So, reading this got me curious. I've used a Ouija board a few times, never got any results whatsoever.
I have talked to a ghost before, though. The same one, twice. The longer of the two conversations lasted about 45 minutes. I didn't use any physical tools or consciousness-altering substances, but I was in a state of intensive, near-meditative thinking both times. What would you say I contacted? She was very feminine, very human in many ways. She gave her name as Angel (which I took to be a joke, and she seemed to find it funny too). I asked why she was contacting me, and she told me that I had contacted her. We talked that first time for probably 10-15 minutes. It was obviously one of the strangest experiences of my life, yet very strangely reassuring, because she seemed so calm and knowledgable. She wasn't interested in answering my questions about where she came from, but her energy was so powerful and serene at the same time that I couldn't help but be completely comfortable even though the experience was so unusual. If you had been able to feel her presence, I promise you would know that whatever she was, she wasn't evil.
When I felt her nearby again, I recognized her instantly. That was the time we talked for a long time. She told me that time only exists when we're alive, but that everything that has ever happened and will ever happened is part of the grand interplay of action and reaction that was determined and set in to motion with the creation of the universe. Everything that has ever happened and ever will happen IS, but we can only experience the little part of it that we exist in at any given moment. That doesn't mean that we won't have battles to fight, that doesn't mean that things won't be hard, it just means that those things are inevitable and good, they are part of the life and the human struggle that has been given to us to carry out, that was always destined to be carried out by us and the ripples of which will be carried in to eternity. She told me that as I walked the path of my life I should remember that I've already arrived home safely, even though I don't know what I'll have to face before I get there. I hope that somewhere ahead, in the area I still can't see, our paths cross again.
LC