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The Summerland is the name given bySpiritualists,Wiccans, and othercontemporary pagan religions to their conceptualization of anafterlife.[1][2]
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772) inspiredAndrew Jackson Davis (1826–1910), in his major workThe Great Harmonia, to say that Summerland is the pinnacle of human spiritual achievement in the afterlife; that is, it is the highest level, or 'sphere', of the afterlife we can hope to enter. Summerland was a secular concept, which was appealing to some non-religious spiritualists.[3]
InNeo-Theosophy, the term "Summerland" is used without the definite article "the". Summerland, also called theAstral plane Heaven, is depicted as wheresouls who have been good in their previous lives go between incarnations.
C.W. Leadbeater, a Theosophist, also taught that those who were good in their previous earthlyincarnation went to a place called Summerland between incarnations.[4]
