
Talking Boards - Our Topic of the Month!
#1
Posted 18 January 2013 - 12:49 PM
Thank you for all of the support you’ve shown this past month. It’s been a hard road for me personally since Newtown, but going there for the holidays, walking around my hometown again, connecting with old friends, and talking to people helped me on the road to healing. There was a week or so where I found myself asking what was I doing with my life? How could I go back to the paranormal? How could I do anything else but try to help this situation? I’ve said before that I can’t change the world, but I can change myself.
As I’ve been crawling out of this dark place, I realize I’m still a paranormal guy. I still wonder about the big questions. That will never change. But I can always do more to help others. And I can be accountable for the things I do and say. It’s a start. The road is long. But I’m committed to staying on it.
For this month’s theme, I picked Talking Boards, better known by the brand name Ouija Boards, because I wanted to go back to the beginning of my own paranormal journey. Back to when I was ten years old at a sleepover in a haunted home in Newtown, and exploring the ghostly realm with a Planchette and lettered board. Even then I wasn’t completely sure if I was communicating with some deeper part of myself, with some deeper part of the person using the board with me, or something “out there.”
Over the years I’ve watched some people in the paranormal community vilify and attack the Ouija Board. “It’s a doorway, and you don’t know who or what is on the other side,” are the arguments I’ve heard. That may be true. But couldn’t the same be said for using EMF meters to attempt spirit communication? Or conducting an EVP session? Or asking for a knock on the wall of some haunted building? We just don’t know what’s out there.
But not knowing is the reason I explore the unknown. I want to know. I accept the perils and pitfalls because I feel like I’ve grown as a person because of it. And it all started on a dark and stormy night long ago, using a Ouija board with friends at a sleepover. I wouldn’t trade this path for anything in the world. Thanks for being on the journey with me.
Supernaturally yours,
Jeff Belanger
Mayor of Ghostvillage.com
#2
Posted 18 January 2013 - 03:51 PM
#3
Posted 18 January 2013 - 05:59 PM
Regarding the comparison between the Ouija Board and an EVP session there is one difference. Assuming the person involved believes each is capable of what is claimed the difference is that an EVP session is passive. The investigator asks questions and any response that may come in does so through an inanimate object, i.e. an amplifier and recorder. One simply observes in the third person. But the board requires an active participant. The response claimed is through direct action of the participants. The danger is the same as those who claim to channel or otherwise invite direct contact. So the comparison should be between channelers, etc. and the board, not between those who simply observe effects.
All this does not mean I agree the boards even work. That I still question. To convince me of their effectiveness I want to see a Ouija board session where the the planchette moves on its own; no human touch. Now when I can witness such a session, which rules out the auto motor response factor, then we may have something. Otherwise the board is simply a party game, fun to play with, but useless as a research tool.
#4
Posted 18 January 2013 - 08:35 PM
#5
Posted 20 January 2013 - 08:25 PM
Concerning the Ouija board.
Rosemary Ellen Guiley has taught us that is is not the board that causes all the trouble, but the people who use it. The board can be a focal point for intention, good or bad. If it is our intention to contact the otherside and we concentrate our energies on that goal, nothing is impossible. But when opening a path of communication how wide does it open and what else can pass back and forth? No one knows for sure, but if something is opened we must also be able to close it. One reason why it works for some is that everyone of us has psychic abilities,( some a little, some alot, many are unaware). The people at a higher (unknown) level of Psi are able to open communication through Ouija more easily than others. There are also theories that the level of belief of the user also directly correlates with making successful connections. Connections with what or who is the question. Unfortunately of us seem to want to believe so badly that they will take the slightest evidence as proof they have contacted "uncle joe" and that makes us easy marks for any spirit to connect.. Is it possible to make sure who it is ? No! This is the time to be a real skeptic as with any method of direct communication. good con man will tell yoy what you want to hear everytime. I also have doubts about "spirit guides" and confirming they are who they say they are, nor feel that having a "spirit guide "is essential to establish communications Putting that amount of trust into something unseen is asking for problems.
As for EVP, It is possibially the safest form of communication with the unknown unless the investigator is also listening in real time. Recording now and listening later not only gives us the chance to analyse what was verbalized but protects us from entrapment. Learn what you can and base questions to be asked at a later vigil.
In short, What ever equipment or technique you use, be sure to research what it does, and how it works before using it. Be aware of all possible dangers, how to avoid them, and what to do if you become victim to something unseen.
#6
Posted 22 January 2013 - 11:53 AM
#7
Posted 23 January 2013 - 01:52 PM
#8
Posted 23 January 2013 - 03:04 PM
I don't use a board myself, but can see the usefulness in it for those who chose.
#9
Posted 23 January 2013 - 05:19 PM
#10
Posted 25 January 2013 - 12:23 AM
I had a friend that was really into using this board. The last time he ever touched one...someting came out that scared the hell out of him. He felt something following all the time after that. Everything about him changed. Now...I can't say for sure the board is what changed my friend but I can't say that it wasn't either.
Edited by kats_god, 25 January 2013 - 12:28 AM.
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#11
Posted 25 January 2013 - 02:47 PM
I didn't want to say more so not to sound preachy. CaveRat2 says it best. It's just a board!
It's the participants who leave the front door wide open and go to bed leaving an invitation to whatever or whoever to enter. or is it whomever?

#12
Posted 25 January 2013 - 03:00 PM
#13
Posted 25 January 2013 - 06:03 PM
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Posted 15 February 2013 - 11:20 AM
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