Coming from an unintentional "Spiritualist" background ie., Gran dragging 11-year-old me off on Sundays to Weybridge Spiritualist Church ... it seemed to me then (and now) that "our dearly departed on the other side", whom we attempted to contact, seem to spend their (undead) lives doing precisely what we now do in our 21st century real lives ... hanging about pointlessly and passively watching the excruciating minutia of dull lives for entertainment
..erm, I'm not sure of the point I'm trying to make (at 1am in the morning) but along the lines of .... isn't it "scary" to think that IF the Spiritualist Church have it right, then we are now experiencing "Hell" on Earth and an afterlife of the same to look forward to (not)?