Automatic writing is not an activity to be encouraged. Some form of psychic manifestation may appear until one has reached a certain level of discipline and understanding, but it is quite transient with sensible persons. It does no particular good and usually no particular harm either. It is better not to be sidetracked into these things, because we must see where we are going and keep a firm hold upon ourselves at all times. The only genuine automatism which is permissible, acceptable, and even to be sought after is that in which the personal self allows itself to be played upon as though it were a musical instrument by the Overself. This should be the goal of all our endeavours, this surrendering of the little self to the larger one. But when this happens it seems perfectly natural, there is nothing magical or mysterious about it, and there is the utter certitude of rightness and safety.
-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 13 : The Occult > # 92
