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  2. Metempsychosis - Wikipedia

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    In philosophy, metempsychosis (Ancient Greek: μετεμψύχωσις) is the transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death. The term is derived from ancient Greek philosophy, and has been recontextualized by modern philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer, [1] Kurt Gödel, [2] Mircea Eliade, [3] and Magdalena Villaba; [4] otherwise, the word "transmigration" is more ...

  3. Reincarnation - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of reincarnation in Hindu art In Jainism, a soul travels to any one of the four states of existence after death depending on its karmas.. Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.

  4. Plato's theory of soul - Wikipedia

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    Plato considered this essence to be an incorporeal, eternal occupant of a person's being. Plato said that even after death, the soul exists and is able to think. He believed that as bodies die, the soul is continually reborn (metempsychosis) in subsequent bodies.

  5. Saṃsāra - Wikipedia

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    Another nominal derivative from the same root is saṃsāra, referring to the same concept: a "passage through successive states of mundane existence", transmigration, metempsychosis, a circuit of living where one repeats previous states, from one body to another, a worldly life of constant change, that is rebirth, growth, decay and redeath.

  6. Theosophy - Wikipedia

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    Between the 1870s and c. 1882, Blavatsky taught a doctrine called "metempsychosis". [71] In Isis Unveiled, Blavatsky stated that on bodily death, the human soul progresses through more spiritual planes. [72] Two years later, she introduced the idea of reincarnation into Theosophical doctrine, [73] using it to replace her metempsychosis doctrine ...

  7. Pythagoras - Wikipedia

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    The teaching most securely identified with Pythagoras is the "transmigration of souls" or metempsychosis, which holds that every soul is immortal and, upon death, enters into a new body. He may have also devised the doctrine of musica universalis , which holds that the planets move according to mathematical equations and thus resonate to ...

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  9. Reincarnation in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Metempsychosis is the title of a work by the metaphysical poet John Donne, written in 1601. [1] The poem, also known as the Infinitati Sacrum, [2] consists of two parts, the "Epistle" and "The Progress of the Soule". In the first line of the latter part, Donne writes that he "sing[s] of the progresse of a deathlesse soule". [2]