…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,…
…only metaphysical pap comes from automatic writing.21See also Hastings (1991). But can psi eliminate the need for a physical expression of the artwork altogether? This is what František Kupka and Wassily Kandinsky thought earlier in the twentieth century, as does now the performance artist Marina Abramović.22Cardeña, Iribas, & Reijman (2012)….
…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…
…level of achievement.4Braude (1995); Putnam (1989, 1997); Ross (1997). In addition to changes in handedness and handwriting, an alter’s cognitive style may encompass, for example, artistic and literary ability, mechanical aptitude, and the skills of drawing, sculpting, and writing poetry. But because alters appear suddenly and sometimes evolve quickly, their…
…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…
…Moorjani had completed no more than her first cycle of only three chemotherapy drugs, instead of the seven that had been originally planned. Biopsies of lymph nodes in her neck and three ultrasound exams revealed no evidence of cancer. Nevertheless, oncologists insisted Moorjani should undergo a second cycle of chemotherapy….
…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…
…wherever possible. Your writing should be impersonal. If you contribute to the area about which you are writing, you will need to include your own research findings and ideas, but cite yourself in third person and ensure that all views on the topic are represented fairly. Sceptical views should always…
