Metempsychosis is a doctrine among some followers of Eastern teachings which expresses the theory of transmigration, that the human spirit may incarnate from one body to another, either human, animal, or inanimate, which is very different from the doctrine of reincarnation, which holds that man is an evolving being progressing through repeated human embodiments.
Metempsychosis - Controversy.
René Guénon dedicates a whole chapter of his 1923 book The Spiritist Fallacy to the ...
René Guénon dedicates a whole chapter of his 1923 book The Spiritist Fallacy to the concept of Reincarnation. According to him, there is no such concept in any traditional religion. He claims that reincarnation is instead a modern concept created by spiritist and theosophist authors, mainly Allan Kardec, apparently inspired by a fatally flawed understanding of the traditional concepts of transmigration and metempsychosis.
Some may argue that transmigration of human souls ...
