How does the spirit world work?

There is an abundance of useful things for you to do—the doing, which will bring great happiness to yourself and provide in your progress and advancement through the realms of this world. 

You will see, too, how all perform their different tasks for the general welfare without thought of personal reward. 

Yet the rewards come none the less—lavish rewards—so you will discover for yourself.

You will never want for wise and willing friends to help you in whatever way you need. 

You have already, in this brief period, gathered friends about you from whom nothing can separate you, for you now live in a world where no such separation can take place. 

We are always here—even as you are.

If you wish to study music—or follow any of the other arts, we can promise you such teachers as the earth cannot provide, for here we have the masters—the real masters.

You take up your new work when the inclination comes upon you with the full knowledge that the work performed in this world is never wasted effort.

The spirit world is at all times a place where human beings can live in such comfort and happiness as they were meant to do from the beginning. 

We do not, therefore, spend our eternity in constant prayer and praise because that as a mode of life would be no life at all—not even mere existence. 

We do not occupy our time—or waste it in profound theological discussions upon obscure theories, nor upon the more commonplace ones, for the simple reason that we have something much better to do, in every way more profitable and infinitely more entertaining and enjoyable. 

Our conversation is at all times rational, natural and normal. 

We do not speak to one another in terms of religious texts and scriptural quotations, nor are we endowed with wide knowledge and keen intellectual perception the instant we set foot in the spirit world at our dissolution. 

We are deeply thankful that we are ourselves, and not as others would have us to be.

Benedicat te omnipotens Deus.

—Samuel Taylor Coleridge