The New Revelation by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Now, leaving this large and possibly contentious subject of the / modifications which such new revelations must produce in Christianity, / let us try to follow what occurs to man after death. The evidence on / this point is fairly full and consistent. Messages from the dead have / been received in many lands at various times, mixed up with a good deal / about this world, which we could verify. When messages come thus, it / is only fair, I think, to suppose that if what we can test is true, / then what we cannot test is true also. When in addition we find a very / great uniformity in the messages and an agreement as to details which / are not at all in accordance with any pre-existing scheme of thought, / then I think the presumption of truth is very strong. It is difficult / to think that some fifteen or twenty messages from various sources of / which I have personal notes, all agree, and yet are all wrong, nor is / it easy to suppose that spirits can tell the truth about our world but / untruth about their own.

I received lately, in the same week, two accounts of life in the next / world, one received through the hand of the near relative of a high / dignitary of the Church, while the other came through the wife of a / working mechanician in Scotland. Neither could have been aware of the / existence of the other, and yet the two accounts are so alike as to be / practically the same.[2]