When I have a paper sack in my possession, you bet I believe in recycling and reusing them. Believe it or not, paper sacks hold great potential beyond just holding one’s groceries. Unbeknown to the grocery store, they are spirit communication devices, just waiting to be unfolded. Many times when I’ve been without my Board, I just locate a paper sack, cut it open, turn it over, make a few scribbles and voilà, out pops an instant Talking Board! Add a Pyrex dish and away we go…
Many of you may wonder which Talking Board you should purchase, as well as wonder if they all work or if only the original Kennard Novelty and William Fuld Boards work with the best results. The only answer to that question is: they all “can” work. They all can work if you, the operator, can work. It’s truly as simple as that. You, the operator of the Board, hold all the power behind such a tool. You decide if it’s going to work.
Now, once you start along this path of using a Talking Board, you will discover that certain Board designs, manufacturers, shapes, styles and craftsmanship will call out to you. You’ll probably find yourself eyeing a particular Board. That’s great, because now you are choosing a Board that calls out to you and thus, can influence your energy. When you feel comfortable with, excited about and connected to a specific Board, you will find yourself more likely wanting to use it and using it with repeatedly good results. You will also more likely resonate with the energy you have ascribed it. Also, feeling positive and comfortable with your tool, will assist to produce the best vibrations within yourself. In essence, feeling good about your tool will only add to your success with such a tool.
It is this energy you feel about the Board and the belief within yourself (energy about yourself) to use such of a tool that when coupled together, you will receive great results. Yes, any Board will work, even the make-shift Boards, such as the one pictured here that I have used in the past, as long as you believe they will. So, in the interim, while you are figuring out which Board to purchase, you can always start with a paper sack. Just remember–it’s good for the environment to recycle and reuse.
Happy Boarding…
PS: Please don’t email me and tell me that paper sacks are now demonic! LOL
(I’ll just recycle your email into another Board!)
Karen A. Dahlman ©
Author of: The Spirits of Ouija: Four Decades of Communication
Thank you for your writings! Using a ouija board (just for fun with friends) ended up potentially saving my life! My mother’s mother, who died long before I was born, used the board to warn me I was in danger if I went home from my friends house when I was planning to. She even gave me an odd message about why I was in danger (though I didn’t understand this part until later). When I finally did leave, there were police cars in front if my home and my roommate had just arrived. The house had been broken into and robbed. My roommate and her fiance were late getting home because he had been in a wreck (luckily not a bad wreck). If I had left earlier I would have walked in on the robbery. I told my roommate what the spirit told me, and that after she said I was in danger and not to go home yet, she then spelled out ‘Charles had a wreck’. My house mate turned white as snow and said that her fiance’s first name was Charles and she was late coming home because he’d been in a car wreck.
Since my mother died I have felt that she really wants me to use one, but many people have said it’s evil… How can that be though, if my spirit grandmother used it to save me from danger? BTW there are at least 3 generations on my mother’s side (4 counting my sisters and brothers and me) with some psychic abilities. Thank you for some positivity about using spirit boards!
Best to you always,
Grace
Hello Grace. Thank you for recounting the story you shared about how the message was not only meaningful, but helpful and life-affirming to you! It also sounds like you have your grandmother and mother watching over you in spirit.
Spirit and its messages can be received in any manner in which we allow them to be received. It just so happened that you were using a Ouija Board and that was the easiest and most direct way for the warning to come through and be heard by you.
I always suggest to people to not judge the board, but instead, listen to the messages and if they resonate, that’s all that matters. Thank goodness you listened to the message because it resonated with you and you believed it to be your grandmother. Bottom line, our loved ones in spirit are still with us. We just need to be open to hear them and receive their messages. The Board offers one such way to receive important messages.
Hello!
I’m reading “The spirits of oui-ja” at the moment, which I fond very interesting! (I’d like my friends to read it so that they abandon their prejudice against the Board…).
I have a question : at the middle of the book, you wrote that you made a work with a colleague to explore your past lives : “During my personal past life recalls I first-handedly learned much about what happens in between incarnations. This information so happened to correspond exactly with my Ouija Board friends’ portrayal of the other side. This was an exciting time, because (I was…)remembering my past lives” You also write that Ghosts and Spirits are lost souls who didn’t find the way to the Light (which I agree with. I’m sure we’re surrounded by Spirits, more than we can imagine! Yesterday, one of my paintings fell from the wall, all the windows were closed. Today, it’s a bar stool. But I’m not afraid at all, they are innocuous ; so I said “hello” to my “friends”! They are in the house since many years and try to communicate how they can!)
Well, regarding the book : what I didn’t get is how souls can reach the White Light leading to the Great Beyond, meet their relatives and Friends, even progress and become Higher Spirits, Guides… And reincarnate on Earth at the same time!
Won’t we stay in the Beyond eternally, let’say under a spirtual or energetic form? Will we have to come back on Earth (well, I’d rather not !) What is your point of view on this matter?
Thanks in advance!
Hi Claudia. It’s wonderful that you are enjoying The Spirits of Ouija and making so many connections and parallels with your own experiences. We definitely are not alone with these experiences and never alone knowing that the “spirits” are all around us as you also mentioned.
