…an untranslateable [sic] writing of three pages in hieroglyphics which took 32 minutes.13Dingwall (1930), 304. Altogether the Academy reported 392 sittings. Of these, 189 were for spoken mediumship (apparently all positive), 93 for automatic writing (of which 8 were negative), and 110 for physical phenomena (47 of which were negative)….
…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…
…faces draped around her head, images that demonstrably matched photographs in published magazines. When Beraud was later tested by SPR investigators the findings were inconclusive. 22Report on a series of sittings with Eva C. (1922), 209-343. Mental Mediums ‘Mental’ mediums give information, verbally or through ‘automatic’ writing, about their sitters’…
The Irish poet WB Yeats (1865–1939) held a lifelong interest in mysticism, Theosophy and Spiritualism, and pursued activities in mediumship and psychical research. For Yeats, séances, automatic writing, Swedenborgian ideas and organised psychical research were not side interests, but living sources of symbolism, speculation and poetic method across much of…
Dame Edith Sophy Lyttelton (née Balfour) (1865–1948) was a British playwright and social activist who was involved with the Society for Psychical Research. Following her husband’s death 1913, she took up automatic writing and proved to have a talent for precognition. Her career shows how paranormal enquiry may intersect with…
…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…
…Huet,39Monroe (2008), 2. who produced spirit communications by means of table-tipping and automatic writing.40Flammarion (1862b). Later he wrote about her as follows: Mediumship was, in a way, her trade, and she had more than once been flagrantly detected in some most remarkable trickery. Accordingly, it may be imagined that she…
…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. (1988b). Katie: Nostradamus automatic writing, Possible direct writing and psychic nexus of an illiterate (Part 2). Pursuit 21/3,…
…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 attempts, he…
