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“The different between the two worlds is not so great as I expected. In fact, allowing for the loss of body, the environment is not dissimilar, but the change is most marked in the mind, which is powerfully affected by the sense of freedom and ability, the power to work out ideas and ideals in actual practice, the wide sweep, the marvellous range and the vast store of knowledge which is here available. The results of a week’s study on earth can now be achieved in an hour. Prayer and meditation become scientific processes, the results of which are objectively visible as they are produced. “The recognition of old friends is instant and unmistakable. Generally the first person who is seen is a loved one who has gone before, and who, seeing the approaching dissolution, waits in readiness to greet and welcome the new arrival. The joy of these meetings is very great and serves to detach the mind from the pain of release. One is then generally taken quite away from the scene to a place of quiet where readjustment can take place. I was met by several people as soon as I awoke, which was some fourteen hours after I slipped unexpectedly away from the body one of the chief people was my father, and I find that it is not necessary for those who greet the new arrival to be dead, as frequently they are still living on earth. Many of the people attending the college in which I now work have physical bodies and come to us during sleep, when an endeavour is made to give them ideas for their work on earth. “I personally, am working more amongst the living than the dead, though some of the groups are permanently freed. It is a great work, full of immense possibilities, but tried workers are all too few. We teach by lecture, demonstration, and also by objective thought-visualization. Frequently the actual places under study are visited. One of the main objects is to enable the students to grasp the fact that ancient history and modern events are part of one single whole, and that all the events in the life of past races played a part in the production of the present conditions, which in their turn can only be understood dearly from that point of view. The tendency on earth is to make the studies of the past and or the life of other nations too detached, for, to be understood, they must be seen as a whole. So this idea of the unity of life is applied to the law of cycles, in order that the events of to-day can be seen as repetitions on a higher scale of the past, and dealt with from that angle. History and sociology are my two main subjects just now, and they embrace practically all the field of my previous studies, but are dealt with in a much wider and more inclusive fashion than is usual on earth. I lecture and demonstrate; I conduct parties and train