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Planchettes.com is pleased to offer ouija board as well as automatic writing planchettes of the finest quality. Our products are crafted with attention to detail never before seen with psychic tools.

We hand-craft a wide range of planchettes, with something for everyones particular tastes and budget. We allow for even greater tailoring with the optional sacred symbols which can be etched or inlaid into most of our products.

Most of our planchettes and "communications boards" are based upon "the divine proprotion", a ratio of length to width that has been revered for thousands of years. Artists including Leonardo DaVinci Salvadore Dali have harnessed it's power, creating paintings which remain the finest the world has ever seen.

This divine ratio has been used in architecture from the pyramids in Egypt, through the Acropolis in Greece and indeed today as well in modern construction. It is found everywhere in nature. We feel that this "divine ratio" has a dramatic effect on the "powers" inherent to our designs.

We offer boards and planchettes in a never before seen range of materials. Browsing our inventory, you'll find planchettes made from beautiful natural materials like granite, marble, rosewoods & fine domestic hardwoods. We offer models cast of glass as well as metals like brass. We have several created in porcelain as well as other ceramic materials and composites.

The functional parts of our planchettes are of the highest quality. We have perfected the ball castor system first used in the early 1930's in a revered electrically operated ouija board. This system allows our planchettes to glide with so little resistance, you'll insist that it's moving on it's own...

A detail as basic as the pencil holder is something that we've sought to perfect for several years. Many of ours are sculpted out of solid brass, with precise adjustments being facilitated through knurled thumb screws. We have models tailored to the particular requirements of many psychic artists. These highly specialized models feature even greater control of the tool holder. They can be easily disassembled for cleaning or fine tuning, if desired...

Another planchettes.com innovation surely is the integration of a "target compartment" into some of our planchettes. Many users insist that they have incredible results in "targeting" particular entities via the use of the "target compartment..." We offer a range of communications boards which are built with "target compartments" as well...

It's taken a lifetime for us to learn our craft. We combine old-world quality with the precision and designing powers only recently made available to the craftsman. This precision, combined with intense study of the tools which we produce has allowed us to create psychic tools of quality and power that has never before been seen.

In addition to our wide range of products, we also offer bespoke crafting of most any psychic appliance. Exploring our website, you'll find many articles and multimedia demonstrations exploring the world of automatism. Please let us know if we can be of any assistance.

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The History of Psychic Tools Psychic tools have a history going back thousands of years. We attempt to explain the evolution of these "devices" as well as show the connections between each of them. From the "pendulum board" used by Pythagoras through the most recent inventions.	Thomas Alva Edison and the Spirit World Thomas Edison is certainly regarded as one of the great minds of the ages. He has over 3,000 patents to his credit, more than anyone in history. Thomas Edison invented, among thousands of other things, the light bulb, the phonograph and many other "miracles of science" which we take foregranted today. Did you know that he spent years of his life building a machine which could communicate with the dead???
The "Ouija Board" - Fact, Fiction & Folklore The "ouija board" has been accused of many things. Some claim it's a direct link to the spirit world. Others would have you think that if you as much as went near one, you'd open the gates to hell and become posessed, just like the little girl in "The Exorcist..." We explore the FACTS and let the reader judge for themselves...	Do Spirits Write Books??? Via automatism and seances, many books have been published which credit supernatural entities with the authorship. We offer a synopsis of several well known, as well as nearly completely obscure books. We begin with discussing the "Seth Books", certainly the most famous of the lot. We also explore another book by well-resepected authors. In their book, they report to have communicated with famous "ghosts" including George Washington. Although this book is from 1882, they have some interesting things to report from entities living on Mars...
The Truth About Automatic Writing Automatic Writing is a powerful ability which most of us have yet to explore. We examine the evidence on hand and attempt to explain this phenomenon as well as potentials which are hardly explored.	Ouija Boards in the Movies... Psychic tools such as the "ouija board" have made their way into the spotlight many times. We reminisce about some of our favorites.

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Planchette: plan·chette (pln-sht) n.

(Taken from "An Encyclopaedia of Occultism" - London, 1920)

An instrument designed for the purpose of communication with spirits. It consists of a thin heard-shaped piece of wood, mounted on two small wheel-castors and carrying a pencil, point downwards, for the third support. The hand is placed on the wood and the pencil writes automatically, or presumably by spirit control operating through the psychic force of the medium.

In 1853, a well-known French spiritualist, M. Planchette, invented this instrument to which he gave his name. For quite fifteen years it was used exculsively by French spiritualists. Then in the year 1868 a firm of toy-makers in America took up the idea and flooded the booksellers' shops with great numbers of planchettes. It became a popular mania, and the instrument sold in thousands there and in Great Britain. It was, and is, largely used simply as a toy and any results obtained that may be arresting and seemingly inexplicable are explained by Animal Magnetism or traced to the power of subconscious thought.

Amongst spiritualists it has been used for spirit communication. Automatic writing has often been developed by use of the planchette, some mediums publishing books which, they claimed, were written wholly by their spirit-controls through the use of planchettes.

Dr. Ashburnes, in his Spiritualism Chemically Explained says that the human body is a condensation of gases, which constantly exude from the skin in invisible vapour - otherwise electricity; that the fingers coming in contact with the planchette transmit to it an "odic force," and thus set it in motion. He goes on to say that some people have phosphorous in excess in their system and the vapour "thus exuded forms a positively living, thinking, acting body, capable of directing a pencil."

There are variations on the planchette form such as the dial-planchette whch consists of a foundation of thick cardboard nine inches square on the face of which the alphabet is printed and also the numerals one to ten. There are the words "Yes," "No," "Goodbye" and "Don't Know." These letters, words and numerals are printed on the outer edge of a circle, the diameter of which is about seven inches. In the center of this circle, and firmly affixed to the cardboard, is a block of wood three inches square. The upper surface of this block has a circular channel on it and in this runs balls. Over the balls is placed a circular piece of hard wood, five inches in diameter, and attached to the outer edge of this a pointer. The upper piece of wood is attached to the lower by an ordinary screw, upon which the upper plate revolves when used for communication. Another form is the Ouija board on which in an convenient order the letters of the alphabet are printed and over which a pointer easily moves under the direction of the hand of the person or persons acting as mediums.

It is stated that a form of this "mystic toy" was in use in the days of Pythagoras, about 540 B.C... In a French history of Pythagoras, the author describing his celebrated school of philosophy, asserts that the brotherhood held frequent seances or circles at which a mystic table, moving on wheels, moved towards signs inscribed on the surface of a stone slab on which the moving-table worked. The author states that probably Pythagoras, in his travels among the Eastern nations, observed some such apparatus in use amongst them and adapted his idea from them.

Another trace of such "communicating mechanism" is found in the legend told by the Scandinavian Blomsturvalla how the people of Jomsvikingia in the twelfth century had a high priest, one Völsunga, whose predictions were renowned for their accuracy throughout the length and breadth of the land. He had in his possession a little ivory doll that drew with "a pointed instrument" on parchment or "other substance," certain signs to which the priest had the key. The communications were in every case prosphetic utterances, and it is said in every case came true. The writer who recounts the legend thought it probable that the priest had procured the doll in China. In the National Museum at Stockhold there is a doll of this description which is worked by mechanism, and when wound up walks round and round in circles and occasionally uses its right arm to make curious signs with a pointed instrument like a stylo which is held in the hand. Its origin and use have been connected with the legend recounted above.