Some messages that come across might be disturbing. If you’re at all not able to handle this possibility, don’t attempt automatic writing. What You Need: Paper, pencil or pen.

I’ll usually give them a word or a prompt at the beginning, but after that I’ll encourage them to just keep writing, pen or pencil ... mediums claimed to use automatic writing to connect ...

In the early years of the 20th century, the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats experimented with automatic writing ... to the living by guiding the pen of a sensitive intermediary.