Automatic Writing, Ouija Boards, the Planchette and Communication With People After Their Death

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We see a proliferation of people
who claim to act as

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intermediaries through a process
of seance or use of a Ouija

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board or planchette to
communicate with individuals who

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have passed away.
The interest in this area goes

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through periods of peaks and
troughs, but continually

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captures the popular
imagination, particularly for

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people who are unwilling or
unable to let go of their

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deceased loved ones, or who have
specific unfinished business for

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which they are seeking answers.
Shakespeare recounted numerous

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stories of visitations by ghosts
who interacted with the living,

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usually to provoke some direct
action of retribution upon some

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party who had done them wrong,
such as the ghost of Hamlet's

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father or Caesar's ghost.
Appearing to Brutus were the

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ghosts of those he had killed to
achieve the crown in Richard the

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Third.
Such stories abound.

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The ancient Greeks and Romans
had many tales of the existence

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of the being after death, the
descent into the underworld, the

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different regions, and they
definitely believed that the

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being and personality that
existed in the bodily form

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persisted after death and under
certain circumstances contact

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between the embodied realm and
the after death realms was

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possible.
If we view the process of the

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dissolution of the tie between
the physical body, the vital

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being, the mental formation of
the being, and the psychic being

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or soul, and the stages that
take place after death, we find

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that it is possible that once
the physical body has begun to

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dissolve at the time of death,
the other elements of the being

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may continue to hold their form
for some period of time until

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eventually the vital elements
dissolve, the mental formations

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dissolve, and only the soul or
psychic being continues on its

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way to take a new birth.
The Tibetans were focused on

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helping the being disentangle
from the bodily life and move on

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into its next incarnations.
Westerners have been more

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focused on how to maintain and
hold on to the disembodied being

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and interacting with it in some
form.

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The famous escape artist Harry
Houdini spent much of his time

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in the 1920s debunking much of
what went on at that time, a

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psychic connection to those
departed from this world.

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He showed that much of the
activity, the seances and

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contacts, was simply taking
advantage of the gullibility of

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those who wanted to believe but
had no real knowledge of the

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actual process or even the
reality of such contacts.

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A disciple asks what kind of
forces can be called up by using

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the planchette and how is it
done?

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The mother writes quote.
Oh, oh, do you mean automatic

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writing?
Yes.

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That depends on the people who
do it.

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Sometimes there are no forces at
all.

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It is the mental and vital
vibrations of the people who use

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the planchette, and it is their
own subconscious ideas which

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they bring up 98 times out of
100.

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Later, Mother added the
following remark.

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I say 90 times out of 100, for
there are exceptions.

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I know of some, but they are so
rare that it is better not to

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speak about them if they are in
contact with invisible entities.

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It may be all sorts of things,
but nothing very advisable.

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Almost with certainty it could
be said that it is not what

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people think.
It is in the sense that most

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often they try to evoke what
they call the spirit of a dead

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person, a relative or a friend
or someone they loved and with

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whom they wish to remain in
touch.

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And besides, they ask them the
most foolish questions.

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Fortunately, they don't succeed
in disturbing them.

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From this point of view, one can
say that if you had a relation

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of deep and sincere love with
someone who has passed away,

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left his body, and if you are
calm and strong enough yourself,

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this person may choose to take
shelter vitally in your

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atmosphere, the atmosphere, the
one he loves, for a more or less

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long period.
In this case, it means that the

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relation was very close, very
intimate, and if you are not

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altogether materialistic to the
point of not having any direct

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mental perception, you can
remain in mental contact with

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this person, in communication
with him.

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It is a rather exceptional case,
for usually if your atmosphere

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is calm and strong enough to be
able to truly serve as a

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protection, the person who has
left his body enters into a deep

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rest there, and it is not at all
good to disturb it.

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And the best thing you can do is
to enfold this person with your

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love and leave him in peace.
Therefore, even if it were

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possible to enter into
communication with him by this

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means, which I would call very
crude, it would be improper to

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do so.
But usually people who have the

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capacity, the faculties required
to serve as a shelter for some

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time, a transitional shelter for
those who have gone, do not have

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this ridiculous idea of
disturbing the rest of the one

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they love by tapping on a
planchette.

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Fortunately, End Quote Reference
Sri Aurobindo and the Mother,

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The Hidden Forces of Life,
Chapter 5, Occult Forces, pages

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127 to 129.