"I Awoke": Conditions of Life on the other Side. Given Through Automatic Writing
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- Title
- "I Awoke": Conditions of Life on the other Side. Given Through Automatic Writing
- Author
- Enochian
- Publication year listed
- 1895
- Format
- Public domain eBook
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"I Awoke": Conditions of Life on the other Side. Given Through Automatic Writing
Author: David Stott
Year: 1895
In the West, an early example of automatic writing is the 16th-century Enochian language, allegedly dictated to John Dee and Edward Kelley by Enochian angels and integral to the practice of Enochian magic. The language is said to be extremely detailed and complex with its own grammar and rules. Dee also claimed that the Enochian instruction included information regarding the elixir of life in the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey. Parapsychologist William Fletcher Barrett wrote that "automatic messages may take place either by the writer passively holding a pencil on a sheet of paper, or by the planchette, or by a 'ouija board'." In spiritualism, spirits are claimed to take control of the hand of a medium to write messages, letters, and even entire books. Automatic writing can happen in a trance or waking state. Some psychical researchers such as Thomson Jay Hudson have claimed no spirits are involved in automatic writing and the subconscious mind is the explanation. A prominent alleged example of automatic writing is the Brattleboro hoax. When Charles Dickens died in 1870, he left The Mystery of Edwin Drood unfinished. According to the itinerant printer T. P. James, this angered Dickens'