Psychologists = witch doctors
Posted on 07/09/2012 7:05:14 AM PDT by marshmallow
Beloved of spiritualists and bored teenagers on a dare, the Ouija board has long been a source of entertainment, mystery and sometimes downright spookiness. Now it could shine a light on the secrets of the unconscious mind.
The Ouija, also known as a talking board, is a wooden plaque marked with the words, "yes", "no" and the letters of the alphabet. Typically a group of users place their hands on a movable pointer , or "planchette", and ask questions out loud. Sometimes the planchette signals an answer, even when no one admits to moving it deliberately.
Believers think the answer comes through from the spirit world. In fact, all the evidence points to the real cause being the ideomotor effect, small muscle movements we generate unconsciously.
That's why the Ouija board has attracted the attention of psychologists at the University of British Columbia in Canada. Growing evidence suggests the unconscious plays a role in cognitive functions we usually consider the preserve of the conscious mind,.
Take driving your car along a familiar route while planning your day. On arrival, you realise you were not in conscious control of the car, it was your "inner zombie", said Hélène Gauchou at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness conference in Brighton, UK, this week. "How can we communicate with that unconscious intelligence?"
Gauchou's approach is to turn to the Ouija board. To keep things simple her team has just one person with their finger on the planchette at a time. But the ideomotor effect is maximised if you believe you are not responsible for any movements - that's why Ouija board sessions are most successful when used by a group. So the subject is told they will be using the board with a partner. The subject is blindfolded......
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I do communicate with mine, and its language skills really stink. I'd rate its IQ about 60 or so. It's good at finding stuff, but terrible about telling me WHERE to look. It mixes up words, has an accurate vocabulary of fewer than twenty words. It can drive the car but not read the signs. It loves to draw and paint when permitted. It's partial to domestic animals. Not much personality though, overall; and that's fine with me.
Neither of us cares for ouija boarding.
Ouija boards are made by Parker Brothers, like Monopoly - which is a direct hotline into the dark heart of capitalism.
Many, many years ago when I was a young teen a group of us decided to try out the Ouija board one night, probably because our parents told us not to do it under any circumstances. It only took one question and one movement and we threw the board in the fireplace. Made believers out of all of us.
Over the years I have had the same discussion with my children and grandchildren but did expand the reasons for my stern warning beyond what I was told which was simply “don’t do it”. Thankfully, neither generation has even been tempted to test it out.
Because He has instructed us to stay away from such evil things.
People who study the occult for various reasons generally are not fond of the talking boards. I have have had acquaintances who while they have no healthy fear of God, fear the energies the boards can open a person up to. There are those who do not believe in the Devil of the Bible but will tell you that there are what can be called demons. From a Christian perspective they are wrong on many levels beyond the danger of demonic possession for they go against the will of God. I have rationalist friends on the other hand who will tell you that it all is nonsense, but even given that, it sounds like a risky therapy if the patient has any spiritual beliefs.
Psychologists = witch doctors
We were just discussing that Friday @ work. We had 2 of them that day and they are kooky, most of them anyway.
I know an older, new agey woman who explores a lot of these things in her retirement.
Once she proudly announced that the universe is filled with warmth and live, and nothing can hurt you.
I laughed and reminded her that what she said doesn’t even describe a five block radius around her house, let alone the universe.
She had to agree.
OUija boards open doors. Sure, you may get Grandma, but everything thing else comes barging through the door with her. I started sleeping easier at my parent’s house back in the 1980’s. There was a stretch in the late 70’s where I could feel something wrong. My mother said, “we got rid of the Ouija board”.
OUija boards open doors. Sure, you may get Grandma, but everything thing else comes barging through the door with her. I started sleeping easier at my parent’s house back in the 1980’s. There was a stretch in the late 70’s where I could feel something wrong. My mother said, “we got rid of the Ouija board”.
What did it make all of you actually believe?
Does He say why they are evil?
She was actually right, but you need to be somewhat spiritually enlightened to truly grasp what that really means.
Amen to that. Those boards are the quickest and easiest way for demons to get hold of a person’s inner spirit and take over. I know what I’m talking about. I saw my mother destroyed when she invited the “spirits” to “come in” via the Quija Board. This crazy woman does not know what she is dealing with. So sad.
How do you know the board destroyed your mother?
Sometimes, when it does.
I guess it doesn’t when it doesn’t. thanx
Deuteronomy 18: 9-12.
Thanks. Do you really believe that stuff exists?
Ouija Board?....no thanks.....I’d rather bet on Nancy Pelosi’s magic shoes......
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