What I find interesting is that the same practice can be described as channeling, meditation, hypnagogic writing, or spiritual communication depending on the person using it. That doesn’t make any of those explanations automatically true, but it does suggest that the experience is being interpreted through whatever framework the writer already has.

If I were to summarize my own view: automatic writing is a real experience, but the claim that it is direct spirit communication is a separate claim. The first part is easier to observe. The second part requires more than a blank page and a pen. I’m not trying to dismiss it, just to separate what is happening from what we decide it means.