Originally Posted by
Lady Dunsany
Originally Posted by
Nox Invictus
Everyone's had scary experiences on the ouija board. I absolutely love them for that very reason. What a great trail and error teacher! It's like AIDS, but with less long-lasting consequences, usually. Haha!
Here's how the ouija board works: It causes you to make ideomotor actions, subconscious movements that you yourself (or your group) are making. You just don't know it (consciously) because they're subconscious. Your subconscious also has the layout of the ouija board memorized, so you can do it blind folded or without looking at the board, but it's you who is moving the plachette. The question is "Who's moving you?" Theoretically, that is, in occult theory, the spirits with which you are communicating are possessing you, their willing host, atleast partially.
My advice to anyone using a ouija board would be to make sure that proper protections are in place to prevent the attachment of negative entities or otherwise any harm coming to the participants. The ouija board is a great tool for spirit communication, especially for those of us who aren't skilled in psi-perception.
If you know what you are doing and most people do not. Yes you are right about protecting yourself, but you can not protect the whole house or place you are in. I do not like them as if you want to talk to spirits that badly you do not need a board to do it. You would be better off with automatic writing. I am gald you like them but as I said before you will get an uninvited guest that does not want to leave and then this is where the trouble begins, thenit is people like me that get called in to clean house. I also think that the Ouija is more of a parlor game for people who have no idea what they are doing. Just know you have been warned and one day you will understand what we old magickians are talking about. It is not your energy doing this or your subconscious if you do not put your hands on it it will still move. Anyway good luck.
There, I fixed it for you.
It's funny that you think Ouija is more of a parlor game, because that's exactly what critics of automatic writing say. Automatic writing theoretically works the same way as a ouiji board. You (or just your hand) are acting as a medium. The only reason automatic writing is less likely to attract negative spirits is due to the experience of a person who would use automatic writing. It takes a bit more skill in "suspension of disbelief". You might as well have said "You would be better off using evokation." The whole point of using a ouija board is it's for people who don't have the skills to use other methods, like maybe your friends who don't practice magic. If I wanted to communicate with a spirit, I'd try evokation and scrying, which doesn't require me to channel the spirit. If I had some friends who wanted to communicate with the spirit, I'd use a ouija board, or better yet, I'd use a bunch of index cards with letters on them arranged in a circle around a table with a shot glass as a plachette, no Milton-Bradley devil-board required.
I've never seen the plachette move by itself, but I've heard of it happening, usually when more negative entities show up. Plachettes moving themselves don't prove that it's your energy that does it and not you subconscious mind. It could be the energy of the entity being contacted, and science has pretty much proven that the ouija board works on ideomotor actions. Even if it was "your energy" that moves the plachette, this energy most likely comes from or is controlled by the subconscious mind. Otherwise, all humans would have access to it at any time.
I've also never had an "uninvited guest" refuse to leave, possibly because the idea of it comes from the negative stigma surrounding the ouija board and the idea has no more of a basis in reality than you assign to it, possibly because I know what I'm doing. Don't worry. I won't be calling you or any other "old Magickians" any time soon.
I don't know if you noticed this or not, but part of the reason I like ouija boards is for the same reason you don't. Anyway, thanks for the "warning". lol
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