Why I won't mess with Ouija boards......
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poltr1I often don't agree with what Fox News says, but this article has me agreeing with them. Hasbro had a pink Ouija board that was marketed toward teenage girls. Thankfully, it's being phased out.
I really don't believe this product -- or any other type of Ouija board -- should be marketed to anyone who isn't a serious practitioner of the occult. It's not "just a toy". There's too much potential for psychic and/or psychological damage.
In the summer of 1985, I was witness to a bad Ouija board experience. Three friends of mine -- Kathy, Kit, and Steve -- and I were in the 8th floor lounge of the Fargo quad tower one summer evening. (This building is in the Ellicott Complex of the University at Buffalo.) Apparently Kathy had been using the Ouija board to contact someone from beyond the veils, and developed a rapport with them.
We were in one of the dormitory towers in order to intensify contact. That night, Kathy made contact with this friendly spirit. A few minutes later, she started acting as if she was taken over by a malevolent spirit. Apparently this spirit was able to come through the portal and possess her. Thankfully Kit and Steve knew what was going on and were able to intervene. We worked on sending the spirit back through the portal and broke contact. That night, I left the building feeling quite shaken, like I was at the center of a huge hourglass. Spirits above me, spirits below me, and me in between.
It wasn't until later that I remembered that 5 years prior to our experience, two young men got into a fight on that very floor, crashed through the hallway window, and fell 6 floors to their deaths. The investigation revealed that the safety railing had been removed from that window prior to the incident.
None of us touched Ouija boards after that night. I don't think I saw Kathy after that incident. Kit and Steve later became interested in Scientology. And me? I ended up marrying (and divorcing) a Wiccan. If I could go back in time, I'd tell my younger self about setting up wards and psychic shields.
I really don't believe this product -- or any other type of Ouija board -- should be marketed to anyone who isn't a serious practitioner of the occult. It's not "just a toy". There's too much potential for psychic and/or psychological damage.
In the summer of 1985, I was witness to a bad Ouija board experience. Three friends of mine -- Kathy, Kit, and Steve -- and I were in the 8th floor lounge of the Fargo quad tower one summer evening. (This building is in the Ellicott Complex of the University at Buffalo.) Apparently Kathy had been using the Ouija board to contact someone from beyond the veils, and developed a rapport with them.
We were in one of the dormitory towers in order to intensify contact. That night, Kathy made contact with this friendly spirit. A few minutes later, she started acting as if she was taken over by a malevolent spirit. Apparently this spirit was able to come through the portal and possess her. Thankfully Kit and Steve knew what was going on and were able to intervene. We worked on sending the spirit back through the portal and broke contact. That night, I left the building feeling quite shaken, like I was at the center of a huge hourglass. Spirits above me, spirits below me, and me in between.
It wasn't until later that I remembered that 5 years prior to our experience, two young men got into a fight on that very floor, crashed through the hallway window, and fell 6 floors to their deaths. The investigation revealed that the safety railing had been removed from that window prior to the incident.
None of us touched Ouija boards after that night. I don't think I saw Kathy after that incident. Kit and Steve later became interested in Scientology. And me? I ended up marrying (and divorcing) a Wiccan. If I could go back in time, I'd tell my younger self about setting up wards and psychic shields.
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Date: 2010-02-09 01:34 am (UTC)Later on, when I realized what had been happening, I was so spooked that I refused to lay out the cards again, even after scoring a Fantasy Tarot deck. It's been so long that I've lost my reference book, and I don't even know how to lay our and read a Celtic Cross any more.
The part that scared me the most is that those were tarocco cards. People plays some strange version of Rummy with them, and they kept trying to tell me I was about to lose my home & safety.