| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Before Adam by Jack London: and completer race memories than others.
It is all a question of varying degree of possession of
the other-personality. In myself, the degree of
possession is enormous. My other-personality is almost
equal in power with my own personality. And in this
matter I am, as I said, a freak--a freak of heredity.
I do believe that it is the possession 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. It is very
plausible to such people, a most convincing hypothesis.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: Keep the patient quiet and on a low diet.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
STRONG MEN OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY:
THOMAS TOPHAM (died, 1749);
JOYCE, 1703; VAN ECKENBERG, 1718;
BARSABAS AND HIS SISTER; THE ITALIAN
FEMALE SAMPSON, 1724; THE ``LITTLE
WOMAN FROM GENEVA,'' 1751; BELZONI,
1778-1823.
Bodily strength has won the admiration
--I might almost say, the worship--of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: to be thrown into company with Captain Wentworth, her imperfect knowledge
of the matter might add another shade of prejudice against him.
The following morning Anne was out with her friend, and for the first hour,
in an incessant and fearful sort of watch for him in vain; but at last,
in returning down Pulteney Street, she distinguished him
on the right hand pavement at such a distance as to have him in view
the greater part of the street. There were many other men about him,
many groups walking the same way, but there was no mistaking him.
She looked instinctively at Lady Russell; but not from any mad idea
of her recognising him so soon as she did herself. No, it was
not to be supposed that Lady Russell would perceive him till they
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