When Spirits Come Calling

The author had little interest in survival and after death communication until her husband died in 1983 and began to make contact. Here she approaches the subject as an open-minded sceptic, recognising that, as we know, many scientists are still completely closed off from this kind of evidence and will not consider it seriously. The chapter narratives are very varied and include deathbed coincidences, guidance from the other side, suicide, communication from children who have died, mysterious behaviour of clocks, lights, radios and telephones, symbolic events, animal stories and paranormal dreams. There are many significant case histories that cannot be explained in normal terms and which add to the already considerable volume of similar material. One such example involved the death of a man's wife in a car crash, where she communicated to him the nature of her fatal injuries before the car was found and any post-mortem conducted. Such case histories should be analysed using a legal approach to evidence, as I argue in my own book Survival? I would enlarge on the reference to T.H. Huxley (p. 127) who is quoted as saying that one should sit down before facts like a little child and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion - which Huxley himself certainly did not do in relation to the spiritualistic phenomena of his day investigated by Alfred Russell Wallace, also a Fellow of the Royal Society. This is a valuable contribution to the field.