CONAN DOYLE LECTURES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1598, 9 December 1920, Page 37

CONAN DOYLE LECTURES.

Sir Conan Doyle, the distinguished author and spiritualist, arrived in Auckland by the Maheno on Monday, and as we go to press is giving the first of his Dominion lectures in the Town Hall on “Death and the Hereafter.” “My object,” he told an interviewer, “is to prove immortality, to prove the life beyond the grave, and therefore to prove the points which are the very centre, not only of Christianity, but of every great religion in the world. Spiritualism is not confined to any one religion, but to the general stock of human knowledge. There is no religion which could not adopt spiritualism and yet’ retain its own fundamentals. There is a great wave of interest in the matter going over Great Britain at present, but the people out here have not yet learned what a tidal wave is sweeping over the world 4n this matter, and it is purely to show that that I am here. I have come against the greatest personal interest possible. * I have come at my own great loss. I take no payment for my lectures.” Sir Conan has studied spiritualism for 30 years. Up to that time he had been an agnostic or a materialist, but gradually through reading up the subject he found such evidences on the one hand and the absolute absence of investigation on tne other, that he became convinced that the balance was in favour of it. He did not realise its importance, however, until the war broke out, and so much mourning was occasioned. He then went into the subject much more deeply, and satisfied himself absolutely as to the truth of it. In his second lecture he will show on the screen some remarkable psychic photographs, which he will explain and guarantee.