Spiritual Experiences (Odhner) n. 3408

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3408. While he was speaking, I supposed that he was thinking the words he spoke, but they said he was not thinking them at all, but was speaking them as one not thinking, and was then turning over entirely different things in his mind-so he did not know what he was saying. I was given to realize that there are such people in this world, who while speaking are paying no attention and hardly know what they are saying, but the words stream out of their mouth, and meanwhile they are thinking entirely different things-for example, about people they are destroying, or cheating, or misleading-not, of course, those with whom they are speaking, but others entirely unknown whom they recall from the mental image of their own speech or that of others when they are speaking. It is now being imparted that there are many such people, and that the inhabitants of our earth are beginning to be such, that they can speak about matters which they are not thinking about, and can think about others-so that people do not know at all that they are thinking about other things.


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