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	reincarnation reincarnation [Lat.,=taking on flesh again], occupation by the soul of a new body after the death of the former body. Beliefs vary as to whether the soul assumes the new body immediately or only after an interval of disembodiment. Although some religions teach that it may inhabit a higher or lowe... Read more
	New Age New Age a term popularized in the 1980s to describe a wide-ranging set of beliefs and practices that are an outgrowth of the counterculture of the 1960s and 70s in the United States. Adherents of the New Age movement believe that a spiritual era is dawning in which individuals and society will be t... Read more
	Agapemone Agapemone [Gr.,=abode of love], English religious community of men and women, holding all goods in common. It was founded (c.1850) at the village of Spaxton, Somerset, by Henry James Prince (1811-99), Samuel Starky, and others. Prince and Starky were clergymen who had left (c.1843) the Church of En... Read more
	Edgar Cayce Edgar Cayce , 1877-1945, American folk healer, b. Hopkinsville, Ky. A popularizer of the idea of reincarnation , he was active as a "psychic diagnostician" between 1901 and 1944, performing thousands of "life readings." He wandered across the United States, spreading his ideas, before settl... Read more
	immortality immortality attribute of deathlessness ascribed to the soul in many religions and philosophies. Forthright belief in immortality of the body is rare. Immortality of the soul is a cardinal tenet of Islam and is held generally in Judaism, although it is not an essentially Jewish idea. The ancient Gre... Read more
	transmigration of souls transmigration of souls or metempsychosis [Gr.,=change of soul], a belief common to many cultures, in which the soul passes from one body to another, either human, animal, or inanimate. The Australian aborigines believe that an infant is a reincarnation of deceased ancestors and that the soul i... Read more
	Tibetan Buddhism Tibetan Buddhism form of Buddhism prevailing in the Tibet region of China, Bhutan, the state of Sikkim in India, Mongolia, and parts of Siberia and SW China. It has sometimes been called Lamaism, from the name of the Tibetan monks, the lamas [superior ones]. The religion is derived from the Ind... Read more
	soul soul the vital, immaterial, life principle, generally conceived as existing within humans and sometimes within all living things, inanimate objects, and the universe as a whole. Religion and philosophy have long been concerned with the nature of the soul in their attempts to understand existence an... Read more
	rock music rock music type of music originating in the United States in the mid-1950s and increasingly popular throughout much of the world. Origins of Rock Essentially hybrid in origin, rock music includes elements of several black and white American music styles: black guitar-accompanied blues; bl... Read more
	rock music rock music type of music originating in the United States in the mid-1950s and increasingly popular throughout much of the world. Origins of Rock Essentially hybrid in origin, rock music includes elements of several black and white American music styles: black guitar-accompanied blues; bl... Read more

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	Encryption algorithms in survival evidence. Magazine article from: The Journal of Parapsychology; 6/1/1994; ; 700+ words ; ...are apparitions, cases suggestive of reincarnation, dreams, hauntings, mediumship, NDEs...potential philosophical (as distinct from empirical) problems: Flew (1987), (Geach (1987...record and, if it matches (a hit ), have evidence for some sort of survival of death... Read more
	Benor, Daniel J., M.D. (2006). Personal Spirituality: Science, Spirit and the Eternal Soul.(New Books Received)(Brief article)(Book review) Magazine article from: Frontier Perspectives; 9/22/2006; 88 words ; ...a participant. Out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, reincarnation, religions and healing, mystical experiences, quantum physics and...this book, which aims to prove the existence of the soul through empirical evidence. Read more
	Dr. Cook's reply to comments on her review of Parapsychology and Thanatology. Magazine article from: The Journal of Parapsychology; 6/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...competing hypotheses and conducting new, empirical research to test those predictions...suggest that the patient must be the reincarnation of a native speaker of Swahili? A different...specify more precisely what sorts of evidence would persuade us that an OBE experient... Read more
	How to Live Forever: Science Fiction and Philosophy. Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...this body (84) and his acceptance as evidence transcendent truths concerning identity...four perspectives: i) Resurrection, reincarnation or disembodied survival; ii) The moral...stories explore not only the actual or empirical possibilities of science in extending... Read more
	New Spirituality, Self, and Belonging: How New Agers and Neo-Pagans Talk about Themselves.(Review) Magazine article from: Sociology of Religion; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...feminist spirituality, environmentalism, belief in reincarnation, Wicca, tantric-influenced sex magic, voodoo, totemism...synonymous, and technology as positive, and all seek empirical evidence ('proof') of spiritual belief (59f). As well, they... Read more