In Times of War – Messages of Wisdom from Soldiers in the Afterlife

Jon Beecher is the founder of White Crow Books, which has reprinted a lot of classics from the psychic field. The reference is to William James's argument that one white crow refutes the hypothesis that all crows are black. This is a very interesting collection, with some classic extracts from Wellesley Tudor Pole and Lord Dowding. Many of the individual cases are indicative of patterns immediately following death, while leaving the body in war is sudden and unexpected. There are also interesting extracts from the Wickland scripts, including ostensible communications from JJ Astor and Alfred Vanderbilt, who were drowned on the Titanic and Lusitania respectively. They reflect on their rather self-serving lives, and one overall conclusion is that life is about serving others. The cases also reinforce the argument that it is very unhelpful in making the transition to know nothing in advance about the possibility of consciousness beyond death. This is a very worthwhile collection.