The contents include: Autobiography of W. J. Colville; The Question of Spirit Identity; Bird's-Eye View of Ancient and Modern Spiritual Philosophy; Differing Aspects of Spiritual Philosophy - The Righteous Claims of Egoism and of Altruism; The Spiritual Faith of Ancient Egypt; Influence of Egyptian Thought on Jewish Views of Immortality; The Jewish Kabala Its Teachings Concerning Immortality; Persian Theories of the Soul and Its Destination; Greek and Roman Views of a Future Life; Hindu Conceptions of the Soul and Its Immortality; Vedanta Philosophy; Scandinavian Beliefs Concerning the Spiritual Universe; Etruscan Views of the Future Life; Spiritual Conceptions in China and Japan; Mohammedan Views of the Soul and Its Destiny; Ancient Jewish and Early Christian Ideas of the Soul and of Spirit-Communion; and Psychical Researches in Modern Europe. The contents also include: Sleep as an Educator Its Spiritual Purpose and Value; Spiritual Mediumship Reasonable Views of Mediumship Contrasted with Popular Fallacies Concerning It; The Spirit World as Seen and Described by One Who has Visited It Frequently; Telepathy and Clairvoyance; Spiritualism in All Lands and Times; Dr. J. M. Peebles on the Nature and Preexistence of the Soul; and Striking Incidents Related by Well-Known Witnesses. See other works available by this author from Kessinger Publishing.