…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…
…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…
…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 would quite often…
…as the writing was produced, and he could hear the writing as well. Afterwards, the slate was dragged from his hand and placed on his head, but the writing continued.1Reported in Inglis (1977), 278. The Seybert Commission report is itself suspicious, for reasons similar to those in the case of…
…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 a half years, to visit scholars and scientists in Holland, France and Germany before returning to Sweden in 1714. There…
…(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. (1988b). Katie: Nostradamus automatic writing, Possible direct writing and psychic nexus of an illiterate (Part…
