Post by TRINITY on Mar 29, 2006 11:10:30 GMT 10
Hiya, I'm looking for some more information on this lady. Patience Worth existed through a lady name Pearl Curran. I have plenty of info on the both of them, but cannot find the things that Patience prophesized to pearl,sometimes through the Oujja board but much later telepathically, many events that came to light one after the other. I am looking for details specifically on her predictions since they were so accurate.............
Patience Worth
Speech and ectoplasm were not the spirits' only vehicles for visiting the living . In fact, one of the more unusual cases in psychic lore began with a Ouija board.
A St Louis homemaker named Pearl Curran was fiddling with the board one June night in 1913 when the pointer spelled out:" Oh, why let sorrow steel thy heart? Thy bosom is but its foster_mother, the world its cradle and the loving home its grave." This flowery communiqué was similar to others Curran had received, but the presumed author was still a mystery in July, however, the spirit gave a name: Patience Worth, born a Quaker in seventeenth-century England. In time , the Ouija board would be discarded in favour of direct mental linkage, but Pearl and Patience would maintain their relationship until Curran's death in 1938.
In early sittings, Patience showed a fondness for aphorisms, but she soon progressed to serious and torrential literary output, dictating plays, dramatic poems, novels. Over the years, most were published, usually to popular and critical acclaim. Meanwhile, the psychic story of Patience became a nationwide sensation. She was as versatile as she prolific. Although she usually wrote in relatively modern prose, a medieval idyl called Telka, published in 1928, was written in an Anglo-Saxon dialect that seemed to date it as pre-thirteenth century. It appeared unlikely that Curran, with little education was doing such work on her own, though some investigators theorized that Patience might have been a secondary personality born in Curran's subconscious. In 1924, the Boston SPR's Walter F. Prince investigated Patience, and skeptical and meticulous researcher was astounded by her abilities. She could for instance, create two literary works at once, switching between them and never losing track of either. Prince concluded that either Curran's subconscious was working in some radically odd way, or "some cause operating through, but not originating in" her subconscious was at work. Patience Worth's Ouija-board messages could be considered an extreme from of so-called automatic writing, in which a spirit supposedly guides its host's hand in writing astral messages. A once-popular variation was called slate writing, in which words seemed to appear on a slate without benefit of a human agent. The ASPR tended to dismiss slate writing as more a parlor trick than a psychic event, however, since it could be easily faked.
A psychological explanation for Patience- that she was a dissociated part of Currnan's own personality- is also given for a psychic phenomenon known as obsession. An obsessing spirit supposedly invades a person and alters the host's personality. Obsession is considered a possible prelude to spirit possession.
Patience Worth
Speech and ectoplasm were not the spirits' only vehicles for visiting the living . In fact, one of the more unusual cases in psychic lore began with a Ouija board.
A St Louis homemaker named Pearl Curran was fiddling with the board one June night in 1913 when the pointer spelled out:" Oh, why let sorrow steel thy heart? Thy bosom is but its foster_mother, the world its cradle and the loving home its grave." This flowery communiqué was similar to others Curran had received, but the presumed author was still a mystery in July, however, the spirit gave a name: Patience Worth, born a Quaker in seventeenth-century England. In time , the Ouija board would be discarded in favour of direct mental linkage, but Pearl and Patience would maintain their relationship until Curran's death in 1938.
In early sittings, Patience showed a fondness for aphorisms, but she soon progressed to serious and torrential literary output, dictating plays, dramatic poems, novels. Over the years, most were published, usually to popular and critical acclaim. Meanwhile, the psychic story of Patience became a nationwide sensation. She was as versatile as she prolific. Although she usually wrote in relatively modern prose, a medieval idyl called Telka, published in 1928, was written in an Anglo-Saxon dialect that seemed to date it as pre-thirteenth century. It appeared unlikely that Curran, with little education was doing such work on her own, though some investigators theorized that Patience might have been a secondary personality born in Curran's subconscious. In 1924, the Boston SPR's Walter F. Prince investigated Patience, and skeptical and meticulous researcher was astounded by her abilities. She could for instance, create two literary works at once, switching between them and never losing track of either. Prince concluded that either Curran's subconscious was working in some radically odd way, or "some cause operating through, but not originating in" her subconscious was at work. Patience Worth's Ouija-board messages could be considered an extreme from of so-called automatic writing, in which a spirit supposedly guides its host's hand in writing astral messages. A once-popular variation was called slate writing, in which words seemed to appear on a slate without benefit of a human agent. The ASPR tended to dismiss slate writing as more a parlor trick than a psychic event, however, since it could be easily faked.
A psychological explanation for Patience- that she was a dissociated part of Currnan's own personality- is also given for a psychic phenomenon known as obsession. An obsessing spirit supposedly invades a person and alters the host's personality. Obsession is considered a possible prelude to spirit possession.