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Ouija Boarding
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Thinkerme, When someone pulls out a Ouija board for a night of "family fun dabbling with evil," it requires one to inspect the veracity of the mystical and spiritual axioms that immediately spring to the fore. But first let me say, Thinkerme, I have very much appreciated your postings here, and now I'm about to be critical of so-called psychics etc., so let me apologize in advance if it seems that I am smacking at you. I consult with psychics from time to time myself, so keep that in mind. Most people are quite unaware of -- let alone masters of -- the almost elusively faint, yet stupendously dynamic, workings of the subtlest levels of mind. To be sure, a various few of us have certain sensitivities -- usually they're natural gifts and not earned-in-this-life skills. These skills allow "the blessed" to become aware of their minds' patterns' backroom gears-a-churnin'. An author will see these inner grinders via the moment by moment level of acceptance by her mind of each considered word. A painter will see their meshings in the subtleties of his colors' affects when they're seen hanging, within, on a mental wall, spotlit with a whiter light. A dancer knows that the cogging of her center of her gravity to a precise location at a precise time is ever so dependent upon each sustaining thought. But most of us do not dedicate ourselves to a single "area of mentation;" most of us do not choose to saturate our only mind with a "narrow field's set of concepts" to such extremes that it therefore excludes a host of other "information sets" that could be acquired. I would suspect that few people have spent even a few let alone a thousand hours "doing" a Ouija board....yet who would call anyone an expert if they'd only spent a thousand hours studying their field? One hour a week for over two years is a thousand hours, and if you spent that much time trying to be an expert in anything, you'd, at best, amount to a dilettante -- not even a PhD -- and in most fields not even dilettante status. So, Thinkerme, sorry, but before I get overwhelmed by an expert's opinion, show me a "pro-Ouija expert" who can pass my above cynicism's snidery, and then I'll consider the opinions that "your" pro-psychic has "subjected you to," Thinkerme. Frankly, to me, most uncredentialed experts are merely time wasters. Show me the beef. We all expect that anyone calling themselves an expert in any field would have done this very "1000's of hours of auto-brainwashing" in their subject area. It's a basic requirement to get a college teaching position. Yet, most of us have lives where the remarkable potentials of our minds simply lie fallow -- unused, ignored, unexamined, squandered, abused, ridiculed and out and out denied reality time and time again. What is the percentage of fallow lives on this planet? How many of us settle for a mind-bereft-of-depth-in-anything? How few of us seek out a daily bath in a "specialized field of refined notions." That said, cut-chase is that, before I would lay down and believe him, this "pro-psychic" would have to pony up a resume that had something deeper than merely a parroting of spurious credspew of their catchlings or a listing of media exposures. I have a commodities license -- don't hold it against me -- and, I could rant about the hair-raising hijinks that commodity experts are legally allowed to do, but at least these experts have to pass not only tough Federal licensure requirements but also to present, on demand, a disclosure document that shows their entire career performance. Try to find an advising-broker (CTA) that doesn't have his/her "bad period" on their disclosure doc. Very very rare. How rare, then, must it be to have certainty about any unlicensed, jive-driven, spun, I'm-so-good-God-must-be-shining-on-me, ticket selling psychic? That said, I <snicker> do have my own opinions that I've come to strongly hold about the working of the mind, and I am not without credentials that I might offer. If I didn't mind the damage to my integrity, I could take a good run at just about anyone and come off as an expert in spiritual matters. I've paid some dues, and so I allow myself to puff up about such things.....sigh. So here I go on the Ouija board. I think (not know) that a Ouija board can become a wonderful tool if used by a mind that knows its own subtleties enough to recognize that thoughts come from within, not without. Such a mind can see that the Ouija board's mechanics are especially able to be sensitive to the faintest of mental impulses which involuntarily and unconsciously affect the amount of pressure one puts on the Ouija's stylus. No doubt about it, sub-conscious leanings can "taint" the finger pressures used upon the stylus, and the "message" that