Talking boards?

[NaturalMystik]

But if you choose to play with fire, make sure to take the proper precautions

Well, ok... but like what?

That's a really good question, that I'm just as curious about. Once I get that figured out then I'd be more inclined to give it another crack.

It seems like there are some clues in Crowley's works. And I believe that a protective circle is key. Personally I don't think the protection ritual you choose is as important as the intention to create a protection circle, however ritual reinforces intention...

I've thought of some alternative explanations for the phenomena I experienced, maybe it was caused by us, ie psychic forces. But no matter how you slice it, it was paranormal.

[§ê¢rꆧ]

I don't have much experience with ouija. You might cast a circle, say a prayer, or put your psychic shields up. But no matter what you do, banish with laughter when you are done, (and I think that means literally laugh out loud as boisterous and mirthfully as you can, and really feel the laughter) and you should be just fine.

Lately I'm fascinated by doing some work with pendulums. I found this neat chart to work with that I'm going to take for a spin...

[brainpanhandler]

I hope we'll get a report when you've made the connection.

I think the next step is to get the book Jeff recommended. That seems like a good starting point. And I think making my own board is a good idea as well.

If there is anything of note to report on I'll come back to this thread.

[IanEye]

If there is anything of note to report on I'll come back to this thread.

hey, bph! anything to report yet?

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I use a pendulum occasionally, and would suggest that you first ask it to show you what a positive response would look like, along with a negative one.

Using your own prescribed directions for positive and negative replies can be misleading. It presumes that your lay of the land, so to speak, ought to be the respondent's lay of the land.

Better, I suggest, that you first query the respondent as to what a positive and negative response would look like, directionally, to him/her/it.

Don't also limit yourself to linear directional responses either. My pendulum circles counterclockwise for negative responses and clockwise for positive ones.

That's the benefit of querying for the respondent's standards, instead of using your own prescribed ones.

You're using their standards of communications instead of yours.

I don't have much experience with ouija. You might cast a circle, say a prayer, or put your psychic shields up. But no matter what you do, banish with laughter when you are done, (and I think that means literally laugh out loud as boisterous and mirthfully as you can, and really feel the laughter) and you should be just fine.

Lately I'm fascinated by doing some work with pendulums. I found this neat chart to work with that I'm going to take for a spin...

[2012 Countdown]

Fascinating interview...talks about Ouija bd. and how it was invented/popularized, etc. in the first half of interview. Whole clip is very much worth a listen...



November 16, 2009 12:07 AM PST- podcast from Gnostic Media.
LINK-
http://gnosticmedia.podOmatic.com/entry ... 9_27-08_00

[MacCruiskeen]

A ouija board at a children's party plays a significant part in Alan Garner's great book Elidor:



Chapter title: "Planchette". The kids don't use the board, just the planchette rolling freely on the back of a roll of wallpaper. The first results are unpromising ("'What is that?' 'An amoeba.' Someone squeaked. 'Sssh, don't laugh.' ..."), but then a clear image starts to emerge, plus two legible words.

Elidor (1965) has a classic status in its artful invasions of urban decay and suburban sloth (Manchester and its environs) by domains of psychic terror and longing (the threatened land of Elidor). Owing something to Garner's immersion in Britten's War Requiem, the book was gratefully praised by the composer himself for both the "pleasure" and the "horror" it occasioned him.

http://alangarner.atspace.org/independent1.html

[Avalon]

I'd suggest that you first get a copy of With the Tongues of Men and Angels by Arthur Hastings, to get a better understanding of the various sources of information that can come through channeling or other practices.

http://www.amazon.com/Tongues-Men-Angel ... 445&sr=1-1

My witch mentors are fond of saying "Don't invoke anything you aren't willing to feed."

If you have to ask us, it may be that you aren't ready or knowledgeable enough to handle any adverse things which can arise from ouija use. I haven't really used one since I did as a teen in the sixties. But at that time I had a disturbing experience with a friend regarding a possible past-life issue, and there were sufficiently anomalous phenomena accompanying it that I didn't feel like pursuing it further.

[brainpanhandler]

hey, bph! anything to report yet?

I have two to-do lists. One wasn't sufficient. One list is sort of long term, not very critical at all stuff. The other one is prioritized and is more like a have-to-do list. I keep the have-to-do list right next to my computer now. I thought that if I put it where I see it all the time I would be more likely to do the things on it instead of dicking around on here. That isn't working out. I think I'll tape the list over my computer screen next.

Needless to say it's on the to-do list but not the have-to-do list, although I am thinking that maybe it ought to move up to the have-to-do list as it might help me answer some questions the lack of answers to which are keeping me from doing much of anything at all.

What's the road to heaven paved with anyway?

[barracuda]

Faith and kindness probably. Along with the occassional candy-coated trip wire.

[2012 Countdown]

BTW, the one or two times I played w/it as a child resulted in inconsequential, mixed results. To be honest, I don't think we were doing it right. Set and setting is supposed to be important, and we were unserious.
The curser moved on occasion, but results were inconclusive.
Actually my mother bought the board for us to play with, but as soon as extended family members heard about it, they went nuts and recommended to board be thrown away. My mother complied.

One point about doing it alone- everywhere I've seen/heard people play, you really need at least two people. They say you avoid possession, and you have someone else to aid or back you up in your endeavor. This may be true. Of course the skeptic would wonder if the strong recommendation of at least two people to 'play' is just a way of doubling the odds of someone moving it (consciously or unconsciously).

[LilyPatToo]

Back in the late 1960's, a close friend and I used a Ouija board in her basement rec room. We were both (back then) precognitive and had other unusual psy abilities, so I suppose it was inevitable that we'd try something that was currently so wildly popular. The board purported to host a number of entities, one of them my friend's recently deceased young daughter, who told her where to find some lost (very important) keys. Which were exactly where she said they'd be.

But one day the "speaker" coming through was quite nasty and I began to get scared. I was too shy to say so, but it knew and threatened me with what it would do if I stopped playing. That, of course, scared me silly (or silly-er, rather ) and my friend and I nearly jumped out of our skins as every open door in the house suddenly slammed shut

There was almost no wind that day and no open windows or doors to the outside, so it was completely anomalous. One of the doors (to a powder room) was only a few yards from where we were sitting and it slammed so hard that it shook the flimsy tract ranch house's basement--all the furniture, including the table at which we were sitting, shuddered visibly.

That was the end of playing with Ouija boards as far as I was concerned. But my friend managed to convince one of her most psychic sister to play and even more alarming stuff happened, most of which I've thankfully forgotten in the 40 years since then. I have a feeling that, like most psy-connected things, the abilities and mindsets of the players determine the results. But if there are mind control agencies involved then the possibility of "feeding" desired info arises. The CIA's Operation OFTEN began in 1969, I believe...

LilyPat