Editing Automatic writing (section)

===Approach===
Parapsychologist [[William Fletcher Barrett]] wrote that "automatic messages may take place either by the writer passively holding a pencil on a sheet of paper, or by the [[planchette]], or by an 'ouija board'."<ref name="Barrett"/> In [[Spiritualism (movement)|Spiritualism]], spirits are claimed to take control of the hand of a [[mediumship|medium]] to write messages, letters, and even entire books.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zf7OCwAAQBAJ&q=automatic+writing+spiritualism+take+control+hand&pg=PT102|title=The Ashgate Research Companion to Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism and the Occult|last=Kontou|first=Tatiana|date=2016-03-23|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317042273|language=en}}</ref> Automatic writing can happen in a trance or waking state.<ref name="Dictionary"/> Some [[psychical researchers]] such as [[Thomson Jay Hudson]] have claimed no spirits are involved in automatic writing and the [[subconscious mind]] is the explanation.<ref name="Hudson"/>