Book description
English physicist Sir Oliver Lodge lost his son Raymond in World War One. He and his wife were committed spiritualists, and they claimed to have been contacted by Raymond's spirit from the afterlife.
This book is split into three parts. The first is dubbed the 'Normal Portion', which is a…
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Combining my interest in spiritualism with the psychological aspects of military history, this book written over 100 years ago is still relevant today. Sir Oliver Lodge was an eminent physicist and electrical engineer, also a pioneer of the spiritualist movement in the UK. His youngest son Raymond volunteered for the Army during World War One and his letters home, reproduced in the first part of the book, give a vivid picture of life in the trenches of the Western Front. After Raymond is killed in action his father sets out on a series of anonymous sittings with various mediums, which…
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