Ouija Board

[mac]

"On a final note, although I don't fear the unknown, including supposed negative entities I'm also not one to provoke them or try to channel spirits either."

That's exactly how I used to feel - until a time when I was responsible (or at least instrumental) for an event after which I experienced the malevolence of these so-called negative entities.

On that occasion we weren't messing around and there was a positive outcome BUT subsequently it also released a fury of anger against a friend I'd unthinkingly involved. That taught me one of my many lessons.

[Celera]

When I was a teenager, my mother went through a period of being very interested in topics related to communication with the spirit world and/or the dead. We went to a quite conservative Baptist church, and they sternly disapproved of "the occult" but my grandmother had just died and my mother was searching, I'm sure, for some consolation.

I remember reading some of Ruth Montgomery and Jeanne Dixon's works, and learning about automatic writing (which I tried briefly with no result). They also talked about meditation, but not in the sense that the Buddhists do -- it was more an exercise of "emptying the mind" and being open to the spirit world. I tried this once or twice and got a terrific headache both times. I'm not very prone to headaches, so this was odd. Anyway, I felt that perhaps God was protecting me from something, and I didn't try it anymore. And although my ideas of God have changed a great deal over the decades, maybe it's true something was protecting me.

It's been a long time since I was around a Ouija board, but I think that the instructions for it are rather the same -- ask the spirit world a question and wait with an open mind for an answer. I wonder if it is not the Ouija board, or a pendulum, or any other device in themselves, so much as this indiscriminate opening of the mind to whatever is out there, especially for the novice. I can see that it would be like walking around a dark alley at night -- most of the time you would get home safely, but you leave yourself very exposed to real danger.

[TheEscapist]

Using a ouiji board CAN be dangerous, and I stress the word "can". It's like how driving a car can be dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. I've used a ouiji board though and I'm still here alive and well. But then again, I know they are not toys and used it to reach someone in particular and took safeguards when doing so.