This wasn't his first rodeo with a seance. Or hanging around a guy with a Ouija board. Or hanging around a guy at a seance with a ouija board who had the ability to talk to the dead.
Okay, kind of it was his first time only because he'd never been able to just hang out with himself before. So this was a little bit like looking through a mirror, if John was being honest.
A warped mirror maybe, but still. He thought it best to watch and not offer up too much advice; it would be easier to sit in a circle with some of those candles going and just see what would happen for once instead of actively participating.