Automatic Writing...

[Pyper900]

I recently wrote an artice on automatic writing (AKA free Association Writing), anyone ever tried this, and if you did, did you experience any benefit from doing so?


Here is a link to the article.

[Old Soul]

Originally Posted by Pyper900

I recently wrote an artice on automatic writing (AKA free Association Writing), anyone ever tried this, and if you did, did you experience any benefit from doing so?


Here is a link to the article.

Hi Good article!! Yes I have done automatic writing, In fact it use to freak me out, because as you say, it does indeed come from a place that by passed my consciensce choice to actually make a decission to write about a specfic topic ,

With me however, It just happened, I did not meditate or practise a skill to do it , it just happened and the entire poem was there from first to last stanza, I felt that it deserved to be written down, so I wrote them out exactly the way these pieces came to me

Something else that has me puzzled about this automatic writing is the fact that I can not* forget the pieces of writing even if i tried, it is almost like they are burned into my sub conscience or someplace inside of me that I don't fully understand..

I'd like to talk to others and see if they experienced this ability as well and if they too can not forget the poems or stories Etc..

"possesion" is another word I would use to describe when it happens to me

[SimonaRich]

Sure, I got answers for the questions I was asking. It allowed me to establish deeper communication with one of my spirit guides.

[Pyper900]

Originally Posted by SimonaRich

Sure, I got answers for the questions I was asking. It allowed me to establish deeper communication with one of my spirit guides.

So you're of the opinion that automatic writing is a connection with an intelligence that is outside your body, as opposed to communication with your subconscious?

[Old Soul]

So you're of the opinion that automatic writing is a connection with an intelligence that is outside your body, as opposed to communication with your subconscious?

I realise this question was not addressed to me, HoweverI just wanted to say that I pondered this as well..... I am still undecided

[Harmonium]

Originally Posted by Pyper900

So you're of the opinion that automatic writing is a connection with an intelligence that is outside your body, as opposed to communication with your subconscious?

I believe it comes from outside of you..

I am primarily claircognizant, it is a psychic ability where you just KNOW stuff, you don't even feel it (clairsentient), so automatic writing is apparently the way to go for claircognizants from what I know. It is a connection with your guide/higherself.

But it could easily be rationalized as your subconscious, it could be both... I really don't doubt guides anymore. I still have the book called "Journey of Souls" by Dr. Michael Newton, it's about a hypnotherapist who regresses like 30 some odd patients to past lives and past deaths and what happens in the after life. It's a really fascinating read. PM me and I will send it to you.

[SimonaRich]

Originally Posted by SimonaRich

Sure, I got answers for the questions I was asking. It allowed me to establish deeper communication with one of my spirit guides.

It comes through you, but from a different source, but we are all one so however you want to look at it would still be correct

[Old Soul]

Originally Posted by Harmonium

I believe it comes from outside of you..

I am primarily claircognizant, it is a psychic ability where you just KNOW stuff, you don't even feel it (clairsentient), so automatic writing is apparently the way to go for claircognizants from what I know. It is a connection with your guide/higherself.

But it could easily be rationalized as your subconscious, it could be both... I really don't doubt guides anymore. I still have the book called "Journey of Souls" by Dr. Michael Newton, it's about a hypnotherapist who regresses like 30 some odd patients to past lives and past deaths and what happens in the after life. It's a really fascinating read. PM me and I will send it to you.

I've written things in this state of conscience, and not even really comprehend or understand what I have written, and i just stand there shaking my head thinking what in the world is this about!!! lol

although beautiful as it was......i think it is a gift, I talked to my physcologist about it , and she said she has spoken to many artists who write songs or authors who have the same ability and they describe it like a possession too because they can't quite figure out where it comes from, so she told me to just accept it as a gift , to accept it for the blessing that it is , with or without understanding it entirely

[Pyper900]

That's really interesting, all of it. from the pespective of doing research for that article I had a notion of automatice writing as something high school kids with a penchant for Wicca and the occult would do, just to be weird.

After doing the research I came to find out that this has been a widely practised meditation technique and is believed to be derived from anchient scrying practises.

Either way, it seems like something that is more effective than i had initially thought.

[Old Soul]

Originally Posted by Pyper900

That's really interesting, all of it. from the pespective of doing research for that article I had a notion of automatice writing as something high school kids with a penchant for Wicca and the occult would do, just to be weird.

After doing the research I came to find out that this has been a widely practised meditation technique and is believed to be derived from anchient scrying practises.

Either way, it seems like something that is more effective than i had initially thought.

