Mind Over Matter, Heart Over Mind: From Arthur Conan Doyle to Conversations with God. In 1919 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published a call to the world to take up the challenges presented to it and enter upon a new age. He called his book 'The Vital Message' and it marked the beginning of a movement often called 'the new age'. Today, many 'new age' thinkers have been drawn to the year 2012 when one of the great achievements of civilization, the Mayan calendar, comes to an end. But it is better to think of it as a new beginning - an opportunity to review how far along our road we have come. Publishing on the 150th anniversary of Conan Doyle's birth.