SWAN ON A BLACK SEA Transmitted by Geraldine Cummins By Geraldine Cummins. 1965 / 168 pages 

The core of this book is a remarkable collection of writings - often referred to as the Cummins/Willett scripts - received by Geraldine Cummins, a sensitive of outstanding integrity, which includes detailed information about incidents in the earth lives of a group of people communicating after their death. The scripts are of special interest because they involve members of the Society for Psychical Research who had formerly investigated the subject with scientific rigour. The principal communicator, 'Mrs Willett', had produced many scripts on earth, including contributions to the series of cross-correspondence in the S. P. R. archives. She shows herself to be fully aware of the difficulties both of communicating and assessing such scripts, and is a communicator of sensitivity, humour, and caustic wit. 

Endorsements 'A very important addition to the vast mass of such material which prima facie suggests rather strongly that certain human beings have survived the death of their physical bodies and have been able to communicate with others who are still in the flesh.' Professor C. D. Broad, former President of the Society for Psychical Research, Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge. 'It is impossible to read this study of "automatic writing" without being convinced of the complete sincerity of everybody concerned. The book is complete and refreshingly free from the "uplift" and pious chit-chat usually associated with messages from the Beyond. And there is nothing neurotic or even credulous about Miss Cummins.'

James Laver, Sunday Telegraph.