It All Started With a Ouija Board… and Went South From There

WITH LOVE, DANIELLE

Danielle LaPorte

Self-improvement, Education

4.9 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Danielle has never talked publicly about this.

In her 20s, she was channelling “guides”—a term she uses very loosely. It all started with a Ouija board. Friends were messing with it, and she got in on the action.

It’s a story about feeling special, getting in too deep, and discovering that “just because a disembodied energy comes through from the ‘other side’ doesn’t mean that it’s higher vibration than someone on the Earth plane.”

It’s a story that may change how you think about spiritual guidance.

In this episode:

How to tell the difference between guidance and spiritual deception
The question that will help you discern real wisdom from spiritual BS
Why being psychic doesn’t automatically make someone enlightened
What your nervous system knows that your mind doesn’t

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0:00.0	my loves i have a reveal today i've never publicly talked about this mostly because i don't know
0:08.8	there wasn't a reason men somewhat because i find it it's embarrassing in my 20s let me see i was barely
0:18.1	20 i think of yeah 20 I was channeling like guides.
0:24.5	I used the term channel very, very loosely. Actually, I used the term guides very loosely.
0:31.7	I was a channel, but I wouldn't say it was about guidance. It all started with Oweeja board. So
0:40.3	friends were messing with Oweeja board. I was totally into it. Like I got the box.
0:45.3	I think we bought it fresh at the New Age bookstore.
0:48.3	But my friends were more into it than I was.
0:52.3	And then a pattern started to become evident. Whenever I would touch the
0:59.3	planchette, the little thingy that moves around and points to the letters, it went wildly
1:04.6	fast. It was like there was a magnet under the table, which there wasn't. And the fact that I had
1:09.5	these special bow powers made me feel
1:13.0	special and all esoteric. And like, this is going to be a big part of my future. People are going to
1:19.5	line up for this. And then, okay, just context, right? I'm 19. Okay. I'm getting aura spray from the new age bookstore. I'm doing all kinds of
1:31.1	things. Crystal's in my bra. The Ouija board, weija, we'll just call it, encouraged me to start
1:38.2	channeling. So I spell it out, you know, spell it out. And then eventually, you know, the planchette's
1:43.0	moving so quickly. I'm getting the spelling the words, sentences. And then I'm just starting to hear the messages. And the encouragement
1:51.5	was you need to sit down and close your eyes and let spirits come through you. So I felt
1:57.8	extra, extra special.
2:03.0	And it didn't take long.
2:07.1	Soon people were coming over to my place to get channelings about their past lives and their health issues and future relationships.
2:10.6	And it was kind of charming, but it was pretty gross.
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