Ouija boards

[zanzi]

anyone ever used a ouija board? What happened?

[FitChick]

Stay away from them. Don't go looking for trouble.

 

You've been warned!

[zanzi]

aren't they just kind of toys that people make up stories about.

[whichwayisup]

Stay away from them. Don't go looking for trouble.

 

You've been warned!

 

I agree.

 

I think messing with that kind of stuff opens up something that we as a society don't know too much about. It can give off a negative/bad energy too.

 

If you're wanting to ask questions, go use tarot cards or visit a psychic. It's safer.

[zanzi]

Iv'e been searching the internet for a legitimate story about them. Hasbro makes them, for christ sakes. I'm really not afraid of something that hasbro manufactures. In my opinion, it's old wives tales and scare talk.

[Eternal Sunshine]

Seriously, don't do it.

[Eclypse]

aren't they just kind of toys that people make up stories about.

 

Do it for laughs. A lot of people have watched The Exorcist too much I think. There's no such thing as good or negative energy or spirits. It's just a board game. Don't expect too much from it.

[thatone]

It makes me sad the people apparently still have a knee jerk fear of a parlor trick toy.

 

Grow up, humanity.

[Foxinthesnow]

I've used them lots of times. Not only that, they aren't that hard to make.

 

I have also used tarot cards, crystal balls, tea leafs, and just about any other type of occult trapping you can think of.

 

I wouldn't worry too much about them. Most of the time it is just a harmless game that has about as much power as reading your horoscope in the news paper.

[soccerrprp]

anyone ever used a ouija board? What happened?

 

Yes, as a kid.

 

Nothing happened. It's nonsense. Have fun.

[FitChick]

Why do you WANT to use a ouija board? If you want answers, see a good psychic or tarot reader, as was mentioned. You will get clearer answers. PM me and I'll give you name and phone number of my psychic. She does readings over the phone if you can't go in person.

 

Yes, ouija boards are just pieces of wood and plastic. So is a radio or computer. It's what comes through via the board that is the problem. It opens up a portal, like going to sleep and opening up all the doors in your house. Anyone could come in. You wanted stories. Here are stories.

Edited June 30, 2013 by FitChick

[CarrieT]

So, here is my firsthand account of using a ouija (and I am a long-practicing occultist and have dabbled in most arcane things at one point or another)... Like Foxinthesnow, I've done tarot, I Ching, tea leaves, etc. I still make occult jewelry for a number of secret societies.

 

A dozen-or-so years ago, I was friends with these people who are an interest triad: A husband-and-wife who owned an engineering firm and their lawyer. They had been using a home-made ouija every Tuesday night for at least a decade, if not longer.

 

Now, when I mean home-made ouija, this puppy was AMAZING looking. The engineer dude hand-cut his planchette (the piece that moves) from a striped agate. The board was actually a larger representation of the classic ouija board, with many additional words, but made on cloth onto which they placed a sheet of glass. He had something on the bottom of the agate planchette that enabled it to slide effortlessly across the glass and the larger representation enabled them to work the board faster, with more accuracy.

 

They would start each "session" with a ritual to call the spirits/entities/demons/whatever. Only the engineer and the lawyer would handle the planchette - the wife was the scribe that would take down what was spelled out. Seemed the engineer and the lawyer - in their weekly sessions - would ask questions for themselves or for other and look for guidance in business, lives, etc.

 

I witnessed two such sessions and can attest to several things. Firstly, once the planchette started moving, the two men were barely touching it and the thing flew across the board with astonishing speed. I now realized why the wife had to transcribe what was being spelled because she took shorthand and all the information that came out came very, very quickly. Secondly, these two men were insanely successful in their respective businesses (the lawyer had NEVER lost a case and both were millionaires) - which they attested to the information they received from these sessions.

 

Lastly - and this one was for me - they did a session both for me and my boyfriend of the time. We were given extensive personal and professional information and guidance which, now over a dozen years later, has all come true.

 

I was incredibly skeptical, but I have seen people take a parlor game and use it to amazing results.

[Anela]

I used a homemade one when I was a kid, make on paper. I can't remember anything but that, though.

 

Funny: I used my tea leaf cards, for the first time in over a year, last night, and the prediction came true within ten minutes (I was asking for the week ahead, but not focusing properly). I've used the tarot, and used to use it every day, for practice - I've had similar results there, but wasn't always good enough to read what was in them. Hindsight = 20/20, I could see how they matched up.

 

Really good readers can even read sticks, or "junk oracles". They made their own on another board, and then did readings for others with them.

[Forever Learning]

My ex-husband's first wife, had a very alcoholic mother.

 

This alcoholic older woman would get a case of beer almost every night (this was back in the 1980's, by the way, in Pennsylvania), go home alone to her room, drink the beer, and sit on her bed, with the Ouija board on her lap.

 

At first, she would touch it to make it move. In the early stages of use.

 

Over time, she sat cross legged and NO LONGER TOUCHED IT, IT MOVED ALL ON ITS OWN, AND QUITE QUICKLY.

 

The ex-husband and his first wife, witnessed this first hand on several occasions - it moving entirely by itself (the moving thingy, on the board, that spells out the words to you).

