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Matthew Manning (born August 17, 1955) 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. While writing a school essay Manning discovered that he had the ability to do automatic writing 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 Dr. 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.

Today, Manning continues to devote his efforts to psychic healing and lecturing, the former a claimed ability of his, of which, the medical community remains skeptical.

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