Following a Thread on YouTube
Just for Shits and Giggles — Talking to Ghosts
Note: There are a bunch of links at the end of this article, so you don’t need to interrupt the piece to go looking for more information. Just read it through and find all the goodies at the end. Sort of like we did as kids looking for the prize in a full box of cereal. Need to wait until it’s mostly gone before you go looking for it. At least, that’s what our mother told us. When she wasn’t looking, we all took turns making a dive for whatever had settled to the bottom. There’s also a little bit of Guide Speak in this piece. I’ve put that into a bold italics font.
I like unraveling things. It starts with a question. My question this morning was, “What happens if I put #talkingtospirit into the YouTube search box?”
I chose those particular words because TalkingToSpirit is my website. I started it back in 2001. It might even have been earlier than that, but that’s the date that was on my WhoIs information about the site before I switched over to my present hosting folks. They obliterated all that information, and now it’s some sort of fast daddy thing in Florida. Whatever. It’s still my site.
The subtitle of this piece is to pay homage to a friend who used to say it at work. Work was fun in those days, and this piece is just for fun.
So, a bunch of sites popped up for my #talkingtospirit search on YouTube. Here’s the next step when you are out there following a thread. You don’t necessarily pick the first option. You go with the one that calls to you. I know you do it all the time. Everybody does. But it is interesting when you lean into your psychic self and expect only good things to happen. It is useful at all times to be optimistic in your outlook on life. Following a thread is included. It could possibly work on dating apps, too. Who knows?
It’s the trust part that comes into play. You put your question out into the universe, and then, with bibliomancy, you open a book at random, and the first word, your eyes or your finger, if you’re using that settles on, is your answer. Traditionally, you would use a sacred text or the bible for bibliomancy, but in reality, you can use any book.
I settled on a site to look at about four or five offerings down in the search results. The thumbnail was of a guy sitting on a tombstone. I thought to myself, “This should be interesting.” It was.
Okay, so I’m not going to buy a spirit box right now. They seem to start at $90 and go higher. The track record I have with items like that on Amazon is that it won’t be until I get into that range that whatever it is I am buying performs in at least an adequate manner. I think there were some offered that were $30, so until I am rolling on the dough or find a way to do a DIY one, I will instead enjoy the heck out of this guy’s videos. His name is Dalen.
The spirit box, according to the Wiki information I looked up (link below), is just a radio receiver that scans radio stations. You want one that has variable scanning speeds. Evidently, what the spirits do to answer your question is pick a word or multiple words in the scanned stations to answer your question. How the actual mechanics of that works, I have no idea.
Dalen, the guy in the video (link below), had a bunch of flashcards he’d swiped from his daughter to use. He waffled through the cards and picked a blue rectangle, held it up for everybody in the cemetery who had chosen to come to the party, and asked, “What color is this card?” The YouTube audience is now hearing, “Blue, blue, blue, blue” as the scanner in the spirit box scans through all the available AM stations. Sounds like fun.
Dalen recommended the SonoX10 Spirit Box App. He said he uses the free version. I am so technically challenged that I must admit I’ve had no luck with downloading anything about this app.
By the way, you want to set your spirit box to the AM stations because they have more talk radio shows. The chances of you hearing words instead of music are better. Just a better way to use your tools.
Now, I’m in the middle of searching for radio stations I can listen to on the computer (link below) since I don’t have a spirit box. Unfortunately, there is no scanning involved, but it is still interesting. I also tried to look for some Spanish language stations, since I’ve been trying to learn Spanish for the last 30 years. It’s actually probably more than 30 years, but I didn’t want to interrupt the creation of this obviously intelligent-sounding piece of writing. I am also considering all those brain cells I’ve been killing with all the drinking and drug use I participated in all those many years ago. I am sober as a judge these days.
A psychic secretary? Yeah, it was fun.
