[ZX12R]

Contact is not made through the Ouija board. Contact is made through your mind. You mind is "slaved" to move the pointer in an involuntary fashion.

Then why doesn't it happen with my coffee mug sitting on a newspaper?

Often on(e) person cannot be controlled with sufficient strength to make the pointer move. Several people can be influenced at once, the sum of their influences are then sufficient to move the pointer.

Influenced by their imaginations, maybe.

That is when you are treading on dangerous ground.

If you really believe that, then I can see why you'd avoid using one. But I know there's nothing to it whatsoever. Completely imagined superstitious hokum.

[GingisK]

But I know there's nothing to it whatsoever. Completely imagined superstitious hokum.

Have you actually tried it? It sounds like you have made up your mind in absense of facts.

It makes no difference, especially if you do not expose yourself to something you are not able to handle.

[dsc]

“But I know there’s nothing to it whatsoever. Completely imagined superstitious hokum.”
ZX12R

“My dear brothers, never forget, when you hear the progress of enlightenment vaunted, that the devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist!”
Charles Pierre Baudelaire, The Generous Gambler

“One of Satan’s best tricks in the Twentieth Century, is to make people believe he doesn’t exist”.
C.S. Lewis, Screwtape Letters

“The Devil’s greatest accomplishment was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
The late Jim Carroll