The goal is to attain knowledge enlightenment through a series of rebirths until mankind evolves into Rod himself.
In the drama that is the computer industry, that role has often gone to Apple Computer, whose birth, triumph, stagnation, near-death and rebirth had, until recent weeks, thrilled the hearts of investors and Apple boosters everywhere.
Based on the Wheel of Life described in the Tibetan Book of The Dead, 41-year-old Henry's LP - originally released in 1963 on Limelight Records - attempts to evoke the atmosphere from the moment of a person's final breath (opening track, Breath) through the three stages of reincarnation until their eventual rebirth (closing track, Breath II).
In other traditions, such as Hindu, Buddhist, Kabbalistic, among others, it continues in a process of rebirth that occurs until we reach a state of consciousness and are freed from karma and can return to the source.
The Totem was the last to go, standing empty for three years until its rebirth this winter as the flagship of Terminal Neige, a new youth-oriented three-star brand.
Soccer geopolitics Uruguay, once a world soccer superpower, spent decades in relative obscurity until their rebirth in 2010.
Sometimes I'll be locked into this cycle of death and rebirth against nigh-impossible odds until the bitter end, often 30 minutes later.
In the past 10 years, Dandenong has just been getting better and better, but for me, this vision of a multicultural rebirth wasn't properly crystallised until I visited Sydney's West.
Until recently, such a rebirth of Judaism here seemed unlikely.
The soul is constrained to a cycle of rebirth, trapped within the temporal world, until it finally achieves liberation.
