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The cross-correspondences refers to a series of automatic scripts and trance utterances from a group of automatic writers and mediums, involving members of the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). According to psychical researchers the correspondences when put together convey intelligible messages either from spirits of the dead or telepathy.〔Edmunds, Simeon. (1966). ''Spiritualism: A Critical Survey''. Aquarian Press. pp. 178-180. ISBN 978-0850300130〕〔Booth, John. (1986). ''Psychic Paradoxes''. Prometheus Books. pp. 170-178. ISBN 0-87975-358-7〕 Skeptics have written the correspondences can be explained by chance or self-delusion and is a case of researchers looking for connections in random or meaningless data.〔〔Tanner, Amy. (1910). ''Studies in Spiritism''. With an Introduction by G. Stanley Hall. D. Appleton and Company. pp. 142-144. pp. 390 -394〕〔Tuckett, Ivor Lloyd. (1911). ''The Evidence for the Supernatural: A Critical Study Made with "Uncommon Sense"''. K. Paul, Trench, Trübner. pp. 380-383〕〔Polidoro, Massimo. (2003). ''The Lost Messiah: Secrets on Psychical Research Emerge form a Stack of Forgotten Documents''. Skeptical Inquirer. Vol. 27, n. 5.〕 ==History== Mary Catherine Lyttleton fell in love with Arthur James Balfour in 1875, but fell ill and died on Palm Sunday, 21 March 1875, before Balfour could declare his intent. According to the SPR, in the next 30 years thousands of fragmentary messages from numerous mediums, when considered as a whole, seem to indicate Lyttleton was trying to communicate with Balfour, aided by members of the SPR Edmund Gurney, Henry Sidgwick and Frederic W. H. Myers. In 1891, Myers wrote a message on a piece of paper then sealed it in an envelope. Myers gave the envelope to Oliver Lodge with instructions to open it before witnesses after his death if the message from the paper should be received through a medium.〔Blackley, S. Ramsay. (1986). ''As In Adam All Die''. The Book Guild. pp. 94-96. ISBN 978-0863321344〕 Myers died in 1901, and various mediums were organised into concurrent sittings at locations very far apart, and notes were made of the words and phrases, and the automatic writings thus obtained. The messages were unintelligible individually and to individual mediums, but over a long period and many seances, it was claimed by the SPR that there was purpose in the correspondences, indicating an intelligent entity was behind them. The principal recipients of the messages included Mrs Margaret Verrall and her daughter Helen; Mrs Winifred Coombe Tennant, who practised as a medium under the name "Mrs Willett" and Mrs Alice Fleming, sister of Rudyard Kipling, who practised as "Mrs Holland".〔 It was alleged Myer's spirit communicated through Mrs Verrall on 13 July 1904 by producing a manuscript which made reference to Myers' message. When the manuscript was examined the message was incorrect and it also referred to the place where the envelope was kept which was completely wrong. On 13 December 1904, Oliver Lodge arranged a meeting for members for the Society for Psychical Research. The contents of the envelope were made known to those present. A report was published by the Society's journal in 1905 which stated, "It has, then, to be reported that this one experiment has completely failed and it cannot be denied that the failure is disappointing."〔 Other mediums involved in cross-correspondences have included Mina Crandon, Leonora Piper and George Valiantine.〔("Cross-Correspondences" ). Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology.〕 Both Crandon and Valiantine were exposed as frauds.〔Edmunds, Simeon. (1966). ''Spiritualism: A Critical Survey''. Aquarian Press. pp. 112-113. ISBN 978-0850300130〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cross-Correspondences」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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