SOYOUWANNA HOLD A SEANCE?

6. REEVALUATE THE SITUATION IF THE SEANCE DOESN'T WORK RIGHT AWAY

If it turns out that you followed all these steps but couldn't get a ghost to visit, it might be because someone in your séance group doesn't really believe in ghosts, deep down inside. As the meditation and chanting was going on, consciously he/she was thinking, "Wow, this is creepy," but subconsciously, he/she was going, "Yeah, right." You can resolve the issue by shining a bright light in each person's face and interrogating them mercilessly, or you can just try holding the séance with different combinations of people to weed out the pseudo-believers.

Other explanations for why your séance failed miserably may be that your group was too impatient to get a response, or perhaps it just wasn't in the cards. Anything is possible in this uncertain business. But people have found that holding a séance is something that gets easier with practice, so give it another chance or two before quitting on the idea and becoming normal.

And that's more than you need to know about summoning the dead. Good luck with your séance, and remember . . . don't go into the light.