Ouija Boards

When i was sixteen I went with a friend to a spiritulist, she told me I would marry someone with buttons on a uniform,from across the sea.Two years later,on holiday on the Isle of Man,I met someone who was in the RAF ,stationed in Cyprus.Guess what ? I married him three years later and were married for forty three years till he passed away. She also told my friend several things which all came to fruition too.

A few years ago now a friend and I used to go to a spiritualist church on a regular basis, and constantly she was given messages that were so alike and also very true.She was repeatedly told of photos of herself as a baby in a pram with a very vivid description of a doll. All these occured with very different clairvoyents over a period of about seven or so years.

I think there are a lot of charlatans and misguided people out there but, occasionally, inexplicable things happen or are intuited.
I saw a medium at a fair a couple of years ago. His first question was 'so, who's David then?' that was/is my DH. He then proceeded to reel of an accurate character portrait, descriptions of the problems we were having and how DH was contributing, the differences between us and likely outcomes. He asked no questions, I said not a word. I was flabbergasted. In a brief conversation afterwards he told me that if he concentrated, words just came into his head and he just said them and that people usually found them relevant. He'd had a lot of tragedy in his life and had worked as a fireman.
What the latter adds I don't really know. Perhaps 'good' mediums mind read in some way? Certainly something outside of the everyday seems possible. It wasn't the first time I've come across something seemingly irrational.

See I think people who totally think there’s nothing in the after life and mediums and oujia boards are hilarious probably don’t voice that opinion about the Christian or Muslim religions and they are exactly the same.

Based on hope and faith.

I cannot fathom how a medium told me so many personal details and contrary to previous posters I am in no way suggestable I went for a laugh. I told her nothing and she told me things no one and I mean no one knew. It was bloody wierd.

I don’t take the piss. Only the stupid do in my opinion.

Desperate to try one, but too scared! If used incorrectly, very dangerous, but a useful tool if used by someone who knows what they are doing.

A subject I love to read about. Thanks MissAdventure.

Me too, sharon
Maybe I'm a bit of an Arthur C Clarke?

I am very sceptical of mediums, and ouija boards. Many large rewards have been offered, over the years, to anyone who could give proof, under controlled conditions, of contacting the dead. No-one has ever been able to do so.

However, I do believe that there are things which have happened that we can not understand. I think that I would rather play safe, and not tamper with the 'other side', if there is one.

My father was member of the Magic Circle so I would not bother with a ouija board, a clairvoyant, a crystal ball, a fortune teller or a tarot reader – or even sawing someone in half. I know how they work.

absent as Paul Daniel's would say "that's magic", sums it up neatly.

I guess we all feel that way until we experience something for ourselves that can’t be explained away.

I'm firmly in the "load of old claptrap" category - along with all religion! Got dragged along to a spiritualist evening once, years ago - and what a load of old nonsense it was! People hearing or believing what they wanted to hear...

I see we are being 'nannied' again. Why do others get concerned about posts between
Anniebach and GabriellaG I'm sure they can defend themselves.

I have a large rug in a room which isn't used much. I can go in there after a week or two to find the rug a couple of feet away from where it used to be, when no-one has walked on it or even near it. Heat variations and the sun coming in the window cause that

Elegran... that did give me a chuckle I'm afraid..please tell how heat variations and the sun shining through the window can move a rug "a couple of feet".. ??

Like others I messed with an ouija when I was very young..each of us asked a question that couldn't possibly have been known by the others, and that person would remove their finger from the glass while asking said question..I don't remember what others asked but my question was answered perfectly correctly...no one else would have had an inkling...we stopped at that point.. scary stuff when you're 13.
Also I have sister who is VERY psychic.. a few of my family were, some not really realising, but she is the only one who has read for people, in many ways, done distance healing, etc..she even described a friend's new house abroad down to the last detail, all perfectly accurate even though she had never seen it or photos of it, in fact didn't even know about it until her friend told her. She even sat next to someone in a bar one night, where she lived in Spain, and was suddenly swamped with information about this person... a tentative chat eventually confirmed all was true. I asked her once how she received all this information and she said it came in the form of voices mostly, but sometimes she would be shown a picture, as in the details of her friends house I suppose. She has a very good reputation, and although she no longer practices much still has people asking for her, many of them strangers who have heard by word of mouth.
I've had my own small experiences that make me believe..no, not a vivid imagination, real inexplicable experiences. It's not science as someone suggested..how would you know unless you are a scientist and can prove your theory... but I've given up trying to convince other people..I appreciate that it takes experience to believe... as the saying goes "To the believer, no evidence is necessary...to the non believer, no evidence is enough"

Yes I have done it with school friends, hasn't every one tried it?
You all scare your self and that as far as that goes.

OK, Toots it may not be heat variations that move the rug, but it is not that people walking on it shift it in the direction of the carpet piue - if no-one has entered that room, it still gradually migrates across the floor. A lot of sunshine comes in from south-facing windows, so I believe that the rug fibres get warm and perhaps cause a tiny expansion, or maybe static. I don't believe that the spirits of past house-owners are trying to send me a message.

Perhaps some who dismiss faith, afterlife etc don’t want to believe there are things beyond their control ?

And perhaps some who see a mysterious supernatural hand in everything (not just faith and afterlife but natural occurrences) do want to have some other power take over controlling the things that happen to them, keeping no responsibility at all but being a child still?

Perhaps

Reading through this thread, like others, a crowd of us mucked about with them at school, occasionally with some alarming results, we tried to levitate as well, but without success

I have a very open mind as to spirits and the after life, in fact I'd say I'm more persuaded by such concepts than disbelieving in them.

"Perhaps some who dismiss faith, afterlife etc don’t want to believe there are things beyond their control ?"
Or perhaps some just look at these things from a more logical, scientific point of view and don't believe in things until we can see positive proof that they exist?

I was inspired as a schoolgirl by a line in a Belle and Sebastian song to try turning tables in Marks and Spencers, with great success.

(You will never fail to turn tables with anyone vaguely credulous in the group)

Can we have positive proof for everything ? We are told we are loved by someone , no positive proof, no scientific tests

Anniebach, maybe I'm just a born cynic and sceptic...