Author Description

There is a wide realm lying; between the known physical and the comparatively unknown spiritual, — a realm as yet almost entirely unexplored. Mesmeric experimenters have been pioneers in exploring one portion of it, Keichenbach and Buchanan in other portions, while in this volume, we record our experience in travelling over a part of this little known, but exceedingly interesting and important region. It has been suggested by some persons who have read portions of the manuscript of this volume, that many of the statements made are too strange to be believed, and that, by their publication, we subject ourselves to very severe criticism. So far as the conclusions drawn from the facts presented are concerned, I am willing they should receive all that criticism can bestow; for the facts, I am not responsible, nor am I concerned about their reception; and if any one chooses to do battle with them, he is welcome to the fruits of his victory. When a fact comes, I am prepared to welcome it; and I envy not those who discard a truth because Fashion has not set her seal upon it.