Regarding their examination, I have quite frequently observed that souls or spirits are left to themselves, such as they had been in the life of the body if they were to speak without fear of the law, of society, more or less without outward constraints-unaware that they were in society. Those in the society, or others, then follow closely the thinking such spirits had harbored in the world and now speak out so that it flows as if spontaneously. In this way they learn roughly what they are like.