By much experience over a long period, it has been made clear to me that spirits do not know differently than that they are the same as myself, so that they have admitted it many times, with full assurance, declaring it to be so both when separated, and when joined to me in different ways. I was instructed by reflections, and by experiences, that spirits strictly believe that they are the person [they are with], both in respect to the person's reasoning power, or thinking, and to the body and bodily actions, even those that are characteristic; thus they imagine to be their own what the person thinks and does, indeed, that the whole person is themselves.