Communication through Automatic Writing Is Evidence You Will Never Die

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Mediums receive messages from people living in the next life through automatic writing and planchette writing. They are called “automatists” and their writing is “automatization” or “psychography.” In the purest form of automatic writing, the medium’s arm and hand muscles are controlled by the person in spirit. The penmanship often matches that of the person in spirit while on earth. Talented automatists like Leonora Piper are able to write for two entities, one through each hand, while conversing about topics unrelated to the writing of either hand.

Automatic writing differs from “inspirational writing,” in which the individual controls the writing and scribbles the words that come to mind. Whereas inspirational writing is often referred to as “automatic writing,” the phenomenon is different.

In planchette writing, the medium or a small number of sitters place their fingertips on a flat piece of wood shaped like a heart elongated toward the point, called a “planchette.” The device was first used for planchette writing and later used with the Ouija board. The planchette is perched on short dowels of wood like stilts that enable it to glide easily when nudged. A pencil inserted vertically in the pointed end makes contact with the paper to facilitate writing. The medium or sitters allow the planchette to move where it will to create the planchette writing.

Cross Correspondence

One form of communication coming through automatists that demonstrates the survival of consciousness is called “cross correspondence.” A series of messages is given by people in the life after this life to two or more mediums in different parts of the world. The messages can be the same, or in pieces so that they convey a clear message only when combined. The involvement of several mediums precludes the possibility that a single medium is receiving psychic information rather than messages from people alive in spirit. A living person is required to carefully plan and convey a coherent message to a number of mediums.

1.     The Mary Catherine Lyttelton Case

Mary Catherine Lyttelton was in a loving relationship with Arthur James Balfour but fell ill and died on March 21, 1875, before Balfour could propose marriage to her. Over the next thirty years, thousands of messages came from numerous mediums. Although meaningless in themselves, when considered as a whole they indicated that Lyttelton was trying to communicate with Balfour.[i] Because none of the mediums knew about the couple’s relationship, inspiration by Lyttleton in spirit seemed credible. Each message contained repeated symbolic references to the pair.

Lyttelton was figured, for instance, as a Palm Maiden (she passed on Palm Sunday), as Dante’s Beatrice (whose “emerald eyes” stood for the ring in which Lyttelton was buried), and as the ancient queen Berenice (who dedicated her hair to a temple; Balfour had preserved a lock of Lyttelton’s hair). Symbols for Arthur Balfour included a loyal knight, the Idylls’ King Arthur, and verses from Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington by Alfred Tennyson, who had been Balfour’s godfather and namesake.[ii]

The communication amounted to what Balfour dubbed “a love story transcending life and death.”[iii] The fact that the correspondence came through several mediums demonstrates that Lyttleton was alive and capable of distributing the messages among mediums.

2.     The Myers Cross Correspondence Case

The Myers Cross Correspondence is the best-known example of such communication. Frederick W. H. Myers, a Cambridge classics scholar and writer in the nineteenth century, was one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research. He originated the concept of cross correspondence, calling it “concordant automatism” because it comes through automatic writers.

Two years after Myers’s passing into spirit, Helen Verrall, an automatist, produced messages from Myers. Independently, Alice Fleming (sister of Rudyard Kipling), then living in India, received a message through automatic writing urging her to get in touch with Verrall and giving Verrall’s address in Cambridge. Another significant automatist of this period was a sister-in-law of Myers, Winifred Coombe-Tennant, who also received messages from Myers. Automatist Rosina Thompson and the talented American medium Leonora Piper became involved when their automatic writing contained statements by Myers at the same time as messages were appearing in scripts by other automatists.  None of these mediums possessed significant knowledge of Greek or Latin, yet the messages given to various mediums had Greek or Latin words in them.[iv]

The messages were unintelligible individually but, over a long period and many séances, a purpose in the correspondences became apparent, indicating some individual in spirit was behind them. Alice Johnson, research officer of the Society for Psychical Research in London, first encountered the idea when messages were received through various mediums at about the same time in places as far apart as India, New York, and London. In the scripts of Rosina Thompson, Mrs. Forbes, Margaret Verrall (Helen Verrall’s mother), and others, Johnson found fragmentary utterances that had no point or meaning, but when put together like a jigsaw puzzle formed coherent ideas.[v]

For example, in India on January 17, 1904, Alice Fleming recorded a message through automatic writing she said came from Myers: I Corinthians 16: 13. He told her that he’d tried to give her the verse in Greek but could not get her hand to form Greek characters, so he gave only the reference. That same day, thousands of miles away in England, Margaret Verrall received the same biblical reference from Myers via automatic writing. The verse, “Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men…,” was inscribed in Greek over the gateway of Selwyn College, Cambridge, under which Myers frequently walked.[vi]

Later two other leaders of the Society for Psychical Research passed into spirit: Henry Sidgwick and Edmund Gurney. Soon after each of their transitions, they sent fragments of messages to mediums around the world and the Myers concordant automatism phenomenon was replicated successfully. Over the next thirty years more than three thousand such scripts were transmitted to mediums around the world, some as long as forty typed pages. They now fill twenty-four volumes of twelve thousand pages. As investigators involved in the research passed away, they joined the study on the other side by communicating incomplete messages through a number of mediums around the world that formed complete wholes when brought together. [vii]

Hundreds of other accounts of cross correspondence are recorded in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research.

