My Early Days of Spirit Writing
My Early Days of Spirit Writing
How my deceased uncle helped me learn a new technique for spirit communication.
Bob Olson is a former skeptic and private eye who has investigated life after death for 27 years. He shares meaningful stories to expand minds, comfort grief, and uplift souls. He’s the host of Afterlife TV, author of Answers About The Afterlife and The Magic Mala, and founder of the directory of credible psychics, mediums, animal communicators, and intuitive practitioners, BestPsychicDirectory.com.
After a year of studying psychics and mediums, in 2001, I heard about a spirit communication technique called “automatic writing.” This is a process of shutting your conscious mind off to allow your unconscious mind to take over your writing, allowing your spirit guides to write (communicate) through you.
If you’ve read my article on Spirit Writing from a year ago, you’ll remember that I altered the name from “automatic writing” to “spirit writing” because I didn’t feel like anything was automatic about the process. In reading about people who practice automatic writing, it seemed their hands and fingers were typing words without their conscious minds being part of the process. Some folks claimed they could converse with a friend while their fingers typed something utterly unrelated. That was not my experience.
For this reason, I will refer to this process of automatic writing as spirit writing.
For those of us who will probably never become mediums, spirit writing is a tool we can use to communicate with spirits on our own. It allows people like you and me to communicate with our deceased loved ones and spirit guides without the need for a medium. When you think about it, that’s pretty cool. It will save us a lot of money on reading fees and allow those ongoing relationships to flourish, giving us better access to the love and guidance of our supporting spirits.
In the spring of 2001, I decided to try it to see what results I might have. As a writer, my typing skills were such that my fingers typed words as fast as I could think of them. It seemed like an interesting experiment to type my thoughts before I could think about what I was writing. I wasn’t confident I could do spirit writing, but I knew there was no harm in trying.
I meditated first to get into a relaxed state of mind. I’m not all that great at meditation, but I found it helpful to use headphones and some relaxing music to shut off any outside distractions and slow down my brainwaves. I’m one of those people who often falls asleep while meditating. If snoring were a sign of deep meditation, monks and yogis would be at my door asking to learn my secret methods. Once relaxed, I placed my fingers over my keyboard. Although some people can just begin typing, I find it helpful to ask a question to get started.
I did this three times weekly for twenty minutes over a few weeks without reading what I had written. When I finally did, I was shocked at the results. The words didn’t sound like me. First of all, what was written was too wisdom-ish. It had a different tone and rhythm. I’m no guru, and I don’t write like the great philosophers, yet this stuff was full of insight and was written with a hint of philosophical flair.
Below is an example of one of my early spirit writings and what transpired after reading it. Now that you are used to my writing style, you will notice that the words being written are dissimilar to the way I usually write: