Birth Through Death: Ethics Of The Twentieth Plane

Birth Through Death: Ethics Of The Twentieth Plane

Author: Albert Durrant Watson

Year: 1920

Albert Durrant Watson , physician, astronomer, author, and psychical researcher; b. 8 Jan. 1859 in Dixie (Mississauga), Upper Canada, son of William Youle Watson and Mary Ann Aldred; m. 23 Sept. 1885 Sarah Anne Grimshaw Clare (d. 13 March 1937) in Toronto, and they had two daughters and five sons; d. there 3 May 1926. While he received recognition for his literary efforts, Watson achieved notoriety through his psychical research. From 1918 to 1920 a series of seances was held by medium Louis Benjamin, usually in the Watson home, with a stenographer present to record the proceedings. Among those present on at least one occasion was Flora MacDonald Denison [Merrill], like Watson a devotee of Walt Whitman. Watson became president of the Association for Psychical Research of Canada and reported on his study of the seance communications, purportedly dictated by the spirits of departed celebrities, in The twentieth plane: a psychic revelation (1918) and Birth through death, T he Ethics of the twentieth Plane: a Revelation received through the psychic Consciousness of Louis Benjamin (1920). During the first weeks of January 1919 a debate on The twentieth plane was held in Toronto newspape