The abilities endowed on souls after death, beyond those they had enjoyed in bodily life, you may see discussed elsewhere [400]. Moreover, those coming into the other life, depending on the societies they enter, engage to a greater or lesser degree in the activity of their former life, yet they are much more alert and sensitive, more acute, adept in understanding and sensing inwardly, than during the life of their body. This is because in the other life they are free of the impediments and hindrances of bodily life-the effects of objects of the senses, of a memory of sensory and material things, of concerns for the future, of different desires stirred up by objects. There are cares for so many things that in the other life go away together with the body. So when these are gone, they cannot fail to enter a more perfect state of understanding and sensing inwardly than they had as earthly beings. I have been given to observe this fact by ample experience.