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THE POWER OF KARMA lover in 1906, and shortly afterwards threw herself into the river in order to escape from her troubles but was saved by being seized by the leg. This is one of the most curious cases recorded by M. de Rochas.
I have already alluded to the possibility of obtaining testimony as to past reincarnations of a subject in the state of hypnotic trance. It is difficult to say how far the declarations of subjects under these conditions can be accepted, but such experiments at least open the mind to possibilities which may be further explored, and a hypothesis may be advanced of a momentary survival of the memories of a mind freed from the body. The functioning of memory in dissociation from the physical vehicle is one of those problems on which we may confidently expect further evidence towards clarification.
I submit that, as I am satisfied by the result of my own investigations, there are seven ways of obtaining descriptions of past lives of human beings, viz. :
1. Hypnotize the subject and take the
memory back. 2. Allow a spirit to control a hypnotized
subject. 3. Allow a medium to go under control.
