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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Whittingham
Author Conan Doyle.
Quite interesting his only son was killed on the Somme in WW1.
Quite interesting his only son was killed on the Somme in WW1.
Jabbermocky
Paranormal Maven
Author Conan Doyle.
Maybe he 'became' one, but it would be more accurate to say he was a 'Scottish' gentleman. I was discussing British accents with a Canadian friend, the other day, and I commented that often well educated Scots appear to speak with an 'English' accent. Like Doyle, Tony Blair is a fellow Edinburger with the same 'affliction'. Sean Connery would be the other end of the scale.
Doyle was also a believer in the Cottingley Fairies -- which I don't think would hold water today.
Maybe he 'became' one, but it would be more accurate to say he was a 'Scottish' gentleman. I was discussing British accents with a Canadian friend, the other day, and I commented that often well educated Scots appear to speak with an 'English' accent. Like Doyle, Tony Blair is a fellow Edinburger with the same 'affliction'. Sean Connery would be the other end of the scale.
Doyle was also a believer in the Cottingley Fairies -- which I don't think would hold water today.
trainedobserver
Paranormally Disenchanted
Author Conan Doyle.
He was completely and totally taken in by that hoax. It is an excellent case of where the will to believe trumps reason and common sense.
He was completely and totally taken in by that hoax. It is an excellent case of where the will to believe trumps reason and common sense.
Kieran
Paranormal Adept
Author Conan Doyle.
Sir Arthur’s ancestors were well-to-do Catholic landowners who, in the mid-18th century, were stripped of their estates in the Irish Midlands as a punishment for their continued adherence to the old Prayer Book. Despite making it to the highest echelons of London society, the Doyle family would always maintain a strong affinity to Irish Catholicism.
In his 1924 autobiography, Memories and Adventures, he records: ‘I, an Irishman by extraction, was born in the Scottish capital after two separate lines of Irish wanderers came together under one roof’. In 1945, Sir Arthur’s son Adrian confirmed that his father was ‘by descent and parentage, a Southern Irishman’. It is, if you will, elementary.
Sir Arthur’s ancestors were well-to-do Catholic landowners who, in the mid-18th century, were stripped of their estates in the Irish Midlands as a punishment for their continued adherence to the old Prayer Book. Despite making it to the highest echelons of London society, the Doyle family would always maintain a strong affinity to Irish Catholicism.
Kim323
Paranormal Maven
Author Conan Doyle.
My thanks to tyder001 for posting this. It was very touching on a variety of levels, not least of which is that I've been addicted to the Sherlock Holmes stories since I was very (very) young. I've read each story in the canon so many times I can't begin to say how many. I laughed when Doyle alluded to the "force" with which he was brought sometimes kicking and screaming to continue the Holmes stories, try as he might to kill off Holmes, which I must say was a shock to me as a young boy when he did it. I'm glad he succumbed to popular clamor and brought Holmes "back to life." It seems Holmes, not with his boxing skills, but his Oriental fighting deftness, precipitated Moriarty over the falls. I always felt a bit bad for Watson, though, kept in the dark as he had been for some years, believing that his finest friend was dead. Holmes was "resurrected" and back in form in Doyle's The Empty House (if I remember correctly). As for Doyle's firm belief, his knowing, of spiritual continuity after death, he wrote of that in a very riveting story in the Professor Challenger series. You may have read The Lost World by Doyle. In The Land of Mist, Professor Challenger, hidebound and stringent believer in only the facts of the scientific method, comes to know in the reality the spiritualists had been trying to get the world to see. In my own deeply held beliefs as a Christian (not a right wing fundamentalist type, I hasten to add!), I have trouble personally "fitting in" communication with those who have passed on into Christian theology, but Doyle's The Land of Mist is a must read in my opinion. I think, too, what Doyle in all his stories did for me, was to paint a wonderful picture of British life, of the different strata of its society, the clubs the gentlemen belonged to, all the atmosphere of British life. Now, Doyle had, indeed, his feet of clay, but who hasn't? I love the novels of Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, W. Somerset Maugham, the works by Carl Jung, and make it a must to read good biographies of all those authors I admire so much, and not one has not had decided "feet of clay." And, in closing, regarding spiritualism: the great (truly) American psychologist William James, researched spiritualism, too. Ok, enough of me on all this, but it was a true delight to hear and see Doyle in audio and video.
