“Access has become easier and easier, and the invasion more and more complete, but the ‘attachment’ remains.
“I thought the experiment would succeed on a corpse because there was no fluid to encumber the receptacle to be filled. I had not reflected that death is not compatible with a soul—that inseparable companion of life itself. I did not get any results, and the sensation is abominable.
“Theoretically, in order that the ‘attachment’ should be suppressed, what is required? A receiving organism, which should have no soul at all (in order that one may lodge one’s own entirely), and yet which should not be dead, and in other terms, an organized life which has never lived. That is impossible.
“So, in practice, our efforts must tend to the suppression of the ‘attachment’ by means of artifices, which I do not yet perceive....
“Not but what the experiments of this period have yielded curious results, since we have arrived at the following demonstrable conclusions:
“(1) The human brain can discharge itself almost entirely into a plant.
“(2) From man to man, with mutual consent, the passage of personality is accomplished very completely (except for ‘attachment’), which makes those souls, as it were, sister souls—Siamese mentalities.
“(3) From man to man, without mutual consent, the compression of the receiving soul (under pressure by the other) produces, in spite of the imperfection of the process, a partial and momentary incarnation of the transmitting individual.
“A very interesting incarnation this, for it satisfies some of those desiderata, all of which I shall satisfy if I attain the aim at which I am driving.
“It seems to me unattainable.”