Thats certainly a great story.
Personally I'm always a little dubious about involving any kind of spritualism in my experiments, I steer well clear of ouija boards and thier ilk, or anything that suggests that 'sides' are involved.
I've developed something along the lines that Gakface talked about, being able to pinpoint, as he called them, 'spirits' without being able to see them. It also applies to people, they have thier own kinda hazy energy fields which change depending on thier mood. Also sometimes this energy(ish) stuff gets left around and I can pick up on that too. I can't see hear or smell this energy, its a real bona-fide sixth sense. Or seventh if you happen to count premonition as a sense (but I don't).
It's pretty cool. It lets me, say, pick energy fields of people I know out of a crowd of people. Good for finding mates at concerts.
Unlike Gak, who was born with this ability, I taught myself from scratch. Consequently, I'm not very good yet
As far as the spiritual realm is concerned, well, I wouldn't know, but it sounds like Gak would