Are clothes a mirror of our souls?

Dress in your life depends on the state of the pocket―here on the state of the soul. Therefore, it is not strange to us see a spirit clothed in the plainest garb, while even then the old body is being arrayed in the finest of satin. On the other hand, I have seen spirits here so gorgeously clothed that they looked like white, glittering forms. I have no words to describe the texture or its manufacture, for it comes just as naturally as the spirit body and the increase in beauty of body is in proportion to the increase of soul-worth. The manner and fashion of dressing as in earth we leave behind except when we wish to appear to our earthly friends in a natural way―we are taught to clothe ourselves for the time being.

Experiences of Samuel Bowles

Will we work in Eternity?

The usual idea of heaven is rest. The idea of rest for the weary is still prevalent in earth life, but each awakens to the great truth that heaven's rest is work—work in its highest sense.

Also, the thought exists in many minds that heaven is freedom and so it is to a disciplined spirit, for the interests of spirit life are so precious that one will of his own free will naturally gravitate toward that work most necessary to be done, while an undisciplined heart has to learn by degrees that the law must be fulfilled.

—Samuel Bowles in Spirit

What is the problem of free will?

To reach the centre of light and its perfection, each individual progresses through many evolutions, each one permitting a fuller measure of light. Each evolution has its duties and tasks to perform, its education to make and its errors to overcome. These are not existent―they are the natural outcome of the liberty, free will and limited understanding of the imperfect individual. Naturally they differ in each plane, but the nearer we come to the fount of wisdom, the stronger we are and the greater is our happiness, for we see more clearly the meaning of life and its glorious possibilities.

―Meslom in Spirit

What is the sacrament of initiation?

The human race is passing through a period of initiation. The morally weak and the weak of will are always in danger of being carried away. The spirit of destruction finds them ready tools with which to work its will.

—The Judge [Last Letters from a Living Dead Man]

What are examples of right conduct?

Do what is naturally right.

Where do we go after death?

Why do you seem so happy?

Have you found treasure? Nothing less could make you look so happy. I would participate in your joy.

This is such a beautiful place! I am enchanted! I am delighted!

Can it be possible that I can always live here?

When I occupied a coarse body, a shell in which the spirit moved, I was unaccustomed to such a place. My fingers ached with toil―my heart was oppressed with sorrow―my limbs often refused to do their painful duties, and my spirit seemed bowed down to the dust. They told me I was a sinner―I had turned my back on God―I had broken his commands, even to satisfy the cravings of hunger. I longed to live because I dared not die. How dark―how very dark the future seemed! Finally, worn out with disease and long-suffering, my heart weary and heavy-laden, I laid down my earthly body.

When I awoke, a beautiful being came and took me by the hand. This angel led me from the earth and put me on the road through that gate. And when I entered it, what a beautiful place I found it!

I cannot, cannot describe my happiness!

Such beautiful-looking people! Everything here dazzles my eyes with ecstatic beauty and splendour. The very ground I tread on yields to my touch.

And how beautiful and green the grass appears―the leaves, they wave so gently in the wind. The air seems to fill me with such intense joy that I could soar as a bird in the air. What a lovely place this is!

I see such broad and shining rivers, moon and sun, but so much brighter than I ever saw on earth. How strange it all seems!

The very stars seem to smile as they twinkle, and music fills the air wherever I turn my ear.

How I wish to go back and tell the world of this lovely place! My friends would not believe me.

It is more heaven than I ever dreamed of―more than I could ever conceive.

What is the nature and condition of the future life into which you pass after death?

Look directly to this end, furnish a mass of evidence for study and determine what the reality beyond death is.

With this motivation in mind, the writer began to examine books whose spirit authors sought to describe their experiences in the spirit world and the conditions of life in that world.

The writer reasoned―all things considered, who better to learn from than the disembodied themselves?

Besides, the writer was positive that she would find shared tenets in these spirit communications, and only individual narratives would vary, for all experience is relative.

Do the dead still live?

The dead feel nothing―they turn to dust―they moulder to decay and all is gone―they have no consciousness of anything unless the soul of the dead still lives even though the body decays.

I had said I would face death when it came with the courage of those who know only that for them, it must mean total extinction, for if these priests were wrong, who was right?

Who could tell us anything of the future―or if there were any God at all?

Not the living, for they theorise and guess, and not the dead, for none came back from them to tell. But I am here, make no mistake!

And if this will allow you to see how you stand to the sphere of existence to which you are tending―if it will show you how you may enjoy heaven on earth, which is only a prelude to the actual state, which you must know and conceive for yourself, the writer will have achieved her task.

How can I fail to heed the call in the cause of truth and freedom?

And is the picture of life beyond the grave so unnatural?

Out of death arises life.

Spiritual Prozac presents an all-inclusive and extensive testimony of life after death, and attests to the importance and integrity of the communications received from spirit authors over many decades.

There are untold treasures in store for the earnest and sincere inquirer and honest seeker after the truth. And is not the enjoyment of this light richly worth seeking for?

May the truth resonate deeply within the very interior of your whole being!

What is the gospel of the kingdom?

What is meant by spiritual environment?

What does it mean to stretch out the heavens?

Your work is not without results, and results grow as heaven expands.

—Spirit Samuel Bowles

Has anyone come back from the dead?

Where do we go after death?

Why is death so hard to accept?

Where do we go after death?

How can I become a child of God?

What does God want to do with my life?

What does God want to do with my life?

Would that all mankind would realise its grandeur and simplicity and mould their lives accordingly while upon the earthly plane. How much better they would then be able to enjoy the many beauties which God has placed about them, ever with the thought for their happiness, yet how many heed them not and pass with unseeing eye and heedless step, crushing beneath the careless foot many a tender and beautiful thing in plant life as well as human.

Mark these expressions of thought, for to the thinker, as well as the unthinker, they will mean a lesson worth study.

God gives us all we have, so why not endeavour to live our human lives in such manner as to be able to stand before Him when the call comes and say to Him—

Dear Father and Friend, I have tried to do my individual part—if I have failed, I grieve for my weakness in not being able to follow your command, but I have tried honestly to live in the right thought and follow in the pathway of truth.

—Clifford  in Spirit

How does failure build courage?

Failure should be an impossible word in every tongue. Courage and Failure are enemies, therefore place them face to face on equal footing. You will soon find Failure falling back step by step, growing smaller and smaller until it disappears and Courage steps forward with Grand Purpose—victors both. This is another little lesson, which I hope may be absorbed by all.

—Friend X in Spirit