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 AN EXAMPLE OF PSYCHIC POWER

AVE you thought deeply concerning the Persistence of Personal Identity?

We took it up the other evening—our little group, you know—in quite a thorough way—devoted an entire evening to it.

You see, there's a theory that after Evolution has evolved just as far as it possibly can, everything will go to smash, but then Evolution will start all over again. And everything that has happened before will happen again.

Only the question is whether the people to whom it is happening again will know whether they are the same people to whom it has happened before.

That's where the question of the Persistence of Personal Identity comes in. Frightfully fascinating, isn't it?

For my part I'd just as soon not be reincarnated as to be reincarnated and not know anything about it, wouldn't you?

Of course, one's Subliminal Consciousness might know about it, and give one intimations. [141]