…College, Cambridge; an interest in psychical phenomena led her to join the SPR in 1889, and she contributed articles to its publications on her experiments in telepathy, crystal-gazing and automatic writing. Her deceased husband Arthur Verrall, a classics lecturer at Trinity College, appeared to communicate through her later automatic writings,…
…psi phenomena.20Duplessis (2002). The poet James Merrill partly channelled through a Ouija board his Pulitzer and National Book Awards winner The Changing Light at Sandover, proving that not only metaphysical pap comes from automatic writing.21See also Hastings (1991). But can psi eliminate the need for a physical expression of the…
…automatic scripts, even though they haven’t yet learned the alphabet. For example, FWH Myers mentions two cases.27Myers (1903), vol. 2, 484-86. The first concerns a girl of five who wrote a few words, ostensibly in a lady’s (not a child’s) handwriting. But the case is poorly described, and many details…
…supernatural phenomena, and in 1892 became more directly in mediumship, when he observed one of his office employees doing automatic writing, apparently in touch with discarnate spirits. One of this told Stead that he too had the ability to do automatic writing; however, Stead was sceptical and his initial attempts…
…of automatic writings. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 13, 98-102. Johnson, A. (1907b). On the automatic writing of Mrs Holland. Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 21, 166-391. Mann, S. (2013). Aelfrida Tillyard: Hints of a Perfect Splendour. Cambridge, UK: Wayment. Piddington, J.G. (1908). A series of…
…son-in-law. When she got there, she had stood at the foot of his bed and told him that everything would be all right in the end. Morse and his writing assistant Paul Perry interviewed Gearhardt family members and concluded that their stories were consistent with each other, showing no discrepancies….
…he started to experience involuntary episodes of automatic writing, producing text in a calligraphy quite different from his own. The writer purported to be one ‘Robert Webbe’. In addition, signatures and dates in different handwriting began to appear on the panels and ceiling of his bedroom, at times when the…
…you should fully describe psi phenomena as they appear in their natural setting and in the laboratory; however, be sure to emphasise their scientific and investigative aspects wherever possible. Your writing should be impersonal. If you contribute to the area about which you are writing, you will need to include…
…fitted with wheels and a pencil to produce spirit writing –which first saw use among Parisian séance circles in 1853.3Hodge (2025). Ouija boards, known generically as talking boards, were the direct descendants of these spiritual innovations. In 1886, in the wake of a resurgence in popular interest in automatic writing…
