I wish to record my thanks to the members of the Quaker After-Life Studies Group for their support in this project and for their individual contributions to the text; and particularly to Angela Howard, the convenor of the Group, for her continuing support and patience during its production.

I would like to express my gratitude to David Lorimer, Development Director of the Scientific and Medical Network, for his permission to use seven of his mini-reviews of books on near-death experiences; and also to Elizabeth Fenwick for the use of three of her mini-reviews on books on reincarnation.

I am also grateful to the following publishers for the use in the text of short quotations from their books:

Pilgrim Books, Norwich for the use of a quotation from the foreword from: Raynor Johnson (1984) Light of All Life; and also for a quotation from the foreword from: Paul Beard (1966) Survival of Death.

James Clarke & Co. Ltd., Cambridge for the use of short extracts from: Robert Crookall (1961) The Supreme Adventure.

Eric Dobby Publishing Ltd., Barming, Kent, for permission to quote from Colin Wilson (1985) Afterlife. An Investigation of the Evidence for Life After Death.

Hodder & Stoughton, London for a quotation from Sir Oliver Lodge (1931) Past Years. An Autobiography.

The Society for Psychical Research for permission to quote the Abstract from "The Scole Report", Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, Vol. 58, part 220, Nov. 1999, page 157. (The Society wishes that the following disclaimer be included in full: "Readers must be reminded at the outset that, although the SPR publishes and seeks to fund reputable research into psychic matters, in common with most scientific bodies it holds no corporate views. In consequence, all the material it publishes remains the responsibility of authors concerned, and must not be regarded as being endorsed by the Society or even as necessarily representing the opinions or convictions of the Society’s Council or membership. Thus, although the present investigation was conducted by three senior SPR figures, we were acting throughout in our individual capacities.")

The Swedenborg Foundation (Chrysalis Books) West Chester, USA, for the use of material from: Fox, L. & Rose, D.L. (1996) Conversations With Angels. What Swedenborg Heard in Heaven.

The Swedenborg Society, London, for the use of material from Emanuel Swedenborg (1989) Heaven and its Wonders and Hell. From Things Seen and Heard.

The Editor of The Friends Quarterly for permission to quote from: William Le Geyt "Swedenborg’s Radical Christianity", The Friends’ Quarterly, Vol. 19, No. 1, January 1975, pp. 39-43).

Cambridge University Press, London for the use of a quotation from Caroline Spurgeon (1913) Mysticism in English Literature.

The Rudolf Steiner Press, London, for the use of material from Rudolf Steiner (1999) Founding a Science of the Spirit.

Miss Jennifer Howard, editor of the Quarterly Review of the Churches’ Fellowship for Psychical and Spiritual Studies, for permission to reprint a review of Jane Sherwood (1991) ³...Country Beyond by Jean Snow from an issue of the Quarterly Review.².

The C.W. Daniel Co. Ltd., Saffron Walden, for permission to quote brief extracts from three books published by Neville Spearman Publishers, one of their imprints: Jane Sherwood (1964). Post-Mortem Journal; Helen Greaves (1974). The Wheel of Eternity; and Helen Greaves (1975). The Dissolving Veil.

Souvenir Press Ltd., London, for the use of short extracts from Melvin Morse & Paul Perry (1991). Closer to the Light. Learning from Children’s Near-Death Experiences.

Hastings House/Daytrips Publishers, Fern Park, Florida, for the use of a quotation from Karlis Osis & Erlendur Haraldsson (1997). At the Hour of Death. 3rd. edition.

Gill & Macmillan Ltd. (Newleaf Press), Dublin, for the use of material from Kathleen Dowling Singh (1999) The Grace in Dying.

The Curtis Brown Group Ltd., London on behalf of the Estate of Brian Inglis for permission to quote from: Brian Inglis (1977). Natural and Supernatural. A History of the Paranormal from Earliest Times to 1914. Hodder & Stoughton, London, page 311. (Copyright Brian Inglis 1977).

Prof. Charles Tart for permission to quote a short passage from his paper in the Christian Parapsychologist, vol. 13, no. 7, pp. 204-207, 1999.