To my spiritual mental view it was clearly portrayed that a kind of field of spirits exists round about man, the person being one among those in that field. But it also appeared to me as if the person were a kind of solid point, surrounded by that field. For while man is in the body, its earthly elements are portrayed by that solid point, just as terraqueous globes are surrounded by their own atmospheric auras. But when the bodily elements have been laid aside, he or she becomes as one of the spirits, and like the spirits, remains in that field. Such a greater or lesser spiritual field of forces, or efforts, which amounts to the same thing, acting through spirits, flows round about [a person on earth]. This was also clearly shown to the spirits around me, who acknowledged and were aware that this arrangement exists. And they said that they discerned it clearly.