When Angela of Foligno becomes 'pale and dry' or then 'full and flushed,' according to the rhythm of her heart, when she breaks down in deluges of tears, when she comes back to earth, it is hardly possible to consider these phenomena as purely 'spiritual'; but to explain them by her excessive 'emotivity' alone is to invoke the poppy's 'sleep inducing virtue'; the body is never the cause of subjective experiences, since it is the subject himself in his objective form: the subject experiences his attitudes in the unity of his existence.