…mental representation or automatic expression of a date and a number of days or years arises spontaneously, the sensitive has to estimate time, both as to its mode and extent, by interpreting the artifices of the imagination, variable in different sensitives and always of doubtful import. M. de Fleuriere, for…
…a Black Sea: A Study in Automatic Writing by G. Cummins (1966). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 43, 267-70. Obituary: The ‘Hodgson Report’ on Madame Blavatsky by A.E. Waterman (1968). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 44, 341-49. Towards the mysteries by Swami Omananda Puri (1969). Journal…
…approach that treats exceptional experiences as meaningful phenomena rather than automatically pathologising them. Career Thomas Rabeyron is professor of clinical psychology and psychopathology at the University of Lorraine in Nancy. He is director of the INTERPSY laboratory, which encourages collaboration between clinical psychology and medicine, with the aim of improving…
…argues that paranormal experience deserves ethnographic attention rather than automatic reduction to error, pathology or superstition. His Bristol circle research shifted his focus from why people believe in spirits to how communication with spirits may be experienced. By linking anthropology, ecology and parapsychology, he presses for more ontologically open accounts…
…York, USA: University Books. Articles Discussion of Professor Richet’s case of automatic writing in a language unknown to the writer, Part III. (1905, with A Johnson). Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 19, 245-61. Private meeting for members and associates: The haunted solicitor, an unfinished comedy (1905). Journal of…
…computed tomography (SPECT) and found that the brain activity in ten Brazilian Kardecist Spiritist psychographers (mediums who perform automatic writing) when they wrote in trance was different from during control, non-trance states.54Peres et al (2012). Maraldi and Krippner examined the hand temperature, heart rate, bilateral skin conductance, electroencephalography (EEG), and…
…Winifred Coombe-Tennant a medium known at the time by the pseudonym ‘Mrs Willett’, said she psychically perceived a young woman watching over him. Subsequently other mediums, including Margaret Verrall, Helen Salter and ‘Mrs Holland’, wrote automatic (trance) scripts which it was believed were dictated by this woman. The scripts contained…
…to Spiritism to their children and holding Spiritist meetings at their home. Zibia practiced psychography (automatic writing) and eventually published books of spirit communications.1Dubugras (1987); Dubugras & Gasparetto (1979). Luiz was a nervous child, often unable to pay attention in class. Zibia enrolled him in a course at an art…
…classic poltergeist haunting, though they are not claimed to be all of equal evidential value.4Fisk (1965), 94. Matthew Manning During his childhood the British psychic Matthew Manning (born 1955) seemed to be the focus of poltergeist-type effects, which led to him producing automatic writing and artworks credited to deceased entities….
