control

en-noun

control (countable and uncountable, plural controls)

From Middle English controllen, from Old French contrerole, from Medieval Latin contrārotulum (“a counter-roll or register used to verify accounts”), from Latin contrā (“against, opposite”) + Medieval Latin rotulus, Latin rotula (“roll, a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”).

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"Ah, who are they? I wonder. Guides, controls, psychic entities of some kind. Who the agents of vengeance - or I should say justice - are, is really not essential."

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

(spiritualism, parapsychology) A spirit that takes possession of a psychic or medium and allows other spirits to communicate with the living.


medium

Borrowed from Latin medium, neuter of medius (“middle”), from Proto-Italic *meðjos, from Proto-Indo-European *médʰyos (“between”). Compare middle. Doublet of mid, medio, media, and mediate.

doublet

The hall was not too well lit and dark shadows lurked in the corners. The medium still bent her head as if her ears were straining.

1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

(countable, spiritualism, plural mediums or (rare, nonstandard) media) Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.

ме́диум

someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world

mediumistic

person claiming to convey information from the spirit world


planchette

(spiritualism) A type of Ouija board. (A small tablet of wood supported on casters and having a pencil attached. The characters produced by the pencil on paper, while the hand rests on the instrument and it is allowed to move, are sometimes interpreted as of oracular or supernatural import.)


psychographer

(spiritualism) A medium able to psychograph (to have one's body possessed by spirits in order to let them write texts in the physical world).


psychograph

In this article he deals with the still more remarkable impressions, known as "psychographs," which they have obtained on photographic plates without exposing them at all, and which Mr. Lethem claims could only be produced by "spirit" agency.

A remarkably clear psychograph — a thought-picture — was taken, or impressed, upon a plate in Hope's home without the plate being exposed to light.

1938, True Mystic Science - Volumes 1-2, page 21:

Such a psychograph - and I believe the normal psychic photograph is such - is independent of the laws of light, so that one can imagine how utterly at sea a photographic critic would be who judged its authenticity by shadows or any such tests.

1986, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, John Michael Gibson, Richard Lancelyn Green, Letters to the press: the unknown Conan Doyle, page 295:

Seven years after he began organising regular séances with Miss Poole, Dr. Hamilton managed to obtain his first so-called psychograph or spirit photograph.

2012, Fabrice Bourland, The Baker Street Phantom, →ISBN:

In 1915, for example, the British photographer William Hope made a "psychograph" that contained handwritten messages from two disembodied spirits, and Coates confirmed that the "writing attributed to the late Archdeacon Colley and Mr. William Walker is identical with their own handscript while they were in life."

2013, Kristen Lacefield, The Scary Screen: Media Anxiety in The Ring, →ISBN, page 36:

(spiritualism) A photographic image having a supposed supernatural or spiritual origin

A psychograph or a planchette is an apparatus used in spiritistic circles as an instrument for receiving written messages from the spirits of the dead.

1971, Kurt E. Koch, Occult Practices and Beliefs, →ISBN, page 94:

ln a very well-known utterance, the novelist said of Effi Briest (with that curious pellucidity which has no grain of vanity in it): "Perhaps I have been so successful with it because l wrote the whole novel in a dream-like state, almost as if with a psychograph" - a psychograph being the pen-like implement used in spiritualistic ghost-writing.

2001, Patricia Howe, Helen Chambers, Theodor Fontane and the European Context, →ISBN:

Yet more surprising are the results if recourse be had to the table, for rapping, or to the psychograph, requiring, it is true, longer practice than the divinging rod.

2012, Eduard von Hartmann, C. C. Massey, Spiritism, →ISBN, page 66:

(spiritualism) Any of various devices used for automatic writing.


psychographic

(spiritualism) Relating to seances or occult communication.


thought-form

Two people can have the same idea at the same time because they felt the same thought-forms.

One can feel the threatening energy of the thought-forms left in the room after a tense fight.

(spiritualism) A manifestation of the thoughts, ideas or emotions of someone. It is believed to be able to be sensed by people and take physical form within the spirit world.


psychography

en-noun

psychography (usually uncountable, plural psychographies)

(spiritualism) The act of a spirit possessing one's physical body in order to write something.


psychophony

From psycho- (“mind”) + -phony (“voice”).

Their motives are perhaps not entirely laudable and probably they are being fooled; but even if they are not getting authentic messages from the dead, yet some queer things have happened and are happening as a result of psychophony.

