reincarnation

n. rebirth of souls in new bodies, regeneration of souls, re-embodiment

Reincarnation, literally "to be made flesh again", is a doctrine or metaphysical belief that some essential part of a living being (in some variations only human beings) survives death to be reborn in a new body. This essential part is often referred to as the Spirit or Soul, the 'Higher or True Self', 'Divine Spark', 'I' or the 'Ego' (not to be confused with the ego as defined by psychology). According to such beliefs, a new is developed during each life in the physical world, but some part of the being remains constantly present throughout these successive lives as well.
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Noun
1. embodiment in a new form (especially the reappearance or a person in another form); "his reincarnation as a lion"
(hypernym) embodiment, incarnation, avatar
(derivation) reincarnate, transmigrate
2. a second or new birth
(synonym) rebirth
(hypernym) birth, nativity, nascency, nascence
(hyponym) transmigration
3. the Hindu or Buddhist doctrine that person may be reborn successively into one of five classes of living beings (god or human or animal or hungry ghost or denizen of hell) depending on the person's own actions
(hypernym) theological doctrine, religious doctrine

n. reincarnation, rebirth of souls in new bodies, regeneration of souls, re-embodiment

Reincarnation Reimbodiment; specifically reinfleshment, the repeated imbodiment of the reincarnating ego in vehicles of human flesh on this earth. The unexhausted desire for earth-life draws the ego back to this globe, where it gathers to itself the material for a reincarnation and thus is finally born from a human womb. The process is repeated almost numberless times until the evolution of the inspiriting monad has reached a stage when reincarnation is no longer required. The interval between successive incarnations may be roughly estimated at 100 times the length of the preceding earth-life -- a rule obviously subject to many exceptions.