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  1. The Reincarnationist Papers
  2. Author’s Explanatory Note
  3. Foreword
  4. 1st NOTEBOOK
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  15. 2nd NOTEBOOK
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  24. 3rd NOTEBOOK
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  32. From The Progress of the Soul
  33. About the Author

The second question to be answered is: if these people exist and their personalities survive what we believe to be the annihilation of the personality at physical death then what are they exactly? These questions are raised in Evan Michaels’ memoir but are not satisfactorily answered. This may be because in his short [first] tenure with the other members of the Cognomina that he did not find the answer to this question of what they are. It could also be because the answer to this question is not known even among the larger fraternity of Cognomina members. There is some evidence in the text that this second possibility is more likely, as one of the oldest members of the collective seems to have been able to find no conclusive answer to this question in his many incarnations. Therefore, a researcher is left to his own speculations about the true nature of these unique and transcending individuals.

The two immediate schools of thought are: 1) that these individuals are like us but that the palimpsest of their previous lifes’ memories are not completely erased upon a successive incarnation; this, of course, presupposes the fact that we are all incarnated in a succession of fleshly vessels and that they are unique in remembering it. 2) that these individuals are unique in that they reincarnate and remember previous incarnations while the remainder of us are here but for a single lifetime per the tenants of monotheistic western religious dogmas.

After a 35 year search for evidence of the survival, in some measure, of the personality after bodily death, I subscribe to the former option: that these members of the Cognomina are unique only in that they are able to recall the facts, skills, experiences, and relationships from their pasts.

As an academic, I am compelled by this book, compelled to continue researching specifically into the Cognomina. Having seen their members in the present day, I believe they have the ability to clarify many facts not only about themselves and their nature but of us and our nature that they could at long last deliver the definite proof of the transcending personality, proving that reincarnation is real.

Dr. Fritz Carlton, Department of Personality Studies [Psychology] University of Königsberg [dotheyexist.com]

1 An interesting allegorical title as cognomina is Latin plural for cognomen – a type of Roman nickname by which persons of some familiarity might address one another with usage often specified to members of a select upper class.

1st NOTEBOOK

"As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now a New Englander."

Henry David Thoreau, 1853

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