All my life I have had an awareness of other times, and places.
I have been aware of other persons in me...
I, like any man, am a growth.
I did not begin when I was born nor when I was conceived.
I have been growing, developing,
through incalculable myriads of millenniums.
All these experiences of all these lives
have gone to the making of the soul-stuff or the spirit-stuff that is I...
All my previous selves have their voices, echoes prompting in me...
My days are few, but the stuff of me is indestructible...
I have been woman born of woman.
I have been a woman and borne my children.
And I shall be born again.
Oh, incalculable times again shall I be born...
-Jack London (1876-1916)
American Author