It has happened quite often that when I was talking with myself, spirits spoke through me, which I was given to hear and see so plainly as if I perceive another person speaking through me, both from the clear sound and feeling, and from his own admission that he had spoken through me, nor had he known otherwise than that he was my body. This has happened several times, as it did today twice. I cannot number the times, for there are so many, and the thing has become so familiar to me that I hardly believed this point worth mentioning; also, that they laughed through me, among other things. 1748, 27 Aug.