metempsychosis

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After Darth Vader cut down Obi-Wan Kenobi in a lightsaber duel, the latter returned via metempsychosis as a Force Ghost.

From Fox News • Mar. 23, 2019

As to how Maf came by his feeling for history or his fancy prose style, not to mention an impressive knowledge of the works of numerous philosophers, especially Plutarch, the answer, it seems, is metempsychosis.

From The Guardian • May 7, 2010

Japanese approved, last week, certain pious rites ordered and paid for at Kyoto by one Yozo Fuyubayashi, a rich seller of flypaper, a gentleman, and a devout believer in metempsychosis or transmigration of souls.

From Time Magazine Archive

If I were half the Pythagorean that I used to be, I should believe they were souls in punishment—expiating some lifetime sin in this restless metempsychosis.

From Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe by Willis, N. Parker

According to the Hindoos, who believe in the doctrine of metempsychosis, the spirit passes from one form to another.

From Heathen Mythology by Various