transmigration

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Musicologists have discovered the origin of the rhythmic patterns of what became this Baroque era vehicle for the transmigration of souls in dances carried by enslaved Africans to 16th century Spain.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2025

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

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

Nothing is more ancient than the idea of the transmigration of souls.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste