Sodom sulfur balls, page-581

So how do you reconcile being "taken in the spirit"

Rev 1:10 - I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,

Rev 4:1 - After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

It would appear from the snippet above, being taken up in the spirit was a literal event? (in the spirit).
And he got a glimpse of future events.