Yama: The Lord of Death, controller of who dies and what happens to them after death.

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Reincarnation - The doctrine of rebirth after death. It is one of the tennents of Wicca.

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dhasanjaya:

dhasanjaya - a vital air that stays in the body after death, sometimes bloating the corpse

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Cipher Test:

A coded message left by a person who intends to communicate the cipher after death.

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reincarnation: "Re-entering the flesh." Punarjanma; metempsychosis. The process wherein souls take on a physical body through the birth process.

Reincarnation is one of the fundamental principles of Hindu spiritual insight, shared by the mystical schools of nearly all religions, including Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism (and even by Christianity until it was cast out by the Nicene Council in 787). It is against the backdrop of this principle of the soul's enjoying many lives that other aspects of Hinduism can be understood. It is a repetitive cycle, known as punarjanma, which originates in the subtle plane (Antarloka), the realm in which souls live between births and return to after death. Here they are assisted in readjusting to the "in-between" world and eventually prepared for yet another birth.

The quality and nature of the birth depends on the merit or demerit of their past actions (karma) and on the needs of their unique pattern of development and experience (dharma). The mother, the father and the soul together create a new body for the soul. At the moment of conception, the soul connects with and is irrevocably bound to the embryo. As soon as the egg is fertilized, the process of human life begins. It is during the mid-term of pregnancy that the full humanness of the fetus is achieved and the soul fully inhabits the new body, a stage which is acknowledged when the child begins to move and kick within the mother's womb. (Tirumantiram, 460: "There in the pregnant womb, the soul lay in primordial quiescence [turiya] state. From that state, Maya [or Prakriti] and Her tribe aroused it and conferred consciousness and maya's evolutes eight- desires and the rest. Thus say scriptures holy and true.")

Finally, at birth the soul emerges into earth consciousness, veiled of all memory of past lives and the inner worlds. The cycle of reincarnation ends when karma has been resolved and the Self God (Parasiva) has been realized. This condition of release is called moksha. Then the soul continues to evolve and mature, but without the need to return to physical existence. How many earthly births must one have to attain the unattainable? Many thousands to be sure, hastened by righteous living, tapas, austerities on all levels, penance and good deeds in abundance.

See: reincarnation, evolution of the soul, karma, moksha, nonhuman birth, samsara, soul.

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A Dictionary of Karma Terminology. From "A Sanskrit English Dictionary", by Sir Monier Monier-Williams.

Pretyabhava (Sanskrit) [from pretya having died, having departed + bhava existence]

The state after death; hence the future state. A very general term, referring in a vague way to the future after death, or more particularly to the temporary sojourn of a departed being in the astral light.

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place where we rest after death and in between reincarnations
synchronicity meaningful coincidence

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Dwaraka:

Dwaraka (Dhvaarakaa). Capital of Krishna. After Krishna's death the city was swept over by the sea; researchers believe it was situated in the sea just west of Gujarat.

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deva-yana:

deva-yana (dheva-yaana). Path of light or of the gods, taken by virtuous people after death.

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Sati:

Sat(h)i: Voluntary self-burning of women after the death of their husband. Traditional compulsiveness which has fallen into disuse.

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Jana-loka (Sk. The world wherein the Munis (the Saints) are supposed to dwell after their corporeal death (See Puranas). Also a terrestrial locality.

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Spiritualism:

A religion based upon the belief in life after death and the experiences of various mediums over the last hundred years; organized primarily to provide legal protection for the mediums and their followers.

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Vibhishana

The saintly brother of Ravana who abandoned Ravana to join the side of Lord Rama. After Ravana’s death, Vibhishana was crowned king of Lanka.

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Transmigration: The Druidic belief that the life essence or soul of a living thing would pass immediately from their old vessel into a new lifeform after their physical death.

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MAITREYA BUDDHA

The coming Buddha, the Next World. This Buddha will return five millennia after Gautama's death.

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ASTROSOME

The astral, "healing" body that can leave the body when not busy and which destroys the body after death. (Also, a bad example is the vampire).

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Reliquiae (Latin) Leavings; the astral shells or spooks of human beings and animals which are left in the lower strata of the astral light after death. Equivalent to the Sanskrit bhuta.

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Bats

• Awful is the fate of the unfortunate dreamer of this ugly animal. Sorrows and calamities from hosts of evil work against you. Death of parents and friends, loss of limbs or sight, may follow after a dream of these ghoulish monsters. A white bat is almost a sure sign of death. Often the death of a child follows this dream.

Source: 10 000 Dream Interpretations, by Gustavus Hindman Miller

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archi-radi-marga:

archi-radi-marga (-raadhi-maarga). Path of Gods, beginning with fire or the Sun's rays, taken by spiritual souls after death.

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