…Funk, had accompanied him to one sitting with the Brooklyn medium and agreed that she was genuine. On 2 October 1912, a communicator purporting to be Funk (who had died on 4 April) began addressing Hyslop through the automatic writing of ‘Mrs. Chenoweth’ (later identified as Minnie Meserve Soule). ‘Funk’ provided…
…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…
…(1912/1963). New Hyde Park, New 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…
…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…
…in 1930, 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…
…According to Spiritism to their children and holding Spiritist meetings at their home. Zibia practised 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…
…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….
…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 a result…
