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sing at the pastures while they were looking after the cattle. The messages were received without prejudice.
Africans, being familiar with strange experience, can tell you if the spirit they have encountered has strength. They believe that if a spirit is weak and stranded, it is because the spirit has not been received at the other end. They relieve the spirit by a simple ceremony to the ancestor.
Occasionally someone who has died but has not yet left his earthly path is bewildered and confused. He speaks in a rambling way and appears a fool to a living relative. However, his message is taken without prejudice. Such problems are settled by asking the spirit of the departed to go and rest in peace in his own way. Help is asked from the guides, and this is achieved for him.
The subject of reincarnation in the Western world is a burning subject. There are scientific experiments, and mediums are toiling sweat and blood to try to convince the skeptics of this truth of spiritual being and phenomena. They do seem to be getting somewhere. In African life, however, we have not had that trouble, not at all. Reincarnation is a foregone conclusion. No records are kept here, but a newborn child is known because the spirit has announced its own coming back. For instance, a departed relative or friend announces that he or she will be born to so-and-so's daughter. Sometimes an unknown spirit is announced, and he or she will be met and welcomed.
We may not have such records as other people keep, of materializations and other phenomena, because these subjects are so common here that there is no need to question or tabulate them.
I have always said that we should combine our efforts to prove to the world the higher realities of spiritualism and that a probe of African life would greatly reward the research. I believe that the missing link to a higher reality
