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Automatic Writing: Occult Practice or Self-Realization?

At the turn of the 20th century, the Spiritualist Movement took hold of Western culture in a big way. Spiritualism was a form of religious practice that combined Eastern Transcendentalism with occult mystical practice and ideas, and was promoted in the U.S. and Europe by an eccentric woman who called herself Madame Blavatsky. Psychology was an infant science, and many traditional scholars from the ‘hard’ sciences got caught up in trying to prove or disprove Spiritualist practices, which included seances, parlor games centered around ESP, and a practice called “automatic writing.” Automatic writing was a form of light trance in which the medium, usually a woman, would lightly hold a pen or pencil over a pad of paper and wait for it to move on its own accord. The message spelled out this way was taken to be a message from “the spirit world.” Some women wrote entire novels under pen names of entities “channeled” during automatic writing sessions. Today, the practice is once again becoming popular, but the focus is less on contacting the dead and more on contactingone’s own higher Self. Many of the 19th century women who channeled automatic writings were actually highly intelligent persons who, because they lived as women in Victorian times, were thought incapable of such written wisdom, even though they were fully capable of it. Popular New Age writers Amy Zerner and Monet Farber have an automatic writing kit now available. You can read a review about it at www.amazon.com.

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