And, finally, a communication from a spirit whose life had been noble and unselfish, given while the recipient was in a sensitive and receptive state, detailing an account of the phenomena called death, but which is really birth into the spirit realm, the meeting of friends, and the knowledge of a quarter of a century of its joys, together with “the poet’s story,” it being an account given by one whose earth-life had been selfish, and whose selfish thoughts had formed themselves into phantom companions, following him into the realm of the future world, and making his life there one of despair, and how he escaped these legitimate children of his brain by heroic acts of unselfishness, complete the story. These last are no fictions of the imagination, written to amuse the reader; but the author is firmly convinced, yes, knows they are the words of actual living beings who have once lived on earth like ourselves. H. T. CONTENTS. PAGE. Dedication 3 Analysis 5 CHAPTER I. Matter, Life, Spirit 9 CHAPTER II. What the Senses Teach of the World and the Doctrine of Evolution 20 CHAPTER III. Scientific Methods of the Study of Man, and its Results 31 CHAPTER IV. What is the Sensitive State 37 CHAPTER V. Sensitive State: Its Division into Mesmeric, Somnambulic and Clairvoyant 44 CHAPTER VI. Sensitiveness Proved by Psychometry 64 CHAPTER VII. Sensitiveness During Sleep 75 CHAPTER VIII. Dreams 86 CHAPTER IX. Sensitiveness Induced by Disease 93 CHAPTER X. Thought Transference 99 CHAPTER XI. Intimations of an Intelligent Force 117 CHAPTER XII. Effects of Physical Influences on the Sensitive 147 CHAPTER XIII. Unconscious Sensitiveness 151 CHAPTER XIV. Prayer in the Light of Sensitiveness and Thought Waves 165 CHAPTER XV. Christian Science, Mind Cure, Faith Cure--their Physical Relations 178 CHAPTER XVI. What the Immortal State Must Be 188 CHAPTER XVII. Personal Experience--Intelligence from the Sphere of Light 217 Matter, Life, Spirit.