Arthur Ford was a trans-medium who described a large amount of reliable material about the existence of the human personality after death, known to psychic researchers in the 20th century. Arthur Ford's lectures and visual demonstrations of psychic phenomena took place all over the world. He was a co-founder of the Fellowship of Spiritual Frontiers, a nationwide fellowship for the study of the psychic and mysterious aspects of life. Twice Ford made headlines around the world: as the medium who delivered the posthumous coded message promised by magician Harry Houdini in the 1920s, and as the medium who conveyed the authentic message from the son of Bishop James Pike in 1967.