I've been meaning to say for ages that there's lots and lots more episodes of my podcast on Patreon.

So if you were to look for author Steph Young, Patreon,

which is P-A-T-R-E-O-N, you'll find lots and lots more episodes of the podcast that I've been doing

for four years and I just forgot to say. Thank you. Tales of the Afterlife.

Let's begin with American Thomas Halber Edison, who became known as the man who invented the electrical light, the phonograph, the motion picture camera, although some say this was actually invented by Frenchman Louis Le Prince, who mysteriously vanished.

What most people possibly don't know is that Edison was also busily working away in his laboratory,

attempting to build a very mysterious device that he hoped would make it possible to communicate with the dead.

Or was he?

And if so, where is this device? In the October 1920 issue of the American

magazine, Edison said, if our personality survives, then it is strictly logical or scientific

to assume that it retains memory, intellect, other faculties and knowledge that we acquire on this earth.

I'm inclined to believe that our personality thereafter will be able to affect matter.

If this reasoning be correct, then, if we can evolve an instrument so delicate as to be affected by our personality as it survives in the next life. Such an instrument,

when made available, ought to record something, he said. Edson was 73 years of age at the time,

and he said, I've been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible

for personalities which have left this earth to communicate

with us. Writer Stacey Horn, when looking further into Edison's life, for her book,

Unbelievable, says that he also told a Boston Globe reporter, Man is not the unit of life.

The unit of life consists of swarms of billions of highly organised entities which live in the cells.

I believe at times that when man dies, this swarm deserts the body, goes out into space, but keeps on,

and enters another last cycle of life and is immortal.

To the owner of Forbes magazine, Edison said,

...