Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-01-05

as shown by the existence of an unchanging
memory of past events. Hence we must re-
gard the soul as being intimately and insepa-
ratey associated with the memory genie which
is known TO be associated with the brain. The
soul must therefore be associated with the
brain after this organ has been developed IN
the animal
"a soul in an egg-cel in an embryo, or in
a newt born child does not possess the qualities
we ordinarily associate with the name; 1t is
soul in potential form only 1t must receive
sense impressions become a feeling. willing
and thinking entity before we say that it
is actually a soul in the usual meaning of
the word.
AT the beginning of its existence it is
nothing but an empty frame or she'll book
with blank pages where happiness, suffering,
despair and joy incidents from childhood to
old age may be recorded
If anything happens to the body which
houses soul, still in the potential stage. both
die together, the author believes In order to
survive bodily death, the soul must have filled
itself out with memories. mental data and
another thing which he calls the mysterious
personality.
THE soul" DR.. Stromberg asserts lis the
owner of the memory and the personality
behind it. If the individual memory is eternal
and indestructbe, then the soul must have
these properties. There are therefore good
reasons for making the following important
assertion:
"A soul is indestructible and immortal AS
an individual it has beginning but SEEM
ingy no end
From this it would appear that ghost
retains his entire memory forever but the
book does not make clear whether he can add
any new experiences to the memory after
the storehouse of his brain has been destroyed.
If not then ghosts would be in the condition
which Napoleon attributed to the Bourbons,
of whom he said 4-'@
They never learn anything and they never,
forget anything"
One way for a ghost to add a few up-to-
date items to his memory is to enjoy or suffer
reincarnation. OF such possibility the book
has this to say: y
Opinions differ whether human souls can
be reincarnated or not In 1886 very in
reresting case thoroughly investigated
and reported by the governmental authorities
in India A girl (Shanti Dew from Delhi
could accurately describe her previous life (at
Muttra 500 miles from Delhi which ended
about year before her second birth
She gave the name of her husband and
child and described her home and life history.
The investigating commission brought her to
her former relatives who verified all her state
ments Among the people of India reincarna
lions are regarded as commonplace; the aston
ishng thing for them. in this case, was the
great number of facts the girl remembered.
This and similar cases can be regarded as
additional evidence for the theory of the in
destructibility of memory.
The memory of individual is written
in indebe script in space and time it has
become an eternal part of a cosmos in develop
ment."
This last the author believes to be the
basis for many ghosts by the living They
are projections OF dead memory onto
live
The book tells of an expedition to the hid
den temple of Katargama in the jungles of
Ceylon. After their pictures had been taken
the party a native girl come out of the
temple and 60 into a dance which seemed
worth Photographic. Cameras were hastily
opened up and motion pictures made of her un-
til she finished and went back into the temple.
The natives seemed to know who she was
but refused TO talk about her, for reason
which became apparent when the explorers
developed the film They had some perfectly
good pictures Of the temple steps but, from
start to finish not a single glimpse of the
dancer. Telepathcally the girls ghost-mem-
DRY being ndelible. may have registered on
the minds of the men but not on the film.