…question written by the client on a piece of paper but not shown to her. She answered by automatic writing (writing in a dissociated state), usually accurately. Besides telepathy she displayed clairvoyance, correctly naming objects held by people in another room. She also displayed precognition, on one occasion correctly predicting…
…cases of automatic writing or drawing. But in the most dramatic cases, mediums apparently have their entire body possessed or controlled by a so-called trance-personality (or persona), who speaks in a different voice from that of the medium and whose behaviour (in the best cases) resembles that of a formerly…
…Cross-correspondences Salter was particularly interested in the cross-correspondences, a body of material produced in the early twentieth century mainly by automatic writing (a type of mental mediumship) and purporting to be communicated by deceased individuals associated with the SPR. These appeared to be trying to give evidence of having survived…
…1921 and 1926 Bond published several pamphlets about his continued mediumistic contacts with deceased Glastonbury monks.6See Coates (2015) for details. For a full description of this episode, see The Glastonbury Scripts. Other Research Bond collaborated with the medium Geraldine Cummins on automatic writings that came to be known as the…
…(1889), 404.Mediumship was related to a pathological state that could eventually become hysterical, although Janet held mediumship to be a symptom rather than a cause.20Janet (1889), 406. In 1909, Janetpresented the case of a 37-year-old woman who developed automatic writing, receiving messages from her deceased father on topics such as…
…him was true, writes Guy Lyon Playfair, ‘he was without doubt the most spectacular physical effects medium in history’, adding: You name it, and he is said to have done it; automatic writing in over thirty languages living or dead, speaking in numerous foreign tongues, materializing objects and people, transporting…
…mediumship activities. Charles Livermore By 1861 Kate was reputed to convey messages from the dead by automatic writing and direct speech, as well as by coded rapping, producing messages from separate sources simultaneously. Witnesses claimed that spirit writing would sometimes materialize spontaneously in her presence (see below). One of the…
…deathbed visions.38Flammarion (1922). Mediumship Flammarion had many sittings with mediums during his early exposure to Spiritism. In private correspondence he wrote about physical phenomena he observed with a medium named Honorine Huet,39Monroe (2008), 2. who produced spirit communications by means of table tipping and automatic writing.40Flammarion (1862b).Later he wrote about…
Theodora Bosanquet (1880–1961) was an English writer and editor, notable for her role as amanuensis for Henry James. She was an active member of the Society for Psychical Research and practised automatic writing. Life and Career Theodora Bosanquet was born in Sandon on the Isle of Wight on 3 October…
