COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 January 1916, Page 9

COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD.

The Central News says:—lt will be remembered that in November last, speaking at the Robert Browning Settlement at Walworth, Sir Oliver Lodge made an animation in the following terms as to the survival of the soul: "I know that certain friends of mine still exist, because 1 have talked to tho.ni. Communication is possible. 1 tell you with all the strength and conviction I can utter that we do persist, that people still take an interest in what is going on, that they still help us, and know far more about things than we do, and are able from time to time to communicate with us." This affirmation was the occasion of comment throughout the world.

Sir Oliver Lodge lias now in preparation a volume in which he will give to the world the scientific grounds upon which the utterance quoted above was based. He has already passed the proofs of a revised and popular edition of his well-known book on "The Survival of Man," and the new volume will be a kind of sequel to this book. Sir Oliver, it is understood, has "som» extraordinary facts" to relate. Commencing from a sceptical or at any rate an agnostic position, he has gradually reached the conviction as the result of scientific investigation first of the survival of the soul, and, more recently, of the possibility and reality of communication with those in the beyond. His first experiences of the kind to be dealt with in his books date back to the 'eighties, 'but, the conclusion arrived at being an important one, he has been slow to make a definite pronouncement. He holds the firm conviction that we are living in a. much greater universe than is generally understood,