…Glastonbury scripts, automatic writings by Margaret Verrall, and the Versailles ‘time-slip’. Lambert argued that many cases of the haunting and poltergeist types are actually caused by motions associated with underground streams.34Lambert (1956). Robert Morris (1942–2004) Robert Morris was born in Canonsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He gained a PhD at Duke University…
…British Architects, Bond had been a member of the Society for Psychical Research 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…
…(1985). K: A presumed case of telekinesis. International Journal of Psychosomatics 32/1, 3-21. Schwarz, B.E. (1987). Apparent materialization of copper foil, case report: Katie. Pursuit 20/4, 154-58. Schwarz, B.E. (1988a). Katie: Nostradamus automatic writing, Possible direct writing and psychic nexus of an illiterate (Part 1). Pursuit 21/2, 50-61. Schwarz, B.E….
…rapping sounds spontaneous movements of objects, sometimes between rooms apports (small objects appearing and disappearing with no visible cause) bite marks, weals and abrasions on Eleonore’s skin automatic writing Raps The raps were described as infrequent, occurring usually on the table, bed, or other furniture in Eleanore’s immediate vicinity. Price…
…he sailed to London. There he associated himself with scientists (it seems he did not meet Newton), the Royal Society, and the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, where he became interested in the problem of determining latitude. He was also occupied in writing Latin poetry. He left London after two and…
Dame Edith Sophy Lyttelton (née Balfour) (1865–1948) was a British playwright and social activist who became involved with psychical research and practised automatic writing. Life and Career Edith Lyttelton was born in Saint Petersburg, the daughter of a British merchant, and was educated privately. As a young woman in London…
…essence alien to psychoanalysis.26Jones (1957), 395-96. Sandor Ferenczi (1873–1933) Sandor Ferenczi was a Hungarian psychoanalyst and one of Freud’s closest colleagues. Incidents early in his career convinced him of the reality of psychic phenomena. His first published article concerned his own experiments with automatic writing, in which, after some unsuccessful…
…of the writing produced during trance writing. Neither of these relationships is predicted by current brain-based models of consciousness. In a 2022 paper,12 Gomide (2022). Moreira-Almeida and co-authors describe a semi-naturalistc study (combining a degree of control with an ecologically valid design) of psychography (automatic writing).Three Brazilian mediums were continually…
…alleged exposure by the Seybert Commission, and (3) the phenomenon of slate-writing. Let us consider these in reverse order. Slate-writing was a method sometimes adopted during séances at this time, in which a piece of previously blank slate would be found to contain messages from ‘spirit communicators’. This, admittedly, is…
