Throughout his life, Rudyard Kipling also showed significant interest in the occult. The separate pieces of these cross-correspondences didn't make sense until they were all assembled 7. Some of these women were purportedly not acquainted and lived miles apart. Trix was one of several women involved in "cross correspondences", or automatic writings, of which several individuals received only a piece of the complete message. After relating her experiences to the Society for Psychical Research in London, the Society considered her as one of the most important psychics of the day. While in India with her husband (circa 1903-1910), Trish engaged in extensive contact with spirits through automatic writing. Kipling's sister, Trix became one of the few respected mediums of her time, largely due to her interest in automatic writing. 5" The KiplingsĪlice Macdonald Kipling claimed to have psychic powers and encouraged her children's interest in the occult. The Irish National Library says that "automatic writing proved to be a revitalizing force for W.B. Yeats claimed that he drew inspiration from automatic writing and it was the source for many of the images and symbols that color his work. Married on October 20, 1917, Yeats and wife, Georgie spent the first seven years of their marriage immersed in the automatic writings that purportedly came through Georgie's hand. Yeats, Oxford University Press), Ann Saddlemeyer asks whether automatic writing was a common interest or it was Georgie's "hoax, a joint self-deception, or daimonic intervention"? However, in her biography of Georgie ( The Life of Mrs. One theory is that their common interest in spiritualism and automatic writing brought them together. Historians still wonder what the attraction was between young Bertha Georgie Hyde Lees (1892-1968) and her elderly husband, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). In 1917, five of the poems were published as written by "Patience Worth" in an anthology of the best poetry of the year, a number that surpassed such highly respected poets as Amy Lowell (3), Vachel Lindsay (3), and Edgar Lee Masters (1) 4. Although Pearl Curran had no interest in Spiritualism, had only completed the 8th grade and had never traveled, the writer's talent was labeled as "enviable" by the New York Times. Over the next three years, Patience Worth "dictated" extensive works of writing that included proverbs, poetry, plays, and novels, automatically written through Ms Curran's hand. On July 18, 1913, Pearl Lenore Curran purportedly came under the control of the spirit, Patience Worth. Spirit Writing, Dual Personality, or Hoax? However, although the surrealist movement* brought notice to automatic writing, spirit writing and psychography were both practiced before 1920, when the Surrealism became popular. Many 20th Century writers attempted automatic writing as a technique to develop surrealistic writings. Merrill was just one of a long list of authors who believed that automatic writing played an important part of their work. For instance, poet James Merrill (1926–1995) is most famous for his collection of poetry, The Changing Light at Sandover (1982), which he claimed were inspired through spirit guide messages obtained through a Ouija board 2. However, some spiritualists believe that automatic writing can take other forms than handwriting. Proponents who believe that automatic writing is a spirit contact cite differences in penmanship between the normal handwriting of the person who holds the pen and the material that is written.
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