…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 channeled 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…
…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 were unsuccessful. Later…
…and communications took the form of visual and auditory messages, automatic writing, and also table tipping. Her original spirit control claimed to be Victor Hugo, but after about six months he was replaced, following a struggle for supremacy, by a control calling himself Leopold. Flournoy began sitting with Smith in…
…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…
…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 room…
…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….
…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…
…out. European psi research has depended heavily on small clusters around institutes, societies and a few durable laboratories rather than large permanent departments. Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Sweden have been especially important modern nodes, with Austria and France making significant contributions in the past. European psi research is increasingly…
