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prey, struck at by deadly snakes. He chattered with his kind in
council, and he received rough usage at the hands of  the  Fire
People in the day that he fled before them.

     But,  I  hear  you  objecting, why is it that these racial
memories are not ours as well, seeing  that  we  have  a  vague
other-personality that falls through space while we sleep?

     And   I  may  answer  with  another  question.  Why  is  a
two-headed calf? And my own answer to this  is  that  it  is  a
freak.   And   so   I   answer   your  question.  I  have  this
other-personality and these complete racial memories because  I
am a freak.


     But let me be more explicit.

     The    commonest    race    memory    we   have   is   the
falling-through-space dream.  This  other-personality  is  very
vague.  About  the  only  memory it has is that of falling. 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  vermin
dreams.  In short, while this other-personality is vestigial in
all of us, in some of us it is  almost  obliterated,  while  in
others  of  us  it is more pronounced. Some of us have stronger
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

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