When it comes to things like people considering their "good" and "bad" sides, thinking these two things are, or should be divided, this is irrational and potentially harmful, as people need to understand that they are ONE, WHOLE person, not two, not one divided into parts - just ONE, and I think one should try approaching it psychologically.

Sit down comfortably, and close your eyes and relax, maybe do some breathing exercises, and think about you, yourself. Think about this so-called "bad side", your dark streak, your destructive or violent urges, desires and maybe even highly uncomfortable mental images you might have, of your opinions you hold about other people, either personally or due to some criteria (race, sex, money, profession, etc), think over all your less positive, potentially anti-social aspects - don't ignore them or try to tune them out, LOOK at them. Now index your good qualities and things you do and like and your personal abilities, and how you help, and who your friends and family are and who likes you, and your dreams and goals and what you want to and can accomplish.

Now you need to briefly glimpse back at the more negative aspects and say to yourself mentally (or verbally if you want), "I acknowledge that these things are part of me. They are part of me, and I accept that they are part of me, but they are not dominant and don't control me. " Now your good qualities again. "I know that I have my good qualities, which are also a part of me, and they also do not control me, they are aspects of myself that I accept. I control myself and I control what urges and aspects I choose to access, display and make use of - they are all resources that have no power or control of their own, only there to be used by my conscious will."

I recommend you do this and understand and accept this for yourself - don't repress or deny things but do realize just because you have a thought doesn't mean you have to act on it - you have a will.

"Facilitated communication" was a tragedy of years past, where the idea was that "trained facilitators" would hold an autistic child's hands and either write or type things, detecting the slightest hint of movement and helping the children perform the task they were attempting.

Parents wept with joy when finally able to "talk" to their children this way, getting messages from the kids about loving them and such... until the allegations of parental child abuse began surfacing, and many parents began to be arrested as facilitated children began accusing their parents of unspeakable abuses committed on them.

After a lot of chaos and finally serious scientific inquiry and study and controlled conditions, it was revealed the facilitators were actually the ones responsible for all of the messages. Not intentionally, in most cases, and not even knowingly - they really believed they were helping the children communicate, and were equally horrified with the allegations they were receiving from the children.

But no one had apparently familiarized themselves with the ideomotor function, which is at play in a number of similar activities, mostly paranormal, such as Ouija boards, dowsing rods, automatic writing and table tipping/dancing - whatever the person using the apparatus thinks about (even UNconsciously and unknowingly) or even wonders about, our bodies tend to "flow" along with whatever we're thinking, and so visibly undetectable pressure is applied by the hands in a way to use the apparatus (such as a pointer on a Ouija board) to indicate letters or otherwise reveal messages or information.

Unfortunately, this information was from the users' own minds, and were patchwork unconscious creations, anxiety, assumptions and imagination, which is why younger people that use Ouija tend to get stranger, scarier, more offensive and abusive results, that's just where their heads are at.

So in this case, the so-called facilitators were actually using the autistic children like Ouija board pointers or dowsing rods, unconsciously guiding their little hands that resulted in whatever happened to be percolating in the facilitators' minds. This was finally proven and demonstrated, resulting in even more chaos and controversy and I'm sure, relief but crushing grief from the parents who thought they had been talking to their children. It was a horrible, horrible snapshot in the history of medical/psychological approaches.

Loren Coleman, who took over as celebrity authority on the Mothman field, goes after "Phantom Clowns", formerly known in the 80's as "Killer Clowns", bizarre urban legends personifying the fear of strangers with motives most dark.

In the October 2008 incidents, a man wearing clown make-up and a wig is using balloons in an attempt to lure children into his vehicle on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. Police issued an alert about a week after a man with a similar description was spotted on the West Side.

Full link HERE

As someone with an aversion if not phobia to/about clowns, I recall hearing much about the 80's "killer clowns" scares and urban legends, and it's interesting that they are gaining in popularity again. I wonder if they are widespread like some of the stuff we get here, or it's very localized.

I am adding a few new sites, relevant to Ouija boards and spirit communications, thanks to a link in a forum to the following site, which also sells a very interesting looking board:

http://www.carnivalia.com/ouija_articles.htm

I just wonder why almost all boards are still made in the top-down, one-person-reading-it style, instead of an all-inclusive format such as a round orb where letters are upright to read on every side, etc. Is it just pure tradition?

13 Basic Steps in Poltergeist Activity Escalation

There seems to be a definite pattern of escalation in poltergeist cases almost as though scripted, moving basically from one section to the next.

1. The typical poltergeist starts out small, usually just people hearing odd sounds in other rooms, like chairs moving or shelves falling over, but when they check the room, nothing is out of place. Now or shortly after, objects in any part of the house will be moved and missing, though usually not in front of anybody.

2. Next is a tossup between objects actually being seen to move on their own, or hearing knocks or bangs or some other strange sound, but almost never in front of anyone besides the normal residents.

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