Table Tipping: Harmless Game or Occult Doorway?
Table Tipping / Table Turning: A Biblical Warning Against Séances and Spirit Communication
What Is Table Tipping?
Table tipping, also called table turning or table tilting, is a form of séance where people sit around a table, place their hands on it, and wait for the table to move, rotate, knock, or tilt. The movement is believed by spiritualists to be a way of communicating with spirits. In some practices, the alphabet is called out, and the table supposedly tilts at certain letters to spell out messages.
This may look harmless, mysterious, or even entertaining, but spiritually it is a form of mediumship and spirit communication. It is not a game. It is an open door to familiar spirits.
Where Did Table Tipping Come From?
Table tipping became popular during the rise of modern Spiritualism in the 1800s. After the Fox sisters became known for supposed spirit communication through “rappings,” séances and spirit-contact practices spread quickly. Table turning became one of the methods used in spiritualist gatherings to seek messages from the dead or from unseen spirits.
What Is It Used For?
Table tipping is used to:
Communicate with supposed spirits of the dead
Ask questions about the future
Receive hidden knowledge
Contact spirit guides
Receive messages from unseen entities
Practice séance work or mediumship
Entertain curiosity about the paranormal
From a biblical standpoint, these are forbidden practices because they seek spiritual knowledge and contact apart from God.
Why Would Someone Get Involved?
People may get involved because of grief, curiosity, trauma, loneliness, fascination with the supernatural, peer pressure, occult interest, or the desire to hear from a deceased loved one. Some people think it is harmless because it is done in a group or treated like a game. Others may believe they are receiving comfort, guidance, or secret knowledge.
But Satan often disguises danger as comfort, power, mystery, or curiosity.
Why Is Table Tipping Against God’s Word?
God clearly forbids trying to communicate with the dead, practicing divination, consulting mediums, or seeking familiar spirits.
Deuteronomy 18:10–12 warns against divination, witchcraft, sorcery, mediums, spiritists, and those who consult the dead.
Leviticus 19:31 says not to turn to mediums or familiar spirits.
Isaiah 8:19 says God’s people should seek Him, not the dead on behalf of the living.
1 Samuel 28 shows the danger of Saul consulting the witch of Endor instead of seeking God.
Table tipping is not Holy Spirit guidance. It is spirit communication outside of God’s order.
How Can This Hurt a Christian?
A Christian who participates in table tipping may open spiritual doors to deception, fear, torment, confusion, nightmares, oppression, familiar spirits, divination spirits, and occult bondage. Even if a person says, “I was only watching,” or “I did not mean anything by it,” involvement with séances can still create spiritual contamination.
The enemy uses occult practices to gain legal rights through agreement, curiosity, participation, and deception.
What Curses or Spiritual Problems Can Come From It?
Possible spiritual consequences may include:
Fear and torment
Confusion and mental oppression
Nightmares or sleep paralysis
Hearing voices or feeling watched
Familiar spirits
Divination spirits
Generational occult patterns
Increased attraction to New Age or witchcraft
Spiritual heaviness
Anxiety and panic
Blocked prayer life
False dreams or false guidance
Bondage to grief or the dead
If you or your family line participated in séances, table tipping, Ouija boards, mediumship, psychic readings, or spirit communication, it may need to be confessed, renounced, and broken in Jesus’ name.
Deliverance Prayer
Father God, in the name of Jesus Christ, I repent for any involvement in table tipping, table turning, séances, mediumship, spirit communication, divination, or consulting the dead. I renounce every agreement I made with familiar spirits, lying spirits, divination spirits, and spirits of death.
I ask You to forgive me and cleanse me by the blood of Jesus. I close every spiritual door opened through curiosity, grief, fear, entertainment, or occult participation. I break every curse, assignment, soul tie, and demonic connection linked to table tipping and séances.
In the name of Jesus Christ, I command every familiar spirit, divination spirit, spirit of death, fear, torment, confusion, and occult bondage to leave me now. I belong to Jesus Christ. Holy Spirit, fill every place that has been emptied and lead me into truth, freedom, and restoration. Amen.
Final Warning
Table tipping is not harmless. It is not entertainment. It is a séance practice that invites communication with spirits God has forbidden us to contact. Christians must reject all forms of mediumship, divination, and occult communication and seek guidance from the Lord alone.
If you have been involved in table tipping, séances, Ouija boards, psychics, mediums, spirit guides, or New Age practices and are experiencing torment, fear, oppression, confusion, or spiritual attacks, you may need deliverance.
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Teresa Morin
President and Founder of Touch of God Int’l Ministries of Healing and Deliverance
Ordained Minister | Public Speaker | Featured in Who’s Who
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