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• And, like the Ouija Board player, we may not be able to know how the movements of our classroom planchette will be related to our teaching intentions.
• With a large planchette that makes the board very easy to use, it is the ideal gift for any Buffy fan who has ever wished to dabble in the “dark arts” and take a step into the “supernatural world.” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Conversations With Dead People” by Dark Horse Comics (Dark Horse, 2008) « The BookBanter Blog
• In the 1990s I was involved with a small group of magicians who ‘created’ an egregore and then tried to make contact with it using a variety of methods, such as a planchette, the time-honoured seance method, etc.
• The idea that the planchette won't move for some people alone because the ‘devil has their soul’ is pure playground nonsense.
• As they here suggest, unease over who moves the planchette is at the heart of the Ouija Board experience.
• The British governor of Hong Kong, entered into the spirit of the plot, briefing a Chinese contact who arranged for the prediction to emerge from a planchette message - a type of séance - at a Chinese temple in Macao.
• Rendered in the terms of the talking board séance, the ontotheological habit is akin to presuming that the movement of the planchette proves the agency of determinate subjects, dead or alive.
• Using a Ouija board, for example, demonstrates that while the exercise of agency takes place in the movement of the planchette, the status and possibly even the existence of the agent who originates the action is undecidable.
• Mired in the humanistic belief that someone must be pushing the planchette, our unease grows as we cannot pin down the culprit.
• He really believes that he can receive messages from the dead through this very simple contraption: a cardboard chart of all twenty-six letters in the Latin alphabet and all the numbers zero through nine, with a plastic heart-shaped doodad known as a planchette that has three stubby legs and a tiny window of sorts in the middle. Learning to Die in Miami