John Lennon? No? A guy with a blindfold on? Zorro. Jesus, this is a good radio station. What is it? Virgin Radio UK. I remember having trouble understanding the guy when he was talking because of his accent, but the music is nice. It’s sweeping me along. Yeah, I don’t drink anymore. This is more fun. This is why I mostly like to write listening to instrumental music. Right now: You drive me crazy, crazy…. Zonked off psychic — Aerosmith (link below).
Come on, Pauline. Get it together. Please.
Guide Speak: Turn the radio off or quit typing.
Fun Fact: Stephen King couldn’t find the rock he wanted to listen to while he was writing. So, he bought a local radio station in Bangor, Maine (link below).
When you develop a writing voice, things happen. With me, all I have right now is a two-pointed piece coming apart at the seams. We’ve got spirit boxes and streaming music, but you know what? I don’t care. Music can pick you apart. It’s almost uncontrollable. And here I am, fingers on the keyboard, moving right along with it. You know? I never in my life did LSD or cocaine. Never. I wonder if this is what it feels like? Lucid at the keyboard and yet moving down into brain matter. Those sparkly bits. All over the place. If I wasn’t aware of what was going on, I might be frightened. Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd is playing right now.
Okay, shoot — reality writing. My husband just scared the bejesus out of me. He wanted to tell me goodbye because he was going to work. My throat still hurts, though I don’t think I screamed. The radio is still playing, but I don’t have my headphones on. I need one of those neon signs that light up outside of the study that says something along the lines of “Writer at Work” or “Psychic on Mind Bending Shamanic Journey — Enter Cautiously.”
I’m not listening to anything right now. Let me return to the spirit box. So, I can’t afford one right now, and I have determined that online streaming radio is not going to work, although it appears that it is going to be good to try for some unusual emotional drainage. By the way, I did not choose the word drainage. That came from somebody in spirit who actually rubbed their hands with glee as I typed the word. What I was going for was more along the lines of damage. Emotional drainage. A sort of healing. Like when your sinuses finally let loose, and you can breathe again.
Okay, putting the writer’s hat back on. I finished watching Dalen with his experimental spirit box on YouTube. I’d say it was a success. The most tangible offering of proof between humans and spirit since I did table tipping to prove interaction with Spirit. I still say the most exact and eloquent channeling comes from the voices you hear in your head, but that’s not something you can prove to somebody. They can’t interact with my head. The only thing that might come close is faith healing, where the channeler would push somebody backwards on their forehead, and the guy gets up and walks away with ease where before they were confined to a wheelchair.
I ought to try that someday.
Guide Speak: I don’t think it would be satisfying. If you were to push someone backward, they’d likely break a leg.
Me: there is that. You’re right. But it would be dramatic.
Guide Speak: You can only tell how dramatic something like that is until you pass the hat and see how much jingle you’ve got in it.
Me: You’ve done that?
Guide Speak: I can imagine.
Me: Nobody up there has done that?
Guide Speak: We aren’t exactly up there as you put it, though it is endearing.
Me: Thanks.
Me: Seth, someday, I should draw your picture. You’re not as fat to me as when Robert painted you.
Guide Speak: Well, thank you. I guess.
Me: Maybe I should have some breakfast.
Guide Speak: You already did. Remember the apple turnover?
Me: I think it was a sugar rush that might have steered this article.
Guide Speak: It was all your own gas, Dear.
Thanks for reading, everybody. Talk to you later.
The Links TalkingToSpirit.com — my website where I talk to Spirit WhoIs.com — Information about websites Dalen Spratt on YouTube — Can You Talk to Ghosts Using a Spirit Box? WikiHow — How Do Spiritboxes Work? What I was listening to on the UK Virgin Radio when my writing went all sideways: Aerosmith — Crazy Virgin Radio UK on Radio.Net WKIT 100.3 FM — Rock of Bangor — Owned by Tabatha and Stephen King — Listen on Radio.Net