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There have been important mediums and researchers throughout the history of psychical research in many parts of the world, but the period from the 1880s to the 1930s saw a coming together of outstanding scientific minds in Europe and the USA who probed the phenomena of mental mediumship with a diligence, intellectual discipline and degree of enthusiasm not encountered on such a scale before or since. This period saw the establishment of the Society for Psychical Research in Britain (1882), followed swiftly by the American Society for Psychical Research (1884), which resulted in close collaboration between people who, apart from their intellects, also had the financial means and the time to devote to the subject. In this book Alan Gauld, whose works on mediumship, psychical research and psychic phenomena have become classics in the genre, offers important insights into aspects of the early days of mediumship research that over the years have largely gone off the radar. Here we see the great names of psychical research as real people in personal relationships, and we learn about the informal beginnings of serious investigations and explore their cultural context. The Heyday of Mental Mediumship is destined to become Gauld's magnum opus.

Joan of Arc heard voices.Stravinsky and Mozart heard whole symphonies.Einstein solved problems without thinking.Archimedes solved his in the bath.Churchill felt protected by a guiding hand.What about you?Have you had an unknown Guest?Throughout the ages people have sensed the existence of a benevolent force intervening from time to time in their lives as if to offer them help and protection - or to chasten them. The good fairy of folklore and the guardian angel of Christian tradition belong in this category. Socrates said that he had heeded the voice of his 'daemon' all his life, and it had never let him down. Churchill sometimes had 'a strong feeling'; he told an audience of miners during the Second World War, 'that some guiding hand has interfered'.In The Unknown Guest Brian Inglis explores the historical and present-day evidence of the force. In perhaps its most familiar guise it operates as the 'muse' for writers and artists. And many of us have felt that chance and luck can't explain away hunches, premonitions, meaningful coincidences and extra-sensory perceptions. Brian Inglis concludes that we don't know enough to be sure about the source of these promptings but the evidence is impressive enough to be worth examining afresh.

In the 21st century, with the advent of the internet, we now have access to thousands of accounts of near-death experiences across many cultures, from Plato's time more than 2,300 years ago to the present day. In the near-death or clinically dead state, many report a euphoria of love that continues throughout their lives-their fear of death diminished or eliminated-their lives enriched forever. Joe Geraci was a young man in his thirties, a former police officer and educator, when a hemorrhage came close to ending his physical life. What followed was physical agony and pain coupled with the bliss and joy of the eternal state. In Eternity Revisited, the author captures the events leading up to his clinical death and the trauma, confusion and frustration that followed. Post-NDE, he recounts a life feeling immersed in love and perfection while living in an imperfect world-a dichotomy-a foot in two worlds. He expresses his feelings and wisdom through poetry, which NDE researcher, Kenneth Ring called, "Poems of exile, born when Joe died." It's a memoir of tragedy, pain, wisdom, and hope.

Following on from The Supreme Adventure and Events on the Threshold of the After Life, What Happens When You Die documents in detail reported after-death experiences to the still living. The evidence from these and other sources around the world is often consistent - there is no death - we are told, other than the death of the physical body. As with his other works, Dr Crookall cites evidence, demonstrating that his reasoning is well thought through. He concludes that man is a multiple being, and that the part of him that gives him character, personality - his soul - is immortal. The author sums up his motivation for writing this book in the introduction where he writes: "This book replaces unreasoning fear with knowledge of what actually happens at the moment of death and after and of the strict spiritual laws involved. Death is no more than a transition, a passing, as it were, through a door from one room to another; although those left behind are unable to see into the next room, those who have gone ahead are closer in spirit than before. The fact is that death is a minor incident, a well-ordered and beneficent process, which is to be accepted with gratitude and peace."

The Unanswered Question challenges the premise that conditions in the Afterlife reported by near-death experiencers accurately portray what we actually experience after physical death.Anything we might experience in the Afterlife will exist outside of space and time as we understand them. This essentially nonphysical reality will therefore be organized in ways that our usual waking consciousness or rational mind may have trouble understanding. To make sense of it, near-death and out-of-body experiencers must represent this reality in quasi-physical terms. Translation of their nonphysical perceptions into physical images will necessarily-and often unconsciously-distort the information they bring back about the Afterlife. Citing accounts from The Egyptian Book of the Dead, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Gnostic, Christian, and other ancient wisdom traditions-as well as the writings of the seventeenth-century Swedish mystic Emmanuel Swedenborg, contemporary near-death experiences, and his own out-of-body experiences-Leland outlines what we might expect to encounter during our passage from the physical reality in which our lives unfold to the nonphysical reality of the Afterlife.By triangulating between images of the Afterlife gleaned from near-death experiences, out-of-body experiences, and the ancient wisdom traditions, we may be able to prepare ourselves for what we'll encounter after death-when it's finally time for us to answer that great Unanswered Question for ourselves.