transmigration

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

From Salon • Nov. 27, 2024

He had forgotten the names of some of his dogs, she said, and where his bedroom was, but “we had this high-level conversation about the transmigration of souls.”

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2022

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

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

He further said that he believed in the transmigration of souls, but thought that all spirits would ultimately return to the Great Spirit whence they came.

From Fifty-One Years of Victorian Life by Child-Villiers, Margaret Elizabeth Leigh