as soon as we spelled out another fake response.

I still own the board but have not had anyone since then willing to play with it. I am not convinced that the incident above was the work of spirits but have to admit that it was strange at the least.

at one point, we could ask the board for a specific word in a specific paragraph on a specific page in a specific book and it was right prolly 70% of the time.

Well, if any of the decisions are made from stats, that’s fine. You see, at least 30% of the error are there according to your experience.

Maybe one could play Ouija Board seriously by applying a statistic tech, but be careful not to be possesed by the spirit though ^___^

i like that. can i quote this?

i don’t get all the ‘i don’t recommend people indulge in it’ stuff. maybe it’s just me, but parker bros. has been marketing it for so long to teenage prom victims and whatnot that it’s lost any inherent spookiness to me. 99 out of 100 people who use the danged thing ask the questions our little teen friends in the pic ask and get a good thrill out of it and then forget it the next morning.

same as with everything else: you get from it what you bring to it. it’s a fucking board with letters on it! if you wanna be all ooky and mysterious and scare yourself silly and get all pompous about how ‘this is not for the uninitiated,’ then fine, but it’s a pretty tired cliche, imho.

i’ve had some cool experiences with the ouija and would highly recommend it to anyone interested in such matters. last i heard, i haven’t been ‘possessed’ or ‘cursed.’ i’ve contacted some ‘entities’ with potty-mouths, and some ‘entities’ who claim to be able to grant enlightenment. i had great success using crowley’s 777 as a sort of gematria-based ’spirit to english’ dictionary. we’d take a long string of ‘gobbledy gook’ and work out its gematriac value and we’d come up with some great insights. at one point, we could ask the board for a specific word in a specific paragraph on a specific page in a specific book and it was right prolly 70% of the time.

i’m with ran– i think it’s subconscious movement that manifest something external.

ever heard of ‘messages from michael‘? it’s a whole religious belief system ‘channeled’ by a group of people using a ouija board. it’s pretty interesting.

My spiritual experiences have told me that high level of spirit are usually helping human being to solve mystery through a serious of very skillfull and intellegent manifestations. These manifestative activities are hardly acquired or observed unless one is of hight level of awareness which usually take years to get developed. This kind of maifestation are now also called INTELLEGENT DESIGN.

WHEN A STUDENT IS READY, A TEACHER APPEARS

WHEN ONE IS AWARE NERD, MANIFESTION MOVIES

It’s odd that they suggest “a boy” be involved in the old copy. It reminds me of the princeton studies in apparent psychokinesis that show women have more influence but men more focus.

As far as pure “gibberish”: I’ve got a few theories about subconscious and spirit communications, at least four equally valid right now. I’ll maybe post some of to my site.

I remember a few times at parties we tried to “contact ghosts in the house” (as if every house has a ghost or five) and talk to them. And then these probably-imaginary characters would concoct probably-random answers to all of our questions. I remember we let one get us freaked out about how our friend Jenny was going to get hit by a car that evening by one of the other kid’s moms. We got all worked up about it because it was fun, and then, of course, nothing happened. Ouija Boards are damn good story tellers for sure.

On the other hand, I’ve never been able to get the ouija board to do ANYTHING when I’m just by myself. It just doesn’t work, in my experience. You have to have that other person there, regardless of gender (although I’ve heard that a feminine/masculine force is preferred for some reason) for it to make it work.

Apparently this whole thing is similar to automatic writing and pendulum oracles. So one time I decided I would see if it had more to do with the board itself or with the force itself. My friend Nate and I wrote a bunch of letters/numbers, drew some random symbols, and “yes” and “no” on a piece of cardboard and used a super nintendo cartridge as the oracle thing. And it worked exactly the same as a OUIJA board. So, I’m slightly amazed that more companies haven’t capitalized on the weirdness of the feeling you get from yelling “stop pushing it!” while the other person does the same thing with both parties swearing that they’re not. It’s pretty great.

Either way, I can’t really fully explain the weird push-pull force that happens when you’re asking questions. It’s really rather clever. But the OUIJA board oracle- I wonder if it’s a really good facilitator for people with ESP or a connection to spiritual forces. A more concrete way of organizing feelings into action so that you don’t second-guess yourself when you’re feeling psychic, perhaps?