Conversation with his physician, and his indifference about death--The minister sent for--Prayer--Meditation on life--Age of Reason--A swoon--Sees a spirit--The effort of the spirit to identify herself--His death--Funeral services--Doubting minister--Conversation with his spirit companion--Benediction, and opinions of the people--The end of wonders--Joy in his new sphere--The greeting--The woman and the doctor--His mother--Her welcome--His grave--The thoughts of the grave digger--Anxiety to reveal the truth--Promise to him of a coming time when it could be done with safety to mediums--Origin of sight--Thoughts of minds at his grave--Disclaims intentional wrong--Objections to religion--Visit to the minister--Conversation between the minister and servant--Prayer--Servant complains--Cheering conversation of Paine and his companion--Proposes to relate his experience, and signs his name. In the progress of mind to the unseen world, there is no wonder within the range of human perception, analogous to the transition of the spirit in what is called death. I will relate the incidents of my experience. For some weeks previous to my exit, my attending physician gave me up as incurable. Still, he continued his visits, and experimented in every possible way his ingenuity and wisdom could devise, to control what he foresaw would terminate in my dissolution. At length, approaching my bedside, he said in a tremulous tone, “I fear you will not live to see the light of morning.” I replied, in a whisper, “I see no one, then, to do what will be required at my demise.” “What do you require?” said the doctor. “Only that my body be decently interred,” I responded.