Show Author Describes Life After Death Claims Ample Experiment Provides Real Proof For His Theory NEW YORK Though Though differing in its military i phase World war II nonetheless appears to be running true to the form of World war I in inan Inan Inan an aspect important in the opinion of psychologists That aspect has hasto hasto hasto to do with revival of wide-spread wide in in- interest interest terest In what from the religious standpoint Is called spiritualism and andin andIn andin in scientific circles is known as psychical research It was during the mass killings of the first World war that Conan Doyle stopped the flow of his famous famous' Sher Sher- Sherlock Sherlock lock Holmes detective stories Wan tel to an announce an announce boldly that he was in communication com com- communication communication with the dead and could prove it The rest of his life was given over to offering that proof or what he thought was w was s proof of of his theory Speaks Speaks' With Dead Actuated by the same conviction Sir Oliver Lodge one of tho great physical scientists of f all time brought consolation Into millions of bereaved British homes by his book Raymond In it he related he-related related con con- conversations conversations he believed he had had with his son after the latter's death in action during a battle some somewhere somewhere somewhere where in France But the psychic work of Doyle and that of Lodge were only examples of the hundreds of revelations published In England and America between 1914 and 1920 by 1920 by ouija board operators tilters table table tilters and amateur clairvoyants as well as by c I IY Y t. t t v M STEWART EDWARD WHITE trained traine scientific e experimenters ex rim n In addition strange tales had been brought back by soldiers who had fought at the front Many still re re- remember remember remember member the story of the Angels of Mons And now with Europe once more drenched in blood with people be be- being being ing killed daily and whole populations populations living under hourly threat of death men of pf achievement like Lodge and Doyle are again testify testify- testifying testifying ing to their conviction convict on that those who have died can and do communicate communicate communicate with the living And this time something more than mere tes tes- testimony testimony timo y is being offered One book Just published The Unobstructed Universe by Stewart Edward White undertakes to chart a pro pro- program program program gram for proving survival by phys phys- physical physical physIcal ical experiment and not just through so-called so revelation Life Lite After Death He has embarked on what he con con- considers considers siders an even more important ex ex- exploring exploring exploring task that of finding out and reporting what goes on beyond the very borders of life itself Itsell Why he believes he has succeeded in this new exploration Is told in The Un Un- Unobstructed Unobstructed obstructed Universe His interest in psychical research Is due largely to the persistence of his wife Betty It had long been established that she herself hersell was pos pos- possessed possessed of remarkable psychic pow pow- ers But White was skeptical 20 years ago of his wife's excursions into a forbidden frontier which he could not explore exp ore himself An un un- unusually unusually usually practical man he had to be shown and was at last convinced only by the mounting weight of evi evi- evidence evidence evidence dence she provided It was a logical outcome of their joint psychic experiments that aft after er his wife's death In April 1939 White set about seeking to establish establish establish lish contact with her How in his own belief he finally succeeded he related in The Unobstructed Uni Uni- verse Whites White's book purports to present a detailed report of how the spiritual form retains its personal identity how it I is fed ed clothed and sheltered The work and even the pleasures of life after death are described Of intense interest is the explanation tion offered of how the transcended individual lives on with earthly friends though unseen unseen not not merely as a memory but as a fully aware person Some will think as they did In hi hithe Inthe inthe the case ot oI Conan Doyle and Sir Oliver Lodge that Stewart Edward White self deceived is just another brilliant writer of good literature gone wrong I dont don't object to that he says Its part of the game game of putting i over a new idea I I f |