Means |
What |
Method |
Drawbacks |
Fuji (planchette writing) |
Chinese precursor to Ouija board |
Two people hold wooden stylus over sand; one gets possessed by a spirit and writes out Chinese characters; third person interprets. |
Slow, difficult to read, written in sand |
Transfiguration |
Medium-facilitated visual spirit contact |
Medium enters trance; ectoplasm covers his/her face and transforms it to spirit’s face; spirit speaks or manipulates medium’s vocal cords. |
Draining for medium; seances most often conducted in darkness or red light |
Psychic Telephone |
Telephone-like device for direct communication without a human medium |
Wear headset connected to an inflated balloon; ghost vibrates it against a microphone; listen to amplified communication. |
Worked poorly unless inventor’s son, who was considered a medium, was present |
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) |
Incursion of spirit voice into a recording device’s electrical field |
Turn on recorder in a very quiet place; disruptions become imprinted on tape; listen for ghost voices in playback. |
Initial equipment investment, messages can be hard to hear |
Thoughtforms |
Mind-generated energy message aimed directly at particular spirits with whom you wish to communicate |
Enter hypnagogic state; focus on spirit and send energy message; wait anywhere from minutes to hours for reply. |
Easier to send messages to the dead than to receive them |
Past-Life Regression |
Accessing one of your previous selves |
Receive hypnosis and recall memories of former lives buried very deep within unconscious. |
Limited contact choices, potential for new levels of self-hatred |