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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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	Claims of Reincarnation: An Empirical Study of Cases in India. Magazine article from: The Journal of Parapsychology; 12/1/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...questionnaire about belief in reincarnation. Although the style, tone...fraud as explanations of the evidence as a whole. (However, I...several centuries' worth of evidence suggesting that dissociative...studies in age regression to the evidence for reincarnation, she does...
	Making a Case for Reincarnation -- Physician and psychiatrist devotes life to compiling scientific evidence Newspaper article from: Yakima Herald-Republic; 8/28/1999; 700+ words ; ...Old Souls: The Scientific Evidence for Reincarnation," being published this month...has compiled enough solid, empirical evidence to prove that physical death...scientists refuse to accept the evidence we have for reincarnation...
	A Matter of Death & Life; Ian Stevenson's scientific search for evidence of reincarnation Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/8/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...has compiled enough solid, empirical evidence to prove that physical death...scientists refuse to accept the evidence we have for reincarnation?" On this day, and for...shown me what he means by "evidence." He has allowed me to...
	Reincarnation all over again. (Book Reviews).(Reincarnation and Biology, vols. 1-2) Magazine article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA); 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words ; Evidence for reincarnation rests on backward...model of rigorous empirical investigation which...presentation of evidence and in his analysis of evidence supposedly obtained. Stevenson's Reincarnation Cases A typical...
	Reincarnation all over again Magazine article from: Skeptic; 1/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; Evidence for reincarnation rests on backward...model of rigorous empirical investigation which...presentation of evidence and in his analysis of evidence supposedly obtained. Stevenson's Reincarnation Cases A typical...
	Is There Life After Death: An Examination of the Empirical Evidence.(Book review) Magazine article from: The Journal of Parapsychology; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...EXAMINATION OF THE EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE by David Lester...the large body of empirical research devoted to...relative strength of empirical data associated with...asserts that the major empirical sources of evidence...studies. With regard to reincarnation he is also ...
	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...potential philosophical (as distinct from empirical) problems: Flew (1987), (Geach...if it matches (a "hit"), have evidence for some sort of survival of death...
	Why We Believe.(Society; SCIENCE)(belief in paranormal phenomena) Magazine article from: Newsweek; 11/3/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...Walter Semkiw that he was the reincarnation of John Adams. Adams was...him to critically evaluate empirical evidence, he had to accept that he...anything for which there is no empirical evidence is a sign of mental pathology...
	'Twas Brillig ... Sam Harris and the question of PSI.(Critical essay) Magazine article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA); 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...require extraordinary evidence" remains a reasonable...even be some credible evidence for reincarnation." Let me here remind...would stand as good evidence for the reality of...supporting, strong, empirical evidence. Surely that...
	'Twas Brillig... Magazine article from: Skeptic; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...require extraordinary evidence" remains a reasonable...even be some credible evidence for reincarnation." Let me here remind...would stand as good evidence for the reality of...supporting, strong, empirical evidence. Surely that...