Then we climbed the hill, from which we could see fantastic panorama of a city, smothered in blossoming varicolorous gardens. I was mostly impressed by the radiance, emitted by that city. It was like a wonderful rainbow, gleaming with the colors of unearthly beauty. For some reason, I remembered the novel ‘The Wizard of Oz’. I could not overemphasize all the color shades of that rainbow. The music sounded from somewhere, and together with the rainbow it was combined into a harmony of sounds and colors, making the uncovered panorama a pleasant realm of sound-and-light show. Here and there in the emerald green and bright flowers, I could see marvelous architectural ensembles of palaces. One of them resembled a frustum of cut-glass pyramid. Hanging gardens could be seen inside it. A narrow blue river was winding nearby, surrounded by beautiful gardens. Tiny houses appeared among the green, highlighted by their red tile roofs. The river was crossed with several bridges, which resembled Roman aqueducts.

      Our companions stopped as well, impressed by the uncovered panorama. A man and a woman were approaching us from the opposite direction. Their faces were kind as they smiled happily at the sight of us.

      “These are their guardian angels!” said Anna and smiled. “You have a guardian angel too, you will meet him later. They have already met their luminous beings, I mean, their collective beings, on the seashore, and now they are aware of their doings.”

      I kept watching over their meeting. I expected to see angels’ wings, but instead I was looking at their kind faces. I was astonished by their throughout simplicity: the way they dressed, the manner of their movements, and their behavior. The angel woman approached the elderly couple and kissed their foreheads one by one. With a gleaming smile and spreading her gladness, she took their hands and led them away to the city. The angel man came up to the young lady and hugged her. She cozied up to him, and then he passed his hand over her hair and said, pointing towards the river. “We will live in one of these houses together, and your family and friends will come to visit us.” I saw tears of joy on her face. Then the young lady waved me and Anna goodbye, and slowly moved towards the houses, located on the riverside. Her head leaned against the angel’s shoulder. I was sad she was leaving, and I decided that I would surely visit her one day.

      “Well,” said Anna. “The happiness of meeting, as well as grief of parting, is also a part of this world. I know you want to ask me something. That young lady died, because her life on Earth was disordered, and this could have disrupted her spiritual evolution in future. But here she can continue her spiritual development, as this world is full of love and kindness. Before we go ahead, I want to ask you something. How are you feeling? What do you feel in the physical realm? Do you remember your past lives on Earth, and in what way do you remember them?”

      “Dear Anna! I never felt so good before,” I replied her. “The world of love and peace is around me, my mind is abnormally clear. I can remember everything I’ve ever read, written, or learned down to every last detail. My past lives seem to be something united, like it is one long life. But my past events superimpose on one another, so I cannot clearly name any particular historical period. I can only feel instinctively, that I used to be a warrior, a plowman, a monk, and a student.”

      “Alex, my friend,” said Anna with smile. “Your perception of the past carnations is typical for all human beings, which experienced physical death. It is true; you face some issues with naming of the particular eras of your past lives, since in those days there were no calendars and timescales, as can be found in encyclopedias. This is why there are special libraries to register summarized humans’ lives within this reality, and this will also characterize their personal ‘selves’. Our destination now is exactly one of these libraries. But first, I will show you the city and human beings’ lives in the here and now.”

      While talking away the time, we entered the city, buried in verdure. Either side of rather narrow street was occupied by sidewalks, paved with slabs, as it seemed to me. Some umbrageous trees resembling our cypresses were ranged along the road, covered with asphalt and divided by a white middle strip. There was scrupulous neatness in every surrounding; not a fleck of dust could strike the eye. Behind the sidewalk I could see the lawns of green grass with neatly trimmed bushes and flowered beds. The shades of trees revealed the contours of villas with huge doors and windows. Butterflies of fantastic marking skittered around. The whole street panorama’s rest and coziness were filled up with the babble of birds. In the meantime, Anna and I approached a bus stop, marked with the stop sign. It was a pillar with the multicolored image of a bus. There was a woman and her child standing at the stop, and a man, who was reading a newspaper. It’s been a long time since I got rid of the feeling of being in the ‘afterworld’. After all that I’ve seen there, it seemed to me I was in some south resort town.

      Disturbing thoughts were back in my mind. How did I get here? And how shall I get out of here? Am I in Greece, or in Spain? I am short of money, maybe I need to borrow some from Anna. I was gloomily thinking.

      “Alex, my friend,” said Anna and touched my shoulder. “Don’t worry about trifles. This city and its area panorama are the result of the stable mental images of a collective being. It was exactly this collective being, which took care about the natural layout of city environment (as well as the country imaging). This is the place for those people, who are used for this type of environment within their physical plane of life of the particular historical period. Working and education are of fully creative nature, which pushes spiritual development of personal ‘self’. Here people line up with each other according to their professional skills, while their spiritual commonality improves their self-development. Children will remain children until they are aware of their grown-up personalities, based on their past lives experience. Visiting kindergartens and going to schools improve their progress. Educational process is arranged in order to make individual ‘self’ of a child gradually cognize his or her personal ‘self’. For example, if a parent and his or her child die under tragic circumstances, they both get in the reality, which will correspond to parent’s spiritual development. Parents’ love may increase vibrational frequency of their children. Only after children cognize their individual ‘selves’, their egoities (souls) will return to that reality, which corresponds to spiritual evolution of their past carnations. This is due to the fact that a human being can achieve a minimum result of its spiritual development once it is 21 earthyears old. But nevertheless, even in case parents and their children are on different levels of spiritual evolution, they may still meet in real life. Less spiritually developed being may wish to meet more developed being. In this case, they will meet within the habitat of the less developed being, and this will stimulate it spiritual development within its own environment. This is why there aren’t so many children in this reality. The process of their grown-up personalities’ establishment, or, rather, cognition, will be quicker in comparison with the one within the physical plane of life. The only stumbling stone to slow down this process is the unfailing love of parents. It will keep children with their parents in case they experience physical death together. The process of children’s cognition of their grown-up personalities within this reality is much like the development process in the physical plane of life. Same kindergartens, same schools. When creating this reality, a collective being is first of all based on the principle of continuation of spiritual evolution of each human being under most favorable conditions. If a person is used to read newspapers every morning, he or she will be reading them also in this reality; if a mother is used to go to work by bus and take her child to kindergarten, she will be doing the same in this reality, and so on. Thus, mental images of each personality fill up and enrich the common panorama of a reality with particular actions (information). I mean, this is the first stage of simulating real physical life, which is hardly distinguishable from the reality of the carnal plane of life. Since there is no time in this reality, human beings create their own time frames: going to work, going to educational institutions, and so on. They are based on their carnal living experience. However, their time frames will be gradually extended, as their egoities cognize the new reality they are put in. Then there comes a point, when a being is fully aware of its new reality,