I just shared a couple of stories about my association with a spirit named "Joseph." Here's how my final session with him went:

After communicating regularly with Joseph for about 7 years, I began to ask him to materialize for me and each time he flatly refused, saying it was strictly forbidden. But after several months of my pleading, he finally agreed and told me what to do.

It involved burning two white candles -one on either side of me- and placing an empty chair across the room. I was to wait silently and move the board planchette slowly in a small circle. He also said I was not to approach him under any circumstances and I agreed.

I did as instructed, and after about ten minutes the air in the room did get a noticeable chill just like you see in cheap horror movies, but the candles didn't flicker and I heard no strange sounds. Then slowly a very fine mist gathered around that chair and swirled gently above it. It never took any human form or spoke and after only a few seconds it was gone.

And so was Joseph, because he never again returned to my board no matter how many times I tried.

In the decades since, I've often wondered if that act released him from his bondage or plunged him into another, deeper one.

But it's a question that will never be answered.