…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, and was part of the Chicago magicians’ community. During World War II he served in the Navy for…
…died when she was eleven; earlier she was often separated from one or both parents, and lived for eight years with an older cousin in a neighbouring district. Sumitra never attended school but was taught rudimentary reading and writing by the cousin, who had attended school only for a year…
…observed. In an 1870 diary entry he seemed to have been convinced that he had been in contact with the departed. But later writings contradicted this. Writing to a lady on May 10th, 1871, Crookes exhibited no belief in discarnate agency, stating that he preferred to investigate the properties of…
…make his findings about himself explicit in writing.28De Mille (1979), 70. Here de Mille is promoting a shift towards a more reflexive anthropological method, one that does not attempt to remove the ethnographic observer from his/her account. This particularly important in anomalous experiences described in ethnographic writing, and may reveal…
This article describes séance phenomena – levitation, psychokinetic movements, communication via automatic writing and healing – experienced by a group of American teenage boys during weekly sittings between 1929 and 1933. Details are drawn from The Spirit of Dr. Bindelof by Rosemarie Pilkington, which contains chapters written by two of…
…Indridi – laughter, footsteps, buzzing sounds, the clatter of hoof beats, the rustling noise of clothes as if someone was moving. Direct writing. Writing appeared on paper without human touch. Disembodied voices that spoke and sang (see below). Responsive xenoglossy. There were conversations between sitters and the disembodied voices in…
…automatic writings) produced between 1904 and 1936 by ladies linked to the SPR31See in particular Hamilton (2017). over that period and even later. Papers on the cross-correspondence scripts filled a great many pages of the SPR Proceedings. They supposedly originated from several distinguished but deceased early members of the Society…
…‘product of the subconscious imagination of the medium, working with memories of latent worries’ (although he conceded it was difficult to prove this).39Flournoy (1899), 144. One case that he drew attention to concerned a Professor Michel Til, who practiced automatic writing. In in 1897, Til found himself writing a statement…
…interest in what happened after death and the possibility of communicating with the dead, he wrote. As well as the male family members fallen in war, his children’s nanny Lily Loder-Symonds and a former sister-in-law also died around the same time. He had witnessed Loder-Symonds use automatic writing to predict…
