psychography

American  

[sahy-kah-graf-ee] / saɪˈkɑ græf i /

noun

1. the channeling of a spirit through a medium in order to produce writing or art.

---

Other Word Forms

• psychographic adjective

Example Sentences

Ten mediums—five less expert and five experienced—were injected with a radioactive tracer to capture their brain activity during normal writing and during the practice of psychography, which involves allegedly channeling written communication from the “other side” while in a trance-like state.

From Forbes

All reported that during the study they were able to reach their usual trance-like state during the psychography task and were in their regular state of consciousness during the control task.

From Forbes

The big problem with that explanation is that improvisational music performance and alcohol/drug consumption states are, in the researchers’ words,  ”quite peculiar and distinct from psychography.”

From Forbes

The frontal lobe areas are associated with reasoning, planning, generating language, movement, and problem solving, which means that the mediums were experiencing reduced focus, lessened self-awareness and fuzzy consciousness during psychography.

From Forbes

For the less experienced mediums, exactly the opposite was observed–increased levels of activity in the same frontal areas during psychography compared to normal writing, and the difference was significant compared to the experienced mediums.

From Forbes