Automatism

Automatism is the practice or theory of the spontaneous production of words (speech or writing), drawing, painting or other creative production, or behavior in general, without conscious self-control or self-censorship.

Mediumistic automatism, in which the speech, writing or behaviour produced is purported to be communicated from ghosts, spirits or the like, channeling through a psychic or medium

Surrealist automatism is an artistic technique of spontaneous writing, drawing, or the like practiced without conscious aesthetic or moral self-censorship.

In law, automatism is the state of acting involuntarily, as in sleepwalking. (Sleepwalking — Insanity or Automatism)

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See also: Automatism, Channeling, Conscious, Drawing, Ghost, Ideomotor effect, Law, Medium (spirituality), Mediumistic automatism