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

The best translation is thus a re-embodiment of the author's spirit, a real metempsychosis.

From Maxims and Reflections by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

More than that, they could return bodily and resume this earthly life in other forms; for belief in metempsychosis is a common one among all these tribes.

From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Nassau, Robert Hamill