…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…
…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…
…the Martian alphabet, and semi-automatic handwritings. Example of the ‘Martian’ text received automatically by Hélène Smith Above: Example of the ‘Martian’ text received automatically by Hélène Smith It took some time for Flournoy to uncover its structure and provide a coherent translation into French. He was helped by Ferdinand de…
…the situation it described. In professional readings, Kahl was often able to answer a 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…
…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…
…Janet held mediumship to be a symptom rather than a cause.20Janet (1889), 406. In 1909, Janet presented 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…
…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 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 death by creating deliberate links between the productions of different…
…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…
