5/11/2023 0 Comments Victorian seance![]() So what had convinced him! Much has been written about why he believed in this form of communication, some say it was through drug taking and a sense of loneliness others that he rebelled away from his own religious upbringing, I guess we may never really know for sure, but as a working Medium myself, I genuinely believe in having the ability to communicate in this way and understand that it is performed through co operation and love. ![]() The more research I did for the project I started to understand more about the man himself, I began to see that he wasn’t some kind of fanatic but genuinely believed that Mediums really could speak to the dead. But were these truths really truths or was it that he himself had become deluded and conned into believing that some of these Mediums really could connect and bring forward physical manifestation of a spirit being. He began to tour the world speaking about what he saw personally as the ‘truth’ of séances, mediums, and visitations from the dead. ![]() Much of Sir Arthur’s later life had been devoted to spreading the word of spiritualism across the world, through his public speaking and lectures and the articles and books written. Over time he became one of the world’s leading voices of the spiritualist movement and this became more apparent, especially after the First World War, when, like many people of his time, he lost close friends and family members as a result of the war. Sir Arthur Conan Doyleīut through his associations one the most significant aspects of Sir Arthurs work was his conversion to the cause of spiritualism. And in 1882 he established his own medical practice in Portsmouth and in 1887 his first Sherlock Holmes story was published. Sir Arthur was born in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 22nd May 1859 but as young boy moved to Southsea on the south coast of England. What upsets many outside the movement are not so much their beliefs but more of the practice of communication with the dead within their spiritual services. Today Spiritualism is a belief or religious practice based on supposed communication with the spirits of the dead many people attend these meetings by going to Spiritualist Churches and many refer to themselves as Spiritualists much in the same way as people refer to themselves to being Catholic or Christian. Back in those days spiritualism was not quite as we understand it today it was merely the meetings held by mediums claiming to be in contact with those from another realm, a spirit realm. Through his associates Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had gained an avid interest in Spiritualism regularly attending meetings by mediums. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle And The Victorian Séance Paul Cissell comments
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