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.gif
There 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.
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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. ... ight=ouija (http://www.occultforums.com/showthread. ... ight=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. ... ight=ouija (http://www.occultforums.com/showthread. ... ight=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.
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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.