I spoke with spirits, and indeed by a spiritual mental image, saying that everyone develops for themselves their own natural soul, thus something like a certain natural instinct. For souls and spirits after the life of the body are driven by a certain instinct to doing evil. In their soul there is a natural quality due to what they have acquired by actual deeds, that is just like instinct in animals, with the difference that spirits are able to reason, even about spiritual and heavenly matters. The soul that they develop for themselves pertains to their earthly mind, which has gained dominion over their spiritual mind, so that their spiritual mind is as it were subordinated