Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume,

take a nice deep breath in,

let it out slowly, and off we go.

Tonight we're relaxing with a book tangentially related to one of the most popular works on this

podcast. We're reading The Wanderings of a Spiritualist by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the New Revelation, The Vital Message, etc.

Published in 1921 by Hodder and Stoughton, London.

Let's begin.

To my wife, this memorial of a journey which her help and presence changed from a duty to a pleasure.

Arthur Conan Doyle, July 18, 1921.

The Wanderings of a Spiritualist Chapter 1

This is an account of the Wanderings of a Spiritualist,

Geographical and speculative.

Should the reader have no interest in psychic things?

If indeed any human being can be so foolish as not to be interested in his own nature and fate,

then this is the place to put the book down.

It were better also to end the matter now if you have no patience with a go-as-you-please style of

narrative which found itself upon the conviction that thought may be as interesting as action,

and which is bound by its very nature to be intensely personal. I write a record of what absorbs my mind, which may be very

different from that which appeals to yours. But if you are content to come with me upon these terms, then let us

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