On June 25-26, 2019, a conference on “Spirit-Writing in Chinese History” took place at the IKGF. In this documentary, some of the participants present their own work on the practice of spirit-writing but also discuss the state of research more generally. Due to a growing number of important studies that came out in recent years, we now have a better understanding of the emergence of spirit-writing, its technical varieties and its evolution until this day. Apart from its use for divination and amusement, the practice gradually became a highly routinized technique for the revelation of book-length scriptures. As such, it played an important role in the religious lives of both Chinese literati and commoners and is still widely practiced in Chinese-speaking communities today.