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The back of the board features a sentimental poem. Read full description. See details and exclusions - Spirit Guide Spirit Board. See all 2 brand new listings. Buy it now. Add to basket. Sold by xbiteworld Popular in Europe as a fad focused on contacting the dead, Spiritualism caught on in America in with the Fox sisters. They were young girls from upstate New York who claimed to communicate with a spirit in their house via a series of unexplained rappings. Spiritualism blossomed from there, with as many mediums popping up as there were spirits willing to spill the secrets of the afterlife.
Originally known as a spirit board or talking board, the first Ouija boards were made with household objects in the mid s. Users pushed a glass toward alphabet cards on a table, or even moved the table itself. Moving a planchette was easier than chasing a flying table around the room. Some planchettes had a hole for a pencil to facilitate automatic writing. But the mystery and possibility at the heart of the board remained alluring, and people outside Spiritualist circles wanted to cash in.
In , Charles Kennard and several other investors started the Kennard Novelty Company to manufacture the board as a toy. According to Ouija historian Robert Murch , to prove the board worked in order to secure a patent, the chief patent officer demanded it spell out his name, which was supposedly unknown to the patent-seekers. The board did so, to the amazement of the officer, and the patent was granted. The only way to see if the Ouija board worked was to try it yourself.
These experiments easily demonstrate that the Ouija board only works when the participants are able to manipulate the pointer themselves. If a ghost or spirit were really in the room, it would be able to direct the planchette to spell out coherent messages without any assistance. But there is no ghost, and when the Ouija board users are deprived of their ability to spell out words they can see, the game rapidly devolves into gibberish.
Talking boards first became popular in midth-century America, when millions of people suddenly gained an interest in talking to the dead following the tremendous loss of life in the Civil War.
The popularity of talking boards, and their use as a tool to exploit grieving war families, meant scientists actually started studying the ideomotor effect in the midcentury , well before Ouija boards and planchettes were patented in Over the years, research has determined that the ideomotor effect is closely tied to subconscious awareness — and that its effect is maximized when the subject believes he has no control of his movements.
Paradoxically, the less control you think you have, the more control your subconscious mind is actually exerting. The effect might also make the Ouija board an effective tool to help you tap into your own subconscious. The researchers behind that study have gone on to speculate that using the Ouija board as a technique to unlock subconscious knowledge could lead to insights about the early onset of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases.
In other words, the Ouija board is potentially a very powerful communication tool — just not in the way most people think. This real physical effect causes some people to believe that seemingly miraculous or paranormal phenomena are behind certain behaviors and occurrences.
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