296. THAT SPIRITS SUPPOSE THAT THEY ARE MEN IN THE BODY From very much experience I have learned that spirits and also souls after death supposed, indeed believed, that they were in the life of the body, and indeed were so persuaded that they wondered exceedingly when they were told this; and they were also told that from the fact that they could be transferred [from one place to another], and from other experiences, they could know that they were spirits without bones and flesh, and that [otherwise] they could not know that as to the life of the body they were dead. 1747, Dec. 4.* * Crossed out: "Indeed they were also so persuaded that they were carrying the body about, that after it was shown them that it was false ..."