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From: hugh@cs.adelaide.edu.au (Hugh Garsden)
Newsgroups: soc.religion.eastern
Subject: Re: Body and Soul?
Keywords: soul, conception, reincarnation
Message-ID: <1990Oct16.052516.4511@nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 16 Oct 90 05:25:16 GMT
References: <1990Sep13.000952.27231@nas.nasa.gov>
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  In article <1990Sep13.000952.27231@nas.nasa.gov> I write:

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>A question.
>
>Suppose we accept that there is a soul, and that we are reincarnated. At
>some time, therefore, the soul must enter the body (since it comes
>intact from a previous life). When does it do this? Before we are born?
 etc...

I want to thank those who replied to this via news and e-mail. I got
a lot of responses, all interesting. I'm still digesting them. Good stuff.

The general consensus is that the soul (or your own interpretation of "soul")
enters the "body" at conception, and further that the soul is in some way
the prerequisite for conception. Again, I'm just presenting a general
impression. I have noted those responses that were different to this.

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Hugh Garsden
University of Adelaide
hugh@cs.adelaide.edu.au