This is my first post, so please bear with me, dear prople. I come from the historical little town of “St.Thomas’ Mount” in India, but now live in Australia. That part of India has been steeped in spirituality for centuries.
I would like to share with you **my own experiences **with spirits involving the dangerous dabling with the occult. This account is
completely true, and illustrates why one should not undertake such dabbling.
It was some time in July 1964; we were living in the historic town of Saint Thomas’ Mount in India, in the state of Madras (now Chanai). It was about 8.30 PM, and I had just come home from work.
As I entered the dining room, to get a drink of water; my uncle George and aunty Theo spoke to me excitedly,
Code:
“Peter,” they exclaimed together, “you won’t believe who we have on the ‘board’ right now’.
The ‘board’ they were referring to was the ouija board. Aunty Theo was visiting from Calcutta, and Uncle George was visiting from a few streets away. The ouija board was their ‘hobby’. Uncle’s wife did not approve of his messing with the occult, so our place was the venue of choice. My Mum, their sister, was more tolerant.
This spirit ‘on the board’ called himself Ithan (remember this name) and claimed to be from Venus. I was crazy about astronomy, and all things extraterrestrial, hence their reaction when I walked in. However I was not too impressed, after all entity can say they are from Venus, or any other planet. Then Ithan broke in to our short conversation to inform us that the singer Jim Reeves had just died in a plane crash. He went on to spell out the news that they haven’t found the wreckage yet, and it will be a couple of days before the news was made public. Jim Reeves songs were very popular in India in the ‘60s.
December 1964, about 5 months later, Theo’s brother-in-law Oscar paid us a flying visit from Calcutta; while we were chatting about family matters he noticed a picture of a sailing ship on the calendar and picked it up for a closer look, we held out breaths because on the back of the calendar Uncle George had painted the letters of the Ouija board – and Ozzie found it. After an embarrassing silence, he turned to me and said;
Code:
“Peter, Ella (my cousin in Calcutta) and Kathleen (a relative of Oscar) were also fooling with this thing back home, and claimed they had a guy from Venus. While he was still communicating with them Jim Reeves died. We were probably one of the very first to know of his death”.
As you might imagine, there was a stunned silence. Then it was Oscar’s turn to be surprised;
Code:
“Was his name Ithan?” I asked.
It was!
More than 800 MILES away, this same person with the unusual name, from Venus?
About three months later, in early 1965, Oscar paid us another visit. This trip was to warn Aunty Theo about the ‘board’. He told us that one day Kathleen’s husband got home earlier than expected and found her naked, with the letters of the ouija board inked on her bare body. She was operating the board on her own. She did not recognise her husband, and had completely lost her sanity. Kathleen was admitted into a psychiatric hospital.
As far as I know, that’s where she is today. The ouija board had claimed another victim. Did Ithan have anything to do with this? If he didn’t, he should have warned them about the danger.
Some time around the end of 1973 - 9 years later, we had moved to Melbourne, Australia; on a T.V. current affair programme, we watched the presenter interview a Sydney clairvoyant, who claimed to be in regular psychic contact with a being from Venus, whose name was — Ithanus .
Going back a few years, to a September night in 1961; this time we are in the Dells area of Prescott, Arizona, USA. Four-year-old David was seen by his neighbour in the company of strangers, walking in the woods behind their home.
When questioned later this little boy explained to his startled father and neighbour that he had gone for a ride in his new friend’s “big sky car”, from which our world “looked like a pea”. The name of this friend? “ITAN”; a four-year-olds pronunciation of ITHAN?.
To give us an idea of the morals of this “ITAN”; little David went on to describe how ‘they’ stole (he used the word ‘milked’) all the engine oil out of the neighbour’s car which was locked in the garage.
David’s story can be read in Ruth Montgomery’s fascinating book STRANGERS AMONG US.
He stated at least twice during my visit that “the spirits” were telling him xyz as to what I should do. It became worse when he recommended that I consider working for an extremely liberal organization that would definitely clash with the Catholic church except for some social justice issues. He works for a Catholic college.