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Originally posted by rev_skarekroe
Research is always the best advice for this sort of thing. I recommend continuing your research here:
http://skepdic.com/ideomotor.html
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There's certainly an ideomotor complication. If I were to use one at all, I'd rather be blindfolded without knowing the orientation of the board, and have someone else write down what was spelled out, if anything. I think Facilitated Communication is a crock of shit.
However, there is much, much more to Ouija boards than moving around a planchette--unexplainable, frightening and bizarre events both during and after the experience that the user, by all accounts, has no covert control over. Poltergeist effects, nightmares, malevolent presences--as though using the Ouija board (improperly) almost always results in opening a door to a place that anything can walk through. Focusing solely on an ideomotor leaves the most unusual elements out. You may roll your eyes, but these are more than campfire tales or urban legend.