There was a spirit speaking with me at my left auricle, more or less sticking to the outer side of the auricle, the back side of it where the auricle's lifting muscles are. And he said to me, obviously led by others to say it, that he was not listening to the words they were speaking, so he does not reflect on evil or goodness, scarcely hearing what they say. He only draws it in with his ears without attending to the subject, not caring at all whether it is evil or good, or how it concerns him. And when he was speaking, his sound came at times as if he were throwing up. As I have also heard at other times, it belched forth with a clear regurgitation of sound, so to speak-now and then, but not constantly. And he also said he speaks in this way, and does not know why it is. I was told that those like this are the kind that do not pay attention, or pay very little to the meaning of a matter, only hearing, and not caring at all how it concerns them. This is their character and they constitute the outer side of the left auricle, or its province. 1748, 22 July.