Several times spirits have complained that they were being almost forced by me to think whatever had come up in me, so that they were unable to think for themselves. Even though they were left many times to engage openly in conversation among themselves, each group for themselves, and also not openly, as when they took counsel and hastily burst into things I had never thought; and even though they had collected and read, so to speak, my thoughts on other subjects, as has often happened-still, when they were allowed to reflect, [they complained] that they were being compelled to think whatever had come up in me, as also happened today.