This work contains the essays entitled: evolution of the soul; science and the future life; man's psychic powers; spiritistic phenomena as evidence of life after death; spiritism and telepathy as involved in the case of Mrs. Leonora E. Piper; how I became convinced of the existence of the faculty of telepathy; rationale of hypnotism; hypnotism in its relations to criminal jurisprudence; psychological problems relating to criminal confessions of innocent persons; hypnotism a universal anesthetic in surgery; danger lines in hypnotism; psychopathic study; prophecy, ancient and modern; how to prepare the mind for success. Also found within is a short biographical sketch of the author.