Demystifying the Oracle

Demystifying the Oracle examines Ouija boards from practical, psychological and paranormal perspectives. Steve Higgins presents the competing ideas that spirit boards may be harmless toys, tools for communication with the dead, or dangerous occult instruments, without setting out to prove one interpretation correct.

The book includes guidance on using a board, preparing questions and calling out during a session, alongside research into public beliefs and scepticism. It also introduces the ideomotor effect, in which unconscious movement may influence the planchette, and suggests controlled experiments for testing that possibility. Drawing on Higgins’s extensive experience of Ouija sessions and the wider paranormal community, the book keeps reported experiences alongside rational questioning.