Metensomatosis (from ancient Greek μετενσωματοσις) refers to the transition or change from one body to another. The word metensomatosis literally means "displacement of the body".
This term would refer to the transition of material parts from one body to another without involving the soul (in contrast to metempsychosis). Today this doctrine can be argued with the law of the conservation of the energy; since matter can not be created or destroyed (as energy, since matter is energy) must be transformed; this applies then to living beings who when they die are decomposed by other living beings or are reintegrated into the ecosystem where eventually they will be part of other organisms.
Metensomatosis emerges as a spiritual doctrine and a variant of reincarnation. Buddhism, for example, contemplates metensomatosis in its different branches of thought. Notes and
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