Channeling Spirit Guides by Automatic Writing — An essay on the nature of spirit guides, thought forms, and the practice of automatic writing, posted to alt.consciousness.mysticism in 2006 by Bob Makransky, a Mayan priest and astrologer living in the highlands of Guatemala.
Introduction to alt.consciousness.mysticism — A scholarly introduction to alt.consciousness.mysticism, the Usenet newsgroup for discussion of mystical experience and consciousness — a community of seekers overwhelmed by spam, copyrighted reposts, and political conspiracists, with its genuine practitioners living almost entirely in reply threads.