…his first appearance on 4 January 1943, this communicator was belligerent, railing against religion. However, the group exercised forebearance and on two subsequent appearances his demeanour changed to friendly and forthcoming. Facts about him were confirmed by Gauld, who recalled having read writings by a psychologist of the same name….
…Cummins, an Irish medium, who later sent him material that she had received by automatic writing that purported to originate with Ambrose Pratt, a recently-deceased Australian novelist, politician and businessman whom Johnson had known intimately. Pratt, whom Johnson considered a man of considerable integrity as well as talent, appeared to…
…fallen; and was performing automatic writing. The most frequent circumstances found in a more recent study were: physically relaxed (79%), mentally calmed (79%), dreaming (36%), meditating (27%), and emotional stress (23%).45Gabbard & Twemlow (1984). But there were more rare circumstances such as childbirth (4%), having an orgasm (3%), drinking alcohol…
…Margaret finally disappeared in April 1914, leaving Doris integrated for the first time in 22 years.7Prince (1929). Mediumistic Experiments In 1911, Prince experimented with automatic writing. He placed a pencil in Doris’s hand above a piece of paper, while Margaret was in control, sleeping. Shortly the hand began writing: the…
…about its persistent minute structure or recurrent internal processes’. The impossibility arises from the fact that such ‘persistent minute structure’ or ‘recurrent processes’ as there may be will themselves automatically be but manifestations—i.e., instances of exercise—of dispositions of those minute constituents; so that if all dispositions really need some underlying…
…postulated the exteriorization from the body of a nerve force which he believed accounted for physical phenomena in séances and for poltergeist disturbances. This could take place through unconscious guidance by a living agent or with no specific direction – basically an automatic process. He believed this force was the…
…basic needs (avoidance of pain, increase in experiences of pleasure, maintenance of optimal body temperature). A strength of Levy’s experiments was their automaticity — once set up, the apparatus could run independently, monitoring the behaviour of random event generators (REGs) that the animals needed to influence in order to produce…
…Science, Dublin. From 1908 he was an associate member of the SPR assisting Oliver Lodge; he also acted as honorary secretary of the Council of the SPR Dublin Section,2Unsigned (1909-1910), 40. presenting it with a modified planchette for testing automatic writing in mediums.3SPR Dublin Section (1909), 64. Fournier d’Albe was…
…Raymond Lodge, attached to the South Lancashire Regiment, was killed near Ypres on 14 September, 1915, having been struck by a shell fragment in the attack on Hooge Hill. The ‘Faunus’ Message On 8 August, 1915, cryptic statements addressed to Lodge appeared in the automatic writings of Leonora Piper. One,…
