This is a book for those who seek information about life after death before mortal death itself answers that question. But it is also a book that goes well beyond the mortality question in its recording of spiritual testimony relating not only to personal experiences in the spirit world, but also in providing a description of varied living conditions and surroundings, and informing us of some of the prevailing spiritual laws. While some of the spirit authors will be unknown to you, there are many others who are very well known indeed. In addition to the text containing 9 chapters, with headings such as Historical Figures, Philosophers, Authors, Dark Spirits, etc., it also contains a detailed 8 page index to assist readers in their investigations. Mr. James Edward Padgett was born August 25, 1852, in Washington, D.C. and attended the Polytechnic Academy Institute at Newmarket, Virginia. In 1880 he was admitted to the bar in Washington, D.C., and thereafter practiced law for 43 years until his death on March 17, 1923. During his student years, he became friendly with Professor Joseph Salyards, an instructor at the Academy who, after his death in 1885, wrote him many interesting messages between 1914 and 1923 through the vehicle of Mr. Padgett's developed gift of automatic writing channeling. His wife, Helen, died in February 1914, and was the first to write him from the spirit world. Mr. Padgett never practiced the gift of mediumship as a means of earning money. He was dedicated wholly to the reception of many great messages from the spirit world for the reading and spiritual benefit to humankind.