…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…
…an ‘order during sleep’. In Britain a Romano-Celtic temple dating from the fourth century CE was discovered at Dwarf’s Hill in Lydney Park estate, Gloucestershire, with the help of Lord of the Rings author JRR Tolkien.11Tolkien (2014). The temple was dedicated to the healing deity called Nodens, who is equivalent…
…luminous expression. The phantoms would often react accurately to the thoughts of the participants before these were articulated. Automatic writing Successful séances involving automatic writing were held from the beginning of Kluski’s mediumship and continued after he had ceased experimenting with its physical aspect. This material was never made public…
…‘Phinuit’ and Piper.15Hodgson (1892), 29. (See below for further discussion.) Automatic Writing In the sittings described in Hodgson’s second (1897) report, the entranced Piper showed a preference for writing over speaking as a means to communicate. To facilitate this, before going into the trance state she rested her head on…
…own period, can keep out of his writings the words in which he does his ordinary thinking.15Litvag (1972), 58. Eventually, Pearl Curran was able to abandon the Ouija board and continue to transmit Patience’s words through a kind of automatic speech. At first, she uttered Patience’s communications letter by letter,…
…rappings and the trance voice. After a year or so, Moses developed a facility for automatic writing, and began communicating directly with the spirits in the privacy of his home. I never could command the writing. It came unsought usually; and when I did seek it, as often as not…
…conventional career in editing and literary work with sustained psychical interests. Archive records show regular practice of automatic writing and sittings with mediums including Hester Dowden and Gladys Leonard. She wrote of people who seemed genuinely in touch with groups of discarnate personalities through automatic writing or clairaudient dictation. Life…
…the Society for Psychical Research 12, 332. A series of automatic writings (1907). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 13, 98-102. The Arensburg poltergeist (1907). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 13, 158-60. The automatic-writing of Mrs Holland (1908). Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 21, 166-391….
…Automatic Writing or Psychography? Almost anybody can produce automatic writing, simply by resting a pen or pencil on a blank sheet of paper and waiting until it begins to move on its own, as it very occasionally does, often writing nothing more than abstract squiggles but sometimes producing words and…
