Where does the soul go after death?

Where does the soul go after death?

Spirit Samuel Bowles describes his entrance into spirit life—

As life faded out, and I was gradually losing hold of the old body, what had before been an intense pain in my chest, slowly changed to a sensation of heaviness. 

There was no inclination to throw off the incubus that weighed me down. The sobs in the room and the low tones were like far-away murmurs.

My busy brain, in a few moments, brought up the vivid scenes of my life—its early struggles, its later successes—

All were like a panorama, spread out before me. I knew that what had been called the King of Terrors was with me, but I felt no fear.

Gradually, the scenes in the room receded far away. The efforts of the old form for breath seemed like some other person beside myself. 

And then the loved ones of my childhood days were around me, with bright faces, holding out their arms and beckoning me over. 

A sensation then came to me that I was rising up out of myself, and from over the old head, there was another head that thought and saw!

Spirit Samuel Bowles (through the mediumship of Carrie E. S.Twing (Carolinn Edna Skinner), Experiences of Samuel Bowles in Spirit Life (Or, Life As He Now Sees It from a Spiritual Standpoint), 1881, The Star Publishing Company, Massachusetts, U. S. A., Paper First, His Entrance upon Spirit Life, 1