BahÃĄâ•Žuâ•ŽllÃĄh and the New Era - Knowledge Rush

Body and SoulThe Bahá’í teachings with regard to body and soul, and the lifeafter death, are quite in harmony with the results of psychicalresearch. They teach, as we have seen, that death is but a newbirth—the escape from the prison of the body into a larger life,and that progress in the afterlife is limitless.A large body of scientific evidence has gradually been accumulatingwhich in the opinion of impartial but highly criticalinvestigators is amply sufficient to establish beyond all questionthe fact of a life after death—of the continued life and activity ofthe conscious “soul” after the dissolution of the material body.As F. W. H. Myers says in his Human Personality, a work whichsummarizes many of the investigations of the Psychical ResearchSociety:—Observation, experiment, inference, have led many inquirers,of whom I am one, to a belief in direct or telepathicintercommunication, not between the minds of men still onearth only, but between minds or spirits still on earth andspirits departed. Such a discovery opens the doors also torevelation....We have shown that amid much deception and self-deception,fraud and illusion, veritable manifestations do reach usfrom beyond the grave. ...By discovery and by revelation certain theses have beenprovisionally established with regard to such departed soulsas we have been able to encounter. First and chiefly, I, atleast, see ground to believe that their state is one of endlessevolution in wisdom and in love. Their loves of earth persist,and most of all, those highest loves which find their outlet inadoration and worship. ... Evil to them seems less a terriblethan a slavish thing. It is embodied in no mighty Potentate;rather it forms as isolating madness from which higher spirits