This has often happened. Souls known to me in bodily life recognized everything that had been familiar to them, both things they had said, and had done, and their acquaintances, friends, neighbors, wives, children, and so on. So the memory remains with them of things in the life of the body, but they are not allowed, for many reasons, to exercise it, or take up their thoughts from it, except when the Lord permits this. That is when actions of their life must be recalled to memory-details of which are usually brought up, and acknowledged by them, just as if they were in their bodily life, as well as the chain of events, the reasons, and other factors pertaining to those actions-in such a way that they cannot help but be entirely convinced.