Letters from a living dead man

Chapter 7: LETTER V THE PROMISE OF THINGS UNTOLD

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A sequence of automatic letters presented as communications from a recently deceased individual and transcribed by a living interlocutor, offering sustained reflections on postmortem existence, perception beyond the physical, and spiritual progress. Through episodic missives the writer describes otherworldly landscapes, encounters with departed souls, moral and metaphysical instruction, and symbolic treatments of memory, time, and hierarchical order among unseen beings. The collection blends anecdote, philosophical exposition, and poetic passages to sketch an imaginative afterlife and suggest attitudes and practices for ethical growth and deeper comprehension of life beyond the corporeal realm.

LETTER V
THE PROMISE OF THINGS UNTOLD

AFTER a time I will share with you certain knowledge that I have gained since coming out. I see the past now as through an open window. I see the road by which I have come, and can map out the road by which I mean to go.

Everything seems easy now. I could do twice as much work as I do—I feel so strong.

As yet I have not settled down anywhere, but am moving about as the fancy takes me; that is what I always dreamed of doing while in the body, and never could make possible.

Do not fear death; but stay on earth as long as you can. Notwithstanding the companionship I have here, I sometimes regret my failure in holding on to the world. But regrets have less weight on this side—like our bodies.

Everything is well with me.

I will tell you things that have never been told.