PREFACE Knowledge is the best antidote for fear, especially if that fear should be of the possible or probable state of existence after we have made the change from this life to the next To discover what kind of place is the next world, we must inquire of someone who lives there, and record what is said. That is what has been done in the present volume The communicator, whom I first came to know in 1909 -- five years before his passing into the spirit world