We recently received a question from a caller on our Wacky Wednesday radio show who had received a small bag of bones from a recently deceased relative. Although the bones had some sentimental value, she was uneasy about keeping them in the house and wondered if she should destroy them. Our answer was unequivocal “yes!”
Tag Archives: divination
Psychometry: Do Objects Have Souls?
Anonymous writes: “My friend is involved in something she calls psychometry. It sounds demonic to me. I begged her to talk to a priest about it. She kept saying ‘this is a gift, I pray every day, I don’t know a priest.’ Shed some light on this, please.”
The I Ching and Casting Lots
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KJ writes: “What’s so bad about the I Ching? Isn’t it the same thing as casting lots?”
Is it Okay to Play Bible Roulette?
AM writes: “My friends make fun of me for playing ‘bible roulette’ but I’ve sometimes received very appropriate answers to my questions. What’s wrong with it?”
Divining the Future with Pendulums and Dowsing Rods
CS asks: “What do you know about a technique called dowsing or water witching, supposedly to locate water under the ground, but also to locate things with a rod in a Y shape? It does not seem like something harmful to be in search of water. However, there is also something called dowsing with a pendulum made out of a metal like brass or other materials that is attached to a string. Apparently, you would tell it that if it swings in a circle, this means ‘yes’ and if it swings in a straight line, this means ‘no’; and then you ask it a question and your answer is the direction that it swings. I have seen this done and it seems like something one should not be doing. I am not sure if I should tell the people that are doing it that it is wrong or not.”
Astrology and the Star of Bethlehem
Is the Star of Bethlehem that appeared in the sky last night the same star that guided the Wise Men to Jesus more than two thousand years ago? And if so, why can’t we use the stars to guide us in life, just like the Wise Men?
Don’t We All Have Psychic Abilities?
MN: “Don’t we all have psychic power? How else can you explain what happens when a mother instinctively knows her absent child is in danger? Is this just a ‘sixth sense’? How is this different from what psychics do?”
But the Medium Said Her Gift Came from God!
We frequently get mail from readers who ask about mediums in their area who claim the gifts they are using to contact the dead and divine the future came from God. Can this be true?
Teachers Introduce Children to Superstition
This is not the first time a reader wrote to this blog to complain about their child being introduced to a superstitious practice known as “worry dolls” in school. But this time the parent is allowing us to publish their account of exactly what happened.
Can a Pendulum Predict a Baby’s Sex?
JH writes: “I cant find much on the topic but am curious if the pendulum wives tale (tie a ring on a string) to predict baby gender falls into a superstition/new age category to be avoided? I tried this recently and have found it to be very accurate on multiple occasions. If there is any validity to the results I’d like to believe there is a God given explanation that is scientifically based (even if yet discovered). . . .”
