This depends on what you, the user, are looking for. Its primary purpose is to create a link with departed spirits, for the purpose of research, insight or problem-resolving.

In the right hands and with the right training, it has valid application in grief therapy, helping the bereaved deal with their loss and with personal and relationship issues that were unresolved prior to the loss.

Use of the manteum is also very relaxing. Even on occasions when the desired result does not come about (it does happen!) the experience is usually quite beneficial to the user.

An advanced user can quickly attain an altered state of consciousness with its use, helping him/her to achieve other esoteric aims.

And above all, it can be enormously satisfying to extend the boundaries of experience!