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You can ask specific questions for dowsing as well. You can dowse yes-no answers to questions about the site and its history. All forms of dowsing deliver accurate information, sometimes in more detail and more efficiently than electronic devices. Sometimes simple really is better. For more information, as well as some helpful steps in teaching yourself how to do body dowsing, visit the American Society of Dowsers site. Is table tipping real? Do spirits cause the table to move? Throughout history, human beings have tried many methods of communicating with the spirit world.

One of the strangest is table tipping, also called table tilting and talking table based on the idea that spirits can communicate by moving a table in unnatural ways in response to questions. I have experimented with table tipping myself, and while it is not an efficient means of communication, it can be a mind-jolting experience. I have seen tables behave in ways that I cannot explain, as though they are possessed by a mind and power capable of performing feats that are, on the face of it, impossible.

Table tipping caught on in spiritualist seances in the midth century. People were fascinated by ways to contact the dead. When groups gathered around tables to sit in the dark with a medium, they discovered that sometimes the spirits seemed to rumble the table around as part of their display of physical feats.

Demonstrations were performed by mediums in which sitters placed their hands lightly on top of the table, and the medium asked spirits to communicate by moving the table in certain ways, such as rocking back and forth, tipping up on one or two legs, or levitating into the air. Table tipping actually was known prior to spiritualism. Scientists who went into remote parts of non-Western countries observed shamans moving objects and making banging noises without any obvious physical contact, and supposedly with the cooperation of spirits.

In Europe, Britain and North America, where spiritualism became popular, table tipping was controversial from its beginning, especially when some mediums were exposed of fraud by moving tables by surreptitious means. A slight push on the upper board would cause it to slide over the lower board. Faraday found that the table would move even when people were convinced they did nothing to affect it themselves. Faraday and other skeptics did little to quell popular interest in table tipping, however. The famous and controversial medium D.

Home produced not only tipping tables but levitating tables, witnessed by poet Robert Browning. The eminent scientist and psychical researcher Sir Oliver Lodge opined that table tipping was a genuine spirit-produced phenomenon.

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Do spirits really move a table? Or are the motions the result of explosive psychokinetic energy built up by group concentration during a session? In Toronto, a group of researchers in the s created an artificial spirit, "Philip," and were able to produce unusual table effects.

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Since Philip wasn't a real spirit, the explanation seemed to point to group psychokinesis. I have participated in table tipping sessions where heavy tables rock back and forth violently, stand up on one leg and tilt backwards to the point of nearly keeling over -- and then slowly return to all four legs on the floor. I have seen tables shimmy across floors.

When a table is in extreme motion, it is nearly impossible to keep your hands on it, let alone manipulate it. Spirits or human PK? Maybe it is a bit of both. Some of the people who are adept at table tilting have marked mediumistic abilities. For details visit my calendar page at www. Guide to the Dark Side of the Paranormal. Presentation on Shadow People. Special show on the Ouija.

By Rosemary Ellen Guiley. Earlier this month I had the privilege of previewing the exhibit, literally as it was being put together.

Several collectors of Ouija boards and related early spirit communication devices loaned pieces to make a fascinating tour of Ouija history. Some of the boards on display are rare, like the electric Ouija in the photo right. Curators of the unusual exhibit are Murch, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, and Brandon Hodge , of Austin Texas, who contributed boards and devices in their own collections, and Mike Buchner , of Baltimore, a Ouija researcher, collector and historian, who contributed William Fuld toys and products.

The exhibit highlights the history of how the Ouija was born in Chestertown, Maryland and manufactured in Baltimore from , when it was sold to Parker Bros. Murch said that researchers and collectors are always finding new information about the early days of the most popular divination device ever invented in modern times. The Ouija appeared commercially in , and its origins have long been uncertain. The creators of the board seem to have gotten the idea from an earlier version used in Ohio in the late 19th century. Various versions of the Ouija. But are there any secrets to know in the process of effectively utilizing our psychic senses?

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Visit our Beautiful Books page and find lovely books for kids, photography lovers and more. About Rosemary Ellen Guiley Rosemary Ellen Guiley is the author of more than sixty books on a wide range of paranormal and metaphysical subjects. She has done ground-breaking and extensive research on the dark side of the paranormal, including unusual phenomena, entities and spirits, haunted places, spirit attachments, abductions, and possession.

She travels internationally to present and conduct investigations and research. Book ratings by Goodreads.