…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…
…Boston, known at the time by the pseudonym Mrs Chenoweth. Soule had not known Funk and although she was aware that he had written The Widow’s Mite, had not read it.19Hyslop (1919), 282-83. The first messages from Funk came in automatic writing through Soule on 2 October 1912, six months…
…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,…
…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…
