Magical Thinking

GOD IS IN THE TV

When I saw the question asking how magical thinking persists in contemporary North America I could not help but think of water stains on the side of buildings and Hispanic dinner plates. Move the beans. . .move the rice. . .IT IS MARIA!! I remember watching shows like ripley’s believe it or not on how people would see religious figures in the oddest places such as on a dinner plate or in the form of a potato they grew in the back yard.

There are also shows that bring crews into houses where spirits roam about, they show you the orbs in pictures and forms of white noise. They not only want to spook you but also prove that spirits live on whether they are nice spirits or troubled ones.

MURDER BY OUIJI BOARD?

Now I am not a superstitious person and I need to experience something first hand in order to be effected in anyway and that’s why in high school I paid no attention to the ridiculous tradition of the Ouiji Board. Communicate with the dead? I thought it was stupid. Apparently the group of us made contact with a male spirit, a nice one, living in my ex-girlfriends house. It was all fun and games until the spirit informed us that someone close to one of us would die in the next few months.

I forgot how this was derived by the board but that message was conveyed to us somehow. There were about 10 of us down there that night and I forgot all about it. Even a couple years had passed before I realized that my friends mother died suddenly about 3 or 4 months after that Ouiji Board night. It was an untimely death and has ruined the lives of my friend and the rest of his family, after recalling those events I will never mess with a Ouiji Board again.