Is there science in the spiritual world?

Are the different sciences taught in the spirit world? And what is the system of education there?

Everything is taught in the spirit world that anybody knows.

The law of diffusion is clearly recognised. 

It is fully known that he who has any real light of knowledge in him must give it off where it will also benefit others before he will be able to absorb any new or greater light himself.

But what does an individual really know?

That which some kind of an actual experience has taught him to be a fact. Thus, what one spirit receives by way of education from another spirit, he must go to work and prove in some way to be true before he can teach it to anyone. 

Not that he doubts the truth of his instructor, but any truth is much like a prism—its shape depends upon the side from which you view it.

One must see it from one's own point of view before one can accurately describe it. 

The different sciences are taught. 

Yes—art is taught. Music is taught. Many things are taught that earth minds could not comprehend.

You have no earthly language in which to convey such spiritual ideas.

But what is most eagerly sought after and taught are the laws of spiritual development. Every spirit, as soon as he realises that he is really to live forever, wants to advance—as soon as the wonders and beauties of God's great laws burst upon his comprehension he searches on and on with longing and love that is never appeased though constantly fed.

And as he goes on he learns to transmit in some way every ray of light that he absorbs.

The sciences—or profundity of the laws taught depend upon the spiritual plane where one is located and the systems of education differ accordingly. There are centres of education for all sorts of branches of knowledge on every spiritual plane unless among very low, earthbound spirits, who neither realise their condition nor desire to advance it, but these centres of education differ according to the development of the plane upon which they are situated.

All is adapted to the needs and requirements of the plane.

You must not attempt to teach a child geometry before he has learned arithmetic. But there is no compulsion about any education.

Attraction governs everything. 

The spirit who has a great longing after music will be attracted by the melodious harmonies of some musical centre upon his plane of development. The one who earnestly desires to obtain knowledge of scientific laws will naturally gravitate to a centre where such laws are discussed and expounded. When he has absorbed as much as he feels he can hold he will in turn go out to prove the laws perhaps to make some new discoveries. As soon as he has accomplished anything he hastens to communicate it where it is needed, then back to some great educational centre again—or may be drawn by attraction to some individual more highly-developed spirit who as eagerly gives as he receives. Thus, you see, the general system of education is one of attraction and diffusion.

Everything is taught that anybody knows, limited only by the receiver's ability to absorb. 

These centres of education are kept up by those who are constantly going there to exchange experiences and diffuse their ideas. They are in a sense the tutors, those who come to absorb the pupils. The tutors, as well as the pupils, are constantly changing, and this makes it the more varied, instructive and interesting. It never grows wearisome nor monotonous—never falls into one particular channel of thought, as in earth schools, but is free, liberal and progressive, as is the realm of the spirit itself.

And the widest toleration for differing views—the most thoughtful consideration of adverse opinions—is always given and received. 

It is for this reason perhaps that you may receive so many differing opinions through spirit communications. 

A spirit is not afraid to present any side of a subject that seems to him true, nor to tell anything, which he has experienced to be a fact. 

Yet when I say teachers are constantly changing I do not mean in a day, a week, a year, of your time. They remain as long as the attraction of giving or receiving holds them. Several may combine and work for long periods to perfect some invention, to prove some new discovery, to discover some missing link in a chain of laws, but when any attraction, which holds the mind loses its force through completion, the ever-busy spirit must move on to new attractions and new fields of discovery and advancement.

There is no such thing as monotony or weariness among enlightened spirits.

Can you comprehend the joy and exultation of a mind that never wearies and never rests?