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THE HORRIBLE TURNING point occurred soon afterward; I cannot express the precise interval On earth, it ht have been a week, perhaps less; I cannot say I only know the shock came dreadfully soon I’d been disappointed that I’d have to wait so long for Ann Albert toldaspect of it but the certainty of its occurrence

I tried; I really did I made an effort to convince myself thaton Ann’s situation

I began to occupy s

First of all, our father I saw him once, Robert He is in another part of Summerland Albert took me to see him and I had a talk with hie to you? I feel it will in light of your relationship with him I’m sorry if it strikes a discordant note; but blood is not thicker than water here Rapport is a enes Siot a chance to know hi child so that there could be no affinity Accordingly, though I was pleased to see hie to further the relationship He is a fine nity is unquestionable

"Here, we are divided by sympathies rather than miles," Albeit said You’ve seen, in personal detail, hoerful my union is with Ann and our children And I’m certain that, if Mom were to pass over as I "dictate" this journal to you, our relationship would be much closer since it was so in life

Uncle Eddy and Aunt Vera aren’t together He lives siardens I always felt that he was not fulfilled in life Here, he is

Aunt Vera has found the "heaven" she desired and believed she would find--totally religious She goes to church almost constantly I saw the edifice It looks exactly like the church she attended on earth The ceremony is identical too, Albert inforht," Aunt Vera said toas she believes it, her Summerland will be contained within the boundaries of that conviction There’s nothing wrong with it She’s happy It’s just that she’s limited To repeat: there isforanyone Albert told me that my post-death state would have been far worse except for that "A prayer for help always eases that experience," were his words

I return now toof his friends I’ll say it was evening since there was a kind of twilight in the sky, a soft and restful half-illu they spoke about Although they tried to make me part of the conversation,They spoke, at length, about the real soul becomes at one with God--forh still aware of personal identity Their discussion was intriguing but as far over ht I was only part of the background Yet, when I thought--in reaction to the gathering and what they were saying--And all of us are dead, Albert turned to me with a smile "On the contrary," he said "All of us are very ht

"No need for that" He lay his hand on ripped it firmly "I know it’s difficult And consider this If you, here, can think that, visualize how much more difficult it is for anyone on earth to conceive of afterlife"

I wondered if he were trying to reassure me about Ann’s inability to conceive of it

"It certainly is one of the great pities of the world that virtually no one has any idea what to expect when death comes," Leona remarked

"If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease," said a man named Warren "Men sleep contentedly, assured that they ake the followingThey should feel the sa be invented which would allow the human eye to see what occurs at thatnot to think of Ann