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This is an excellent film on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, showing the passion, enthusiasm and commitment of the great man. Also somewhat poignant as it took place only three years before his passing at the age of 71 on 7 July 1930 at Windlesham in Crowborough, where this interview took place.

Sad, but not altogether surprising, that a lot of the "conventional wisdom" about him and his commitment to Spiritualism continues to be trotted out without any substance to back it up, exemplified by the earlier reviewer who referred to "irrational spiritualism" - very easy to stick on a label and then dismiss it without any kind of comment. Did this reviewer actually LISTEN to what ACD said in the second half of this interview? - "I'm not talking about what I believe, I'm not talking about what I think, I'm talking about what I KNOW...".

I would recommend reading 'The Return of Arthur Conan Doyle' by Ivan Cooke (1956) if you want to get a deeper insight into ACD's thoughts on Spiritualism and the afterlife (and what led to the White Eagle Lodge being founded in England in 1936, six years after his physical death).



Dave Patrick

Editor - THE VIEW: From Conan Doyle to Conversations With God (Polair Publishing, 2009)

- June 10, 2013The Two Sides of Conan Doyle - Both "Rational"