A spirit-life may arrive in the first spiritual zone in a stunned condition due to the violent and sudden tearing apart of the physical and the spirit body.
Under such conditions, the spirit-life is apt to pass through a profound sleep, lasting for many days, and even months, before it attains to a state of spiritual health.
Yet the average spirit-life arrives in the first spiritual zone in a perfectly conscious and even happy state of mind and suffers no inconvenience whatever in being transplanted from one world to the other.
Sleep, in the first spiritual zone of the spiritual world, is not an uncommon thing.
But the desire for slumber, and its necessity, gradually grow less frequent, as the spirit-life evolves, and finally disappear entirely with the transplanting of the spirit-life into the second spiritual zone of the first spiritual world.
Benjamin F. Woodcox, Fragments of Spiritual Knowledge Pertaining to the Spiritual World, Woodcox & Fanner, Battle Creek, Michigan, 1923
