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metempsychosis::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | rebirth |
| Type of | phenomenon |
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Religiously, Pythagoras was a believer of metempsychosis.
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This may have been due to the doctrine of metempsychosis.
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The soul was not preexistent, as Plato affirmed, nor subject to metempsychosis or reincarnation, as the Pythagoreans held.
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Belief in metempsychosis, or the transmigration of souls, resulted in the rejection of Hell and Purgatory, which were and are dogmas of the Catholic faith.
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Many Indian fables and tales include instances of metempsychosis-the ability to jump into another body-performed by advanced Yogis in order to live a longer life.
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- After death the soul begins a new cycle of existence in another human body
- Reincarnation is believed to occur when the soul or spirit, after the death of the body, comes back to Earth in a newborn body. This phenomenon is also known as transmigration of the soul.
- (Gk) "Reensoulment,'' the progress of a monad through soul after soul; an aspect of reimbodiment.
- Commonly used for the entry of the soul into a new body or reimbodiment; but etymologically it means the clothing of a monad with a new soul, while metensomatosis means the clothing of that ensouled monad with a new body. ...
- Another term for reincarnation.
