Slate with Writing Unguided by a Human Hand
People living in the life after death communicate to people living on this side of life through writing. The video below explains how they communicate through writing using five methods:
- Automatic writing
- Direct Writing
- Precipitated writing
- Slate writing
- Independent typewriter writing
The afterlife communication through writing demonstrates the reality of life after death. The people who are writing are alive and well, living on in the afterlife.
A transcript of the presentation follows the video controls.
Afterlife Communication through Automatic Writing
It differs from inspired writing that is often called automatic writing. In inspired writing, the writer is in control of the process and writes what the person in spirit inspires. A prominent example is Chico Chavier. There are two varieties: In the first, the medium enters a mild trance state, steps aside mentally, and allows the messages to flow freely onto paper, not knowing what is being written and being more or less alert.
The second state is with trance in which the entities take over the medium’s nervous system and do the writing. The feeling of having the hand moved by those in spirit is described as the feeling of holding in the hand a handkerchief over a fluttering bird.
The most studied automatic writing medium was Leonora Piper, who lived in New England until her transition in 1950. While in trance, her control, Phinuit, spoke using her vocal mechanism. Piper would rest her head on a pillow on a table with her face toward the left. Writing material was arranged on the right side, usually a hundred blank sheets of paper and four or five soft-lead pencils. After she went into trance, someone would place a sheet of paper in front of her and a pencil in her hand. Piper’s hand would write page after page while she was in trance, with someone removing each sheet after it was filled and replacing it with a fresh one.
Two personalities were able to control Piper and conduct conversations with individual sitters or groups of sitters while she was in trance. Her control personality in spirit, Phinuit, used Piper’s voice in the normal way, holding conversations with the sitters. At the same time, other individuals in spirit were using Piper’s writing hand to write continuously about unrelated subjects, oblivious to the conversations Phinuit was having through Piper.
Chico Xavier
Leanora Piper
Afterlife Communication through Direct Writing
Mrs. Thomas Everitt
Sir William Crookes
Robert Dale Owen
Afterlife Communication through Precipitated Writing
In 1889, Dr. Paul Gibier, founder of the Pasteur Institute in New York, set out to study reports that hypnotized subjects were able to project characters and lines of writing on blank sheets of paper. He and twenty witnesses observed a séance in which he witnessed two hypnotized subjects sitting apart from carefully observed blank sheets of paper when writing precipitated in full light. The observation was signed by all twenty witnesses. The precipitated writing was a full page of written verses signed “Corneille.”
The Scole Experimental Group was a group of sitters in Scole, Norfolk, England, who engaged in physical Mediumship from 1994 to 1998. The group produced a wide range of phenomena and was investigated for two years by three senior members of the Society for Psychical Research.
Dr. Walter Schnitger, a consultant engineer, and his wife Karin had heard that undeveloped film would have words and images precipitated on it during the Scole Group’s seances. Dr. Schnitger arranged to test whether such a phenomenon was possible. The Schnitgers brought their own Polaroid 35 millimeter film in a box. Both the Schnitgers checked the room before the rest of the group entered the room. Dr. Schnitger marked the film and placed the unexposed film in a box in the center of a table on a sheet of plain white paper and padlocked the box. Dr. Schnitger drew a line around the perimeter of the box on the underlying paper showing the exact position of the box and the location of the padlock which hung down onto the paper. Each group member wore a luminous wristband to ensure all knew the positions of other group members. No one left their seat. Dr. Schnitger held the box in his hands through the entire session.
Scole Experimental Group
Dr. Paul Gabier
Afterlife Communication through Slate Writing
At times, slate writing was done by having two of these slates bound together with a string or other binding. There was sufficient space between the slates because they had wood frames so that a small crumb of chalk could be inserted. At other times, the slate was placed flat on a table with the crumb of chalk under it or held against the underside of the table with a piece of chalk against the table. Guests observing would often bring their own slates and observe closely as the slates were bound together with no writing on them. The activity could occur in light or darkness. Often scratching could be heard coming from the slates. When opened, there were messages to the sitters.
