Ouija Board - Facts & Realties

Ouija Board !!

An ouija board is any flat surface - sometimes an actual board such as a piece of wood or sometimes it can be a table or something like that. On the board are arranged the letters of the alphabet (sometimes also the numbers 0-9) and the words YES and NO. If you are using a table these can be witten on pieces of paper or card. An upturned glass is placed on the centre on the board and every participant places the index finger of their right hand on top of the upturned glass. The spirits are then summoned and may be asked questions to which they will reply by moving the glass to either YES or NO or by spelling out the answer by moving to each letter in turn. It is a good idea to have at least one person in the room who is an observer. They can note down the questions and answers and are also able to intervene if something starts to go horribly wrong.

Explanation

Scientific explanation

Users subconsciously direct the path of the triangle to produce a word that is in that person's subconscious thought process. This subconscious behavior is known as ideomotor action, a term coined by William Carpenter in 1882. It is also known as automatism. Some people may be convinced the "powers" of the ouija board are real because they are unaware that they are in fact moving the piece and therefore assume that the piece must be moving due to some other "spiritual force". The subconscious thought process may produce an answer that is different from what the user expected in their conscious thought process—thus perpetuating the idea that

the board has "mystical powers".

Spiritualist explanation

Spiritualists who believe Ouija boards can be used to make actual contact with the spirit world feel that the act of hindering a medium’s ability to use his or her own eyes while the board is in use effectively places too great of a handicap on the whole exercise (see ad hoc hypothesis). This argument stems from the belief that contacted spirits actually utilize the eyes of the medium during a Ouija session in order to point to the letters and words needed to form a message. Most believers of this notion believe that the board has no intrinsic power in and of itself, but rather, is used simply as a tool to aid a medium while in communication with the spirit world.

Stories about Ouija Boards:-

* Two boys of about 13 were found dead in a locked room sat around an Ouija Board. The expressions on their faces was one of total horror and they had both died of heart attacks.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!!

* late Roman Catholic priest Malachi Martin believed talking boards are dangerous and claimed that by using these devices a person opens themselves to demonic oppression or possession.

* GK Chesterton used a Ouija board. Around 1893 he had gone through a crisis of skepticism and depression, and during this period Chesterton experimented with the Ouija board and grew fascinated with the occult. [20]

* Poet James Merrill used a Ouija board for years, and even encouraged entrance of spirits into his body. He wrote the poem "The Changing Light at Sandover" with the help of a Ouija board. Before he died, he recommended people to not use Ouija boards.[21]

* Rap group Bone Thugs-N-Harmony often mention the Ouija board and what it tells them to do

* Former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi claimed under oath that, in a séance held in 1978 with other professors at the University of Bologna, the "ghost" of Giorgio La Pira spelled the name of the street where Aldo Moro was being held by the Red Brigades in a Ouija. According to Peter Popham of The Independent: "Everybody here has long believed that Prodi's ouija board tale was no more than an ill-advised and bizarre way to conceal the identity of his true source, probably a person from Bologna's seething far-left underground whom he was pledged to protect."

* Bill Wilson the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous used the Ouija Board to contact spirits.[23] His wife said that he would get messages directly without even using the board.[24]For a while, his participation in AA was deeply affected by his involvement with the Ouija board. Wilson claimed that he received the twelve step method directly from a spirit without the board and wrote it down.[25]

* Art Bell, the former host of the paranormal-themed radio show Coast To Coast AM (which on Halloween became Ghost To Ghost AM) had once used an Ouija board, and experienced something he's been wanting to forget ever since. He refused to tell any of the callers/listeners about the actual experience and he always advised not to use an Ouija board - ever.


* The Fiery Furnaces said that they used a Ouija board to write lyrics for their forthcoming album Widow City [26]

* On the July 25, 2007 edition of the paranormal radio show Coast to Coast AM, host George Noory attempted to carry out a live Ouija board experiment on national radio despite the strong objections of one of his guests, Jordan Maxwell, and with the encouragement of his other guests, Dr. Bruce Goldberg, Rosemary Ellen Guiley and Jerry Edward Cornelius.[citation needed] In the days and hours leading up to the show, unfortunate events kept occurring to Noory's friends and family as well as some of his guests, but these events would likely be considered coincidences by skeptics. After recounting a near-death experience in 2000 and noting bizarre events taking place, Noory canceled the experiment.[citation needed]

* The singer Morrissey has a song titled Ouija Board, Ouija Board.

* Matthew Bellamy, front man of the rock band Muse, has said that his mother was a medium.[citation needed] When he was a young boy, he and his family played with Ouija boards.[citation needed]

* In 2008, progressive rock band The Mars Volta released an album titled The Bedlam in Goliath in an attempt to reverse the bad luck from a Ouija board that guitaritst/producer Omar Rodriguez-Lopez bought while visiting Jerusalem and later buried after a disastrous tour.[citation needed] The vinyl release will come with its own Ouija board built into the gatefold.

* Sheryl Crow makes a reference to the Ouija board in a text passage of A Change Would Do You Good.

* Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has a signature guitar model with a Ouija board motif which was actually spelt wrong which he used live.

* N.W.A They were seen using the board, during one of their Homevideos

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