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The accepted scientific theory is that ouija board users make subconsciously small movements, a.k.a. the Ideomotor effect. Magician James Randi points out that blindfolded Ouija operators are unable to produce usefull messages. However, ouija believers feel that hindering a medium's ability places too great of a handicap on the ouija exercise.

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  • Avg rating: (+5/-0 5)kh77
    kh77
    Nov. 17, 2006, 8:43 a.m.

    This just means the scientists don't know the first thing about how this sort of thing works. Like with I-ching, tarot and creative drawing the issue isn't whether the hand is capable of going somewhere if the eye doesn't know where it is - it's about getting in touch with something higher than yourself, or your own subconscious knowledge, or something in between - through the ouija board. This means that the muscles must know where to go, or it won't work - and that means that covering the eyes is about asking the wrong question: it assumes the miracle is in the fact that an intelligible answer is spelled out. But for the people who do this as a form of divination the issue is that they get answers on subjects where they weren't sure or need some help. So skeptics are really answering the wrong question when they find out that (big surprise) people need their eyes to make the Ouija board work. THAT'S JUST NOT THE POINT.

    They should get an anthropologist on this sort of research.

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