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father, who also sent a message. He
told me he was hardly ready to send
long message, but the personal
touches in the messages convinced me
beyond doubt that he was actually
speaking to me through the medium,
Il perfect stranger who did not know,
nv name or his except as Raymond.
"Manv of these curious conversations
have been reported more accurately than
| can now remember four years later
in the book, Raymond but still
remember very vividly the shock of this
first personal communication from my
own son.
ain his first and next few messages
he indicated that death had shocked and
grieved him. because it had cut him oil
from direct communication with those
who loved him and whom he loved. But
soon we began getting into steadier
communication with him and realized
that he had changed in his attitude. he
was and is happier now that he is IN
close touch with us through mediums
and through members of my own fam
iiy, some of whom have developed me-
diumistic ability recently.
Personally 1either Sir Oliver nor
myself is a medium and we must de-
pend upon these others. Even after that
first message from my son my heart
was torn with sorrow and l wrote let
ter after letter to him in my agonized
frenzy of loneliness and mother sorrow.
1t seemed the only way to relieve my
feelings, and even on the Scottish moors
and along green English lanes l spoke
aloud to him telling of my sorrow.
Answers Begin to Come
"Snnn The answers to my words, my
thoughts and my letters began coming,
and / received in London, sometimes a
month later, answers to questions which
had almost forgotten. Since these
early communications l have been in
almost constant touch with Raymond.
| can assure the mothers OF dead Ameri-
can soldier boys through my knowledge
of what Raymond, my son, now actually
thinks and tells me that neither he nor
they are unhappy.
"My sons messages to me indicate
growing contentment, and his only
worry is that have been sad. l am nc
| longer sa and American mothers of sol =
der heroes should no longer be sad
Their sorrow hurts the dead ones more
than anything else. If only the moth
ers would realize that every thought OF
| love. every spoken word and writer
message to their lost ones is imme'
| ulaLely TeCelVeu anu redu IL HOulu udht
them happy and contented.
"The messages received by the dead
as I have learned from my son, are
much as the spoken or written word II
this life. Unless thought is concen
trated upon the recipient the message
is not received. But they are Away
around us and with us. They are cage
to answer us, and it is berause the,
seek to send some little personal message
in some familiar pet family phrase b.
which they may be identified that il
many instances messages received
through mediums seem perhaps sill.
and inconsequentiai.
my own son Raymond had lived a.
unusually happy life. and he had
happy future before him. Our famil
consisted of twelve girls and boys, a.
very happy and unusually close together
Raymond had been trained in uni
versity as an engineer and his brothers
already successful. were holding posi-
tion for him in the firm when the wa
came and Raymond was killed. /
seemed horrible to me at first. but sine
then by frequent conversations | under
stand that he is perfectly happy and i
not grieving for the loss of mortal ad
vancement.