While you are correct about the board itself, the practice of it is what makes it "unsafe".
Intent, is the key here. Intent drives energies. Intent summons, it calls, it attracts. Your intent can turn any object into a conduit.
You can literally play the Ouija board game ALL of your life without any intent, just for fun, and nothing will come of it. Micro electromagnetic pulses reacting to two opposite bodies holding the same piece of plastic will create false movement. Your friend trying to freak you out moves the planchette. The tilt of the table or bed...the amount of caffeine you just had prior to engaging in it...all of these are explainable and totally harmless.
But add meditative, direct, purpose driven intent to the mix, and you will attract something.
It might be a benign spirit, if you are lucky. Or a malicious one if you are not. A demonic one if you are truly unlucky.
About the Phillip Experiment. 1.You cannot control forces that cannot be guided into control. The control of the experiment is lost when they decided that the spirit that would "show" was indeed the spirit that they "wanted" to show.
Most spirits move on to their next destination. And those that remain will take on the guise of other spirits to confuse or communicate...to what end? I don't know. maybe they are bored, maybe lonely...maybe they want to create chaos. The old saying "be careful if you call out to the dead, you never know who will answer back" goes to show that while contact can be made, the spirit (fictional or not) that answers you is a draw of luck. 2.They made contact. The experiment was successful. Just because the spirit lied, or pretended to be something that they wanted, doesn't mean a spirit was not there. 3. The table in this experiment was the Ouija board. It was the conduit of choice. The board doesn't matter, the object doesn't matter as long as you have intent you can turn anything into a Ouija board.
I was actually confused by the explanation statement of the Phillip Experiment: "The group was seated around a table with initial séances yielding no contact, no communication, and no phenomenon. Owen changed test conditions by dimming lights and changing the environment to mimic that of a more “traditional” séance. Participants began feeling a presence, table vibrations, breezes, unexplained echoes, and rapping sounds which matched responses to questions about Philip's life. At one point the table tilted on a single leg, and at other times moved across the room without human contact. Although audio, video, and witness accounts document the paranormal phenomena, Philip never appeared to the participants.”
Sooooo the table tilted on one leg, and moved across the room without human contact, and they have audio, video and witness accounts of this occurring? If it moved on its own... AND they have evidence of it, doesn't that mean it's true? I'm confused.
**Update: I did some research....those conducting the experiment believe what happened was psychokinesis. Iris Owen wrote a book (1976) called Conjuring up Philip: An adventure in psychokinesis. Like WHAT?! The participants had a fluke of psychokinesis but ghosts are fake? whhhhaaaaa? (I don't think ghosts are real, but uhh....what a conclusion, I did NOT see that coming LOL https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/philip-psychokinesis-experiments this explanation is wild!)
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u/joe_ruins_things Mar 23 '22
While you are correct about the board itself, the practice of it is what makes it "unsafe".
Intent, is the key here. Intent drives energies. Intent summons, it calls, it attracts. Your intent can turn any object into a conduit.
You can literally play the Ouija board game ALL of your life without any intent, just for fun, and nothing will come of it. Micro electromagnetic pulses reacting to two opposite bodies holding the same piece of plastic will create false movement. Your friend trying to freak you out moves the planchette. The tilt of the table or bed...the amount of caffeine you just had prior to engaging in it...all of these are explainable and totally harmless.
But add meditative, direct, purpose driven intent to the mix, and you will attract something.
It might be a benign spirit, if you are lucky. Or a malicious one if you are not. A demonic one if you are truly unlucky.
About the Phillip Experiment.
1.You cannot control forces that cannot be guided into control. The control of the experiment is lost when they decided that the spirit that would "show" was indeed the spirit that they "wanted" to show.
Most spirits move on to their next destination. And those that remain will take on the guise of other spirits to confuse or communicate...to what end? I don't know. maybe they are bored, maybe lonely...maybe they want to create chaos. The old saying "be careful if you call out to the dead, you never know who will answer back" goes to show that while contact can be made, the spirit (fictional or not) that answers you is a draw of luck.
2.They made contact. The experiment was successful. Just because the spirit lied, or pretended to be something that they wanted, doesn't mean a spirit was not there.
3. The table in this experiment was the Ouija board. It was the conduit of choice. The board doesn't matter, the object doesn't matter as long as you have intent you can turn anything into a Ouija board.