…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 approaches to mediumship research. Past-life…
…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…
…viewed here (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…
…a study of mediumship that included the experiences of their own circle, in which Dexter was a medium. Dexter relayed spirit communications in writing and later through trance speech. Edmonds noted that Dexter’s trance writing not only was different from his own handwriting, it changed from communicator to communicator. Moreover,…
…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…
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…
…seemingly displayed automatic writing while still at school, when she wrote an essay on ‘Nature’ automatically overnight, after she had been very worried about homework assigned the previous day. She says she went with her seafaring father on a long cruise, during which time her ‘Shadow People’ were not in…
…ring. The weighted 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…
