Conan Doyle And The Mysterious World of Light traces the spiritualist career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between the years 1887 and 1920. Starting with his early psychic investigations in Southsea, it tracks his development from a fascinated dilettante to becoming the mouthpiece of a world movement. Throughout these years, Light, a magazine dedicated to the mystical and occult traced his journey, not least by the letters and articles he wrote exclusively for the magazine. It was and still is the organ of the London Spiritualist Alliance, now known as the College for Psychic Studies. Every article and letter Conan Doyle wrote for the magazine during this period is here reproduced, often for the first time, as well as correspondence and articles bearing on his own writings. The book thus tells the story of Conan Doyle's Spiritualism while surrounding his writing with the discussions, debates and controversies of his time. It sets his belief in the context of his powerful imagination which created the iconic Sherlock Holmes, his indefatigable energy which made him such an effective missionary and all against the backdrop of the Great War, which was a powerful impetus for his public declaration of faith in 1916. For the question of how the creator of the arch-rationalist Sherlock Holmes also came to believe in ghosts, this book holds the fascinating answers.

Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light: 1887-1920 (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Paranormal)

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"Why did the man who created Sherlock Holmes believe in ghosts?”  From early in his medical career, Arthur Conan Doyle was fascinated by the paranormal. As a young doctor in Southsea, he investigated séances, telepathy and hypnosis and in 1887, the year of his first Sherlock Holmes novel, he became convinced of spirit communication.  Even as Holmes’s fame grew, Conan Doyle investigated poltergeists, automatic writing and spirit photography. Then, in 1916, as the Great War’s death toll mounted, he announced to an astonished his belief in Spiritualism, all the while, continuing to  produce stories starring his ultra-rational consulting detective, Sherlock Holmes.  In Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light:    Trace Conan Doyle’s thinking as he grapples with paranormal phenomena and reaches the extraordinary conclusion that they are real.  Read his own account of speaking with his dead son, Kingsley, and making physical contact with his manifested spirit.  Discover why Conan Doyle was accused of “necromancy” by Press and Church.  Find out how H G Wells, George Bernard Shaw and others were drawn into the debate.  Follow Conan Doyle’s journey to becoming an international missionary and leader of a world movement.   The first in a three-part series tracing his belief in Spiritualism, Conan Doyle and the Mysterious World of Light is a detailed, entertaining true history. Includes newspaper reports, biographies of key figures, glossary, index, bibliography - and every article and letter he wrote for the Spiritualist magazine Light between 1887 and 1920, many of which have never been published in book form.

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