Talk:Soul travel

Latest comment: 14 years ago by Colonel Marksman in topic Soul Travel and Christianity

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The large section of text begining after The remainder of this article should be taken as subjective opinion from the viewpoint of one believer in this phenomenon on the old [1] version of this page appears to be copy and paste from other web sources. The adding author appears to be user:125.22.130.216 with no other edits then the ones on this page. This Google search [2] Lead to several pages, it is hard to tell what is taken from where but it seems clear that Wikipedia is not the single orginal version. some pages holding indentical content

Teminology: external ethnonym (exonym) "Eskimo"

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I propose using the well established exonym "Eskimo" instead of "Inuit". Using "Inuit" would be unnecessarily restrictive, because soul travel concepts are not restricted to Inuits. Such ones have been recorded also among Yupiks, the other large branch of the Eskimos. Beliefs about "soul travel" have been recorded among groups both in the Yupik and Inuit branch of Eskimo peoples. Because the Yupik branch is the smaller one, I write a Yupik example in details (emphasis added):[1]

It has been recorded among Chugach, by Birket-Smith.

  1. ^ Merkur 1985, p. 125
  • Merkur, Daniel (1985). "Chugach Initiations". Becoming Half Hidden: Shamanism and Initiation among the Inuit. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis • Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion. Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell. pp. 124–128. ISBN 91-22-00752-0.

Physis (talk) 17:01, 21 June 2009 (UTC)Reply

Soul Travel and Christianity

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Christianity doesn't recognize nor support the idea of soul travel, and definitely not to Heaven. If this is in reference to the Book of Revelation, that is not "soul travel" as described here. Colonel Marksman (talk) 03:32, 30 November 2009 (UTC)Reply