The Ordinary Necromancers Quotes

“Greek oracles were like living Ouija boards. They communicated with the gods rather than the dead. It’s funny the way people imagine making contact with the Devil via Ouija, but never with God. Will God not come if summoned?”
― Rob Armstrong, The Ordinary Necromancers: The Science of Ouija

“The real hard problem of consciousness is that consciousness does not intrinsically belong to you. It is something added to the individual by the group. No one is born conscious. Consciousness is learned, acquired, taught. Consciousness depends entirely on socialization. It has nothing to do with the individual and individualism. Humanity has never faced up to the implications of this. Consciousness is a cultural addition to biology. It’s about memes (culture) added to genes (biology).”
― Rob Armstrong, The Ordinary Necromancers: The Science of Ouija

“The real purpose of Christianity – Ouija Christianity, shall we say – was to show everyone that they have a divine nature as well as a human nature and the divine can be accessed and used to perform wonders and make this world a paradise. Unfortunately, the message got lost and the powers-that-be made Christianity into a message about an external God rather than an internal God, a God that had to be worshipped, and needed a Church and a power hierarchy for this purpose. Christendom required people to express individual faith in their “Lord and Savior”. The real Christian message wasn’t that you should worship God but that you should become God – by accessing your inner divine nature, just as Jesus had accessed his. He was the example for all of us, not a unique person different from all of us. Why do you think Jesus said, “For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.”
― Rob Armstrong, The Ordinary Necromancers: The Science of Ouija

“One of the greatest powers in the human world is the power of suggestion, including counter-suggestion. If you put people in a clinical, scientific environment, this acts as a massive counter-suggestion and prevents psychic phenomena from manifesting. You need to recreate the kinds of environments where paranormal events typically occur in order to provide the power of suggestion that will allow the mind to access, channel and manifest such phenomena. You cannot allow materialists and skeptics anywhere near paranormal research since they will generate an enormous field of counter-suggestion that will disrupt, sabotage and thwart the desired phenomena. If you tell people it can’t be done, it won’t be. If you tell people they can achieve the impossible, they will.”
― Rob Armstrong, The Ordinary Necromancers: The Science of Ouija

“All Nature unfolds within a Cosmic Mind, a Soul World – an immaterial Singularity outside space and time. Just as a dream – a simulation of spacetime – takes places inside the dreamer’s mind and never at any time leaves it, so the spacetime world produced at the Big Bang in fact occurs entirely within the Cosmic Mind (the Dreamer) that generated it. There is no “expansion” of space. All of spacetime reality unfolds within the Singularity, the Mind, just as all apparent spacetime dreams never once extend beyond the mind.”
― Rob Armstrong, The Ordinary Necromancers: The Science of Ouija

“The Ouija board brought necromancy to the ordinary people. It democratized necromancy. It’s a portal to the dead, to the afterlife, to the Spirit World. But it’s a somewhat basic technology, a poor man’s version of the phone. What would you do if you had a special smartphone that allowed you direct communication with the dead – a Necrophone? Would you use it all the time? Would it be the most popular gadget of all time? Or would people be scared to use it? Would it make people too sad? Would it provoke a suicide epidemic?”
― Rob Armstrong, The Ordinary Necromancers: The Science of Ouija

“It’s not just the Spirit World that Ouija can reach. It can explore a realm every bit as strange, that of the unconscious mind, the mind of which we know nothing, precisely because it’s unconscious. Yet it’s an aspect of our own mind. Isn’t it bizarre that our own “hidden” mind is the biggest, and closest, mystery in our life!”
― Rob Armstrong, The Ordinary Necromancers: The Science of Ouija