"Spirit World Field Guide is a compendium of supernatural tales, oddities, and surrealist narratives, preceded by an introduction in which Aesop Rock suggests that the listener skip to whichever section is most relevant to their spirit world experience, but still recommends listening to the entire record for context ... By the end of the album, Aesop essentially says that he expects his death will be uneventful, and that it's important to be as active and exploratory as possible while one is alive".