After doing the research I came to find out that this has been a widely practised meditation technique and is believed to be derived from anchient scrying practises

Hmm I've never done any scrying or was i doing any meditation techniques , lol, so I guess my ability blows that theory out of the water

[sk8joyful]

Originally Posted by Pyper900

I recently wrote an artice on automatic writing (AKA free Association Writing)

Here is a link to the article.

Forgive me for not yet having read your article.

Yes, both the subconscious & conscious parts of you can have fun with this form of expression too

[Philemon]

First we must release the words into the air see them floating around us
behind us there stringing down from the mirror there in the doorway
there swimming the COUNTDOWN the COUNTDOWN and the dangling
will we fit amidst this chaos the pillow case doesn’t know DESCRIBE
are we at the door yet wait listen this is it CONCENTRATE
how many speak to us how many do we listen to how many
do we speak to how many mothers how many animals
REMEMBER don’t obey the pork chops TATA it’s a touchy subject
a lot of strangeness reaching out of the sound the sight
QUINK THICK we have to speak we have to speak now we have to
do we hear listen UNTIL our eyes catch the words from the air
do we feel think touch the scent hint wave GO TO ONE



Poet Hannah Weiner kept a “Clairvoyant Journal." The writing above is a short blip written in response to her work and basically the idea of automatic writing.

I would also like to add:

Engine stick stricken multiplicity canon
unison curvature slew adore lemming gold
pinched kindness spool thimble tread
appearance scatter seams honest delineation

Slender ash drift pulse lever loophole deal
hammer kiss Saturn Lis Incognita satryr graze
incoherent center mixture key whilst tongue
zen swing set Tropicus Capicorni circular antiquity

Amber calm timber chew ominous dough
double meat eater tumbler solipsist indeterminate collage
nebula rapture creed tear nemesis cover ridge
arm leg button screw elasticity shovel crutch blown

Muscle sherbet gurgle burst dual drool germ
gravity suck spin slip skin tape tremolo jewel
sparkle midday marvel shoelace revelation dim
malady street talker palm rust hedge dio cognita

Joint fog nibbler acid soap entropy balloon contention
meal catch snip nose Gregorian ohms vida infinite
chemist bubbler rain shelf chapter lamp sleep momentum
planet mind root limber eon meteor hope shimmer sphere


Some other notable writers related to automatic writing/stream of consciousness: Allen Ginsberg--"the key is to catch yourself thinking"--most famous poem, "Howl," is written in what they call "breath units." Each stanza is intended to be read aloud in one breath--most people without some practice in buddhist breathing techniques can't read it aloud properly. I guess his idea is to take a deep breath and "exhale" the words.

Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" as well as most of his writing explores automatic/stream of consciousness writing in depth. These guys like getting caught up in the sounds as the words emerge--very difficult to write.

Lots and lots and lots of published authors use this idea. Many poets, novelists, writers have attested to in some way being a "vehicle" for something that "comes through" them. For most though, it is nearly impossible to completely free ourselves to the subconscious (or unconscious).

I experience automatic writing in dreams. The pages just fill up in front of me. Too bad I usually can't remember that many details.

[Old Soul]

Here is one that came to me from first to last stanza, absolutely no conscience thought to write it , in fact i was in the middle of sweeping the kitchen floor when it came all i did was write it down ,



My sweet child of God and rhyme
A wonder and parable told
In seized moments of experience
And grand imaginings
Can I know your soul and freethinking?
Who do you pray to these child prayers of heaven?
In your short lived truths
Always running to become
Yet you do not burden with them
In child like wisdom you wonder
Is freedom not walked in bare feet?
The shiny stone a child secret that he might joy for the first time
And bless the angel with song
These deeper things of heaven for the child
And when you giggle and stir in adult places
And fear that furrowed brow a reflection of adult spankings and for bodings
From the gods of adulthood
Would you bow your head and the angel of innocence keep you hidden from these
Glimpses of so called adult justice
Or she bow her head in wait of you
In this adult world where laughter appears forbidden a curse of the aged hardened heart
In this the angel beckons you
Continue to walk across stones picking up snakes and scorpions
And sleep a peaceful sleep upon your bed of faith while you dream your forever dreams of change inside a fortress built from a plain cardboard box
As a king a servant of friends
This is your hour and song in celebration
But would you grow to rebel and the angels step back along the sidelines
Cheering you in a song of encouragement when your truths aren’t heard in purity and shared heart.
But misunderstood by pretentiousness a child has yet to identify
These adult fears of heaven passing them by.
For this reason you are called to throw open heaven’s gates inviting all without prejudice or malice
As only seen and known by the child of God and rhyme.