Life in Two Spheres or Scenes in the Summerland
by Hudson Tuttle
1855

Excerpt:

...This the Spirit-home. Why the floor is of earth! The plants are true plants! My beloved, this is no fancy, but reality. This is land, that is water, these are plants. You are not deceived in the least. I do not wonder at your incredulity. I have seen those who for years thought themselves dreaming, and no argument could persuade them that they were not...Remember that this world corresponds to the lower world, as a reflection in a mirror, and that spirits hold the same relations to spiritual substance that man holds to physical matter, and you will soon comprehend the reality of these scenes...