Many, if not most, who transition from the physical to their light bodies do go right into the light, which experientially shows as a bright white light. Yet, there are some who stay attached to their last earthly incarnation and choose to not move into their next evolution for myriad reasons as discussed in the book through the various stories/examples. Those who are “stuck” can go into the light once they recognize it and choose it of their own free will. Remember in the book where I provide the example of Theresa & Styrmy? This is in Chapter 6 and around page 116, I explain through my interaction with them how I reminded them about their light within and the light without and after some time had passed, they presented themselves to me again and this time there were ready to work with the light. Pages 117-118 explain how they naturally made this progression into the light during our dialogue. It always starts with remembering the divine light within that is a spark of the greater light from which we all come.
My experience tells me that we are in a constant state of evolution, growth and change not unlike everything else within the universe. When our soul knows what the next evolution or step will be, then the incarnation will transpire. This next step “can” be another earthly incarnation, as the most growth and advancement a soul can make is within this dense, physical realm known as “earth school.” Many souls choose this, however, many souls also choose to grow, learn, explore and discover physicality within other timelines, dimensions and other planets and solar systems. I have regressed quite a few people who remembered past and future lives living as a physical being on other planets.
The most fascinating thing to discover about the “beyond” is when you can view it and experience it as a part of your current condition instead of a place you go once you die–transition from this experience into the next experience. What I mean is understand that “the experience of the beyond” is a facet of your current physical self now. It is that part of you that still exists as a light body/being. After all, we are multidimensional beings having a multitude of experiences simultaneously on so many levels. This is how and why we can recall past, parallel and future lives. Our dreams also gives us a glance into this concept of being a multidimensional being. Also, altered states of awareness, such as hypnosis and meditation also help us experience and remember so much more about who we really are. Given this concept, you are already in the “beyond” eternally.
Hi! I want to talk to my dog. She passed 2 days back. How can i talk to her. Please help me.
Hi Monika. You are already in communication with your beloved dog. Not unlike when you knew how to respond to her and communicate with her while she was alive, she is still in communication with you now. If you don’t use a Board or any other tool to be in contact, you can learn to do this yourself. First, you must suspend judgement when you try and also not just write off the communications as purely fabrications of your mind. Next, be open to all feelings you may experience within your body and the thoughts that pop into your mind while thinking about her. Here is the link to an article that should assist you doing this: http://creativevisionspublications.com/talking-boards-animal-communication/
https://www.amazon.com/Winning-Moves-1175-Classic-Ouija/dp/B00EFDXAB4/
our guides said this board we were using was a good one. when we asked if we should change it they said no. recently, our guides also said that our channeling would be hampered if we used a make shift board. so we’re sticking with this one! happy channeling! ^_^
As the saying goes, “if it’s not broken, don’t fix it!” Yes, use what works for you. If many boards work, then use them. If you have more comfort on one Board, then use that one Board. The overall goal is having excellent communications and one’s comfort level with a certain Board will influence the outcome for excellent communications.
I have always loved Ouija boards, and never once doubted that they worked. Nor did I ever feel they were ever evil (it was never even suggested to me until I was much older). Anyways, at one point while I was still in school, I was the proud owner of three (yes three) Ouija boards. One of them my mother had bought for me, and the other two we’re given to me by my cousins.
It is funny, because both of the boards that were given to me we’re covered in stickers, but it did not interfere with seeing the letters, etc on the board. I had had personal use with all three, and even though all three boards we’re virtually the same (minus the stickers of course)(they were all probably purchased at the same place where my mother got me mine) I always felt a stronger attachment to one of my sticker covered cousin boards. I had used it with my cousin before we had covered it in stickers, and when he gave it to me I happily used it the most. Sadly, I no longer own a single Ouija Board.
However, after hearing you on The Secret Teachings recently, has me interested in owning a Ouija board once again. Though your interview with Ryan was not centered on the Ouija Boards, I remembered who you were. I am pleased to hear from you that even a paper sack will do for a Ouija board, because I am inspired to make my own. Thank you for this informative article, I now definitely plan on making my own once I get the materials.
Hi Jolene. Those sticker covered Boards were unique to say the least and as you mentioned, that never interfered with the Boards working and being able to spell! Very cool. Yes, the paper sack Boards are the easiest and quickest answer to creating a make-shift Board. I demonstrated this recently for a class I was teaching and the Spirits had a great sense of humor after they shared their message with the group while using a paper sack and a pyrex dish as the planchette. They told us to “remember to recycle the sack when we were done with the session!”
I do highly recommend creating your own Board, as you are considering. That way, you can have your own look to it and create according to the symbols and colors that are important to you. By the way, in addition to the make-shift paper sack Boards I use from time to time, I have three home-made Boards that others have created for me and they work just as well as my traditional Ouija Boards!
So, have fun with it and unleash your creativity….
Thank you for your comment.
It’s like I always said a talking board is a tool like a hammer you can drive a nail with a $1 hammer from a dollar store or you can drive a nail with a $30 Estwing. Yes one will work better than the other but only if you know how to hammer a nail in the first place, neither will make you a carpenter.
What an excellent metaphor to really “drive” home this message….practice, time, study and a few other important variables contribute to the “skill” at using a tool! Thank you, Mock!