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Psychic Archaeology
The use of
psychic skills to locate
archaeological dig sites and identify
archaeological artifacts.
Using
psychometry, the psychic can receive
clairvoyant impressions relating to objects and
photographs;
dowsing,
retrocognition (seeing into the past),
automatic writing and
remote viewing have also been used to identify optimum dig
sites and channel information from dead spirits and other entities.
Perhaps the first, best-known case of
applied psychic archaeology was
Frederick Bligh Bond's use of
automatic writing in the excavations of the ruins of
Glastonbury Abbey in England. Bond, an architect, was appointed by the Church of England
in 1907 to find the remains of two chapels, both of which had been destroyed during the
reign of Henry VIII. Bond used the services of his friend John Alien Bartlett, who was an
automatic writer, and together they invoked spirits associated with the abbey to help
locate the chapels' ruins. Bond received information in Latin and Old English, as well as
drawings, from an entity who identified himself as 'Gulielmus Monachus', or 'William the
Monk'. The monk, plus other spirits, provided details of the Edgar and Loretto Chapels. In
the ensuing excavations, Bond found everything exactly as the spirits had indicated. He
did not reveal the source of his success until 1917 with the publication of his
The Gate of
Remembrance. Angered and embarrassed, the Church of England
forced Bond to resign in 1922, when excavations were stopped.
Since the 1970s psychic archaeology has
been used to find dig sites in North America, Egypt, and elsewhere. Although some
researchers claim high and reliable success rates with psychics, others have conducted
experiments with wrapped and unwrapped artifacts that demonstrate that psychic archaeology
is unreliable.
See
Remote Viewing,
Clairaudience,
Clairsentience,
Telepathy,
Psychometry,
Metagnomy,
Precognition,
Animal PSI,
Seance,
Materialization,
Asport,
Casting Black Magic Spells,
Commanding Spirits,
The Tarot Store and
Divination & Scrying Tools and
Supplies.
Sources: (1)
Dictionary of the
Occult, Caxton
Publishing; (2) Spence, Lewis,
An Encyclopedia of
Occultism, Carol Publishing Group.
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