[Jayma]

hi there, i recently did a ouija board and the glass did not spell out anything but
did go to the same person every time and the glass kept going off the table, does
anyone here know why this happens??

[Paul Noise]

Because the person controlling the planchette pushed it that way.

[TrinityExecAMI]

All I know is, it's not good to meddle with things if you don't know what you are doing.

[Jayma]

Paul Noise, on 30 October 2009 - 08:08 PM, said:

Because the person controlling the planchette pushed it that way.

oh my, you are so clever..... or should i say... you think you are....

[Jayma]

TrinityExecAMI, on 31 October 2009 - 04:06 AM, said:

All I know is, it's not good to meddle with things if you don't know what you are doing.

I do know what i am doing, i go through all the correct channels and procedures before doing so. I have done this many times with excellent results, this one just happened to be different.

[Jerry Only]

Jayma, on 31 October 2009 - 02:36 AM, said:

I do know what i am doing, i go through all the correct channels and procedures before doing so. I have done this many times with excellent results, this one just happened to be different.

So you had a meeting with all these other-wordly entities and talked about the best methods and procedures that are necessary in having a safe ouija board session? Or you just learned this from what someone else told you. What makes you think they know what they're doing?

[Paranormalcy]

Yes, I'm curious about how you know whatever it is you've read or been told, is accurate and reliable.

But if you look through links in my sig to my UM blog, my columns here or my own website, you'll see I have a section written up on what it means when the board does certain things, at least for my group in our case. We would have the pointer go off the board a few times and did seem to be going to one person, and other times it would move to that person, at the edge of the board, then move away a short distance, then move back from a slightly different angle, then sort of slide along the edge of the board back and forth sill in front of them, the back part of the pointer moving more than the front - it looked like nothing as much as a dog sniffing someone upon first meeting them.

Some people freak out when the pointer/glass breaks the "boundary" of the board's edges, worried that somehow a spirit is "free" or something, and that the pointer should stay on the board in the proper confines - but it really depends on a lot of factors, as to what patterns a pointer/glass does - try to think back to the different times and people you've used the board with, and what has changed for your last session, who was different, who was using the board, who was sitting directly across from the person the glass kept going to, can you think of any significance.

[randomhit10]

i'm with Jerry Only and Paranormalcy....

i am on the edge of my chair to know how you can know the "right" way to consort with the spirit world and come out untouched...please enlighten those of us who would like to know how that works...we get to hear about those who do this and get mashed in goo soon after...i would like to know how to stick my head behind the curtain and come back in one piece...

randomhit10

[Paul Noise]

Jayma, on 31 October 2009 - 05:34 AM, said:

oh my, you are so clever..... or should i say... you think you are....

No I'm... not really clever...so much as... a realist who has...no reason to believe that a...spirit would talk to a person...through a divining board...

[Agent. Mulder]

Jayma, on 31 October 2009 - 09:34 AM, said:

oh my, you are so clever..... or should i say... you think you are....

what do you mean clever? thats how a ouija works, from the people pushing it where they want it to, but not realizing it.
and thus why it did not appear to spell anything.

[Agent. Mulder]

Paul Noise, on 02 November 2009 - 02:55 PM, said:

No I'm... not really clever...so much as... a realist who has...no reason to believe that a...spirit would talk to a person...through a divining board...

let alone the fact that its a parker bros. game.
IMO, a spirit, if they are really hanging out, may have better things to do than mess with people on a game board.

[Paul Noise]

Agent. Mulder, on 02 November 2009 - 10:27 AM, said:

let alone the fact that its a parker bros. game.
IMO, a spirit, if they are really hanging out, may have better things to do than mess with people on a game board.

Well, yeah. For me, it's always been that to play it properly, you have to touch the planchette. If the ghost is really going to communicate, why do you have to touch it? Couldn't you just concentrate from across the room, or even get really close and stare, but no, you have to touch it. It reminds me a bit of the guy in Mystery Men. The one who could turn invisible, but only when no one was looking at him.

[Agent. Mulder]

Paul Noise, on 02 November 2009 - 05:01 PM, said:

Well, yeah. For me, it's always been that to play it properly, you have to touch the planchette. If the ghost is really going to communicate, why do you have to touch it? Couldn't you just concentrate from across the room, or even get really close and stare, but no, you have to touch it. It reminds me a bit of the guy in Mystery Men. The one who could turn invisible, but only when no one was looking at him.

no kidding.
why cant the spirit just move it itself? why do they need us to move the pieces? we hear accounts all the time of poltergiest, and they dont need to use a human as a medium to move an object.
sooooo, why is this the case with a ouija? why doesnt someone try it with a pencil? or computer?

[Jerry Only]

Agent. Mulder, on 02 November 2009 - 09:04 AM, said:

no kidding.
why cant the spirit just move it itself? why do they need us to move the pieces? we hear accounts all the time of poltergiest, and they dont need to use a human as a medium to move an object.
sooooo, why is this the case with a ouija? why doesnt someone try it with a pencil? or computer?

Well, usually "experts" give some pseudo-scientific bunk, like the entity needs to feed off of your energy to move the marker, thus needing you to touch the marker.

[Thorn]

Jerry Only, on 05 November 2009 - 03:03 AM, said:

Well, usually "experts" give some pseudo-scientific bunk, like the entity needs to feed off of your energy to move the marker, thus needing you to touch the marker.

Yep that is what you hear all the time, sadly it fails to explain how spirits CAN move objects without that energy other times. EVEN LEVITATING OBJECTS OF GREAT WEIGHT. Sure some will say "different spirit, different strength and energy" or "poltergeist not typical spirit".

I however would counter it is a plastic pointer on felt sliders it would take almost NO ENERGY to move it. So if there was "occult inside" it should be quite capable of doing s on it's own accord.