The Spirit World

About this book

Eugene Crowell's spirit world contains people who still learn, work and remember those they have left behind. Death changes their surroundings, though personal identity is said to continue.

Crowell builds his account from communications attributed to the dead, arranging their testimony into an extended description of conditions after life. The emphasis on education and progress reflects nineteenth-century Spiritualist hopes for a just universe. The scenes have a strangely ordinary social texture, with relationships and daily responsibilities following the departed into new surroundings. Their evidential status remains a matter of belief.