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A board is just a means of communication. Whether it comes from a brand new MB box, or if it's someone else's hand-me-down, it's still just a means.

Granted, it's my most effective route of chatting with my spirit guides, and I find that it works well, once you get used to it.

I've had almost all pleasant experiences, most of them with our very own DreamerSpirit.

The couple of unpleasant ones were with a different friend. At one point, she was unable to get the presence to leave her room, so it took a good deal more effort than usual to get it to leave. ...and then we started with the protections, to make sure it wasn't coming back any time soon.

There is no one way to use them. I can only offer the advice of never using it alone, use your best judgement when it comes to talking to the spirits you call up, and ( my own troubleshooting way; works for me, anyways ) try to keep a piece of silver nearby, preferably on the board. All that stuff about silver keeping back evil? It works.

I've definitely learned...quite a lot. A lot of it is rather personal; finding out I knew several of my friends in quite a few past lives, discovering that maybe there was a reason why our group had such dynamics, and, of course, an introduction to my first spirit guide.

On the whole, I think it's different for every person - some believe, and some don't, and the board usually reacts to that level of 'faith', so to speak.

Just be open-minded, when you try it. You just might learn some interesting things...

Unless you're pretty good at channeling and have a good knowledge of lightwork(spiritual protection) then I'd strongly advise against using one. Ouija boards have a tendancy to attract lower entities if those using it are not well-versed in channeling and lightwork. Though, if at least one of the people your with is properly versed in such matters then it can be safe and oftentimes quite amusing. I've met quite a few interesting souls through my ouija board.

One rather interesting story happened at yami_no_aijins house about a year ago. Me, her, xX_Moony_Xx, and our other friend, Laura, were in the upper floor of Yami's house, which was, at the time, unoccupied (her house is 3 floors, with an apartment on each floor). We had tehe ouija board there and were just contacting whomever we could, so long as they were not an excessivly evil entity. Well, anyways, me and Yami both started to see a strange haze in one corner of the room. We contacted a soul which was the source of the haze, who happened to be a guy named Craig. Craig sounded rather non-sensical, which quite often happens when it comes to using the Ouija board as many entities have trouble communing through such. We did manage to get his cause of death which was O.D. (drug overdose). That said the group of us began to be overpowered by a sweet and intoxicating scent. As my brother is a pothead I recognized the scent as that of marijuana. We exited the room, and got Craig to leave. Yami got slightly high off the scent though. We'll still sense Craig every now and then.

Other than Craig I've met quite a few other interesting souls through the ouija board, though I'm not going to elaborate at this time.

I still advise you not to use one unless you are well versed in channeling and lightwork though, as they will oftentimes open a gateway between the physical and spiritual realms, often allowing undesiriable entities to cross into your home.

I guess all I really can do is repeat what others have said before me. The Puiji board is a very. very ppowerful tool for channeling. It can attract all types of spirits and enties, and the trick is to learn how to get rid of the ones you dont want.

Its a skill i recommend people not to have to learn the hard way though. If you have an understanding of control, and your not using it as just some parlor trick to amuse your friends, the outcome should be a pleasant, and spiritually educating one. Ive learned so much from it I dont even know where to start.

And yes, we still have the "privalage" of seing Craig every once in a while, but manage to shoo him off when he starts acting too stupid, or the room starts smelling too much like pot.

o.O I'm extremely curious as to exactly how the shooing of the pothead spirit is done.

That said, is there any realy explanation as to why the Ouija board is a nice entrance for evil? Do pleasant spirits prefer some other method? So I really can use a Milton Bradley, and it will work just fine? (Not that I'm going to, given what you nice folk have said. I'm not nearly trained enough to handle it. I'm just suprised that they work!)

Time to sound like a broken record. 4laugh

Ouija boards are somewhat dangerous things. You can't just contact a spirit and ask "Oh, are you good or are you evil?" in any sense of the word. They always will say that they are evil, and then they will do the baaaaaad things to you.

I use the Ouija boards every once in a while with some other friends of mine. One of them is actually a rather powerful witch, and she has this fellow nicknamed "Uncle Fester" that will always show up whenever we go onto the boards. He tries to be rather intimidating, and sometimes he is, but for the most part he just is usually there and sitting near us somewhere while we contact and talk with the other spirits.

One thing, I HIGHLY recommend, is that you are to never take your fingers off the planchette (that little three legged pointer), and when you are done, run it over the words 'Goodbye' before taking your fingers off it.

I want to use them. But between what's already in my house and my mom's story, it's a scary thought.
A few of her friends and her used a board once, supposedly something was tossed across the room and one of her friends went in to convulsions. I don't know if it was true, but when I asked her friends, they pushed the subject away, so I wonder.

well, me and my friend have played a couple times, i played my first time a couple of months ago and it was freaky at first but i got used to it and it's fun. I'm 16 and me and my friend started a band this past summer and we were just bored one day and her mom got the idea to go take some pictures at a graveyard down by her house, so we went and we brought our guitars and stuff and took some pictures..well the ride there was cool, it was very sunny outside and there was no wind whatsoever...well we decided to take the ouija board with us just for fun and when we got there it all of a sudden turned very cloudy outside and the wind picked up very heavily..it was freaky. well...we saw one grave that had an awesome tombstone that said "knockin on heavens door" with some music notes and stuff on it and the name on it was chad...well that next weekend i went to her house and we decided to play b/c her cousin and her sisters friend was there and we were bored and the others wouldnt play the ouija right so we decided to play alone...well we asked it if there was anyone with us and it spelled out chad..it was very freaky..and so much other stuff happened that was so cool...lol...we've only had maybe one bad time with it but thats probably because everyone kept interupting us and everytime someone would come in the room the room would get very hot but when they would leave it would get very cold again, lol, so yeah...at times its freaky and at other times is pretty awesome!