Touch, odor or smell, hearing, sight, as well as appetite, you may, I believe, see discussed previously [818, 1243]. [Newly arrived] souls are very surprised that they are just as they were when living in the body, so that they can tell no difference between their life in the body and after the death of the body, thinking they are in the body. I was prompted to tell them that the life of the body does not belong to the body, but only appears to be the body's, but it is the life of the spirit that is felt in the body. So spirits bring it with them, because they are accustomed to the physical parts while living in the body. That life is of the spirit, and that the spirit has a body as a kind of covering or instrument for living on earth, is clear from the fact that when people are in a faint, the body is senseless, as it is also during sleep. So a bodily sense is not of the body, but it is of the spirit, yet fitted to the mold of the body's organs of sensation. Be-cause the spirit has become accustomed to them, those senses therefore remain. 1748, 18 June.