Taken as a whole, the Cross Correspondences and the Willett scripts are among the most convincing evidence that at present exists for “life after death.” For anyone who is prepared to devote weeks to studying them, they prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Myers, Gurney and Sidgwick went on communicating after death.[viii]

Evidence of Communication through Automatic Writing Proves You Will Never Die

The clever, well-thought-out inspirations of mediums by people in spirit to form whole messages when brought together demonstrates that the communicators were alive, intelligent, and aware of current affairs on earth.

The evidence of cross-correspondence messages from people whose bodies have died to an assortment of mediums proves you will never die.

[i] Jean Balfour, “The ‘Palm Sunday’ Case: New Light on an Old Love Story,” Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 52 (1960): 79-267.

[ii] Jill Galvan, “Tennyson’s Ghosts: The Psychical Research Case of the Cross-Correspondences, 1901-c.1936,” Branch Collective, https://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=jill-galvan-tennysons-ghosts-the-psychical-research-case-of-the-cross-correspondences-1901-c-1936.

[iii] Galvan, “Tennyson’s Ghosts.”

[iv] Trevor Hamilton, “The Cross-Correspondences,” Psi Encyclopedia, March 24, 2017, https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/cross-correspondences.

[v] Hamilton, “The Cross-Correspondences.”

[vi] “Medium Alice Holland, England. UK.,” Psychic Truth, http://psychictruth.info/Medium_Alice_Holland.htm.

[vii] Zammit, A Lawyer Presents, 128.

[viii] Colin Wilson, Afterlife: An Investigation (New York: Doubleday, 1987), 161.

Summary
Communication through Automatic Writing Is Evidence You Will Never Die
Article Name
Communication through Automatic Writing Is Evidence You Will Never Die
Description
Communication from people living in the life after this life has come through automatic writers who allow the person in spirit to take over their bodies to write. The communications have been validated.

Mediums receive messages from people living in the next life through automatic writing and planchette writing. They are called “automatists” and their writing is “automatization” or “psychography.” In the purest form of automatic writing, the medium’s arm and hand muscles are controlled by the person in spirit. The penmanship often matches that of the person in spirit while on earth. Talented automatists like Leonora Piper are able to write for two entities, one through each hand, while conversing about topics unrelated to the writing of either hand.

Automatic writing differs from “inspirational writing,” in which the individual controls the writing and scribbles the words that come to mind. Whereas inspirational writing is often referred to as “automatic writing,” the phenomenon is different.

In planchette writing, the medium or a small number of sitters place their fingertips on a flat piece of wood shaped like a heart elongated toward the point, called a “planchette.” The device was first used for planchette writing and later used with the Ouija board. The planchette is perched on short dowels of wood like stilts that enable it to glide easily when nudged. A pencil inserted vertically in the pointed end makes contact with the paper to facilitate writing. The medium or sitters allow the planchette to move where it will to create the planchette writing.

Cross Correspondence

One form of communication coming through automatists that demonstrates the survival of consciousness is called “cross correspondence.” A series of messages is given by people in the life after this life to two or more mediums in different parts of the world. The messages can be the same, or in pieces so that they convey a clear message only when combined. The involvement of several mediums precludes the possibility that a single medium is receiving psychic information rather than messages from people alive in spirit. A living person is required to carefully plan and convey a coherent message to a number of mediums.

1.     The Mary Catherine Lyttelton Case

Mary Catherine Lyttelton was in a loving relationship with Arthur James Balfour but fell ill and died on March 21, 1875, before Balfour could propose marriage to her. Over the next thirty years, thousands of messages came from numerous mediums. Although meaningless in themselves, when considered as a whole they indicated that Lyttelton was trying to communicate with Balfour.[i] Because none of the mediums knew about the couple’s relationship, inspiration by Lyttleton in spirit seemed credible. Each message contained repeated symbolic references to the pair.

Lyttelton was figured, for instance, as a Palm Maiden (she passed on Palm Sunday), as Dante’s Beatrice (whose “emerald eyes” stood for the ring in which Lyttelton was buried), and as the ancient queen Berenice (who dedicated her hair to a temple; Balfour had preserved a lock of Lyttelton’s hair). Symbols for Arthur Balfour included a loyal knight, the Idylls’ King Arthur, and verses from Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington by Alfred Tennyson, who had been Balfour’s godfather and namesake.[ii]

The communication amounted to what Balfour dubbed “a love story transcending life and death.”[iii] The fact that the correspondence came through several mediums demonstrates that Lyttleton was alive and capable of distributing the messages among mediums.

