Automatic or Spirit Writing; With Other Psychic Experiences (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AUTOMATIC WRITING. CHAPTER I. PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES. In order to give the reader a clear idea of the experiences related in this work I shall be obliged to make it more largely personal than I should otherwise care to. I also wish it to be clearly understood that I do not claim the experiences here recorded to be at all unique as I am well aware that they are in the line of the experiences of thousands of people, some of which have been put into print, but the majority of which remain only as personal evidence to those receiving them of the continuity of man's existence in spheres beyond the change which sense-limitations have taught us to call death. My first psychic experiments were made with planchette about 1872, some statements in regard to which will be made later on. These experiments puzzled me, but not being undertaken very seriously they soon became so frivolous in character that I lost all interest in them, and for many years after did not care to search further, my studies in physical science having brought my thought to the agnostic standpoint. In the Fall of 1889 I began to get automatic writing of so impressive a character as to command the serious attention of myself and husband, andfinally, by the urgent request of the intelligences writing through my hand, sent to the Arena a statement of some of the incidents, as embodied in the following reprint of that article which appeared in that magazine in August, 1891, and which brought us many letters of inquiry and corroborative experiences from hundreds of readers: PSYCHIC EXPERIENCES. BY SARA A. UNDERWOOD. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY B. P. UNDERWOOD. The statements in this paper as to what was written in my presence purporting to be communications from "spirits," and as to the circumstances under w...