…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…
…with an ecologically valid design) of psychography (automatic writing).Three Brazilian mediums were continually filmed during readings. Twenty one sitters rated 26 automatically written letters. A large proportion (92.3%) of letters was considered as definitely or probably from a deceased relative. It was concluded that the promising results validated complementary investigative…
…(silent with German titles and Spanish subtitles). Automatic Writing When Wassilko asked Eleonore to try automatic writing, ostensible communications from ‘Dracu’ were received, sometimes promising to produce phenomena on a particular day (which sometimes would occur as promised, and sometimes would not). Psychoanalysis Wassilko was convinced that the psychokinetic phenomena…
This article describes séance phenomena – levitations, psychokinetic movements, communications via automatic writing and healing – experienced by a group of teenage boys during weekly sittings between 1929 and 1933. It is based on The Spirit of Dr. Bindelof by Rosemarie Pilkington, which contains chapters written by two of the…
…Gertrude Johnson, ‘Nancy Sinclair’, produced strong scores in telepathy, clairvoyance, automatic writing and crystal scrying. Tyrrell divided apparitional experiences into experimental, crisis, post-mortem and haunting cases. His book Apparitions became one of the classic attempts to classify and interpret apparition reports. Early Career George Nugent Merle Tyrrell was educated at…
…side of a chemical balance-scale, also out of her reach, was seen to rise. Automatic writing was produced in nine different languages including Greek and Chinese (although veridical personal messages were rare). Of particular note was an ectoplasmic (or teleplasmic) substance said to exude from Mina’s body in conditions of…
…Soal visited the medium Hester Dowden, who helped clients develop ‘automatic’ writing. Holding her hand over his, both poised over a Ouija board, messages were recorded ostensibly from Oscar Wilde. The two went on to produce scripts from ‘Oscar Wilde’ independently. Dowden regarded hers as truly from the deceased Wilde….
…classified cases as those in which languages were expressed via speaking or auditory perceptions, automatic writing, direct voice and direct writing. Another study focused on non-recurrent physical manifestations for which there was no apparent explanation, such as pictures that fell, clocks that stopped, bells that rang, and objects that moved…
…a scholarship at the Chicago Theological Seminary. Gardner decided to become a writer and worked briefly as a reporter in Tulsa. He then returned to the University of Chicago to work in its press relations office, mostly writing science research press releases. He also edited Comment, the university’s literary magazine,…