1922, Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 145, page 679:

In this way the ancient knowledge of Pythagoras is applied in the most modern form of psychophony, and in this way, for the first time in the existence of the present world, the special mind-power vibrations which you require are reproduced on the invisible ether, at your command, by the use of the psychophonic records.

1996, C. De Radwan, The Secret of Mind Power and How to Use It, →ISBN, page 48:

Not uncommonly, the vibrations produce a sensation of inflation common in psychophony (vocal channeling) with the apparent expansion and swelling of the hands, feet, lips, cheeks, chin and solar plexus area.

2011, Sandie Gustus, Less Incomplete: A Guide to Experiencing the Human Condition beyond the Physical Body:

The third is the message of one or more spirits, which in psychophony is identified only as a spiritual friend.

2011, Group of Ethics Studies, The Ethics of Jesus Christ, →ISBN:

(spiritualism) Vocal communication with the dead or with spirits.


perispirit

From peri- + spirit.
In Allan Kardec's 1857 book The Spirits Book (Le Livre des Esprits in original French), the term is defined with a direct analogy to perisperm (“layer of nutritive tissue that surrounds the embryo of a seed in some angiosperms”).

(spiritualism) A layer of an abstract, ethereal material that is said to serve as the bond between one's spirit and physical body.


cardiognosticism

For quotations using this term, see Citations:cardiognosticism.

(spiritualism) Mystical knowledge of, or the ability to know, a person's heart (thoughts and feelings).


innerstanding

(spiritualism) Comprehension of one's own purported innate knowledge.


choiceless awareness

Freedom is found in the choiceless awareness of our daily existence and activity.

2023 February 2 (last accessed), Jiddu Krishnamurti, “The Core of the Teachings”, in jkrishnamurti.org, archived from the original on 2023-01-17:

(philosophy, psychology, spiritualism) The state of unpremeditated, complete awareness of the present without preference, effort, or compulsion; popularized in the mid-20th century by Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.

الوعي بلا اختيار

the state of unpremeditated, complete awareness of the present without preference, effort, or compulsion


metethereal

But for our minds there must needs be 'a critical point' in any such imagined continuity; so that the world where life and thought are carried on apart from matter, must certainly rank again as a new, a metethereal environment.

1904, Viscount [Richard] Haldane, The Pathway to Reality, London: John Murray, page 583:

(spiritualism) Lying beyond the ether; spiritual, transcendent.


perispritic

In other words, just as there is no other obstacle to our advancement than that which we make for ourselves by our persistence in wrong-doing, so there is no other arbiter of our destiny than our own moral and intellectual state, which state decides, at each successive period of our career, the quality of our perispritic action on the material elements around us.

1871, Anna Blackwell, The Philosophy of Existence, pages 61–2:

“A Spirit” is a complex being, in which is a trinity, consisting of a soul, or inner principle of conscious and active selfhood; a permanent soul envelope (Nephesch), which I will call Perisprit, composed of the “Dynamic substance,” which is the substantiality of Magnetism and Electricity; and a changeable outer envelope, or “body,” composed of particles of Matter, attracted and held together by the magnetic action of the said Perisprit, or Spirit Body, and that will fall apart from each other, and be resolved into their original elements on the cessation of the perispritic vibrations by which they were agglomerated into form; as particles of iron, for instance, would be drawn into shape by the attractive vibrations of a magnet of any given form plunged into their midst; as we are perpetually, although unconsciously, building up for ourselves a succession of new bodies, through the magnetic processes of digestion.

1874, Count de Medina Pomar, The Honeymoon, volume 2, pages 173–4:

Do you think it impossible that a perfect spirit like Jesus should be able to materialize the perispritic fluids of the superior worlds, and add and adapt the earthly fluids of which your bodies are composed to produce a tangible perispritic body, suited to his earthly mission, which should apparently represent the faculties and phases of your humanity.

1881, W. F. Kirby, transl., edited by J. B. Roustaing, The Four Gospels explained by their Writers, page 28:

(spiritualism) Of or pertaining to the perispirit.


dice oracle

(spiritualism) A type of dice that uses the magical correspondences of the elements to produce pairings.


alphabet oracle

alphabet oracle (plural alphabet oracles)

(spiritualism) A form of divination using individual letters of an alphabet, usually the Greek alphabet.


oracle card

(spiritualism) A type of card used for spiritual insight, personal exploration, and ritual.