Carl believed in a metempsychosis that would deliver the soul of one being into the body of another. He did not, though, believe that the process was confined by the boundaries of biology. Rather, he believed—he knew—that souls could pass between different species, and moreover that the animal that was the destination of the soul revealed something about the man or woman in which that soul originated. A vicious person’s soul might drain down into a lizard or Dubia roach, where, after a brief lifetime, it rose back up into the body of an unlucky person. A person with a high heart became a rabbit or hare, a dog or a camel, a majestic hoof-thundering horse. Carl hadn’t worked it all out, but he had tons of notes.
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