The Life Beyond the Veil, Volume 1

The Life Beyond the Veil, Volume 1 is a book by G. Vale Owen, first published in 1920. In this first volume—often titled The Lowlands of Heaven when issued separately—Owen presents a sequence of automatic writings and spirit communications that claim to describe the landscape, organisation, and moral economy of the afterlife.

Written in the plain, devotional voice of a former Church of England vicar who turned to spiritualism after personal bereavement, the text blends Christian imagery with the language of mediumship to offer a hopeful and detailed vision of life after death.

Part devotional account and part séance record, the volume became popular in its day for its earnest tone and systematic portrayal of spirit life. It reads almost as a pastoral guide to the next world, addressing grief, moral progress, and the continuity of personal identity.

For modern readers interested in spiritualist writings, automatic writing, and early twentieth-century attempts to reconcile orthodox religion with psychic experience, this work remains an important source—both as a historical document of the spiritualist movement and as a comforting exploration of mortality and what may lie beyond.