CONAN DOYLE'S LECTURES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3635, 23 November 1920, Page 5

CONAN DOYLE'S LECTURES.

CROWDED HOUSES IN SYDNEY. ' SPIRITUALISTIC PHENOMENA. Received 9.30 a.m. SYDNEY, This day. Sir Arthur Conaa Doyle's lectures continue to draw crowded audiences. There is much newspaper correspondence and strong counter blasts from the chuches. In the third lecture, Sir Arthur displayed spirit photograph messages, including those from his own son, W. T. Stead. John Buskin, and Sir William Crookes. He nlso* showed pictures of psychoplasm, a substance which he declared exuded from mediums, who lost from twenty to thirty pounds during a trance. This substance possessed carbonate of lime and phosphates, and came from the medium in the shape of of vapour, gradually growing more solid and taking the shape of a human face or limbs. His assumption was that, into this shell the sacred spirit came. ■ ill i i .