The first half of this book is devoted to an account of Ambrose Pratt's colourful and surprising life. He was a highly unusual man of keen intellect and massive integrity who occupied important roles in the East and West.
Raynor Johnson enjoyed a close relationship with him over many years, gradually gaining a keen insight into his mind and character. He then determined to see if he could trace Ambrose Pratt after his death. The second half of the book records the messages received by Geraldine Cummins, the best of all writing mediums. By their depth of answers to his questions these messages finally convinced Dr Johnson that he now had verifiable personal evidence that his friend had indeed survived death with his questing mind and philosophical insight intact. This formed a spiritual watershed in Dr Johnson's own life and no reader can fail to be impressed by the remarkable exchanges of thought which it records.
About the author
Raynor Johnson, born in Leeds 1901, graduated from Balliol College, Oxford with a First in Arts. He then took a First in Science at London before becoming a Doctor of Science specialising in spectroscopy. For eleven years until 1934 he lectured first at Queen's University, Belfast and then Kings College, London before becoming Master of Queen's College, University of Melbourne. There he remained for thirty years until his retirement in 1964. When Raynor Johnson died in 1987 at the age of 86 much was written about this remarkable physicist, mystic, and former Master of Queen's College Melbourne University. Perhaps the most telling obituary comment was the portrayal by an ex-student of a gentle, humorous and modest man of the utmost integrity and sincerity whose thinking, although most profound, was always subjected to a rigorous appraisal. He had a gift for making his students feel on equal terms and was possessed of 'a humility and openness that left a lasting impression on those fortunate enough to have known him'.
