…‘recurrent processes’ as there may be will themselves automatically be but manifestations – ie, instances of exercise – of dispositions of those minute constituents; so that if all dispositions really need some underlying categorical ‘carrier’, then the dispositions of those minute constituents too will need one; and so on, ad…
…(1853).. Rogers 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…
…College of 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…
…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,…
…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 Association, reported…
…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 the date of the month, and Miguel was to…
…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…
