Is life spiritual?

Time’s wheel runs back or stops—potter and clay endure.

You must remember that spirits are still in an intermediate and transitory state, that even here they are not what they will be, that they are still limited in various ways and degrees.

Time—

One day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day. 

In the earthly life, the limitations of time are greatest in the physical, less in the mental, and still less in the spiritual side of our nature. In strict reality, the moments roll on one by one, each filled by the same amount of motion and active force in the invisible atoms, making up the molecules of which phenomena consist, but in the mental life, the thoughts, the memory can live through a year in a few moments—or mental anguish may draw out a moment into an hour. 

The spirit seems almost beyond these laws of time—love, truth, justice and pity are not of time, but beyond it. 

In spirit life, they enter into the second of these states, which becomes their lower one—they are not beyond the influence of time, but they are less strictly bound by it. Two may pass over from their world on the same day and may awake from the psychic sleep together, yet one may have had almost a lifetime’s experience, and the other may have been only conscious of the passing of a few days. No time with them seems long when spirits live as they ought—nor on the contrary does any work lack completion for want of time for its accomplishment. 

And the angel being caused to fly swiftly came unto Daniel at the time of evening sacrifice.

This well represents their state—are they called to any work it can be done, but should the duty not be laid upon them, then the opportunity would not be given. These bonds of time do not fall from them immediately, but are rather loosened, and with other earthly limitations, they fall from them one by one. 

Space—

Spirits go wheresoever a true need or worthy desire may lead them—they are with those who are one with them in spirit and though many in all stages of experience and character may be said to be literally in the same place, yet they are not truly with them unless they can help in some way.

When thou wast under the fig tree, I saw thee.

Hearing, vision, this was no vain boast, nor yet a miracle, but the Master, as being more perfect than most and having His psychic powers already far developed could see all that He truly needed to see both of outward things and of inner secrets of the heart.

  

Spirits, too, read each other’s hearts when the wish or need to do so arises—their powers in all these matters, not being perfunctory can only be exercised where and to what degree the soul truly requires. 

So also with speech—words or audible thoughts can only reach another if those words will help or interest him or express love to him, no others can be interpreted by any—they would only fall upon his ear, like the sighing of the breeze or the wordless sounds with which our world is so full. 

The old grave clothes, you see, are being cast off, folded away, and in white and shining garments, the new man prepares to rise to another still better and fairer state.

“I AWOKE!” Conditions of Life on the Other Side, 1895, David Stott, London, Part I, The Psyche, Conditions of Life in the Psychic World, 51-53