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Death as a costume change, not a season finale.
means The belief that after death, the soul is reborn into a new body, starting another lifetime.
from Built from Latin re- ('again') plus incarnare ('to make flesh'), itself from caro/carnis ('flesh' — the same root as 'carnal' and 'chili con carne'). The word is a relatively late Western coinage used to translate much older ideas — like Hindu and Buddhist concepts of samsara and rebirth — into a Latin frame of 'putting on flesh' all over again.
- karma link
- your next life is basically your current review score
- buddhism twist
- denies a fixed soul, yet still keeps rebirth
- pythagoras believed it
- claimed to remember his past lives personally
- word timing
- english usage traced to 1800s theosophy movement