2.     The Myers Cross Correspondence Case

The Myers Cross Correspondence is the best-known example of such communication. Frederick W. H. Myers, a Cambridge classics scholar and writer in the nineteenth century, was one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research. He originated the concept of cross correspondence, calling it “concordant automatism” because it comes through automatic writers.

Two years after Myers’s passing into spirit, Helen Verrall, an automatist, produced messages from Myers. Independently, Alice Fleming (sister of Rudyard Kipling), then living in India, received a message through automatic writing urging her to get in touch with Verrall and giving Verrall’s address in Cambridge. Another significant automatist of this period was a sister-in-law of Myers, Winifred Coombe-Tennant, who also received messages from Myers. Automatist Rosina Thompson and the talented American medium Leonora Piper became involved when their automatic writing contained statements by Myers at the same time as messages were appearing in scripts by other automatists.  None of these mediums possessed significant knowledge of Greek or Latin, yet the messages given to various mediums had Greek or Latin words in them.[iv]

The messages were unintelligible individually but, over a long period and many séances, a purpose in the correspondences became apparent, indicating some individual in spirit was behind them. Alice Johnson, research officer of the Society for Psychical Research in London, first encountered the idea when messages were received through various mediums at about the same time in places as far apart as India, New York, and London. In the scripts of Rosina Thompson, Mrs. Forbes, Margaret Verrall (Helen Verrall’s mother), and others, Johnson found fragmentary utterances that had no point or meaning, but when put together like a jigsaw puzzle formed coherent ideas.[v]

For example, in India on January 17, 1904, Alice Fleming recorded a message through automatic writing she said came from Myers: I Corinthians 16: 13. He told her that he’d tried to give her the verse in Greek but could not get her hand to form Greek characters, so he gave only the reference. That same day, thousands of miles away in England, Margaret Verrall received the same biblical reference from Myers via automatic writing. The verse, “Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men…,” was inscribed in Greek over the gateway of Selwyn College, Cambridge, under which Myers frequently walked.[vi]

Later two other leaders of the Society for Psychical Research passed into spirit: Henry Sidgwick and Edmund Gurney. Soon after each of their transitions, they sent fragments of messages to mediums around the world and the Myers concordant automatism phenomenon was replicated successfully. Over the next thirty years more than three thousand such scripts were transmitted to mediums around the world, some as long as forty typed pages. They now fill twenty-four volumes of twelve thousand pages. As investigators involved in the research passed away, they joined the study on the other side by communicating incomplete messages through a number of mediums around the world that formed complete wholes when brought together. [vii]

Hundreds of other accounts of cross correspondence are recorded in the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research.

Taken as a whole, the Cross Correspondences and the Willett scripts are among the most convincing evidence that at present exists for “life after death.” For anyone who is prepared to devote weeks to studying them, they prove beyond all reasonable doubt that Myers, Gurney and Sidgwick went on communicating after death.[viii]

Evidence of Communication through Automatic Writing Proves You Will Never Die

The clever, well-thought-out inspirations of mediums by people in spirit to form whole messages when brought together demonstrates that the communicators were alive, intelligent, and aware of current affairs on earth.

The evidence of cross-correspondence messages from people whose bodies have died to an assortment of mediums proves you will never die.

[i] Jean Balfour, “The ‘Palm Sunday’ Case: New Light on an Old Love Story,” Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research 52 (1960): 79-267.

[ii] Jill Galvan, “Tennyson’s Ghosts: The Psychical Research Case of the Cross-Correspondences, 1901-c.1936,” Branch Collective, https://www.branchcollective.org/?ps_articles=jill-galvan-tennysons-ghosts-the-psychical-research-case-of-the-cross-correspondences-1901-c-1936.

[iii] Galvan, “Tennyson’s Ghosts.”

[iv] Trevor Hamilton, “The Cross-Correspondences,” Psi Encyclopedia, March 24, 2017, https://psi-encyclopedia.spr.ac.uk/articles/cross-correspondences.

[v] Hamilton, “The Cross-Correspondences.”

[vi] “Medium Alice Holland, England. UK.,” Psychic Truth, http://psychictruth.info/Medium_Alice_Holland.htm.

[vii] Zammit, A Lawyer Presents, 128.

[viii] Colin Wilson, Afterlife: An Investigation (New York: Doubleday, 1987), 161.

Summary
Communication through Automatic Writing Is Evidence You Will Never Die
Article Name
Communication through Automatic Writing Is Evidence You Will Never Die
Description
Communication from people living in the life after this life has come through automatic writers who allow the person in spirit to take over their bodies to write. The communications have been validated.

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