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Metamps(i)pirical: Believing in Reincarnation with Reason as a Cyclical ‘Lie’ in Halef
Throughout history, humanity has questioned the meaning of its existence and sought different answers to these questions. Every living thing will taste death one day, and the mind can sometimes leave people helpless despite death and the vastness of the ...
Aleyna Zaim
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Reincarnation in the Speech of Aristophanes
This article examines Aristophanes’ speech in Plato’s Symposium, focusing on its myth of humanity’s division and the search for wholeness. Traditional interpretations view the myth either as a folktale (Dover) or as a tragic denial of true fulfillment ...
Ryan Christensen
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A Lively Afterlife and Beyond : The Soul in Plato, Homer, and the Orphica
The NeoPlatonist Olympiodorus claims that “Plato borrows everywhere from Orpheus”, but many of the afterlife ideas which Plato is supposed to have drawn from “Orphism” come not from the Orphica, but from the broader mythological tradition.
Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
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Reincarnation in H. P. Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine
Throughout her career as an occultist, H. P. Blavatsky (1831–1891), the primary theorist of the nineteenth century’s most influential occultist movement, the Theosophical Society, taught two distinct theories of rebirth: metempsychosis and reincarnation.
Julie Chajes
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Integral Time and the Varieties of Post-Mortem Survival [PDF]
While the question of survival of bodily death is usually approached by focusing on the mind/body relation (and often with the idea of the soul as a special kind of substance), this paper explores the issue in the context of our understanding of time ...
Sean M. Kelly
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Motifs of transmigration of souls and dybbuk in Jewish culture and their contemporary implementation in the works by Yona Wollach This article describes two concepts important for Jewish mysticism – dybbuk and the transmigration of soul, and goes on to
Anna Piątek
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REINCARNATION AND NON-REINCARNATION IN THE ACTING PERFORMANCE OF MONODRAMA
The problem of tagged research (reincarnation and reincarnation) boils down to the representative performance of monodrama Ask (how present is the reincarnation and presentation style in the monodrama show?) while the importance of the research was reflected in the highlighting (the specificity of the performance of the actor in the monodramatic play ...
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DARWIN AND THE HINDU TRADITION: “DOES WHAT GOES AROUND COME AROUND?”
. The introduction of English as the medium of instruction for higher education in India in 1835 created a ferment in society and in the religious beliefs of educated Indians—Hindus, Muslims, and, later, Christians.
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Coping with mortality salience: the role of connection thinking and afterlife beliefs in Chinese context. [PDF]
Wang K, Sun Z, Hou Y, Yuan M.
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A Critical Study of Professor Fayyazi’s Objections to Ibn Sīnā’s Arguments for the Impossibility of Bodily Reincarnation (Tanasukh Mulkī) [PDF]
Throughout the history of philosophy, the doctrine of reincarnation has been proposed as a way to explain the reward or punishment of human actions and the longing for immortality. According to this view, after death the human soul transmigrates into the
Mahmud Saidi, Kukab Darabi
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