1886. About the field of hearing
Certain angels and spirits who were within, showed me experientially what a field of hearing is like. For when I had spoken with spirits previously, both those within and those on the outside heard. It was open to all who are near me. But at that time I felt a kind of pulling, especially toward the outside, which, I was told, was caused by spirits above me and around me, so that they would be aware of everything I was thinking and saying. So there was open communication, and a pulling sensation, sometimes even accompanied with pain. Now, however, the pulling was coming from angels and spirits within me, thus from the inside and not from the outside. Consequently, there was no such letting go as before-which I was enabled to feel distinctly-and thus no hearing or awareness on the part of the spirits above and outside of me, of what I was saying and what I was thinking. They complained on this account, admitting that now for the first time they saw and heard nothing, only knowing that I had spoken with those who were within. From this experience one can infer the nature of a field of hearing, as well as the fact that those outside of the greatest human being cannot be aware of things that those who are within it can.