Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Umbra (World of Darkness), the spirit world of the role-playing game; Spirit World (Avatar: The Last Airbender), the parallel universe in the Nickelodeon animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender; The Nevernever, the spirit world of The Dresden Files novel series; Spirit World 2024, a France, Japan and Singapore co-production film
This spirit world is regarded as an external environment for spirits. [1] The Spiritualism religious movement in the nineteenth century espoused a belief in an afterlife where individual's awareness persists beyond death. [2] Although independent from one another, both the spirit world and the physical world are in constant interaction.
Eschatology: (from the Greek eschatos meaning "last" + -logy) A part of theology concerned with the final events in human history or the ultimate fate of human kind, commonly phrased as the end of the world. In many religions, the end of the world is a future event prophesied in sacred texts or folklore.
The true shaman can make the journey to the spirit world at any time and any place, but shamanic ceremonies provide a way for the rest of the tribe to share in this religious experience. The shaman changes his voice mimetically to represent different persons, gods, and animals while his music and dance change to show his progress in the spirit ...
Geist (German pronunciation: ⓘ) is a German noun with a significant degree of importance in German philosophy.Geist can be roughly translated into three English meanings: ghost (as in the supernatural entity), spirit (as in the Holy Spirit), and mind or intellect.
The soul is an incarnated spirit, whose body is only its envelope. There are in man three things: 1. The body, or material being, analogous to the animals, and animated by the same vital principle; 2. The soul, or immaterial being, a spirit incarnated in the body; 3.
Latter-day Saints believe that spirit prison (a name based on the phrase "the spirits in prison" in the KJV translation of 1 Peter 3:19) is a place in the post-mortal spirit world for those who have "died in their sins, without a knowledge of the truth, or in transgression, having rejected the prophets". [3]
In philosophy and religion, spirit is the vital principle or animating essence within humans or, in some views, all living things.Although views of spirit vary between different belief systems, when spirit is contrasted with the soul, the former is often seen as a basic natural force, principle or substance, whereas the latter is used to describe the organized structure of an individual being ...