Oujia Boards are, I think, a pretty poor physical item to provide as a "reward." As this thread indicates, many people find them repellent for one reason or another--and then there's also the problem of originality--there's nothing original about a Oujia board--it's like id software using pentagrams everywhere in its games--Oujia Boards & pentagrams have been *done to death* in the popular culture. Enough is enough, imo.
I mean, it's actually sort of funny...can you imagine a "wish list" where the person wishes for a Oujia board?...;) I just can't make that leap, somehow.
Those who believe in dimensional realms different/higher than the one we presently inhabit (not an unscientific idea at all, actually) point out what it is about these boards that makes them uncomfortable--that they may be used by unsavory beings trying to "cross over" into our dimension/realm. As such things go it is difficult prove that out to the skeptic for all the obvious reasons...but at the same time I feel it is not an irrational concept at all. I don't think the actual Oujia board itself--as in its basic, physical components--is a problem or "magical", etc. But I think it possible that people using such a device in order to seriously try and contact beings from "the other side" may well open their minds up psychically to malevolence that is both sentient and directed. The people using the board may in effect become "receivers" for some kind of spiritual malevolence from another dimension--that is where the "danger" may well lie, if there is any danger at all.
It's actually amusing to discuss this as we all enjoy playing games in which magic & spells and ghosts and spiritual malevolence feature prominently...;) I think it would be rather narrow minded to simply sweep all such "Oujia board" sentiment away as ignorant propaganda or superstition. Superstition to me is throwing a pinch of salt over one's shoulder or walking around a ladder instead of under it, etc. Having a respectful, open-minded concern about using a Oujia board is simply erring on the side of caution, if it's nothing else, it seems to me.
