Raymond Or Life And Death edition by Oliver Lodge Literature Fiction eBooks
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Raymond Or Life And Death edition by Oliver Lodge Literature Fiction eBooks
I have read literally hundreds of books on this subject (reincarnation and afterlife communications). This author was a highly respected member of the original group researching psychic communications and seance communications. This fact alone makes the book very interesting and important. There has, however, been much research of a scientific nature by many people since Mr. Lodge's time and this book is highly personal to the author as well as suffering from the time distance. As someone who is interested in the methods as well as the information obtained, this is valuable. If you are looking for a more current and/or scientific approach, I would say look for something by Raymond Moody or others more detail and proof oriented. Dr. Ian Stevenson wrote several books on reincarnation and they are virtually all well done and meticulously researched. For afterlife communications there are hundreds of authors who are more current and less personally involved.Product details
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Raymond Or Life And Death edition by Oliver Lodge Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
The magnitude of life wasted in the First World War gave rise - not surprisingly - to a "rebirth" of interest in spiritualism and the occult. This is an interesting, though painful source document illustrating how grief can override common sense. This father's clear and overwhelming sadness suffered when his son died in Flanders made him cling to the messages, ostensibly revealed during sittings, séances, automatic writing, etc., from the other side.
Fascinating, heart-breaking and hard to read ... on multiple levels (the style and content are off-putting to modern readers, the sense of loss palpable throughout).
"Raymond" is a brilliant book by one of the truly great minds of the Edwardian era, Sir Oliver Lodge. It's amazing what lengths he took--using cross-correspondence techniques and scientific method--to obviate fraud and to establish that, yes, something very strange was going on here. If you dismiss it as a "mourning parent who's duped" or the work of a "superstitious nincompoop who has no critical thinking faculties" you apparently haven't been reading too closely. And that's the thing Rarely have paranormal questions been taken up by such a gifted and brilliant thinker. Drawing on his training as a physicist, he uses his powers of deduction to sift the mystery to its bottom. A must-read for anyone who plans on dying.
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge (1851-1940) was a British physicist, and a Christian Spiritualist who was a member of `The Ghost Club' and served as president of the London-based Society for Psychical Research from 1901 to 1903. He wrote other books such as Man and the universe,,survival of Man a Study,Reason and Belief, etc.
He wrote in the Preface to this 1916 book, "This book is named after my son who was killed in the [First World] War. It is divided into three parts. In the first part ... the spirit shown by any number of youths... is illustrated by extracts from his letters... The second part gives specimens of what at present are considered by most people unusual communications... it may well be believed that it is not without hesitation that I have ventured thus to obtrude family affairs. I should not have done so were it not that the amount of premature and unnatural bereavement at the present time is so appalling that the pain caused by exposing one's own sorrow and its alleviation, to possible scoffers, becomes almost negligible in view of the service which ... may thus be rendered to mourners... The third part of the book... is designed to help people in general to realise that this subject... is subject to a law and order of its own, and that though comparatively in its infancy it is a genuine branch of psychological science."
He begins the second part by stating, "I have made no secret of my conviction, not merely that personality persists, but that its continued existence is more entwined with the life of every day than has been generally imagined; there is no real breach of continuity between the dead and the living... methods of intercommunion can be set going in response to the urgent demand of affection..." (Pg. 83) After admitting that he feels his son has now communicated numerous times with him, he says, "the family scepticism, which up to this time has been sufficiently strong, is now, I may fairly say, overborne by the facts." (Pg. 84)
In the third part, he argues, "It may be doubted whether Materialism as a philosophy exists any longer, in the sense of being sustained by serious philosophers; but a few physiological writers... continue to advocate what they are pleased to call Scientific Materialism. Properly regarded this is a Policy, not a Philosophy..." (Pg. 284) He notes, "Life must be considered sui generis; it is not a form of energy, nor can it be expressed in terms of something else. Electricity is in the same predicament; it too cannot be explained in terms of something else. This is true of all fundamental forms of being." (Pg. 290) Later, he adds, "Life and mind and consciousness do not belong to the material region; whatever they are in themselves, they are manifestly something quite distinct from matter and energy, and yet they utilise the material and dominate it." (Pg. 317)
He says of his purported communications with his son, "In every way he has shown himself anxious to give convincing evidence. Moreoever, he wants me to speak out; and I shall." (Pg. 375) He concludes, "Let us not be discouraged by simplicity. Real things are simple. Human conceptions are not altogether misleading. Our view of the Universe is a partial one but is not an untrue one. Our knowledge of the conditions of existence is not altogether false---only inadequate. The Christian idea of God is a genuine representation of reality." (Pg. 395)
Lodge's writings were "key" to the Psychical Research/Spiritualist movement, and should be studied by anyone interested in this era.
I have read literally hundreds of books on this subject (reincarnation and afterlife communications). This author was a highly respected member of the original group researching psychic communications and seance communications. This fact alone makes the book very interesting and important. There has, however, been much research of a scientific nature by many people since Mr. Lodge's time and this book is highly personal to the author as well as suffering from the time distance. As someone who is interested in the methods as well as the information obtained, this is valuable. If you are looking for a more current and/or scientific approach, I would say look for something by Raymond Moody or others more detail and proof oriented. Dr. Ian Stevenson wrote several books on reincarnation and they are virtually all well done and meticulously researched. For afterlife communications there are hundreds of authors who are more current and less personally involved.
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