Evening Star Newspaper, April 26, 1931, Page 73

- The Sunilay Staf PART 7. Magasine WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 26, 1931. Features : " 20 PAGES. LADY DOYLE ON SPIRITUALISM Widow of the Famous British Writer and Spiritualist Explains Why She T hinks We Can Communicate With the Dead—1Tells of Many Messages Received From Her Hushand. i “Those on the ‘other side’ leave no stone unturned to try to communicate with those on the earth plane. BY LADY CONAN DOYLE. AM consilantly asked how long I have been interested in spiritualism and what made me beccme so. When my husband passed over he . had studied and investigated and had been convinced cf the truth of the subject for more than 40 years. When he first talked to me about it I though® it was uncanny and I told him that I would take one world at a time. It was the cne and only subject which we did not have in common. - The bitterest regret of my life is that by this foolishness I lost years of great happiness. My husband was the last man in the world to try ‘to convert or ccnvince anybody against his will, The knowledge that he had, he was anxious for everybody else to have, but once he had given t, it was their affair to take it or leave it. He mever pressed it. It was not until some time later, when a brcther of mine had been killed 'at Mons, that my husband suggested -that he and I and & very close friend of mine who had also lost two drothers in the war, should have a little sitting together at home—just the three of us. We discovered that -both my friend and I had mediumistic pcwers and our brothers were able, therefore, to use them and to communicate with us. The evidence of their personality was overpowering. They gave us military informa- 4ion which neither of us nor my husband could possibly have known and which could have been known only to the heads of the war of- fice. The proof of their own personal identity was beyond all doubt—giving evidence which we had to verify frcm other people and which proved to be correct. THAT was the first stepping stone of my 3 knowledge. From then onward for 16 years I have had many experiences and have sat with mediums all over the world, and I have heard and read of the experiences of my others, all corroborating my own. People say to me, “Why must I go to a medium?” I reply, “Why go to a telegraph of- fice to send a telegram to a friend? Why don’t you breathe the words out into the air? Why g0 to a telephone to tpeak to a friend?” Be- cause in each case you must use an instrument and s0 obcy malcrial laws. In psychic matters you obey psychic laws. The medium is the psychic instrument. . Mourners cften say, “Why is it that my dear one has never got into touch with me, made no sign? I have longed so and prayed for a sign.” How can a friznd in Wash- ington speak to you in your home in New York if you have no telephone? They are at their phone but you have not troubled to install one— that is, not troubled to learn the rudiments of how to communicate. ; Spiritualists are very much like the early Christians—as they were treated, so are we. They were subjected to persecution and so we have been and still are, although we are tax- pRying citizens. We are the only people under the British flag wha have not religious freedom. All others under the British rule—black, brown or yellow in color—have. full freedom in their religious observances. But we? Oh, no! Our mediums are fined or put in jail, and yet they are essential to us in communicating with the other world as an electric current is to a wireless set. Not long ago a noble and ufselfish medium, 72 years old, who had brought comfort to many bereaved hearts and who had proved immor- tality to numbers of people, was visited by two women draped in mourning, .who later accused her of rtune telling. She was imprisoned for four months at hard labor Such proceedings must be_put right. We are not a handful of people. Therc are pundreds of thousands of Spiritualisis in the British Isles alocne and the movement is spreading like a prairie fire. We are to be reckoned with and we demand justice and freedom as our rights. There are more than 700 Spiritualistic churches in England and they arz 55 packed that the members sometimes have to be asked to stay away in the evenirg ta lcave room for all the inquirers. Does not that tell its own tale? p SpirituaMsts 'do not countenance iortune tell- ing. We all loathe it and do all in cur power to stop it. That is not Spiritua'ism. When-the laws regarding mediums are altered, the idea amorg most Spiritualists is that a ccrtificate ghould be issued to each medium from an accredited central Spiritualistic society, to be renewed each year., By that means any medium discovered in fraud would at once lose her cer- tificate and the fact would be widely published. Very often in a seance, after we get in touch with those beyond the veil, they will warn us of dangers ahead and tell us how to avoid them. They also may give us good advice as to material things which may help us in daily life. That is not forture telling, although some twisted-minded and ignorant people have some- times called it s0. God allows us the infinite comfort and help of having our dear ones’ loving care round us to benefit us. HEN palmists tell their clienfs of troubles or accidents which they see ahead it is most wrong. I have known several, friends who have been made unhappy by being told of various unfortunate things which were sup- posed to be coming to them or that they would have some great loss In such and such a year. That should be stopped. Many clergymen are studying this subject and have received enormous heip from it. Many of them wrote to bl>ss my husbard for the knowledge which he had giver. them, saying sometimes that he had restored their own faith and had given them fresh heart and sStrengtii to carry on in their work. Those on the “other side” leave no stone un- turned to try to-communicate with those on the earth plane, and as we earth pcople have discovered so rmany new ways of getting into touch with one anothzr-—by telephone, airmaii, wireless and so on—30 those belind the veil are weorking at thelr end and helping us at our end, to establish more means of communicstion. The first of what we mizht call Mocse cede from the other side of Dealh’s Valley came to Hydesville in 1848, in a farmer’s shack. When the young daughter of a farmer, heariny con- tinued raps, suddenly eried out, ‘Do as I do!” 'and snapped her fingers three times, three raps’ came in response. Then, by rapping out num- bers against the alphabet, they found out about ‘a spirit who was haunting the shack. He sald he had been a peddler and had been murdered in the house and was buried there. (Years .after, when the shack was being removed, the remains of a man were found under gome co~ ment. His peddler’s pack was also found there) I am sure that when the laws mediums are altered the public will realize héw much help they can have from those on the “other side.” For instance, every criminal de- partment will have its medium to help in the detection of crime. Some police centers abroad have them now. Through a medium a friend of ours was en~ abled to find a murdered woman's body. It happened in this way. A young woman was missing and everything pointed to her having been murdered, but the police, in spite of a long search, could not find the body. Our friend had a sitting and a relative of the missing girl on’ the “other side” communicated with him and said that the girl’s body would be found in a certain place down the river. The mext day a search was made and there was the body, in the very spot described by the spirit person. Now, Mr. Critic, where does your grand bogey, ‘telepathy,” come in? Telepathy be- tween whom? Reason must tell you that the information could have come only from"an unseen spirit entity who knew more than the human agent. If telepathy is so easy, how is it that all around us people are not daily get- ting valuable business information frocm others® brains? How 1s it that students don't know what a professor is going to say, although their brains are tuned in to the same vibration? Telepathy does, of course, exist—but is a very rare gift. Telepathy does not come into the matter when a human is in coymunication with a spirit person and the lattep’gives information and ‘talks of things unknown to the human entity, and which afterward prove to be true 1 will give another case in point: Two ycung men, the sons of Juno Brown, a prominent Ause. tralian citizen who _married the premiess daughter, went out in a sailing boat in Sydney, Harbor and never returned. Their parents, fotte tunaiely, were Spiritualists. (After waiting twg