life force

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The deceased person's lifeforce is thus channelled back to the living.
This is thought to contain the lifeforce of the deceased and is erected on the grave.
The destruction of someone's house and gardens removes the lifeforce from the deceased person and prepares that force for a return to the living.
First, it is not clear how one would even begin to measure the relevant lifeforce.
But breath itself is closely linked conceptually (and physically) to life, and thus to the metaphysical lifeforce of -anima.
Feminists sought to use the discourse of romantic genius, associated with the regenerative power of ' lifeforce ' and exercised by outsiders, to indicate their aim to transform society.
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