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Automatic Writing
Scripts produced without the control of the
conscious self, usually writings executed by a
medium while in a
trance or
altered state of consciousness.
Automatic writing is the most common form of mediumship, the source of
innumerable cases of self-delusion, and at the same time the source of
some of the most interesting and intriguing cases of mediumship.
Occultists
believe automatic writing is the product of communication with a spiritual being;
psychical researchers believe it emanates from the writer's own subconscious, or perhaps
through ESP.
Cases are on record where lost
articles have been recovered by means of automatic writing. Foreign
languages that have been forgotten, or with which the subject has small
acquaintance, are spoken or written fluently. Automatic writing was supposedly
invaluable in the psychic excavations carried out at
Glastonbury in the early twentieth century (see
Glastonbury
Scripts and
Psychic Archaeology).
The writer is usually unaware of what
is being written. Typically the process is much faster than ordinary handwriting and the
script is larger and more expansive. Automatic writers have also produced mirror script
and backwards writing, starting from the bottom right of the page and finishing at the top
left. At the height of
spiritualism automatic writing was common in
seances, where
it was adopted as a superior method of communicating with the dead than
rappings or using a
planchette.
Automatic writing has also been used by psychologists and psychiatrists in the
investigation and treatment of mental illness.
See
Casting Black Magic Spells,
Commanding Spirits,
The Tarot Store and
Divination & Scrying Tools and
Supplies.
Sources: (1)
Dictionary of the
Occult, Caxton
Publishing;
(2) Spence, Lewis,
An Encyclopedia of
Occultism, Carol Publishing Group; (3)
The Encyclopaedia
Britannica Eleventh Edition Handy Volume Edition, Oxford University Press.
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