End of Days by Sylvia Browne

Posted by admin_akashic on Aug 9th, 2022 in Stories

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

He created the character of Sherlock Holmes, about whom he wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories. He was a successful physician who served in a medical unit in South Africa. He was knighted by King Edward VII for an article he wrote entitled “The War in South Africa: Its Cause and Conduct,” in which he defended England’s handling of the Boer War. He became a renowned writer and public speaker on spiritualism and the afterlife. And he committed to paper in 1930 a list of prophecies that history showed to be remarkably accurate.

His name was Arthur Conan Doyle, and he was born to devoutly Catholic parents in Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 22, 1859. His early career as a physician led him to his wife, Louise, whose brother Jack he treated for terminal cerebral meningitis. Jack’s illness and death drew Arthur and Louise into a deeply devoted, respectful marriage that resulted in the birth of two children, at a time when Arthur was making the transition from successful physician to brilliantly gifted author.

The first Sherlock Holmes story was published in 1887. In 1893, Louise was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Arthur moved the family to the healthier climate of Hindshead, Surrey, England, in 1897, and it was there that he met the love of his life, a woman named Jean Leckie. For almost ten years, Arthur Conan Doyle and Jean Leckie somehow managed to carry on an affair that was both passionate and platonic, and Arthur never violated his oath that Louise was never to know about Jean and was never ever to be hurt.

Louise died in 1906, and for quite some time Arthur sank into health problems and depression, struggling with the guilt of a decade of secret keeping and withholding from a wife who’d devoted her life to him. But the love between him and Jean survived, and they were married in the fall of 1907.

In 1881, Arthur Conan Doyle happened to attend a lecture on spiritualism—rather remarkable under the circumstances, since his childhood Catholicism had dissipated into agnosticism by then. Something clearly moved his soul at that lecture, though, and didn’t let go. He began writing articles for spiritualist publications. He attended séances. He volunteered to be hypnotized at a lecture on mesmerism (the study of animal magnetism, in vogue at that time). And finally, in 1893, he joined the British Society for Psychical Research, an organization that, among other things, investigated alleged hauntings and similar paranormal phenomena.

By 1920, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was one of England’s and America’s foremost writers and public speakers on the subjects of spiritualism and the afterlife. It was a courageous undertaking on his part, because he accurately assumed it would compromise his lifetime of credibility. But his spiritual convictions were so strong and so deep in him that he willingly paid that price without equivocation or apologies until the day he died of heart failure on July 7, 1930.

A man as open-minded, diverse, and spiritually available as Arthur Conan Doyle was a perfect channel for prophecies. Some of them came from his Spirit Guide Phineas, and some of them were based on material he’d gleaned from mediums throughout England and the United States. All of them were contained in a letter he wrote shortly before his death, almost an open letter to humankind out of heartfelt concern, intended not to frighten but simply to encourage vigilance and preparation.

In 1930, Arthur Conan Doyle predicted that:

a period of natural convulsions will take place during which a large portion of the human race will perish; earthquakes of great severity and enormous tidal waves would seem to be the agent.
war will appear only in the early stages and will appear to be a signal for the crisis to follow; the crisis will come in an instant.
the destruction and dislocation of civilized life will be beyond belief.