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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
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