First published in 1914, Letters from a Living Dead Man was written by Elsa Barker (1869–1954).
Sometime in 1912, Elsa Barker, an accomplished American Poetess, was visiting in Paris, when one night she found herself automatic writing, meaning that is someone other than her sub conscious was writing using her hand.
The entity inspiring the writing, claimed to be Judge David Patterson Hatch.
The judge explained that he had recently passed over and that he wanted to document his experiences on the other side in the form of letters that he would write through Elsa’s hand. Until Elsa was convinced of the Judge’s identity she referred to him as “X”
Over the next three years over 130 letters were ‘dictated’ and published as a trilogy under the banner Letters from a Living Dean Man. The letters are now considered an essential guide to the afterlife; all are fascinating, informative, and inspirational, and required reading for anyone interested in life and death, the afterlife, and why we are here.
