The Seance Date Friday, April 19, 2024 - 10:19 PM PST Topic Experiences The Seance- a ritual to communicate with those in the spirit world. I am simply posting this story to share my experience. *This is not a work of fiction* Dec.1st 2006 A thought in a pagan/curriosity shop to gain a bit of publicity for the store, to hold a seance to try and communicate with the notorius Aliester Crowly. This date marked the 59th year of his passing from this world into the next. He had written a ritual for such an occasion to contact him. The radio station was suppose to be involved and we had many RSVP's for people to show. Skeptics need not attend, we weren't out to prove anything to anyone. This was purely for fun. I was elected to be the medium, as I have had experience with this sort of thing before.Some people would mistake me for some crackpot kid that knows nothing of what she is talking about or perhaps that I read into things too much. In either case, you think what you will. Not everything is a hoax. Though we were looking to entertain and the mind will play tricks on you given the right mood settings. The day of the seance I arrived at the store early to help prepare and imbibe a bit, I was nervous and needed to get the edge off. Took all precautions and cleansed the store, I suppose I cleansed a little to well to keep negativity out so it wouldn't interfere ( Dysfuntional people bring through dysfunctional spirits) because no one showed up, save myself, the two shop owners and 2 others. A storm was also brewing throughout the day and hit it's peak during the seance. The first odd occuranced started straight away. One of the precautions taken was that salt that was charged was placed in the threshold to act as a cleansing agent so nothing negative could come through. The shop we were conducting this at is in a building surrounded by other shops. The shop across the hall is run by a weird little man who is always in and out of the store, trying to sell drugs or is all drugged up himself, and he is always in when there are females present. After the salt was placed, he would simply pace in front of the door but never come inside. Later on in the evening he decided to walk home because he wasn't feeling well. So with no one there and the mood set and everything in place we decided to begin. To help myself get into the mindframe and attune myself I read a bit of tarot and did simple meditation. We all took a seat at the table and set out to it. Almost immediately the windchimes in which there are three hanging in different spots around the store, started to chime as if the wind was picking up and blowing. I assure you there was no open windows (the shop contains no windows in which you can open) and it was cold so we had the base board heaters on. Upon calling out Aliesters name all 5 of our cellphones rang simultaneously before shutting themselves off on their own (My cell will not ring anymore. The cell phone people can't explain why it wont ring) We had the perfect atmosphere now to bring out the Ouija board. This was a little hokie, but it was fun. By this time the radio would cut on and off or purely be static. It also became apparant that there were other spirits in the room all of them having something to say. The tarot and the ouija board were not making sense to anyone. This is about the time that things started to settle down. The windchimes slowed their moving. As quickly as the chaos had come it was gone. When we stepped out side of the shop to smoke and chat, the clouds over head had moved out and the sky was left clear as if it had never stormed at all. This article comes from Shmeng http://www.shmeng.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.shmeng.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=829