Lux Esoterica (Nifiluz)

Between every life, there is a pause. The body returns to the earth. The breath ceases. The heartbeat stops. And yet — according to traditions spanning every inhabited continent and most of recorded history — something continues. Something moves on, carrying the accumulated experiences of one life as learning, as tendency, as unresolved longing, into the conditions of the next. The belief in reincarnation — the transmigration of the soul through successive lives — is one of the most widely held beliefs in human history. It appears in ancient India (where it remains foundational to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism), in ancient Greece (Plato, Pythagoras, and the Orphic mysteries), in the Sufi tradition within Islam, in Kabbalistic Judaism, in Celtic religion, in West African traditional religion, in indigenous traditions across the Americas, and even — historically — in early Christianity before it was declared heretical at the Council of Constantinople in 553 CE. It is not, as some as...