…complete a psychological questionnaire, and performed a Rorschacht test on Sumitra herself; he also had a handwriting analysis performed on three letters, two written by Shiva and another said to have been written by Sumitra following the transformation.5Dayal (1988), 60-61. See Annexure on page 77 for the handwriting analysis. Two…
…to any human being in the room’.75Crookes (1874 e), 90–91. In an instance with Kate Fox, the medium was writing a message while at the same time ‘a message to another person on another subject was being given alphabetically by means of “raps”, and the whole time she was conversing…
…of mood or feeling, a more precise and sudden disruption of the mental flow, an impulse to do something (for instance ‘I should telephone so and so’), or perhaps even as automatic or semi-automatic bodily behavior (as in automatic writing and speech). As far as the topic of apparitions is…
…a medium and automatist, Travers Smith attempted automatic writing, and produced scripts purporting to come from the deceased playwright Oscar Wilde6Travers Smith (1923).. In her analysis she considered the possibility of cryptomnesia, the unconscious memory of details read in books and elsewhere, but found convincing the ‘the reconstruction of personality’…
…vol. 1, 321-22. The projected force was thought to be stronger when the medium was less conscious. This was because trance could inhibit the higher brain centers, allowing for the lower centers to be involved with the force automatically. Morselli believed that consciousness interfered with automatic processes, taking psychic force…
…between body position and out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, comparing Brazilian Spiritist mediumship and dissociative identity disorder, testing a professional medium, and other anomalous phenomena.13Cardeña (n.d.). Research planned by Cardeña as of this writing includes using functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare brain activity of a subject performing automatic writing and…
…psychical research: Personismus (‘personism’, pertaining to phenomena appearing as if caused by discarnate spirits involving no supernormal information or effect, merely stemming from a medium’s or percipient’s intra-personal unconscious dramatization, as, for example, in most instances of automatic writing); Animismus (‘animism’, describing phenomena appearing as if caused by discarnate spirits,…
…joined the SPR in 1890 and later served as council member, secretary, treasurer and president. He helped create a research endowment fund and assisted in reorganising the American Society for Psychical Research. His major writings focused especially on Rosalie Thompson’s mental mediumship, trance controls and automatic writing. Life and Career…
…experimented with hypnosis, crystal-gazing, telepathy and automatic writing in his student years and later served as president of the Society for Psychical Research. His writings explored telepathy, mediumship and reports of supernormal phenomena in classical antiquity, bringing historical scholarship into dialogue with psychical research. He is perhaps best remembered for…