 

I also have a neighbor who played with it as a young girl, until one day she saw it floating above her bed (the whole board). That freaked her out, and she threw it out.

 

I say stay away from Ouija boards. All the best to you.

[zanzi]

Why do you WANT to use a ouija board? Here are stories.

 

Curiosity I suppose. And boredom. To see if anything happens. All of the above.

[zanzi]

I'd also like to expand my question to everyone who posted. Have you experienced spiritual or supernatural occurrences?

I used to hallucinate due to a medication I would take as a teen and see things I thought in in times of fear were bad spirits.

 

I was brought up in a christian home but am now an atheist, perhaps with some wiggle room for the unknown.

[skydiveaddict]

anyone ever used a ouija board? What happened?

 

Don't mess with that ****. It's bad news.

 

Especially since you are an atheist. You have no protection. I'm not making a value judgement here. I'm just telling you it's dangerous ****.

Edited July 1, 2013 by skydiveaddict

[Nava]

So, here is my firsthand account of using a ouija (and I am a long-practicing occultist and have dabbled in most arcane things at one point or another)... Like Foxinthesnow, I've done tarot, I Ching, tea leaves, etc. I still make occult jewelry for a number of secret societies.

 

A dozen-or-so years ago, I was friends with these people who are an interest triad: A husband-and-wife who owned an engineering firm and their lawyer. They had been using a home-made ouija every Tuesday night for at least a decade, if not longer.

 

Now, when I mean home-made ouija, this puppy was AMAZING looking. The engineer dude hand-cut his planchette (the piece that moves) from a striped agate. The board was actually a larger representation of the classic ouija board, with many additional words, but made on cloth onto which they placed a sheet of glass. He had something on the bottom of the agate planchette that enabled it to slide effortlessly across the glass and the larger representation enabled them to work the board faster, with more accuracy.

 

They would start each "session" with a ritual to call the spirits/entities/demons/whatever. Only the engineer and the lawyer would handle the planchette - the wife was the scribe that would take down what was spelled out. Seemed the engineer and the lawyer - in their weekly sessions - would ask questions for themselves or for other and look for guidance in business, lives, etc.

 

I witnessed two such sessions and can attest to several things. Firstly, once the planchette started moving, the two men were barely touching it and the thing flew across the board with astonishing speed. I now realized why the wife had to transcribe what was being spelled because she took shorthand and all the information that came out came very, very quickly. Secondly, these two men were insanely successful in their respective businesses (the lawyer had NEVER lost a case and both were millionaires) - which they attested to the information they received from these sessions.

 

Lastly - and this one was for me - they did a session both for me and my boyfriend of the time. We were given extensive personal and professional information and guidance which, now over a dozen years later, has all come true.

 

I was incredibly skeptical, but I have seen people take a parlor game and use it to amazing results.

 

Fascinating. My understanding of Ouija, is that if you are not highly skilled medium, you don't know what is pushing the planchette. It can be a bored being, or something truly malevolent. May I ask, did these businessmen know who was helping them through the Ouija and would you recommend using this tool for a novice as opposed to a pendulum?

[FitChick]

It's not the same spirits communicating on every ouija board. There isn't just one radio station playing on every radio. You don't know who or what is coming through. Unless you are very spiritually advanced, you don't know what you will be getting into and you won't know how to protect yourself. The price for boredom could be higher than you ever expected to pay.

 

Rent some DVDs, learn to knit, paint a picture, take an acting class, etc., if you are bored.

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[Emilia]

It makes me sad the people apparently still have a knee jerk fear of a parlor trick toy.

 

Grow up, humanity.

A few nights in the African bush would teach you otherwise.

 

OP it's best not to play with things you don't understand.

[Emilia]

Have you experienced spiritual or supernatural occurrences?

Yes. I was staying in a house where there had been a lot of violence - which I didn't know about until I discussed some of my experiences with a friend's brother.

 

It's not the hocus pocus ghost stuff that people imagine, it's energy and if you are sensitive to it, it's a very distrubing experience. I stayed in that house for 3 days and I hated it. Would have prefered to sleep outside in the open but it was too dangerous as it was in South Africa deep in Zulu country. I think it's smart to draw boundaries and not play around.

[patrol]

Off topic. Why the heck is this under "Self-Improvement and Personal Well-Being?" Are you like an apprentice exorcist trying to find some spirit to battle to level up?

[zanzi]

yes I am.

no, I just posted it here because more people were in this forum then in the "spiritual and beliefs forum." Because I'm a clever bean.

[zanzi]

Yes. I was staying in a house where there had been a lot of violence - which I didn't know about until I discussed some of my experiences with a friend's brother.

 

It's not the hocus pocus ghost stuff that people imagine, it's energy and if you are sensitive to it, it's a very distrubing experience. I stayed in that house for 3 days and I hated it. Would have prefered to sleep outside in the open but it was too dangerous as it was in South Africa deep in Zulu country. I think it's smart to draw boundaries and not play around.

 

This is very interesting to me as I am part african myself, my family is Xhosa tribe.

I'd always wondered how to get a closer understanding of those roots. Not to communicate per se but to feel closer to them.