Joe's Blog

Here's an article written by one of the skeptic folks, Joe Nickell, about medium John Edward.  If you set aside the attacks on John Edward (who I believe is a good and legit medium), and some of the other junk in it, it's a good article about cold reading and other techniques that fraudulent p...

The Ouija has a long and rather interesting history.  Here are a couple of accounts to check out: The History of the Ouija BoardThe Infamous evil Ouija Board Apparently, all the bad press about the Ouija came out when the movie "The Exorcist" was released, back in the 1970's. ...

I've been aware of Spiritism for a long time, and had some vague ideas about the differences between it, Spiritualism, and Spiritualists.  Tonia Wind's article about the differences makes it clear. I'm not sure I like the term, as it sounds so scientific, but according to Allen Kardec's defini...

One of the issues you face as a medium is whether to go public or not.  I remember when I first started becoming involved in mediumship and spiritual development.  I was somewhat reluctant to let people know that I was involved, because I didn't know if they would accept it.  Mediumsh...

Here is an article about the Ouija board.  It adds some perspectives and ideas that I hadn't thought about before in the context of Ouija.  I also discovered that Bil Wilson, one of the founders of Alcohol Anonymous, was very involved in it and also received the now-famous 12-step program...