The Other World is a vision of the afterlife transmitted from Albert Pauchard, shortly after he passed away in 1934. Pauchard was the president of the Geneva Society for Psychic Studies and it seems his passion for psychical research continued after his death. In the vein of Elsa Barker"s Letters From a Living Dead Man and Wellesley Tudor Pole"s Private Dowding, Pauchard relays his experiences in the manner of a travel writer reporting back from some far-flung land. On "arrival" he is surprised to find himself in the astral plane where he meets the "guardian of the threshold". Thinking himself to be a good person, he reflects, Once out here, and the first moments of bliss after our liberation and happy meetings have passed, we descend to a region where it is more or less dark and where we meet the famous `guardian of the threshold". It would seem that, according to each individual, things happen in a slightly different way. In my case, the curious thing was that while walking...