my friend has recently talked to me about how scary ghosts and spirits are and I've been so confident in my understandings and rarely feeling afraid at all when it comes to spirits. However he has got the ghost paranoia thing going and its hard to stay cool when your buddy is freakin out telling you about these unrealistic stories that dont exactly add up but are scary nevertheless.
This brings me to my question: Is the oujia Board Actually a dangerous thing to mess with?
He has told me about how in his family, his uncle had one when he was a teen and he forever has a spirit inside his body because he messed with the board. He was addicted to it and his parents grew concerned. He says everyone who uses it gets possessed and the spirit cannot be removed.. I replied with a "What about an exorcism? isn't that a common and simple solution?" He says "NO! You can't get rid of it or THEM". He said the parents through the board into the fireplace one day and it Didn't have a single mark of evidence that it burned. Then he jumped in the fire and grabbed it and pulled it out. However, I am a critic of his story, because as a kid my mom through away my toys when she got mad at me and I would go Dumpster diving to get my G.I.Joe back. That stuff had sentimental value and I would have personalities for all of my toys man.. I couldn't let it go. But the kid probably reacted without thinking and went for it cause he didnt want his toy to get destroyed and probably pulled it out immediately... meaning it didn't get burned.. NOT because its DEMONIC or some stupid shit like that.. I dislike the Christian ideology of "Demons"... its 'Daemons' and they are nothing that they describe them to be.
Now, I did a little research... People have said that its nothing to freak out about because its just a Parker Brothers toy, which was verified as I saw it at my local Target store today in the children's toys section and a simple google search can even tell you that. However it wasn't created by Parker Brothers and was actually created by someone else a little later than the time Parker Brothers was founded.
Now, people would say that it is a divination tool created by someone that works (like any tool someone would create) however it just so happened to gain popularity and everyone seemed to be getting results from it so its continuing to be used. I have read from a paranormal expert that the Board connects the users to spirits of the "Lower Astral Plane", which makes sense, because those are spirits who have experienced death and pain and are confused and potentially dangerous spirits. But It wouldn't add up with other spiritual beliefs of mine and definitely doesn't add up with a more logical aspect.
Scientists have thought to debunk it with the theory of "The Ideomotor effect". Its basicly the body reacting the same way it always does in a fashion where it doesn't need to be concious to perform.. such as producing tears when feeling intense emotions of sadness or pain.
"The ideomotor effect is a psychological phenomenon wherein a subject makes motions unconsciously. As in reflexive responses to pain, the body sometimes reacts reflexively to ideas alone without the person consciously deciding to take action. For instance, tears are produced by the body unconsciously in reaction to powerful emotions. Automatic writing, dowsing, facilitated communication, and Ouija boards have also been attributed to the effect of this phenomenon. Mystics have often attributed this motion to paranormal or supernatural force. Many subjects are unconvinced that their actions are originating solely from within themselves." -Wiki
It makes sense, however.. being one who believes in energy and the astral, I really have to ask myself if this is also another divination tool (and potentially dangerous one at that...) OR NOT a divination tool (like that of the rest of my tools I own), and is rather a sort of mockery of divination in itself due to its lack of legitimacy?
This brings me to my question: Is the oujia Board Actually a dangerous thing to mess with?
He has told me about how in his family, his uncle had one when he was a teen and he forever has a spirit inside his body because he messed with the board. He was addicted to it and his parents grew concerned. He says everyone who uses it gets possessed and the spirit cannot be removed.. I replied with a "What about an exorcism? isn't that a common and simple solution?" He says "NO! You can't get rid of it or THEM". He said the parents through the board into the fireplace one day and it Didn't have a single mark of evidence that it burned. Then he jumped in the fire and grabbed it and pulled it out. However, I am a critic of his story, because as a kid my mom through away my toys when she got mad at me and I would go Dumpster diving to get my G.I.Joe back. That stuff had sentimental value and I would have personalities for all of my toys man.. I couldn't let it go. But the kid probably reacted without thinking and went for it cause he didnt want his toy to get destroyed and probably pulled it out immediately... meaning it didn't get burned.. NOT because its DEMONIC or some stupid shit like that.. I dislike the Christian ideology of "Demons"... its 'Daemons' and they are nothing that they describe them to be.
Now, I did a little research... People have said that its nothing to freak out about because its just a Parker Brothers toy, which was verified as I saw it at my local Target store today in the children's toys section and a simple google search can even tell you that. However it wasn't created by Parker Brothers and was actually created by someone else a little later than the time Parker Brothers was founded.
Now, people would say that it is a divination tool created by someone that works (like any tool someone would create) however it just so happened to gain popularity and everyone seemed to be getting results from it so its continuing to be used. I have read from a paranormal expert that the Board connects the users to spirits of the "Lower Astral Plane", which makes sense, because those are spirits who have experienced death and pain and are confused and potentially dangerous spirits. But It wouldn't add up with other spiritual beliefs of mine and definitely doesn't add up with a more logical aspect.
Scientists have thought to debunk it with the theory of "The Ideomotor effect". Its basicly the body reacting the same way it always does in a fashion where it doesn't need to be concious to perform.. such as producing tears when feeling intense emotions of sadness or pain.
"The ideomotor effect is a psychological phenomenon wherein a subject makes motions unconsciously. As in reflexive responses to pain, the body sometimes reacts reflexively to ideas alone without the person consciously deciding to take action. For instance, tears are produced by the body unconsciously in reaction to powerful emotions. Automatic writing, dowsing, facilitated communication, and Ouija boards have also been attributed to the effect of this phenomenon. Mystics have often attributed this motion to paranormal or supernatural force. Many subjects are unconvinced that their actions are originating solely from within themselves." -Wiki
It makes sense, however.. being one who believes in energy and the astral, I really have to ask myself if this is also another divination tool (and potentially dangerous one at that...) OR NOT a divination tool (like that of the rest of my tools I own), and is rather a sort of mockery of divination in itself due to its lack of legitimacy?
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