…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…
…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,…
…have been filmed and videotaped many times, as in a 1973 film produced by the Stanford Research Institute.73See UriGeller.com. The English psychic Matthew Manning was filmed professionally after he displayed talents for producing psychic drawings and automatic writing.74Manning (n.d.). In the 1970s Toshiko Ichimura, director of the Japanese Parapsychological Research…
…at least ‘when associated with other phenomena suggesting unusual capacities’.7Hyslop (1912), 97-98. However, an attempt at automatic writing on his first meeting with Miguel in May 1911 provided no evidence for this.8Hyslop (1912), 100-1. Experiments with ‘chronomancy’ yielded highly significant results. In a first set, Hyslop named the year and…
…SPR. Goodrich Freer joined the SPR in 1888 and became known for crystal-gazing, automatic experiences and writings under the pseudonym ‘Miss X’. Her 1899 Essays in Psychical Research presented a broad survey of psychical topics but included a disparaging treatment of Leonora Piper which Richard Hodgson disputed. The controversial Ballechin…
…be merely an instrument, like a crystal ball, for concentrating ESP faculties; Harry, the Dutch sculptor, who goes into trances in the Faraday cages and produces automatic scripts in Egyptian hieroglyphics; Narodny, the cockroach man, who is preparing experiments to test the effects of human telepathy on insects. It was…
…distress and traumatic death in the previous life. Responsive, Recitative and Passive Xenoglossy The term xenoglossy was coined by French physiologist and psychical researcher Charles Richet at the beginning of the twentieth century. He used it to refer to words in languages unknown to the writer that appeared in automatic…
…the material world; it is part of our cognitive system and is affected by our dispositions, needs and other psychological aspects, employing aspects of our psychology to manifest, among them perceptions, creativity, memory, and automatic processes. Consequently, psi interactions affect our behavior at a non-conscious level. Such processes, Carpenter believes,…
