Why do spirits make you feel cold?

Are you subject in the spheres to atmospheric phenomena, such as cold, heat, rain or snow?

No—no! I have already explained that spheres as you call them are conditions or states. We have nothing of that nature to disturb us. We require no rain to produce vegetation, for that is not the kind of sustenance needed. The vegetation here is not developed in the same way as that of the material worlds.

If there is no rain, how do you get the flowing rivers?

The clouds floating in our skies resemble the clouds of earth in so far as they give variety to the scene and relieve the eye, which would weary were it otherwise, but they give no rain. We have rivers, seas and lakes—when or how these came to be is as much a mystery to me as it is to you.

The medium on one occasion being apparently taken away by Steen into some spirit sphere exhibited signs of feeling intense cold—how do you account for such a feeling?

I account for it by the medium's earth condition, not that of the sphere he was taken to. The only pain felt by the spirit is remorse for the evil done in the body.

—Hafed, Prince of Persia