What is life like in the spirit world?

To find yourself suddenly transformed into a permanent inhabitant of the spirit world is at first an overwhelming experience. 

Magnify by one hundred times the beauties and you would still be far short of a true appraisement.

Your first impressions upon your awakening in the spirit world are absolutely breathtaking. 

To find yourself in a realm of inexpressible beauty with all the glories of earthly nature purged of its earthliness, refined and etherealised with the enormous wealth of colour all around and about you—to behold the crystal purity of the rivers and brooks with the charm of the country dwellings and the grandeur of the city's temples and halls of learning—to find yourself in the centre of all such glories without an inkling of what had thus been in store for you is to cast doubts upon the veracity of your own eyes. 

You cannot believe that you are not in the midst of some beautiful, but fantastic, dream, from which you will shortly awaken to find yourself once again in your old familiar surroundings. You think how you will relate this dream when you return to consciousness. Then you consider how it will be received, as very beautiful, no doubt, but just a dream.

And so you stand gazing upon all this wealth of beauty. That is your first and greatest impression.

You are led out-of-doors to see the new world. Then comes your guardian's most difficult task—to convince you that you have “died” and yet still live. 

The instant that you are assured that you are really and truly and permanently in the world of spirit, your heart knows greater joy, and you proceed to travel through the lands of the new life with the luxurious freedom of body and mind that is of the very essence of spirit life in these realms.

For some what most impresses upon their first awakening in the spirit world is the enormous profusion of colour.

Apart from the glorious colours of the realm in which you find yourself, what strikes you very is the astonishing clearness of the atmosphere. There is nothing like it to be seen on earth. 

The atmosphere is so free from the slightest trace of mistiness and your own vision seems to be so intensified in power and extent that the enormous range of colours became doubly vivid. 

What strikes you so forcibly when you find yourself here is not only the immensity and beauty of the spirit world, but the very description of this world itself in relation to the earth world, and most particularly in relation to the life you have left behind you. 

Altogether your greatest impression upon your arrival in the spirit world is this splendid sense of freedom, first of mind and then of body, and made so much the greater in the spirit world by the measure of its absence in the earth world.