2775. In the other life, when they are let back into a state like that of their life in the world, they talk together exactly as before, in the same way, with the same spirit, speaking differently than they are thinking. Those talking together are not at all aware at the time that they are in the other life, as I saw from experience today and previously [2760-1]. Spirits of the inward realm then observe plainly how their thoughts disagree with their speaking, and thereby draw conclusions as to their character, each according to their own nature. They are admitting now, as they have very often before, that at such times they do not at all realize they are not in bodily life, and they do not know that others are watching how their thoughts, which are plainly in the open, disagree [with their speaking]. 1748, 9 Aug.