In 1985, a chess game was arranged between Russian grandmaster Viktor Korchnoi and a deceased grandmaster, the Hungarian Géza Maróczy (1870–1951) making his moves via a medium who specialized in automatic writing. Korchnoi won after 47 moves. The game, played over the course of almost eight years, was publicized on…
…those trance mediums whose trance is heavy. By contrast, mediums who experience a lighter trance are often aware of what occurs during the trance. In fact, they may even carry on other activities while the communications are in progress. For example, mediums who receive communications through automatic writing or talking…
…Research 6, 296-302. An automatic message conveying information previously unknown (1899–1900). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 9, 65-68. Tribute: A.N. Aksakoff (1903). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 11, 45-49. The slate-writing of Mrs Francis (1907–8). Journal of the Society for Psychical Research 13, 293-95. Correspondence: Experiments…
…the 1850s, Mapes was disturbed by reports of mediumistic phenomena witnessed by family members and friends, who he believed were ‘running to mental seed and imbecility’. He was particularly anxious when his daughter claimed herself to have become an automatic writing medium. Mapes asked his daughter to give a demonstration,…
…Smith attempted automatic writing, and produced scripts purporting to come from the deceased playwright Oscar Wilde5Travers 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’ over a period of time,…
…Reality. Along with numerous smaller treatises, Driesch’s philosophical writings provide a framework for his vitalist biological theory, as well as covering other aspects. Driesch placed increasing emphasis on the mind/brain problem in his later writings, arguing that consciousness can be explained neither as an epiphenomenon of brain chemistry nor as…
…not emphasized these aspects in Twenty Cases, but he intended to remedy this deficiency in forthcoming writings.10Stevenson (1973). The influence of Carington’s psychon theory is apparent in the writings of D Scott Rogo and other critics.11Matlock (1990), 253. Murphy’s comments were picked up by materialist sceptic David Lester, though without…
…and poetry (some under the pseudonym Ch. Epheyre), and published on topics such as history, pacifism, philosophy, psychical research, sociology, and world peace.6Carroy (2004), 217–49; Wolf (1993). Examples of some of this other work are his writings Soeur Marthe (as Epheyre, 1889), Les Guerres et la Paix (1899), Circé (1903;…
…geographical locations. In addition to this list there are numerous accounts scattered throughout the archive. Automatic writing/ drawing. Over one hundred references, with examples, from well-known cases such as Bligh Bond at Glastonbury, as well as obscure examples including writing in unknown languages (for instance the glossolalia of Joan Anderson…
