Summoning ghosts

Summoning ghosts using a Ouija board or by glass spinning. How does it actually work and is it really as dangerous as people claim?

In the absence of a Ouija board when summoning spirits, people also use a homemade Ouija game by writing all the letters of the alphabet (including the numbers from 0 to 9 and the words YES and NO) on loose pieces of paper and place them in a circle on the table. Scrabble game pebbles also lend themselves well to this.

Instead of the wooden or plastic pointer (planchette) used with the Ouija plate, an inverted glass is used here; the infamous 'glass turning'.

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Ghosts

All ghost stories notwithstanding, spirit summoning does not involve actual contact with ghosts. Indeed, glass spinning works the same way as commute; based on the ideomotor effect.  Especially when you think you have contact with a deceased loved one you knew well, you consciously or unconsciously know what he would have answered to certain questions had he been alive.

The moment you have asked the question and unconsciously in your mind have already given the answer to this, a minimal stimulus is sent from your brain to the hand on which the glass is resting, causing the glass to point to the letters of the relevant answer. Even if you think you are dealing with an unknown ghost, this works in the same way. How then?

Puzzling

You often see half words being formed using mostly consonants. Suppose, during the glass-turning, the name of the spirit present is asked for, to which the pointer points to the letters NNKE. A non-existent name.

Then the questioner hits the puzzle himself and asks, "Do you mean ANNEKE?

At this, the glass goes to YES.

The questioner now thinks he is in touch with an Anneke, but the name ANNEKE is never spelt!

Because our brain is always looking for connections, for recognition, our brain will always try to form words when we are only shown snippets of text. When the pointer just points to some letters during a session, our brain - without us really being aware of this - immediately starts puzzling with the result that our hand unconsciously guides the pointer to the relevant answer. The following text is circulating on the internet:

According to an ozone-deeok on a European satellite, it doesn't matter in which way the ltteers in a wrood saatn, the only thing that is important is that the eretse and the ltaatse ltteer saatn on the jiutse patals. The rset of the ltteers must be wllikueirg completed and you knut vrelvogens gwoeon lzeen what saatt. This kmot odmat we neit ekle ltteer on zcih lze but, it wrood like gheeel.

Noise

And this ability also comes in handy when reading the messages we receive through the infamous spirit summoning process.

When you are completely immersed in the game, it seems like you are having entire conversations with ghosts, when in reality you are just communicating with yourself. You often hear inspired glass-turners say that it is mainly the spirits who sometimes have trouble spelling words and that this is why they often have to guess what it says themselves, or ask the spirit in question which word he or she actually means. (Do you mean...?)

That in itself is a nice theory, but has nothing to do with reality. Indeed, another proof that it is really us ourselves who move the pointer is the fact that when the questioner consults the board with his eyes closed, little will happen.

In this case, the planchette will either point out incoherent letters, or nothing happens at all. After all, there is nothing for the brain to puzzle out with its eyes closed. And so the ideomotor effect doesn't work this way either.

If the pointer were truly spirit-propelled, it would continue to spell words even if we blindfolded ourselves during the session.

A common experience among glass-turners, is that working with the Ouija board is not smooth at first because the first time you consult the board you are treated to a jumble of letters and words. Psychics and spiritualists explain this as that there would be too much noise on the line between here and Genesis or blame it on a lack of concentration on the part of the user.

In reality, it has everything to do with the fact that...

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