Upon reading chapter two in the course textbook about research
methods, I came across the section about facilitated
communication. With facilitated communication, the facilitators
unknowingly guided the fingers of the children toward the
keyboard, and the resulting words were coming from the
facilitator's minds, not the minds of the children. I enjoyed
reading about the various examples, but the one which struck me
as the most interesting was the part about Ouiji Boards.
According to the textbook, a Ouiji Board is "a popular device
used by spiritualists to communicate with the dead." I consider
a Ouiji Board as a fun and interesting game to play with my
friends when we are bored. When using a Ouiji Board, everyone
puts their hands on a central pointer which is guided around to
spell various things like names, ages, and anything else a
"spirit" wants to tell the participants. I myself have never
been able to successfully communicate with the dead with a Ouiji
Board but a group of people I know were able to "su