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	''The Psychical Doyle'' is an article written by [[Kelvin I. Jones]] published in three parts in the [[A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society]] (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2 & 3, and Vol. 2 No. 2) in september 1989, march & september 1990, and autumn 1991.		''The Psychical Doyle'' is an article written by [[Kelvin I. Jones]] published in three parts in the [[A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society]] (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2 & 3, and Vol. 2 No. 2) in september 1989, march & september 1990, and autumn 1991.

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 [[Arthur Conan Doyle|A.C.D.]] had reason to be grateful to Powell. On 7 September he had broken through the barrier of death and was able to contact his son Kingsley. Powell had travelled to Portsmouth from Merthyr Tydfil where he attended a meeting addressed by the author. What really impressed [[Arthur Conan Doyle|A.C.D.]] about Powell was that he accepted no pay for his services and therefore his powers were "free from that deterioration which comes from overstrain."
-After the conclusion of the lecture, Powell agreed to return to Sir Arthur's hotel room and there gave him a sitting. The other persons present at this seance were [[Jean Elizabeth Leckie|Lady Conan Doyle]], Frank Blake, President of the Southern Counties Spiritualist Union, Mr. and Mrs. MacFarlane, leaders of the Portsmouth branch, and Harry Engholm, a cinema producer — all present sympathetic to the cause of spiritualism.
+After the conclusion of the lecture, Powell agreed to return to [[Sir Arthur Conan Doyle|Sir Arthur]]'s hotel room and there gave him a sitting. The other persons present at this seance were [[Jean Elizabeth Leckie|Lady Conan Doyle]], Frank Blake, President of the Southern Counties Spiritualist Union, Mr. and Mrs. MacFarlane, leaders of the Portsmouth branch, and Harry Engholm, a cinema producer — all present sympathetic to the cause of spiritualism.
 Powell would insist on being tied securely to a chair before each seance commenced and of having the knots tested by each of his sitters. His chief control was a North American Indian called Black Hawk. and the phenomena witnessed by observers included movements of objects. psychic lights and direct voice phenomena.
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 . Hampshire Telegraph and Post, 10th June 1921
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 . Bird; op.cit. p. 86

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	''The Psychical Doyle'' is an article written by [[Kelvin I. Jones]] published in ~~two~~ parts in the [[A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society]] (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2 & 3) in september 1989, march and september 1990.		''The Psychical Doyle'' is an article written by [[Kelvin I. Jones]] published in three parts in the [[A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society]] (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2 & 3) in september 1989, march and september 1990.

	The article examines [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s collaboration with American journalist J. Malcolm Bird, using Bird's eyewitness accounts of séances to reassess [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Conan Doyle]]'s approach to spiritualism. It argues that [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Conan Doyle]] was neither blindly credulous nor rigorously scientific, but a committed believer who balanced sympathy for mediums with selective skepticism toward individual phenomena.		The article examines [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s collaboration with American journalist J. Malcolm Bird, using Bird's eyewitness accounts of séances to reassess [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Conan Doyle]]'s approach to spiritualism. It argues that [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Conan Doyle]] was neither blindly credulous nor rigorously scientific, but a committed believer who balanced sympathy for mediums with selective skepticism toward individual phenomena.

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	''The Psychical Doyle'' is an article written by [[Kelvin I. Jones]] published in two parts in the [[A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society]] (Vol. 1, No. 1 & 2) in september 1989 and ~~march~~ 1990.		''The Psychical Doyle'' is an article written by [[Kelvin I. Jones]] published in two parts in the [[A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society]] (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2 & 3) in september 1989, march and september 1990.

	The article examines [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s collaboration with American journalist J. Malcolm Bird, using Bird's eyewitness accounts of séances to reassess [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Conan Doyle]]'s approach to spiritualism. It argues that [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Conan Doyle]] was neither blindly credulous nor rigorously scientific, but a committed believer who balanced sympathy for mediums with selective skepticism toward individual phenomena.		The article examines [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s collaboration with American journalist J. Malcolm Bird, using Bird's eyewitness accounts of séances to reassess [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Conan Doyle]]'s approach to spiritualism. It argues that [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Conan Doyle]] was neither blindly credulous nor rigorously scientific, but a committed believer who balanced sympathy for mediums with selective skepticism toward individual phenomena.

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	''The Psychical Doyle'' is an article written by [[Kelvin I. Jones]] published in two parts in the [[A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society]] (Vol. 1, No. 1 & 2) in september 1989 and march 1990.		''The Psychical Doyle'' is an article written by [[Kelvin I. Jones]] published in two parts in the [[A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society]] (Vol. 1, No. 1 & 2) in september 1989 and march 1990.

			The article examines [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s collaboration with American journalist J. Malcolm Bird, using Bird's eyewitness accounts of séances to reassess [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Conan Doyle]]'s approach to spiritualism. It argues that [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Conan Doyle]] was neither blindly credulous nor rigorously scientific, but a committed believer who balanced sympathy for mediums with selective skepticism toward individual phenomena.

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			''The Psychical Doyle'' is an article written by [[Kelvin I. Jones]] published in two parts in the [[A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society]] (Vol. 1, No. 1 & 2) in september 1989 and march 1990.

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	''The Psychical Doyle'' is an article written by [[Kelvin I. Jones]] published in two parts in the [[A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society]] (Vol. 1, No. 1 & 2) in september 1989 and march 1990.

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