transmigration

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The thought behind Pythagoras' transmigration view is that humans and animals are alike.

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2024

This informs the belief that an individual will bear a future burden for harms committed in the present through the process of samsara, or transmigration and rebirth of the soul.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Knausgaard chews on notions of faith, free will, the transmigration of souls, the nature of angels, on meaning and nothingness in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Rilke’s poetry.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2021

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

Soul transmigration holds him in check, otherwise he might be found eating his grandmother.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey