Transmigration
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Transmigration can has several meanings:
- Metempsychosis, a concept related to the transmigration of the soul into the body of animals.
- Transmigration of the soul is a common term for metempsychosis as related to human beings.
- René Guénon claims that transmigration involves the change of a corporeal being into another, non-corporeal state (with no return ever to corporeal existence) and therefore not really related to transmigration nor to reincarnation (which he believed to be a modern concept not present in religious traditions). See for instance his 1923 book "The Spiritist Fallacy".
- Transmigration program, the movement of a population from a crowded region to a less-densely-populated area. The most well-known such program was in Indonesia.
- Transmigration operation, in CAD, is an operation to reflect changes in a part as it relates to changes in the whole.
See also,
- The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, a novel by Philip K. Dick