Amador ledger., 1906-06-15
SAYS 1T is A CRIME TO DIE.
Girls Weird Story of ReincaTnation

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York to attend a lecture on the sub
iect, cit is crime to die
The lecture was delivered at Lock
wood academy, No 126 south Oxford
street, Brooklyn. On the evening it
was given the ball was filled with psy-
biologists, philosophers and students
of theology. The young woman un-
folded to them remarkable theory
She declared that all life is vibration.
Through this vibration, she said, it is
possible to separate the soul from the
body, or to live continuously. There
fore, she argued, it is crime to die
of disease or old age.
That her statements caused the ut
most amazement among the students
OF the occult, as we'll as scientific
men, goes without saying. Prof. A.
j. Nick. Cattell, the head of the chair
of psychology at Columbia university,
expressed the opinion that her beliefs
we're, to say the least, remarkable.
Back OF the assertions of this young
woman that it is crime to die, and
that the soul can be parted from the
body at will, there are facts even more
astounding than those set forth IN her
lecture.
In the first place, she says she can
remember two former incarnations of
her soul. She said that she could re.
call having been aGreek girl and then
an Indian maiden, living in the wilds
of Labrador, before she assumed her
present form. In both cases, she said,
she died a violent death.
As an Indian she told that she had
been burned at the stake by order of
her father because she had refused to
obey command given by him.
This much as to Miss Craig's mem
ory concerning her previous lives.
Now for what she says she is at pres
ent able to do. She says that it IS
within her power to separate her soul
from her body, and at these times she
succeeded in visiting another world
Just what this world was she said she
did not know. She was of the opinion
however that it was the planet Mars.
But for the fact that leading sclen-
tific men of the century have taken up
Miss Craig, the statements she has
made might seem absurd. But she is
in no sense woman of the type that
might be expected of one who makes
such assertions. She has had thor
ough education.
Sought Truth in Labrador.
Born in county Antrim, Ireland, she
was sent to England by her parents
when she was fourteen years old.
There she took course in seminary
and then went to france, studying at
Mines, and later at the Ecole des
Beaux Arts.
During all this time she was endea-
vorlng to accomplish one end. She
was trying to fathom what Spencer
and Darwin and Schopenhauer spent
their lives in contemplating. She
wanted to know why human beings
we're put on this earth, whittier they
we're bound, what the ultimate aim
in life was.
To continue these studies she came
to America. She Travelled all over the
country, studying anthropology and
natural phenomena. Finally she went
to Labrador for the sole purpose of
observing the aurora boreaIis. There
she says she received the first confirm
alton of her theory that the law of
gravity is myth. But it would take
an endless tumble of confusing words
to explain these philosophical theo-
ries set forth by Miss Craig. Let it
suffice to hear her remarkable story of
the freedom of the soul, of reincarna-
tions, and of why it is crime to die.
1 saw her at the Lockwood academy,
where she lives. In appearance she
seems to be a combination of the two
IeincarnatIons she says she has under
gone. She has the cheek bones of an
Indian and a Grecian profile.
'lt is not we'll foT person with my
theories to talk of them," she hegan.
L" In the first place, people would
think l am queer; but l have now
reached stage in my studies where |
am willing to tell what have really
discovered. therefore, in explain
ing my beliefs, L shall begin at the
beginning, and let the story tell 1t
self. In doing this, however, want
1t understood that am not follower
of anv accepted creed or religion, and
that what tell has been discovered
by my own soul.
She was an Indian Girl.
"Will you believe me when l tell you
that in the lite before this one l was
Canadian Indian girl. l was the
daughter of the chief of wandering
tribe. My name was Meta. We trav,
e. ed for months and months of the
year, hunting through the woods anc
, lakes of the great forests of the nortt
: land.
"When l was scarcely young wo
man L was commanded by my fatDe
to accomplish a certain task that wa
abhorrent to me. | refused and wa
burned at the stake. l remember al
: that very clearly Here is remark