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Updated: May 7, 2025
Educated people, at least, have outgrown the ghost-soul of primitive times and have put their hope in the inability of the philosophic scientist to explain life and consciousness without appeal to agencies which are inexplicable on naturalistic terms. But it is obvious that such a basis is overhung by an ever-threatening danger.
Tylor agree in holding. The savage philosopher would then 'combine his information, like a celebrated writer on Chinese metaphysics. He would merely 'combine the life and the phantom, as 'manifestations of one and the same soul. The result would be 'an apparitional soul, or 'ghost-soul.
It would seem that so long as this vital spark remains in the body the ghost-soul may return to it; but that, when death is complete, this vital spark also departs, and then the ghost-soul will return no more. The use of the word URIP further bears out this interpretation.
This ghost-soul would be a highly accomplished creature, 'a vapour, film, or shadow, yet conscious, capable of leaving the body, mostly invisible and impalpable, 'yet also manifesting physical power, existing and appearing after the death of the body, able to act on the bodies of other men, beasts, and things.
This is one of several indications that the Kayans vaguely distinguish two souls on the one hand the ghost-soul or shade, which in dreams wanders afar, on the other hand the vital principle.
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