Word: spiritualistic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Spiritualist. Spooks were always among Doyle's chief interests. The later years of his life have been almost wholly devoted to studying psychic phenomena and broadcasting his conclusions. He assures the reader that he has chatted with spirits, held their hands, smelt ectoplasm, seen prophecies fulfilled, seen heavy objects flying about, heard supernatural whistling and singing...
...Both theories may be applied to the same psychic phenomenon; a mother for example, awakes from a dream with the terrifying realization that her son has been drowned in a shipwreck. According to the spiritualist, the soul of the dead man passes over head and conveyed the impression; according to the telepathist, a strong impression in the mind of the drowning man the moment before his death, is communicated to the mind of his mother, thousands of miles away by telepathic thought transference...
...Arthur Conan Doyle: "Back in London after delivering 40 spiritualist lectures, I declared Melbourne, Australia, and San Francisco to be the world's most materialistic cities. Of an alleged message from Oscar Wilde, which described the Arctic as ' an ocean of foaming jasper,' said I: 'I think nothing could be more reminiscent of Wilde's style...
...love with a man who was killed in the war and whom I never knew. He is Lieutenant George Alexander McKinloch, whose family has an enviable position in Chicago. I make almost daily pilgrimages to his tomb in Lake Forest and his mother and I visit spiritualist mediums...
Apparently, being a medium is not as easy as some people think. The profession is, in fact, so difficult, and is becoming so crowded with incompetent, ignorant mediums that the Illinois Spiritualist Association is going to establish a college which will raise the standards...