Matthew Manning
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Matthew Manning is a best selling British author and healer, alleged to have psychic
abilities. As a child he and his family were allegedly subjected to a range of poltergeist
disturbances in their Cambridge
home and later at Oakham School
.
and found that in doing so it would weaken or completely stop the poltergeist activity. It is also alleged that he could do automatic drawing, sometimes called mediumistic automatism, and claimed to draw in the styles of many famous artists including Pablo Picasso
.
Manning was also tested for psychokinetic
abilities by psychologist William Braud of the Mind Science Foundation
in the late 1970s, with results that, according to Braud and coauthors in a research paper published in 1979, were better than chance. Additionally during this time, it was reported that he could "bend metal paranormally, affect electrical equipment, move compass needles, and make medical diagnoses."
The events of his childhood and later investigations by George Owen of the Cambridge Psychical Research Society were published in a 1974 book entitled The Link, which was translated into 16 languages and eventually sold more than a million copies, or "millions of copies" according to a 1997 Daily Mail article.
Psychic
A psychic is a person who professes an ability to perceive information hidden from the normal senses through extrasensory perception , or is said by others to have such abilities. It is also used to describe theatrical performers who use techniques such as prestidigitation, cold reading, and hot...
abilities. As a child he and his family were allegedly subjected to a range of poltergeist
Poltergeist
A poltergeist is a paranormal phenomenon which consists of events alluding to the manifestation of an imperceptible entity. Such manifestation typically includes inanimate objects moving or being thrown about, sentient noises and, on some occasions, physical attacks on those witnessing the...
disturbances in their Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
home and later at Oakham School
Oakham School
Oakham School is a British co-educational independent school in the historic market town of Oakham in Rutland, accepting around 1,000 pupils, aged from 10 to 18, both male and female, as boarders and day pupils . The Good Schools Guide called the school "a privileged but unpretentious and...
.
Early life
While writing a school essay Manning discovered that he had the ability to do automatic writingAutomatic writing
Automatic writing or psychography is writing which the writer states to be produced from a subconscious and/or spiritual source without conscious awareness of the content.-History:...
and found that in doing so it would weaken or completely stop the poltergeist activity. It is also alleged that he could do automatic drawing, sometimes called mediumistic automatism, and claimed to draw in the styles of many famous artists including Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso known as Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish expatriate painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer, one of the greatest and most influential artists of the...
.
Manning was also tested for psychokinetic
Psychokinesis
The term psychokinesis , also referred to as telekinesis with respect to strictly describing movement of matter, sometimes abbreviated PK and TK respectively, is a term...
abilities by psychologist William Braud of the Mind Science Foundation
Mind Science Foundation
The Mind Science Foundation is a private nonprofit scientific foundation in San Antonio, Texas, established by philanthropist Thomas Baker Slick in 1958....
in the late 1970s, with results that, according to Braud and coauthors in a research paper published in 1979, were better than chance. Additionally during this time, it was reported that he could "bend metal paranormally, affect electrical equipment, move compass needles, and make medical diagnoses."
The events of his childhood and later investigations by George Owen of the Cambridge Psychical Research Society were published in a 1974 book entitled The Link, which was translated into 16 languages and eventually sold more than a million copies, or "millions of copies" according to a 1997 Daily Mail article.