1718. Nor has anyone gifted with some judgment any reason to be surprised at this fact, for without senses there is no life, neither bodily, nor spiritual. Every sense, even on the very inward and innermost plane, relates to touch, as anyone may know even from the sense of sight and hearing. Therefore, since there cannot be life without senses, it follows that those who think they have bodies, or are in their imagination bodied, so long as they are in those fantasies, as are the souls of many recently departed from the life of the body, do have the feeling or sensation like those having bodies. For they fully believe they are in their own body, and that fantasy cannot be taken from them except by actual proofs, spoken of here and there.