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Automatic writing

Automatic writing, also called psychography, is a claimed psychic ability allowing a person to produce written words without consciously writing. Practitioners engage in automatic writing by holding a writing instrument and allowing alleged spirits to manipulate the practitioner's hand. The instrument may be a standard writing instrument, or it may be…

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related to Further reading · 69
Automatic writing → American Journal, An, Anderson, Anomalistic, Carpenter, Carroll, Clinical Psychiatry, Cognition, Consciousness, Deeley, Doesn't Mean It's Supernatural, Downey, English, Erlbaum Associates, February, Gabay, German, Great Britain, Guilmette, Halligan
related to Since 1975 · 34
Automatic writing → Aleister Crowley, Alleged, Also, Angela Dellafiora, Catholic, Charlie Jordan, CIA, Collected Works, Conspiracy, Crowley, Daniel, David Icke, DEA, Enochian Aethyrs, Godhead, Helen Schucman, In, Jane Roberts, Jesus, Joe Nickell
see also · 34
Automatic writing → Alien, Allan KardecSpiritism, American, American New Thought, Bicameral, Brazil, British, Dowsing, Eduard, Form, HartmannSpiritualist, Hypothesis, Hypothetical, Manipulation, Manning, Narrative, Neuropsychiatric, Neuropsychological, New Bible, Oahspe
related to Pop culture and media · 16
Automatic writing → Automatic, Bonnie Page, Crystal Skull, Enterprise, Harold, In, Indiana Jones, Kingdom, Meddling Medium, Ox, Oxley, Perry Mason, Sentinel, The Case, The Changeling, The Sixth Sense
related to Scientific studies · 15
Automatic writing → British Medical Journal, Catherine Müller, Flournoy, French, He, Hélène Smith, In, Mars, Martian, Morton Prince, Ms, Physician Charles Arthur Mercier, Psychology, Smith's, Théodore Flournoy
related to Hoaxes · 13
Automatic writing → According, Borley Rectory, Brattleboro, Christmas Eve, Dickens, Edwin Drood, Harry Price, James, James's, Paranormal, The Mystery, This, When Charles Dickens
related to Practitioners · 13
Automatic writing → Automatic, Besides, Catalan, De, Fernando Pessoa, Georgie Hyde-Lees, He, Hyppolyte Taine, Josefa Tolrà, Mirra Alfassa, Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, William Butler Yeats
related to history · 12
Automatic writing → China, Chinese, In, Japanese Zen, Joseph Karo, Kiddush, Song, Spanish Kabbalists, Spirit, Taoist, The, Zohar
related to Scientific analysis and skepticism · 11
Automatic writing → According, French, He, Helene Smith, In, It, Joe Nickell, Neurologist Terence Hines, Scientists, Swiss, Theodore Flournoy
related to Gallery · 6
Automatic writing → Automatic, Francis Ward Monck, Hélène SmithAutomatic, Mina CrandonAutomatic, Mrs Thomas EverittExample, William MarriottAutomatic

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Automatic writingis aexample of a milder form of dissociative state0.90text
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Thomson Jay Hudson have claimed that no spirits are involved in automatic writinginstance ofSome psychical researchers0.80text
the subconscious mind is the explanation.HoaxesParanormal investigator Harry Price exposed the supposed automatic writing in the Borley Rectory as the wall-scrawling of a housewife attempting to hide an extramarital affair.A prominent alleged example of automatic writing is the Brattleboro hoaxinstance ofSome psychical researchers0.80text
the subconscious mind is the explanationinstance ofSome psychical researchers0.80text
Automatic writingrelated to ApproachParapsychologist William Fletcher Barrett0.60section
Automatic writingrelated to ApproachIn Spiritualism0.60section
Automatic writingrelated to ApproachAutomatic0.60section
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Automatic writingrelated to ApproachThomson Jay Hudson0.60section
Automatic writingrelated to External linksChisholm0.60section

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