As regards the spiritual or discarnated beings' connection with the beings on the physical plane, this is normally allocated to the physical beings' periods of sleep. When the physical being has fallen into a deep sleep it experiences an incomplete liberation from its physical organism; incomplete but nevertheless sufficient to render the physical organism unusable for communication, and the sleeper finds itself after this on the spiritual plane as a semi-spiritual being. In this state (asleep on the physical plane but awake day-conscious on the spiritual plane) this being has now the opportunity to seek contact or to try to communicate with any of its "deceased" relatives, friends and acquaintances who are in the paradise to which it itself belongs during its normal sleep. Its "deceased" relatives, friends and acquaintances who are in a higher area of paradise can likewise also seek out the being. In the same way it can itself also seek out "deceased" relatives and friends who are in a lower paradise than its own. It is thus possible for everyone who is bound by sympathy or love to make contact with one another on the spiritual plane. But communication here is thus restricted to areas where the beings, as previously mentioned, cannot possibly come into conflict with one another or quarrel. They can communicate only within wavelength ranges that are paradisiacal or joyous. On the physical plane the beings can of course discuss all subjects, both those subjects in relation to which they are unfinished or more or less ignorant and those in relation to which they are finished or knowledgeable. This is why they have, on the above-mentioned plane, such great opportunities for coming into conflict with one another, for quarrelling and making war. This is thus completely impossible in the various paradises with the exception of those in which war or dark and deadly climates of thought are the dreams or paradise. However, only situations that are imagined and thereby artificial and unreal arise there. That the physical beings cannot day-consciously remember any communication or exchange of thought they may have had with beings on the spiritual plane during sleep is due solely to the fact that the pertinent senses of memory are put out of action as soon as the being wakes up and physically becomes completely conscious. This is essential so that the spiritual state of experience during sleep does not become a serious hindrance or obstacle to the beings' awake, physical day-consciousness or daily life and thereby to their evolution from animal to human being. This is why the spiritual existence can be nothing but paradisiacal. If the memories of the beings' unhappy physical lives or fate could not be shut out of their paradise, the experience of paradise would be an impossibility. And if the memories of the experience of paradise could not be shut out from physical daily life, with its hardships or dark conditions for the being, daily life would be experienced as a greater or lesser misfortune in relation the paradise experience's wondrous state of joy and happiness. One would mentally shudder at even the most beautiful physical fates and experience a shock that would destroy all one's zest for life and cause nothing but fatal melancholy and depression. One thus here understands again the perfection of the divine world order and the revelation of the Godhead's infinite wisdom, universal love and omnipotence.