Doyle, a leading examiner of the psychic world, in The Vital Message reacts to the horrors and realities of modern war with this manifesto proposing a "renewed", global connection with the spirit realm and with this philosophy an applauding of the "Spiritualist Movement" that had enjoyed renewed interest at the turn of the previous century. In the preface to The Vital Message, his second book on spiritualism, Doyle says: In The New Revelation the first dawn of the coming change has been described. In The Vital Message the sun has risen higher, and one sees more clearly and broadly what our new relations with the Unseen may be. The Vital Message contains his early thoughts on spirit photography. (Amazon)
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.