[mrnoodle]

The Ouija board doesn't possess any innate mystical properties, any more than any other spiritual/religious item. The problem comes when you open yourself psychically to outside forces. Can you summon spirits with one? You can summon something. Whether it's a manifestation of something in your own psyche or an actual spirit or demon or what have you, it's very possible to write checks with a Ouija board that your mind can't cash.

It doesn't matter whether the object is 500 years old, has a Milton Bradley emblem on it, or is homemade out of stuff laying around the house. Your mind and energy is the mechanism and the fuel for what happens, and stuff actually does happen. Not always, or even often. But it's like splitting the atom -- just because you know how to do it doesn't mean you can control what happens after. You can go crazy with that crap.

And to those who harumph at all things supernatural -- stay skeptical. 90% of it is debunkable. Some of it isn't, but you're not supposed to be futzing with it anyway. You pagans are lucky you don't get bit in the ass hard from some of the stuff you mess with.