thing to us, is as actual to the spirit as are our own
scenes or our own dwellings, and that the spirit body
is as real and tangible to another spirit as ours to
our friends.




CHAPTER IV,


PROBLEMS AND LIMITATIONS

Leaving for a moment the larger argument as to the
lines of this revelation and the broad proofs of its
validity, there are some smaller points which have
forced themselves upon my attention during the
consideration of the subject. This home of our dead
seems to be very near to us--so near that we
continually, as they tell us, visit them in our sleep.
Much of that quiet resignation which we have all
observed in people who have lost those whom they
loved--people who would in our previous opinion have
been driven mad by such loss--is due to the fact that
they have seen their dead, and that although the
switch-off is complete and they can recall nothing
whatever of the spirit experience in sleep, the
soothing result of it is still carried on by the
subconscious self. The switch-off is, as I say,
complete, but sometimes for some reason it is hung up