Doyle Says L. A. Is Psychic Spot
Doyle Says L. A. Is Psychic Spot is an article published in Los Angeles Record on 28 may 1923.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, speaking before the City Club in Southern California, said he felt an unusually strong presence of "psychic forces" there, linked his spiritualism to the reform of religion, expressed qualified support for prohibition, and impressed the audience as a vigorous and engaging speaker.
Doyle Says L. A. Is Psychic Spot
Doyle Says L. A. Is Psychic Spot
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes and convert to spiritualism, who delivers final lecture tonight at Trinity auditorium. The man following him is his secretary.
SAYS L. A. IS PSYCHIC REGION
Conan Doyle Feels 'Unseen Forces' Here
Are the unseen forces of the spirit world centering their attention upon Southern California?
The question is raised by a statement from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in an address before the City club Saturday noon.
"I have never been more conscious of the existence of psychic forces than I am in Southern California,"
said the eminent spiritualist.
Sir Arthur said he was in the business of "reforming" religion.
"Everything in the world,"
he asserted, "is going to be built on religion and until that is solid nothing else will be permanent."
Leans to Dry Side The famous author left his audience in some doubt as to where he stood on the prohibition question.
"Although I recognize strong argumenta on both sides,"
he said "I am on the whole for prohibition, I have already said so in England and when I get back there I shall say so again.
"Perhaps I would favor some kind of a compromise. You remember Mark Twain said, 'Good people are happy, but they are never too happy'."
Eat With Relish
The creator of Sherlock Holmes looked and acted like anything but a confidant of spirits. His connections with the solid realm of materiality seemed highly serviceable and satisfactory.
He ate the club luncheon with apparent relish. When he rose to speak he gave the impression of a well-fed country gentleman enjoying the best of health, his stalwart body dominating the scene by its vigor and sure poise.
Although he spoke but for a few moments and did not develop his ideas about spirit-land, which some what disappointed his audience, it was agreed he was one of the happiest "after dinner" talkers who had come before the club in many months.
