E. A. Koetting - staticfly.net

WORKS OF
DARKNESS
the Necromancer and the medium learn to rush and roll in
sync with one another, or try until you leave another
Necromancer to summon forth your subtle remains to continue
your work.
3. Automatic writing is a method of afterlife communication that
gained ground in the late 18005 and remained an active part
of folk Magick and tradition at least a few decades into the
1900S. Today, automatic writing has become a game played
at slumber parties, used as a serious technique to contact the
other side by older witches who have used nothing but for
their magical careers, eccentric clairvoyant poseurs, and
occasionally by those Practitioners of the Art who have yet to
discover more effective and reliable means of afterlife
communication. Automatic writing is exactly that
automatic. It requires no discipline, training, or occult ability.
The Dabbler simply holds a pen in hand, the tip of it resting
against a piece of paper on a hard and stable surface. The
spirits may be called out to, although it rarely makes a
difference if they are. The mind is then distracted from the
pen completely through a television show, a book, a movie,
belly dancers swinging flaming swords, or whatever it might
take to divert the Operator's attention from the very reason
that he is seeking this entertainment in the first place.
Sometimes falling to sleep in a recliner with pen in hand and
notepad in lap is claimed to produce spectacular automatic
writing samples. Once the conscious mind is focused elsewhere,
the hand will start to move of its own accord, at first creating
squiggles on the paper, which may remain squiggles to be
deciphered, or will form actual words, sentences, and
sometimes paragraphs. The method behind automatic writing
is the same force that moves the planchette across the
witchboard, swings the pendulum clockwise or counter, and
draws the dowsing rods together. The subconscious mind
exerting control over the physical body without the conscious
awareness of the individual is called the ideomotor effect. In
occult theory, the subconscious mind is a filter for all of the
thoughts buzzing in the collective unconscious, which, since
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