is revealed is more strongly determined by the player's skewing of the results than that the message comes from some unseen "entity" that "takes over one's hands." An adroit mind can use the Ouija board to talk to itself in this way.....get a bit more clarity about these faint nuances of thought that are so slippery to the grasp in the maelstrom of ordinary daily thinking. When a fire engine goes by, the siren blots out the words of a person standing right next to you....just so do our four-alarm "normal" minds have big waves of experiencing that drown out the gentle, soft, quieter, deeper, spiritual cognitions. The typical mind that comes to the Ouija experience is simply not prepared for it. The messages that come, indeed, may reflect psychological processes that are beyond the player's ability to "see at work." Given that the Ouija experience is typically rank with ooga-booga and new age naivete, it's no wonder that messages can become dark or scary. And here's where trouble can be brewed: once a player grants a certain amount of validity to the messages, it can trigger of all sorts of high amplitude emotions. And, high amplitude emotions can swirl a mind into a havoc of obsessional fears. Once one gets obsessed, the slippery slope's avalanche has begun. If a board tells a player that he'll die next Monday, you can be sure that that player's mind with churn out more thoughts and emotions about that. This is intense saturation. This is brainwashing. This is where the danger is. The power of the mind is beyond measure. They say that a tribal witch doctor could point a bone at a "true believer," and whatever the curse, it would manifest....even unto death. What might your own "inner witch doctor" point a you via the Ouija? What curse upon yourself might occur? "Take care" is good advice -- even if it comes from a ticket seller. Just so, do we trifle with huge powers when we do the Ouija. If you're not prepared for your mind to conjure up some of its deepest fears, probably it would be best to avoid the board. And, make no mistake, sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof of this type of naive self abuse. Is there any upside to Ouija? Yep, you can find the board revealing your deepest and most life supporting aspirations which might just as easily be glommed onto and obsessed upon....and a "fool persisting in folly" could lead to a true type of spiritual therapy that heals. If you think you're saintly because of your Ouija thoughts, you just might actually try to figure out what a saint is and what it takes to become one, and an egoic obsession about being saintly is as good a start as any -- it's a long road, so don't worry, along the way all obsessions drop off. As for discarnate entities influencing our minds, pshaw -- those buggers only wish it were easy to grab a mind out of our herds and take a wild dash across the plains with it. Most people can't channel such powers, and those that can usually know better than to "open up" to such powers without safeguards that can reassert reality upon the mind should it suddenly hanker for world domination or self-condemnation. I'll enclose a cartoon I created long, long ago that addresses this issue. Oh, it's a whole other topic if we want to discuss how such entities might actually be real, but on the whole, most people are wonderfully protected from such influences (whether real or merely representing unconscious psychology) by their very lack of interest in such matters. Most of us have beliefs, that, however wonky, are perfect shields that keep other existential possibilities from eroding our mind-sets, our projected realities, our defined perceptions and what we think of ourselves. It's a wonderful set-up that resolves many possible frictions. I think these shielding veils we live with have been woven by a divine Hand, and you'd better be ready to take the reins of your own transformation if you pierce them for a casual look-see within. Me do Ouija? No time, and I have far better ways to scan my labyrinths, but with the right intent, in the right hands, righteousness might arise from its use. For kids? Probably not too good for most. For most adults? Pretty darned safe....millions of boards sold to date and very few descents into insanity. Bottom line: if a cattle rancher hates seafood, no wonder, eh? What then say we of a psychic who warns against a board that purports to make available spiritual results? My recommendation is that if you seek a divination tool, the I Ching will yield far more intense therapeutic moments. Kickers, bents and Trikkes are probably safer for us here, and they can lead to very profound moments indeed. Check out the cartoon for one last warning. Edg -- at about 300 hours on the Trikke, beginner at best, awaiting The Monster 12.
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