Directly from the afterlife, Mons. Hugh Benson explains, " ... many souls of the earth world are almost shocked to be told that the spirit world is a solid world, a substantial world, with real, live people in it. They think that that is far too material, far too like the earth world; hardly, in fact, one step removed from it with its spirit landscape and sunshine, its houses and buildings, its rivers and lakes, inhabited by sentient beings!" (Life in the World Unseen Ed.97, )