Arthur Conan Doyle Interviewed on Sherlock Holmes and Spirituality

 This movie was shot in October 1928, for Movietone News in Conan Doyle's garden at his Windlesham estate with his Irish terrier, Paddy. [Source: "The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle" by Russell Miller, 2008, Thomas Dunne Books, imprint of St. Martin's Press; ISBN-13: 978-1-61523-180-5]

a son speaks about his father : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle visited Australia and spoke at the Enmore Spiritualist Church in 1921. He gave his farewell address at the Church and thanked the congregation for the warm reception he had received from Spiritualists in Australia, despite also finding demonstrators outside his public meetings, demanding he be deported !

Recently we sadly discovered that the handwritten and signed speech written by Sir Arthur was stolen from the Church files during a break-in in 2010. Here is Adrian Conan Doyle talking about his father's beliefs:

The Enduring Arthur Conan Doyle

No author n modern history has been as popular as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who created Sherlock Holmes. Every decade there is either a new feature film or TV series based upon his works.

Sir Arthur is one of the most well know Spiritualist and he wrotes books on the subject some of which can be accessed for free here :
http://www.spiritwritings.com/doylecitations.html
Here is the first part of an amateur film about him titled :No Place Like Holmes: The Reluctant Spiritualist

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle-a noted Spiritualist

The creator of Sherlock Holmes was a devoted follower of Spiritualism:

"Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Doyles were a prosperous Irish-Catholic family, who had a prominent position in the world of Art. Charles Altamont Doyle, Arthur's father, a chronic alcoholic, was the only member of his family, who apart from fathering a brilliant son, never accomplished anything of note. At the age of twenty-two, Charles had married Mary Foley, a vivacious and very well educated young woman of seventeen.


After Arthur reached his ninth birthday, the wealthy members of the Doyle family offered to pay for his studies. He was in tears all the way to England, where for seven years he had to go to a Jesuit boarding school. Arthur loathed the bigotry surrounding his studies and rebelled at corporal punishment, which was prevalent and incredibly brutal in most English schools of that epoch.
 


A third novel, written at that time, was a very strange and confusing tale about the afterlife of three vengeful Buddhist monks called The Mystery of Cloomber. This story illustrates the most serious and incomprehensible schism in Conan Doyle's personality. Under one hand, he was capable of writing brilliantly about deduction and pure logic, on the other, he was obviously fascinated by and inexorably drawn to the paranormal and ultimately to spiritualism.

Read more at the Conan Doyle estate website.