The Encyclopaedia of Death and Life in the Spirit-World, Volume I

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A newly dead person has to learn the rules of another world. How is identity preserved there? Do families find one another? Is there work, travel or growth beyond the grave? J. R. Francis gathers answers offered by Spiritualists.

The first volume of his Encyclopaedia brings together purported communications and arguments about continued existence. Its many sources describe different landscapes, duties and degrees of progress, sometimes agreeing in outline while diverging in detail. Francis writes sympathetically, but the variety of testimony is part of what makes the collection worth exploring: every new witness seems to discover another corner of the imagined world.