Metempsychosis

From Activating Evolution

Metempsychosis, also known as Mind Transfer or Mind Switching/Swapping is the ability to psychically “switch” the minds of two or more beings. Either the user causes himself and the subject to trade minds, or he causes two or more other people to switch minds, or he projects his consciousness into the mind of one who is unconscious, dead or weak-minded (sometimes inanimate objects, like dolls or electronics). The latter would let one work through another’s body as though it were his (and the other body is left inert/“dead”, so other souls can take over the user's actual body). The user may only be able to switch the minds of others.

• This ability is also called Reincarnation or Astral Survival, but the semantic and moral interpretation of these terms is under debate, so even by the paranormal community, these names are not widely accepted. If it is called Reincarnation, it implies that, after death, the user’s soul migrates into a newborn baby’s body, and loses memory of his “previous life” (he only seems reborn; in reality, he’s taken possession of a new body, after his old body has died). If the user remembers his “past life”, it is referred to as the psychological faculty Past Life Awareness (although it isn’t truly a superhuman psychic ability at all).

Note: The user can also metempsychose into inanimate objects, like plants/trees, or objects/toys. If “reborn” as a tree, they won’t be able to move, but if they are “reborn” into toy/object “bodies”, they may be able to move as though they animated (a psychological faculty called another version of Automatism).

Note: The past lives seen by people with this ability are really recollections of when their souls were in their true bodies or other past bodies (the person never truly died, because the soul never left the world of the living; it just took another body). Exorcism or Astral Trapping can prevent/negate Astral Survival.

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