Where are your departed loved ones found?

Most of the departed spirit-lives that you have known in your present journey through this world are to be found in this near-to-earth zone [First Spiritual Zone], which in reality intermingles with your earth life, though it is invisible to you. 

That is to say, that most of your departed loved ones are near you—are with you. 

They are in your presence and are able to help you and to suggest things to you that are for your good, without your being conscious of the source from which you have received the suggestion.

However, the means of communication between the living and the dead is imperfect—

In some cases, does not exist on a conscious plane. 

Hence, you pass through this physical life more or less unconscious of the presence of your departed loved ones and of the presence of that vast world of invisible and spiritual life that is around and about you.

Remember that the first spiritual zone of the spiritual universe is around and about you, and that the departed spirit-lives—both those who are earthbound and those who have completed their earthly journey—remain in this zone for an indefinite period of time that may extend over many years, and that these spirits of the first spiritual zone intermingle with you, live with you, and, in some cases, are you, more completely than you are yourself.

Benjamin F. Woodcox, Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923