1. Geraldine Dorothy Cummins was an Irish spiritualist medium, novelist and playwright.
19 Facts About Geraldine Cummins
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Geraldine Cummins began her career as a creative writer, but increasingly concentrated on mediumship and "channelled" writings, mostly about the lives of Jesus and Saint Paul, though she published on a range of other topics.
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Geraldine Cummins was born in Cork, Ireland, the daughter of the physician Ashley Cummins, professor of medicine at the National University of Ireland and sister to Mary Hearn and Iris Cummins.
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Geraldine Cummins published the novel The Land they Loved in 1919, a naturalistic study of working class Irish life.
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Geraldine Cummins published another novel, Fires of Beltane and a short-story collection Variety Show.
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Geraldine Cummins began to work as a medium following prompting from Hester Dowden and E B Gibbes.
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Geraldine Cummins received alleged messages from her spirit-guide "Astor" and was an exponent of automatic writing.
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Geraldine Cummins published several books of spiritually-derived knowledge about details of the life of Jesus.
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Geraldine Cummins employed her psychic activities to support the allied cause, sending channelled messages from sympathetic spirits to Allied leaders to support the war effort.
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Geraldine Cummins collaborated with a psychiatrist who used the pseudonym R Connell on both books.
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Geraldine Cummins wrote The Fate of Colonel Fawcett which offered her psychic insights into the disappearance of the explorer Percy Fawcett in Brazil in 1925.
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Geraldine Cummins claimed she had received psychic messages from Fawcett in 1936.
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Geraldine Cummins was still alive at that time, informing her that he had found relics of Atlantis in the jungle, but was ill.
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Geraldine Cummins's last book was an account of her conversations with the spirit of Mrs Willett : Swan on a Black Sea; a Study in Automatic Writing; the Cummins-Willett Scripts.
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The automatic writing and alleged channeled material from Geraldine Cummins have been examined and have been described by some psychical researchers to be the product of her own subconscious.
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Geraldine Cummins contributed articles to the same review and Edmunds suggested it is likely she had read the work of Fawcett.
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Dodds wrote that Geraldine Cummins worked as a cataloguer at the National Library of Ireland and could have taken information from various books that would appear in her automatic writings about ancient history.
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Geraldine Cummins's writings were heavily influenced by literature and religious texts.
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Dodds studied her book Swan on a Black Sea which was supposed to be an account of spirit conversation but wrote there was evidence suggestive of fraud as Geraldine Cummins had received some of the information by natural means.