Slate Writing Afterlife Communication with Fred Evans
Hollub inspected the slate and was satisfied that there was no writing or other marking on it. From that moment the slate never left Hollub’s hands. A small crumb of slate pencil was placed on the table. The two sitters placed the slate over it and rested their hands on it. The medium, sitting on the opposite side of the table, touched the outer edge of the slate frame for a few moments and then removed his hands entirely. In about 5 minutes a loud rap signaled that the writing was finished. They raised the slate and found the underside covered in writing. The languages on the slate were German, Italian, French, Greek, Spanish, Norwegian, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Egyptian, and Old Asiatic. John Gray had given Hollub what he asked for. An image of the slate follows.
Fred Evans
Fred Evans’ Slate Produced for David Hollub
Slate Writing Afterlife Communication with P.L.O.A. Keeler
The slips, slates, and Mr. Keeler’s hands were never out of sight of the three officers’ eyes. At the close of the 1 ¼ hours sitting, the slates were turned over. On the two slates were one message from a brother of Mr. Richardson, four messages for Mrs. Humphrey and her immediate family, two messages for Dr. Warren, and one for an unidentified personality. One was written in yellow, but the others were from the common slate pencil crumb that was placed between the slates at the beginning of the seance.
When the folded papers with participants’ names on them were opened, words written in green appeared on the paper bearing Dr. Warren’s signature. The message read: “It is difficult to get anything on slates not magnetized.”
The investigators concluded, “The messages were not written in advance—a substitution of slates was impossible—Mr. Keeler could not have written them during the sitting, for he could not have gained access to the inside surfaces where they were found without immediate detection.”
Another group of six board members conducted an investigation the following day taking similar precautions and received 11 messages in Greek, German, French, Swedish, and Japanese or Chinese. Linguists consulted afterward said the Greek, French, and Swedish messages were grammatically correct. The report was signed by all six members of the board who took part in the investigation.
P.L.O.A. Keeler
Dr William Barrett
Henry Slade
While closely watching both of Slade’s hands which did not move perceptibly, I was much astonished to hear scratching going on apparently on the under side of the table, and when the slate was lifted up I found the side facing the table covered with writing. A similar result was obtained on other days.
Afterlife Communication through Independent Typewriter Writing
All joined hands, including Lizzie Bangs who was behind the typwriter. As the machine began typing on its own, Professor Ames who was facing the typewriter keys bent his head down over the machine till his face almost touched the keys and the keys continued to type. Ames reported that there was no room for a hand, spirit or human, to intervene between his face and the keys. When the first message was finished, the sheet was taken out by those in spirit, put into a box beneath the machine, and a fresh sheet of paper was adjusted into the machine. Five messages were thus written and put into the box. When the seance was finished, the sitters found in the box a message addressed to each sitter. Professor Ames stated that the typing was more rapid than could be done by any of his secretaries.
Lizzie Bangs
Typewriter of the Period
The circle consisted of six men and one lady besides the medium. We were seated closely around a small table with hands joined. A typewriter was place on the small table in the center. Before the lights were put out the door was locked. The medium sat in the circle just like the rest of us but facing the back not the front of the typewriter.
I feel confident in saying the medium does not touch the typewriter at all. It is used independent of or without contact from the medium’s hands or fingers. There is no holding or hesitating in the action of the machine. On the contrary you hear that it is operated with an astonishing degree of swiftness and dexterity. When one letter or message is finished, the sheet is removed, folded up, addressed on the machine, and the next one is printed, until each one of the sitters has one.
The one addressed to the writer of this article from his son contains 186 words. In mechanical execution this independent typewriter, of which I examined several specimens at the close of the seance, is done in a neat, clear businesslike manner, and although punctillius critics could point out some errors in punctuation, the performance is as good as the letters one receives from first class business houses.
