In no subject is there more interest than in the future life, and religious believers and leaders are often asked about it. One inquirer phrased her question in this way:—
After the change called Death takes place, do we meet our friends who have gone before, or does Life continue in thought only, as in a dream?
Man is not annihilated, nor does he lose his identity by passing through the belief called Death. After this momentary belief passes from the erring mortal mind, man finds himself still in a conscious state of existence. He learns that he has but passed through an extreme moment of mortal fear, to awake with thoughts and being as material as before. Mental spiritualization is not attained by physical death, but by a conscious union with God. When we are on the same plane of conscious existence with those gone before, we shall be able to communicate with them and recognize them. When we have done our work here so well that it needs not to be done over again, the death-change increases all our joys and our means of advancement.
