I have been asked many questions regarding Ouija-Board use. I am aware that people will use the ouija-board anyway. Here is some hints to experimenters at the ouija-table. Using the ouija board is not a game for a party. Be extremely careful and always protect yourself. You are always in control and always use your common sense.
HINTS TO EXPERIMENTTERS AT THE OUIJA-TABLEBe careful that the room in which the sitting is to take place is a quiet one, a noisy street or sounds in the house are very disturbing to a sitting, a ticking clock in the room even may annoy the controller.The seats at the Ouija-table should be high enough to allow the `sitters` hands to be on a level with the table so that there is no strain on the arm and the hand can rest on the traveller in a completely relaxed state.
The light in the room should be sufficient for the person reading at the board to see clearly, but not so brilliant as to strain the eyes. It is important that the temperture of the room should be 63 degrees.
Not more than two people outside the sitters are desirable. Any crowds or feeling of strain or even whispered conversation is sure to interfere with the controls. Everyone present should be calm and patient. Do not press for results. One disturbing presence in a room can ruin a sitting. Select those who habitually come to your sitting with great care.
Be sure that you have all that is necessary for the sitting conveniently at hand before you begin. A silk duster for polishing the glass, a bottle of methylated spirit and some French Chalk are generally useful. It is essential that the glass should be well polished and the traveller properly shod so that jerking and creaking may be avoided.
Arrange that no one is admitted to the room during the sitting. The most interesting communication maybe broken off by a person entering the room or even knocking at the door. The sitters should rest at the end of every half an hour or so. No sitting should ever continue for more than two hours. It is almost useless to sit in disturbed or stormy weather. Turmoil in the atmosphere seems to effect psychic communications. Never sit when you are tired and ailing. This is a useless expenditure of force and the controls will at once recognise your physical condition. If a control (no matter how familiar you are with him.her) suggests seizure or obsession take your hand off the traveller at once and break off the communications.
Treat your controls and the communicators they bring with courtesy as you would any guest at your home. If they are undesirable you will probably soon discover it, if you observe carefully. A mocking or discourteous attitude very naturally retards the communication. Never encourage communicators who profess to have evil and criminal lives. The fact that they tell you these facts generally means that they will eventually attempt obsession.
It is best to call up any special communicator, there are two obvious objections to doing so; it may bring the sub-consciousness of the sitter into play and assuming that impersonation is frequent it opens the door to fraudulent spirits. Do not interrupt your communicators with frequent questions, let them communicate as much as they will and only say what is necessary. Otherwise if you reflect on what has passed you will find the communication comes chiefly from yourself. Do not sit more than twice a week at the most, its far better to sit regularly in the way for a reasonable time than to have an occasional sitting of longer duration.
Take a record of evey sitting whether interesting or the reverse. It is only by heaped up evidence, good or bad, that you can attain to any conclusion as to the nature of your results. If either sitter shows signs of trance conditions coming on or becomes excited or hysterical, break off the sitting at once. You cannot foretell the result if you continue. The preceding hints may be useful to beginners for whose benefit I have jotted them down. I have perhaps hardly emphasised enough the importance of the careful selection of sitters and the fact that good work must be the result of patience and regularity. Strangers in the room nearly always check free and satisfactory communications. The control or discarnate spirit or sub-conscious mind seems more sensitive to atmosphere than the living human being.
Curiously enough I fond sex is a factor in the choice of sitters. The best combination for Ouija-board work is a man and women. Two women sometimes work excellent together, but I have never come across an instance of any worth speaking of being achieved by two men. Many inexperienced people think that because a discarnate spirit professes to speak to them this entity must of necessity posses miraculous powers. "can it tell what horse will win the Derby or what are the lottery numbers?" . These persons must learn that so far as we can tell, discarnate spirits and controls are much in our own position unless specially gifted with prevision, and that when this quality is present it is almost invariably personal; connected with the sitter in whom the control or communicator is interested. Discarnate spirits seem to lose touch with this world rapidly; they have only an occasionall flash of memory at most I believe.
My last word to say those who pupose to experiment in automatic communication is be patient, be prudent, never lat an unbalanced or hysterical person be present at your sittings; be satisfied with small results and look for nothing sensational, work regularly and do not let dull sitting discourage you.
With caution and wisdom much may be achieved.
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