I was in a shop to buy cheese, and while I was buying spirits poured into me a desire to buy this one or that one, to choose one above another, and to change [my mind], which I did not notice. As usual I was in their company, without reflecting on the spirits. When it was finished, spirits were allowed to reflect on their state while they were making me buy and change [my mind], and they said that it was exactly as if they themselves were doing it, not knowing otherwise. It was also granted me to see this by their inflow into the outward organs of my mind. So spirits have a life within people exactly as if they themselves were the person and it were their action and desire. 1748, 27 Aug. How the writings seem to be received by mankind