Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-05-20


cells, but they died Immediately. be
fore they could have progeny You and
/ are descended from those that did
rot strike bottom That is Why YOU
and in our dreams never strike bot
tom. .... g.. :..->. ~.
And new We come TO disassoeiation
of personality We never have this
sense of falling when We are wide
awake. Our wake-a-day personality
has no experience of II, Then-and
here the argument is irresistiele-it
must be another and distinct personal
ity that falls when We are asleep and
that has had experience of such fall
tng-that has, in short. memory OF
past day race experiences, just as our
wake-a-day personality has a memory
of our wake-a-day experiences.
II was at this stage IN my reasoning
that | began TO see the light. And
quickly the light burst upon me with
dazzling brightness, Illuminating and
explaining all that had been weird and
uncanny and unnaturally impossible IN
my dream experiences In my sleep II
was not my wakea-day personality
that took charge of me, 1t was anoth-
er and distinct personality. possesstAg
a new and totally different fund OF ex-
perienees and, to the point OF my
dreaming. possessing memories OF
these totally difference experiences
What was this personality? When
had ID itself lived wake-a-day life on
! this planet in order to collect this fund
of strange experiences These were
questions that my dreams themselves
answered. He lived in the long ago.
when the world was young, IN that
period that We call the midpleistocene,
| He fell from the trees, but did not
strike bottom. He gibbered with fear
at the roaring of the lions. He was
pursued by beasts Of prey, struck az
BY deadly snakes He chartered with
| his kind in council, and he received
rough usage at the hands OF the Fire
People in the day that he ned before
them.
But, l hear you objecting, why Is 1t
that these racial memories are not
ours as we'll, seeing that we have q
vague other personality that TAILS
| through space while We sleep?
And | may answer with another
question: Why is two headed calf?
And my own answer to this is that 1t
| is a freak And so | answer your
question | have this other personality
| and these complete racial memories
because | am freak, =: ....@...
| But let me be more explicit, The
| commonest race memory We nave Is
| the falling through space dream. This
other personality is very vague About
the only memory II has is that OF tall
| ing. But many of us have sharper,
more distinct other personalities.
Many of us have the flying dream, the
pursuing monster dream. color dreams,
! suffocation dreams and the reptile and
yermin dreams. In short, while this
| other personality Is yestigial in all OF
/ us, in some of us ii Is almost obliter-
| ated, while in others of US il Is more
pronounced. Some of US have strong
er and completer race memories than
others.
| tbs all q question of varying degree
of possession of the other personality.
In myself the degree OF possession 10
enormous. My otner personality Is al
most equal in power with my own per-
sonality. And in this matter ! am, as
| said, freak-a freak of heredity.
i Il do not believe that 1t Is the pos
| session OF this other personality but
not so strong a one as mine-that has
/ In some few others given rise to belief
/ In personal reincarnation experiences.
| Ii is very plausible TO such people, q
most convincing hypothesis. When
] they have visions of scenes they have
never seen in the flesh, memories OF
acts and events dating back In time,
the simplest explanation Is that they
have lived before.
But they make the mistake OF ignor
| ing their own duality. They do not
recognize their other personality. They
| think IL is their own personality, that
/ they have only one personality, and
from such premise they can con-
| clude only that they have lived pre-
yious lives.
But they are wrong. 1t is not rein
carnation | have visions of myself
roaming through the forests OF the
| younger world, and yet 1t Is not myself
that / see, but one that is only remote
ly a part of me, as my father and my
grandfather are parts of me less re
mote. This other self of mine is ar
/ ancestor, q progenitor OF my progeni
tors in the early line Of my race, him
self the progeny of line that long be
fore his time developed fingers and
toes and climbed up into the trees.
I must again at the risk OF boring re
peat that am in this one thing TO be
| considered a freak. Not alone do
possess racial memory to an enormous
extent, but | possess the memories Of
one particular and far removed pro
| genitor. And yet, while this Is mosi
unusual, there is nothing over remark
able about ii.