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REINCARNATION years she was at Cuges in Provence, which was correct; at one year she could no longer speak and replied by signs of the head.
But here is where the operation becomes curious. In order to obtain these regressive states, M. de Rochas made longitudinal passes over his subject; and to recall her, transversal passes. In the course of these experiments, he perceived that if he continued the transversal passes, the subject would go beyond her actual age—in other words, was able to see herself in time to come. Here we must beware of the somnambulistic dream, the tendency which a subject always has to satisfy her observer, and the possibility of a change of personality ; the pictures thus obtained are rarely correct. However, in 1904, a subject who had been urged into the future, gave a successful result.
In this case the subject was a woman thirtyfive years old. Being put into a state of trance she was required to view herself two years ahead, i.e., in 1906. Responding to this command she manifested all the symptoms of childbirth, and several months afterwards she seemed to be drowning. On being brought back to her normal state she was unaware of these experiences sensed in advance. After-events proved their veracity. She had a child by her
