The author's wish in writing this book is to help its readers gain a better understanding and a clearer insight into the most wonderful of all mysteries - life, life eternal. Stead is writing as a traveler who is journeying through the mysteries that lie outside the world. It has been his aim to give the reader a wider outlook, and to explain some of the mysteries that surround us during our life here and in the great beyond, to give the reader a greater grasp of the vastness, intelligence behind, the order of and wonder of life - life eternal in a way that is appealing.