Sud Ram
07-11-2004, 03:28 AM
And how do you
use it?
What is it for?
What is it's
history?
etc...
Qryztufre
07-11-2004, 07:37
AM
http://www.museumoftalkingboards.com/ouistc.gifThere
are two opposing beliefs about what happens when you
operate the Ouija board. We could call it the Skeptics
versus the Believers, but we prefer something a little
less confrontational. Besides, some people adopt ideas
from both arguments confusing the issue considerably.
So, to make things easy, we call it the Automatism
versus Spiritualist Theory of Ouija.
The Automatism
Theory
The clinical term is "ideomotor response." You
may not realize that you are moving the message
indicator, but you are. This is similar to automatic
writing, also known as automatism, a well-understood
psychological phenomenon. A spirit medium, in years
past, would hold a pencil in one hand and pay no
attention as it wrote furiously. Some believed that
these written messages came from the spirits. Others
felt that the messages came from a clever medium. At any
rate, most proponents of the Automatism Theory think
that it is very possible to move the planchette
unconsciously. They claim that the Ouija board opens a
kind of shortcut from the conscious to the subconscious
mind. Collective automatism occurs when more than one
person is operating the board. Automatists sometimes use
the Ouija board as a tool for special humanistic
psychotherapies (
http://www.museumoftalkingboards.com/therapy.html)
as a way to foster growth by releasing ideas from the
depths of the inner mind. This was particularly popular
during the human-potential movement of the 1960s and
1970s.
The Spiritualist Theory
Ouija messages
obviously come from forces beyond our control. You
contact or "channel" these entities through the board.
They are discarnate spirits, ghosts, or other ethereal
beings who have a purpose for contacting the living.
Many advocates of the Spiritualist Theory think that
there is no harm in contacting the other realm because
most spirits are basically benign and have important
information to share. A few of these same
advocates will perform elaborate cleansing rituals
before using the board, just in case they run into a
stinker. Other Spiritualist Theory supporters, often
religious fundamentalists, believe that no one should
ever use the Ouija board. Malevolent forces may
masquerade as good and cause emotional damage, even
death to the user of the board. They offer as proof the
many accounts of spirit possession reported by "experts"
on the occult and demonology. The absence of any actual
emergency room admissions for these Ouija board
tragedies does not discourage this kind of
thinking.
Thank you for asking those
questions they made me find the coolest site! (here is
the link:
http://www.museumoftalkingboards.com/map.html)
It's
given me GREAT insight as to the what's & how's of
that mysterious board. it includes references to the
board in moves, care and feeding of your board, how to
make one, how they work (including the actual 'HOW TO'
instructions) and much much more.
I hope that the
link helps you, and more importantly I hope that other
will share more then just simple links. Maybe some
insight into the deeper meaning & the HOW-TO's of
the board in general.
Q
Sud
Ram
07-11-2004, 08:02 AM
It still doesn't
explain what the board actually is

but It's good info. I'm not much of a
spiritism person so I really would like to see what kind
of answers come up on this
thread.
Qryztufre
07-11-2004, 08:37
AM
It still doesn't explain what the board
actually is

but It's good info. I'm not much of a
spiritism person so I really would like to see what kind
of answers come up on this thread.
Yeah, yeah...but
I was explaining the 'etc' question

Here's two threads that also will not
answer your question directly:
http://www.occultforums.com/showthread.php?t=4559&highlight=ouija
(
http://www.occultforums.com/showthread.php?t=4559&highlight=ouija)
(astro board)
Random banter concerning the board...it
does go into why one would want to used one
though.
http://www.occultforums.com/showthread.php?t=4327&highlight=ouija
(
http://www.occultforums.com/showthread.php?t=4327&highlight=ouija)
(here [newbie board])
This is more or less a warning
thread (which I reccomend reading if you are asking cuz
you are interested in buying/making a board of your
own).
I'd also like to see what other's think
about the subject. I own a board, but have not used it
yet...I got it fer looks for a holloween party I had a
few years ago.
Q
doh
07-11-2004, 11:20
AM
I consider the board to be nothing more than a
tool for contact with the astral or spiritual realms.
Sometimes for divination from an outside source,
sometimes just to talk. It can be a game (like Parker
Brothers version, even though even it can work) or it
can be an actual tool made generally out of wood.