transmigration

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Suppose transmigration is true and you kill the animal that happens to have your loved one's soul.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2024

He had forgotten the names of some of his dogs, she said, and where his bedroom was, but “we had this high-level conversation about the transmigration of souls.”

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2022

Pythagoreans also believed in the transmigration of souls, an idea that Plato would adopt.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

His search for self and spiritual transmigration led to his downfall and has to become a cautionary tale.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2021

The transmigration of souls may be a fact, or men and dogs and all other forms of life may be simply forms, temporary phases, proceeding from one source, and returning thereto.

From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane