What is reincarnation? Detailed answer

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What is reincarnation?

You are sleeping and you have a dream in which you are doing something. And at the same time, your body is sleeping! What or who is this other "you" who does everything in a dream? Primitive man did not understand, as we understand now, what sleep is. He believed that a part of himself leaves the body during sleep, and this "part" was considered the soul. But if the soul can leave the body during sleep, then after death the soul also leaves it.

On the basis of this, a belief in reincarnation arose, as well as a belief in the transmigration of souls into another body. The new body can be any living being, that is, there is a second birth or reincarnation.

But not only primitive man believed in this. The ancient Egyptians made it part of their religion. That is why they embalmed the dead in order to prevent or delay the transmigration of the soul. Many great Greek philosophers, such as Plato, Pythagoras, also believed in the transmigration of souls. Reincarnation is a part of Buddhism and certainly an important part of early Christianity. The forms of reincarnation found in different countries differ from each other.

There are even many descriptions of how the soul leaves the human body. In some parts of India, it is depicted as an insect. In Europe, it was a bird, most often a dove. Sometimes the soul leaving the body was depicted as a butterfly.

Many of those who believe in reincarnation believe that the soul can only enter the bodies of sentient beings. But there are also those who think about its relocation into the bodies of insects, animals, such as, for example, tigers, sharks, crocodiles. And in some places they even believe that souls can move into flowers.

Author: Likum A.

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Physiognomy is the doctrine of the expression of a person's character in facial features and body shapes, of the necessary connection between the external appearance of a person and his character.

Physiognomy is rooted in the tradition of everyday experience, which has been deposited in folklore since time immemorial, in the legends of various healers and fortune-tellers. Physiognomic observations were recorded in the cultures of the Ancient East, and in the ancient era they received a systematic form similar to the structure of other scientific disciplines of that time. The subject of the classifying description was the proportions of the face and body, characteristic mines, gestures and postures, bodily structure and posture.

Some Western European scientists of the XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries returned to physiognomy, but the approval of new scientific criteria in the XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries threw physiognomy into the realm of everyday empiricism and intuition.

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