1095. The first state of the dying, therefore, is that I did not hear the spiritual or speaking [spirits] except as if I were far away from them. So there was almost no communication, or very little, with spirits, who at other times spoke with me. I did, of course, hear them, but in this way, almost without communicating. Nor did the spirits know otherwise (for I heard them talking) than that I had died and thus departed the life of the body. This happened to me, but the same does not happen to other dying people who are not, as I am, speaking with spirits.