transmigration

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.”

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.

His search for self and spiritual transmigration led to his downfall and has to become a cautionary tale.

“Infinite” may last a finite 106 minutes, but transmigration of souls or no transmigration of souls, life is too short.

The telescope itself provides a form of space travel; as Hooke put it, a ‘transmigration into heaven, even whil’st we remain here upon earth in the flesh’.