automatic writing

English

Noun

automatic writing (countable and uncountable, plural automatic writings)

1. A form of writing claimed not to come from the conscious thoughts of the writer, sometimes performed in a trance.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 30:

     According to his automatic writings, Satan, a great god, created the human body and asked "Arbal-Jesus," his name for Adam, to project his being into it for a few moments.

Synonyms

• psychography

Translations

form of writing

• Finnish: automaattikirjoitus (fi)
• Portuguese: psicografia f