ANCESTRAL MEMORY
“Ancestral memory” is suggested by a reader of a London paper as the explanation of the fact that many persons firmly believe this is not the first life they have lived on earth. “I served twenty-four years in the army,” writes this correspondent?, “and travelled to South Africa, India, Egypt, Crete, Malta, and France. On these journeys I have often met people and visited places which seemed overwhelmingly familiar, though they were, in fact, new and strange to me. “I believe these impressions arise from the fact that my father fought in the Indian Mutiny and the Zulu war, and that I have inherited a part of his memory.” Miss May Strachan, a biologist, offers an interesting explanation of the phenomena, also on the lines of ancestral memory. “A scientist has recently proved, she writes, “that the experience of one generation of rats is inherited, to their advantage, by successive generations. These results should satisfy us that some considerable element from tiie parent survives in every living thing.” _ ,
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 42, 13 November 1926, Page 24
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170ANCESTRAL MEMORY Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 42, 13 November 1926, Page 24
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