…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….
…to the mediumship of William Eglinton, a physical medium known for a procedure in which ‘spirits’ wrote their messages on slates, whose abilities he also doubted; he co-authored reports underlining the fallibility of witness testimony and exposing cheating methods he suspected were used by Eglinton and other slate-writing mediums. As…
…e le ipotesi affrettate. Osservazioni sopra un articolo del Prof. C. Lombroso (1892). Padova, Italy: Drucker. A veridical message given by automatic writing (1892). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 5, 299-301. A case report (1893). In F.W.H. Myers’ ‘Subliminal consciousness’. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 9,…
…He decided to treat the medium, to use his own words, as a ‘telegraph cable’, sending ‘a current from her right wrist along her right and left arms to her left wrist’. This created a steady circuit signalled by a reflecting galvanometer. The breaking of the circuit would be automatic…
…to settle the controversy around physical phenomena, Osty collaborated with physicists and engineers (including his son Marcel) to develop an automatic device that could instantaneously record any anomalous movement occurring in total darkness. This device helped both to expose cheating, as with the fraudulent medium Stanislawa Popielska, and also to…
…IMI’s second director Eugène Osty collaborated with physicists and engineers to develop an automatic device that could instantaneously record any anomalous movement occurring in total darkness. This device helped both to expose cheating, as with the fraudulent medium Stanislawa Popielska, and also to confirm the presence of a genuine anomaly,…
