Hinduism
According to this Hindu teaching, the soul is born into a new body after death
Reincarnation
This term within the Buddhist tradition means "no-self"
an-atman
A philosophical movement that presumes that modern technology can unshackle humans from the frailties of the human body
transhumanism
Ancient Greek text written by Plato on the immortality of the soul
Phaedo
This recent book was written by this nueroscientist, which deals with major themes of RN106
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
atman
Ritual practice that presumes a continued relationship between the living and one's deceased family members
ancestor veneration
This scorpion-like character carries Dante and Virgil down into the Circle of Fraud
Geryon
This set of four texts, written from roughly 60-100 CE, make up the first part of the New Testament within the Christian tradition; literally means “good news”
Gospels
Central religious text of Islam
Quran
Hindu term that refers to the repeating cycle of birth, life, death, and rebirth in which all unenlightened beings exist; sometimes translated as “suffering”
samsara
A festival on the 15th day of the 7th month when the realms of the Underworld and the living are open to each other
Chinese Ghost Festival
The practice of preserving corpses at very low temperatures
cyrogenics
Liminal/liminality
Period of final judgment by God of everybody who has lived; spurs final resurrection, shared by Abrahmamic traditions
Day of Judgment
Hindu term that refers to the eternal principle or divine essence, which is ultimately no different than an individual's soul
Brahman
A symbolic representation of existence, divided into many realms included the realms of humans, gods, animals, and ghosts
Wheel of Existence
Cryonics advocate who wished to have her body preserved following her untimely death
Kim Suozzi
Known as the Hebrew Bible, which contains 24 books in three sections
Tanakh
Many Muslims believe they are descended from this son of Abraham
Ishmael
In an ancient Hindu story written in the Katha Upanishad around 450-500BCE, this teenage boy encounters Yama, the Hindu Lord of Death
Nachiketas
As described in the Yulanpen Scripture, this monk-discipline of Buddha attemps to rescue his mother from the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts
Mulian
This distinction, reflected in Dante's Inferno, describes the difference between the immediate fate of one’s soul versus the fate of souls for all eternity
particular judgment v. general judgment
According to Ernest Becker, humans deny death by striving for...?
Ernest Becker posits that BLANK makes it possible for humans to live in the face of death; not simply a negative, but a creative force
repression