Text produced by a writer who reports no conscious authorship, attributed by the writer to another intelligence. It is the delivery mechanism for most of the message material in the contact literature, and The Invisible College treats it as a laboratory rather than a curiosity, because messages are cheap to produce and their content can be audited.
The audit is the book’s internal test: such messages have never revealed anything that was not already known to, or within the intellectual grasp of, the humans in the room. The worked examples are unkind to all sides. SPECTRA, the cosmic intelligence dictating to Uri Geller and Andrija Puharich, measures time in light-years, and so does Geller. A séance table at Victor Hugo’s house taps out eight lines of verse worthy of Hugo. The AFFA Contact 1959 transcripts name an entity that Donald Hanlon found means “empty” in the Enochian language of John Dee’s angels. Jacques Vallee then reports his own automatic-writing experiments of 1972 against his own interest, and applies the same test to them.
The conclusion he draws is not that the messages are worthless but that they are worthless as information and effective as instruments of belief, which is the third of the four moves supporting the Control System Hypothesis.
Connections
AFFA Contact 1959 · Andrija Puharich · Uri Geller · Contactee Movement · Jacques Vallee · The Invisible College