The fact that the spirit can send a certain message with a prediction is said in many legends and tales. One of the most famous examples of this kind is found in the Book of Daniel. It says that during the feast of the Babylonian king Belshazzar, the following words appeared on the wall: "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Uparsin." The prophet Daniel gave the following explanation to these words: God has numbered your kingdom, it is weighed on the scales and divided. And on the same night, as you know, Belshazzar was killed by the Persians who captured Babylon …
Researchers of paranormal phenomena are also aware of cases when mysterious signs unexpectedly appeared on gravestones, at the base of statues, etc. True, most of these stories have no official confirmation.
But this statement does not apply to the so-called automatic writing, or psychography. In this case, in the presence of eyewitnesses, the summoned spirit transmits its written messages using the hand of the medium. It is assumed that it was with the help of psychography that some famous books on the occult were written: for example, a description of the astral world or "The Book of the Law" by Aleister Crowley.
In general, the process of automatic writing is manifested in the fact that a medium in a trance state, using a pen or pencil, writes down "messages" from the outside. Moreover, the hand of the medium moves against its will, as if working in a certain programmed mode. At the same time, the writing person sometimes not only does not look at the paper, but is also engaged in a completely different matter.
Thus, under certain conditions, a medium in a trance becomes a kind of writing instrument - a pen or pencil of some invisible entity.
“Of all the ways of communicating, writing by hand is the easiest, most convenient and especially the most perfect way,” noted the famous French spirit Allan Kardek. - It makes it possible to establish relations with spirits as consistent and correct as the messages that exist between us. It is all the more necessary to cherish it because spirits through it better reveal their nature and the degree of their sublimity or imperfection."
The phenomenon of automatic writing certainly did not remain out of sight of researchers. As a result of scientific research carried out by psychologists, two hypotheses have emerged to explain this phenomenon.
Proponents of the first believe that automatic writing is the receipt of information from the subconscious in special states of consciousness. It is for this reason, according to the adherents of this hypothesis, that with the help of automatic writing it is impossible to obtain information that is not in the memory, consciousness or subconsciousness of the medium. However, how, in this case, can one explain that a person who has come into contact with a "spirit" begins to write on topics completely unfamiliar to him, and besides, sometimes in languages unknown to him?
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The followers of another hypothesis are sure that there is an information field of the Earth, in which certain astral entities reside, which have unlimited information about the past, present and future of the Earth and its inhabitants. They also come into contact with people who have a penchant for this.
As examples confirming this view of the problem, one can recall Joan of Arc, to whom voices told her how to win a battle, or Mozart, who claimed that someone from above dictated to him the music …
It should be noted that automatic writing is also known to almost any people who created their own writing system. Moreover, almost at all times people believed that the hand of the prophets and poets was led by the Almighty or some otherworldly spirit, which the poets called the muse.
In China, special necromantic fortune-telling was widespread for communicating with spirits. To conduct it, two people were immersed in a mild ecstatic state beforehand. After that, they were given a basket, at the bottom of which a short wooden rod was fixed, and they lowered it onto a flat surface of sand or ash. At first, the stick moved rather slowly along the sand, drawing only monotonous circles. But then the pace of her movements quickened, and she suddenly began to draw hieroglyphs. With the help of this technique, the Chinese sought to find out how deceased relatives live in the next world, or simply "talked" with those spirits that suddenly appeared during this communication.
This method of communication with the other world is based on the belief that through the people who hold the basket, the spirits convey various messages to their living relatives. The Chinese believed that, although the heavenly spirits have an extraordinary mind, they are nevertheless unable, like people, to talk, therefore they communicate only with a wand.
The original method, a bit like automatic writing, was used in the old days when they tried to predict an event. To do this, the fortuneteller first drew a circle, which he divided into twenty-four equal parts. Then in each cell he wrote a letter and put a grain of wheat on it. After that, a young rooster was launched into the circle, which hastily began to swallow the beans it liked. Then, from the letters "indicated" by the bird, words were added that were the answer to the question asked …
In principle, many other types of fortune-telling, for example with the help of cards or runes, are also based on the fact that through these objects the spirit communicates the events expected in his life to a person.
At one time in Europe, the so-called "planchette" became widespread - a thin wooden plank in the shape of a heart on three legs. Two of them ended with wheels, and a pencil was attached to the third.
The tablet is placed on a blank sheet of paper and your fingertips are placed on it. As a result of the influence of spirits, the planchette moves across a sheet of paper, leaving verbal messages or graphic drawings on it. Often, using a tablet, mediums can very accurately convey the handwriting of deceased people.
In the past, many famous people were involved in automatic writing. For example, the English priest William Stainton Moses. And although this man was a true believing Christian, the messages he received eventually led him to come to the conclusion that their authors were indeed the spirits of the dead. Subsequently, Moses became one of the first preachers of spiritualism.
The well-known Russian philosopher Vl. S. Soloviev, who, as his contemporaries considered, was a "passive medium".
It should be noted that, in addition to automatic writing, some mediums also demonstrate automatic drawing. Usually, the owner of such a gift shows his abilities in a dark room or with a bandage over his eyes. However, this condition is not required.
Concluding the conversation about automatic writing, it is worth saying that using it, like any other mediumistic techniques, is quite dangerous for an unprepared person. Sometimes the spirit refuses to leave the body of the medium, forcing him to write or draw as long as the latter has enough strength.
Bernatsky Anatoly