One of the best-loved writers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was most famous as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. A medical doctor by profession, with a brilliant scientific mind, Conan Doyle was also a committed Spiritualist during the latter part of his life.

But was there more to Conan Doyle’s embracing of the Spiritualist cause during the final years of his physical life? Join Dave Patrick and Colum Hayward as they don the mantle of Holmes and Watson  to take you on a journey back through time, looking first at the two years following Conan Doyle’s death, when he purportedly channeled a series of remarkable messages via spiritualist medium Grace Cooke, whose husband Ivan wrote up these messages in a book titled ‘The Return of Arthur Conan Doyle’.

The trail leads further back to Elizabethan genius Sir Francis Bacon; was Bacon the living persona of Ascended Master Saint Germain and was he the mastermind behind the plays attributed to William Shakespeare? Finally, we arrive at the time of the Cathars, a Gnostic Christian sect who were treated as heretics by the Catholic Church and ruthlessly exterminated by them in the 13th and 14th centuries. What was the secret of the Cathars and what does it mean for us today? Find out by coming along to Harrowden Books of Finedon on Friday 24th May from 7.30pm and discover that truth really is stranger than fiction!

Dave Patrick is the Editor of three books in ‘The View’ series: ‘The View: From Conan Doyle to Conversations With God’ (2009); ‘The View Beyond: Sir Francis Bacon - Alchemy, Science, Mystery’ (2011); and ‘The Cathar View: The Mysterious Legacy of Montségur’ (2012).

Colum Hayward is the grandson of Grace Cooke and the publisher of ‘The View’ series (Polair Publishing). He has also written a preface to ‘Asia Mysteriosa’, originally published in French in 1929, which tells the story of the Oracle of Astral Force, a communication device associated with the Polaire Brotherhood. Copies of all four books will be available to be purchased and signed at the event.

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