automatic writing

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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.

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