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ouijavox.

An experiment in telepathic communication utilizing ouija-like tools. The project is scheduled to commence on or about the Autumnal Equinox on Thursday, 23 September 1999, at midnight EST.

Required:

a planchette or pointer tool (an old coin, upturned cup, etc.)

lettered cards or a board lettered with the Latin alphabet or a phonetic equivalent

(an extremely simple version of the witchboard)

On-line real-time communications access, via java-enabled chatrooms (found on yahoo!, egroups, etc.) or IRC/ICQ.

The Project involves a "warm-up" period of a week or more; after gathering the necessary tools (above) each participant is instructed to use the board nightly, noting the first movement of the pointer and any resulting letter combinations before an attempt at literated telepathy with the designated senders.

Suggested criteria include simple letter-by-letter transmission my sender to receivers, and varied "links", such as colors worn by all participants, or candles of a specific hue in the working area to enhance transmission.

Current list of participants (last update 990921):

RoikaXul ICQ 2904882

Aloas Kino ICQ 49433504

Frog ICQ 24691661

Morrdock

Drake

Augoras ICQ 46089737

Taedium ICQ 19188153

Send mail to all of the OUIJAVOX participants.

At no more than two days prior to the first experiment, "senders" and "receivers" will be selected from the participants at random. The senders will select a word or short sentence which will be transmitted to the receivers, one letter at a time, over & over again, for a period of no less than 10 minutes.

The first experiment protocol has been suggested:

A SENDER is selected randomly from participants, all others will RECEIVE.

Chat commences, to facillitate realtime communication

All go off-line for 23 minutes, during which time the SENDER repeats the chosen word which is chosen randomly from a dictionary, letter by letter, while RECEIVERS utilize their OUIJA tools, recording results.

Back online, results are exchanged, and the protocol for the second experiment is decided upon.

See the results of the trials here.