Death: The Final Mystery

249 Pages·2000·2.353 MB·English

by  Patricia Fanthorpe, Lionel Fanthorpe

D E A T H
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IONEL ATRICIA ANTHORPE
DEATH
THEFINALMYSTERY
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D E AT H
T F M
HE INAL YSTERY
L & P F
IONEL ATRICIA ANTHORPE
A Hounslow Book
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Toronto • Oxford
Copyright © Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe, 2000
Unless otherwise stated, all copyrights for photos and illustrations belong to the authors.
The sketches are by Theo Fanthorpe.
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(except for brief passages for purposes of review) without the prior permission of Dundurn Press. Permission
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Publisher: Anthony Hawke
Editor: Don McLeod
Design: Jennifer Scott
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Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Fanthorpe, R. Lionel
Death: the final mystery
ISBN 0-88882-221-9
1. Death. 2. Near-death experiences. 3. Astral projection. 4. Reincarnation. I. Fanthorpe, Patricia. II. Title.
BF1275.D2F36 2000 I33.9’0I3 C00-931771-6
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We acknowledge the support of theCanada Council for the Artsand the Ontario Arts Councilfor our
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Fanthorpe, Arthur and Rosa Tooke, and all those other friends and
relatives who have solved the Final Mystery and gone on to God’s Realm
of Everlasting Light and Joy.
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CONTENTS
FOREWORDBYCANONSTANLEYMOGFORD 9
INTRODUCTION 13
PROLOGUE 15
WHATISPERSONALITY? 21
WHATISAGHOST? 27
EXAMPLESOFHAUNTINGS 31
NEAR-DEATHEXPERIENCES 83
OUT-OF-BODYEXPERIENCES 93
HYPNO-REGRESSIONANDREINCARNATION 103
AUTOMATICWRITING 117
SÉANCEPHENOMENA 131
POLTERGEISTS 151
RELIGIOUSTEACHINGSANDBELIEFSABOUTTHEAFTERLIFE 171
INTERVIEWSWITHPSYCHICS, MEDIUMS, ANDINVESTIGATORS 179
EPILOGUE 243
BIBLIOGRAPHY 245
FOREWORD
BY
CANON STANLEY MOGFORD, MA
Over the last ten years or more, Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe have
written a series of books, all of which deal with some of the great
mysteries that have continued to perplex people down the
centuries. They have often followed their patient research with
their own interpretation of some of these mysterious happenings
and unusual people. I have read all of these books. I own copies of
them. They have introduced me to that most unusual of priests,
Father Bérenger Saunière of Rennes-le-Château, who spent money
as if there were no end to it, but took to the grave the secret of
where he got it. I first encountered from one of their books the
strange tale of the Money Pit of Canada, and am grateful never to
have been tempted to throw away any of my money in the search
for the treasure that may or may not lie at the foot of that pit! The
Mary Celeste and its missing crew and passengers remains one of the
great unsolved mysteries of the sea but, if you chance on the
Fanthorpes’ account of it, you will be intrigued by their explanation
for the abandonment of that ship. These are but a few of the
mysteries that have haunted them all their working lives. The
stranger they are, the greater the Fanthorpes’ fascination. It may
have started as a hobby for them but has now become a passion.
In this book Lionel and Patricia go a step further. They face up
to the greatest mystery of all – the mystery we call death.