All that means is people perseive it to be working, though doesn't mean people are actually contacting ghosts. Then there's the possibility that people lie
, bastards. There are large amounts of U.F.O sightings, ghost stories even werewolf sightings, peoples tales don't constitute as evidence.
Interesting point on U.F.O sightings, there was a study done that found out that U.F.O sightings increased after a big movie or T.V program about aliens and U.F.O's.
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Heck, OF COURSE there's more sightings of UFO's after such showings, especially the ones which are blockbusters or are watched by a lot of people. For a while after, many people are more aware of the skies around them, and people are therefore looking more. If there are any UFO's in the sky in any locality, people are more likely to see them during a period of time after these shows/movies.
Part of the "instructions" to using an Ouija Board is that the players relax fully, and put themselves into a state which is quasi-trance-like. Following the instructions results in similar effects on the mind as hypnosis (though not as fully so), or meditation while using a mantra. People who have properly followed the Ouija instructions have put themselves into an altered state of consciousness. I feel that makes people somewhat more susceptible to the unseen forces which ARE out there, and which surround us at all times.
I believe that enough of the usual mental control is relinquished, that the forces can interact with the SUBCONSCIOUS part of our brains, and with the "voluntary" motor component of the brain fully relaxed (assuming instructions are followed accurately), the subconscious can transmit its own motor controls. I believe the spirits are working, therefore, via our subconscious minds - and we're pretty much at their mercy, not being aware of "how" we will be told to move the planchette.
There are many stories about Ouija boards NOT working, as well. Some people may NEVER be able to suppress their conscious and motor parts of their brains enough (and both must be suppressed!) to obey what movements are being directed by the subconscious. I know that as a kid I tried Ouija 3 or 4 times, and I was never able to get anything out of it, but I also recognize that I was never able to suppress the normally-dominant parts of my consciousness.
The fact that the Ouija board is usually made cheaply, out of cardboard and plastic, in a factory somewhere, is NOT the point. The point is that, once the subconscious is channeled into relaying these messages, the message has to be given in a way that we can understand. Without the letters and numbers on the Ouija board, we can't be aware enough of the spiritual message to understand what it's telling us. The motor controls via the subconscious allow the messages to be spelled out, and at that point we can understand what "it" is saying.
No, the Ouija board IS NOT talking to us. Its only purpose is to serve as a medium which "decodes" what the subconscious is trying to relay to us, whatever the message is, which originates from the spiritual world.
I assure you that not all the Ouija stories (or UFO stories, ghost tales, etc.) are real. The very nature of these stories is SENSATIONALISM, and many humans thrive on things that are "sensational." We see proof of that in the media every day, especially if we are to look at the ratings that various media shows and publications get.
But I furthermore assure you that some of these stories ARE REAL. There's a lot of stuff out there that's really happening, which "seems crazy" to those who have world views based on science and empirical evidence. But I also know some people who are indeed not only spiritual, but I actually know at least two West Coast friends who
routinely experience extrasensory things. (One is in frequent communication with his deceased soulmate, and his deceased soulmate intervened
blatantly to foil my friend's suicide when things were their bleakest.) Both of these guys are very intelligent and very logical people, and I am absolutely sure that, what they tell me, accurately describes what they are experiencing.
I believe strongly that we are all BORN with this extrasensory spiritual awareness. However, only the most minuscule % of us have ever been taught (in childhood!) how to harness or use it, or that it even exists. I also feel that extrasensory awareness is one of those "use it or lose it" things - just like muscle mass. We're not taught as children, and even when a child talks about something regarding such an experience it's usually not even recognized as such, and it generally falls on deaf ears. I believe this gift, which we're all born with, withers away in 99.9% (or similar) of people, because the child doesn't get any reinforcement from other people (parents, etc.) to keep using it and it atrophies.
I strongly believe, also, that SOME of the children who have "imaginary playmates or friends" are recalling the scant shreds of memories from a previous life, or perhaps in touch with a departed (and usually benevolent) spirit. My younger brother had such a friend named PATTY before he was in kindergarten, and I was never aware of anybody named Patty among any relatives or friends of my family, nor in any of the TV media that he would have seen, so where did that name come from?
I had an extrasensory [ghost in my house] experience myself 16 or 17 years ago, but it's something which has been exceptionally rare for me. On the other hand, I know there's been a couple of times (years ago, thankfully) that I was falling asleep at the wheel, and somehow I found myself taking a freeway exit which, IN NO POSSIBLE WAY, was I conscious of using. No, I was GUIDED to those exits. I've had minor mindreading things happen with good friends on rare occasions, but it's all very rudimentary and basic.
The spiritual world was proven to about 25,000 of us in 1991 when I was at a Rainbow Tribes gathering in central Vermont. It's a 4th-of-July that I'll always remember. This was a huge gathering of hippies and ex-hippies, free spirits and the like (even some bikers etc.). There's always a drum circle on that date, and a noontime "om" for world peace. I was told beforehand to be open to possibly seeing a rainbow (in full circle) form around the Sun. I thought that was rubbish until, indeed, about 35 minutes after the OM began, some of the clouds moved away and A RAINBOW DID INDEED CIRCLE THE SUN. I don't think this was a coincidence, and it's the only time in my lifetime I've seen a full-circle solar rainbow. Yes, there were about 25,000 people there in the National Forest. And, that entire day, I ran around entirely nude.
Be careful with the Ouija board! None of us really know entirely what's out there.
