Comment by PaulHoule | Hacker News Reader

Comment by PaulHoule | Hacker News Reader

Myself I am schizotypal which means I have unusual experiences. For instance things like Ouija boards and dowsing rods work really well for me even though I don't believe in them at all (and actually have all the reason to be an arch-reductionist)

For a while though I practiced a kind of visualization I called "shapeshifting" which has recently turned into a project to be possessed by a fox spirit because I found out that everywhere there are foxes people have been getting possessed by fox spirits so why can't I do it? (No need to explain it in terms of science, reconcile it with western approaches to religion, none of that...)

I had it come in and take over my standing reflex (the first thing it does) we said a few words and then I was left with the message that I was not in good enough shape and I could get hurt doing this (not like a serious injury but sprains and strains, yes, to express itself it will ask more of my body than I do.

I'm going to have to talk about my goals with a trainer next week, I don't think I'm going to come completely clean that a fox sent me.

>I'm going to have to talk about my goals with a trainer next week, I don't think I'm going to come completely clean that a fox sent me.

This is one of the wilder comments that I've read on this site.

Can you talk more about Ouija boards and the dowsing rods? When you say that they work really well for you, does that mean that you're able to use the Ouija board to correctly answer questions that people ask, even if you don't know the answer ahead of time? As for the dowsing rods, does that mean that you're able to find water/minerals/lost items?

> When you say that they work really well for you, does that mean that you're able to use the Ouija board to correctly answer questions that people ask, even if you don't know the answer ahead of time?

I have a family member who I'm now suspecting might be schizophrenic. They will interrogate an ersatz Oujia board and have genuine conversations with...something that appears, to them, as a separate entity from themselves.

The advantage of communicating through a Oujia board (or spirit manifestation) seems to be you control when and where the other...consciousness?...manifests. Versus untamed schizophrenia where the hallucinations are occuring constantly and unprompted.

I can use these things as well as anybody else can use them, like the dowsing rods can seem to practically jump out of my hands. I don't expect to pass a test from a parapsychologist but going out with me could be like going out with a dog who has a good tracking instinct and in my neck of the woods I can tell you where to drill and you'll probably find water. I do find lost items from time to time.

It boggles my mind that circa 1880 you could claim to channel the spirits of the dead and get away with it. This gave way to the likes of Edgar Cayce (if I couldn't predict the future better then him with I'm thinking rationally...) and Jane Roberts.

That's so interesting, thanks for answering. I wonder if anybody's ever run a test where they take "normal" people and schizotypal people like yourself, give them dowsing rods, and see who has a higher accuracy rate of finding water.

> I'm going to have to talk about my goals with a trainer next week, I don't think I'm going to come completely clean that a fox sent me.

Oh man this sentence killed me, literally lol'ed.

Foxes are known however to be quite tricky and deceptive, as are fox spirits; for instance in the Hungarian film "Liza, the Fox-Fairy (2015)" and of course the well-known Japanese kitsune.

I found out the hard way what happens when you take them with your boat across a river with a chicken and leave them to pick up grain.

Our neighbors who had a flock of chickens also had a fox family living in a hollowed-out stump. Their chickens were safe because they had a really solid hen house but their game camera caught the fox mama repeatedly bringing back chickens from the neighbors that it had taken.

There was one gal who used a ouija board and it told her to stop using ouija and practice working with her dreams instead. ??? O-kay...

It is very common that people who start with a Ouija board or pendulum graduate to something else like dreams or channeling.

What strikes me most is how your approach intertwines personal meaning and physical embodiment. Whether interpreted through a mystical lens, as you’re exploring, or as an imaginative and deeply personal form of visualization, it seems to function as a powerful motivator for change and self-awareness

Great LLM impression! ChatGPT said nearly the same thing to me the other day, and it was quite annoying. This isn’t annoying exactly. What would you call it? Let’s delve. Shall we delve?

LLM is just reproducing obama era therapy talk and toxic positivity :) if anything now it's easier to spot

Nope, not ChatGPT here... Just someone who found the comment intriguing and wanted to engage :)

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