Bruno said that transmigration, what some called metempsychosis, wasn’t magic in the degraded sense of taking place outside physical laws or as conjured by people draped in wizards’ cloaks.

While productive labour is changing the means of production into constituent elements of a new product, their value undergoes a metempsychosis.

Paul Virilio turns to the metaphysics of metempsychosi--the transmigration of souls--to suggest the tension of the loading of the soul on to various metabolic vehicles