THE WAY OF LIFE by Arthur Findlay / 1953 / 240 pages. *****

If I could only describe to you the lovely walks we have sometimes. We never tire. To cross the beautiful lakes, and the fruits and the flowers, and the beauty of the verdure of the country, the magnificent feeling of well-being that one has. I wish you could feel it. There is no waste, no decay. The flowers just fade away. You never see them decay, and then fresh ones come in their place. So said a woman....a woman who died and returned from the spirit world to tell of her continued existence. Arthur Findlay rightly subtitled this volume "A guide to the Etheric World". For that is just what it is. In simple, no no-nonsense language, Mr Findlay, a leading Scottish stockbroker, bases his findings upon a series of dramatic séances with Glasgow medium John Sloan. Of the many who spoke at these carefully documented gatherings, one assured those present that "Death is not the end but the beginning. I think it is a triumphal march when you leave the physical, if your life is spent in the way in which you ought to have spent it. If this is so, it is a triumphal march to the spirit side of life, which is a path of glory all the way." The extracts in this book make vital reading. Gathered from various works written by Mr Findlay, it tells inquirers all we should know about the journey through death to a much more intense and wonderful life in the spirit world.