My thanks to tyder001 for posting this. It was very touching on a variety of levels, not least of which is that I've been addicted to the Sherlock Holmes stories since I was very (very) young. I've read each story in the canon so many times I can't begin to say how many. I laughed when Doyle alluded to the "force" with which he was brought sometimes kicking and screaming to continue the Holmes stories, try as he might to kill off Holmes, which I must say was a shock to me as a young boy when he did it. I'm glad he succumbed to popular clamor and brought Holmes "back to life." It seems Holmes, not with his boxing skills, but his Oriental fighting deftness, precipitated Moriarty over the falls. I always felt a bit bad for Watson, though, kept in the dark as he had been for some years, believing that his finest friend was dead. Holmes was "resurrected" and back in form in Doyle's The Empty House (if I remember correctly). As for Doyle's firm belief, his knowing, of spiritual continuity after death, he wrote of that in a very riveting story in the Professor Challenger series. You may have read The Lost World by Doyle. In The Land of Mist, Professor Challenger, hidebound and stringent believer in only the facts of the scientific method, comes to know in the reality the spiritualists had been trying to get the world to see. In my own deeply held beliefs as a Christian (not a right wing fundamentalist type, I hasten to add!), I have trouble personally "fitting in" communication with those who have passed on into Christian theology, but Doyle's The Land of Mist is a must read in my opinion. I think, too, what Doyle in all his stories did for me, was to paint a wonderful picture of British life, of the different strata of its society, the clubs the gentlemen belonged to, all the atmosphere of British life. Now, Doyle had, indeed, his feet of clay, but who hasn't? I love the novels of Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis, W. Somerset Maugham, the works by Carl Jung, and make it a must to read good biographies of all those authors I admire so much, and not one has not had decided "feet of clay." And, in closing, regarding spiritualism: the great (truly) American psychologist William James, researched spiritualism, too. Ok, enough of me on all this, but it was a true delight to hear and see Doyle in audio and video.
Polterwurst
Paranormal Adept
Thanks, tyder001. That's really a historical document for me. Wonderful to hear the master speak across the decades
... Although he doesn't seem to give E. A. Poe any credit, who did write detective stories in which the hero used his skills of logic and observation before Sherlock Holmes.
In the beginning, he says that he wanted to talk about his 'psychic experiences'. That sounds rather like he had his own ones instead of just looking into the alleged experiences and abilities of others. Does anybody know if he had any personal stories? He goes on later that his experience in the psychic field began around 1886, when he was coming up with the Holmes stories, but unfortunately he gives no details if that's meant only in respect to him investigating psychics or if there was more to it.
Anyways, 1886 is a long way from WW 1, so I guess that the idea that his interest in these subjects was caused by the loss of his son in that war, as its indicated, for example, on his german wiki page, is only half the story. Typically enough, while he himself obviously considers his psychical research the more important part of his life's work, it is hardly mentioned on that wiki page (and only in a kind of patronizing way, using mainly the Cottingley fairies as an example).
... Although he doesn't seem to give E. A. Poe any credit, who did write detective stories in which the hero used his skills of logic and observation before Sherlock Holmes.
In the beginning, he says that he wanted to talk about his 'psychic experiences'. That sounds rather like he had his own ones instead of just looking into the alleged experiences and abilities of others. Does anybody know if he had any personal stories? He goes on later that his experience in the psychic field began around 1886, when he was coming up with the Holmes stories, but unfortunately he gives no details if that's meant only in respect to him investigating psychics or if there was more to it.
Anyways, 1886 is a long way from WW 1, so I guess that the idea that his interest in these subjects was caused by the loss of his son in that war, as its indicated, for example, on his german wiki page, is only half the story. Typically enough, while he himself obviously considers his psychical research the more important part of his life's work, it is hardly mentioned on that wiki page (and only in a kind of patronizing way, using mainly the Cottingley fairies as an example).