…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…
…of 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,…
…obliged her to return to 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…
…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 her clothing and hygiene, and who believed she possessed healing power. Janet saw…
…with agency and control were seen during automatic writing, with increased activity in regions related to sensory integration and motor control. Comparisons between the spontaneous automatic writer and the highly hypnotizables highlighted distinct neural and subjective experiences of automatic writing, with notable differences in brain activity and self-reported control. The…
…the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) since 1902. Through that organization he befriended John Allen Bartlett, an automatic writing medium, and asked Bartlett to assist him by using automatic writing to get clues as to where to dig. At the time, neither Bond nor Bartlett believed that such writing came…
…written about 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…
…of Psychic Science, between 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…
…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 living…
