The act or process of becoming separated from or losing one's physical body, especially in spiritual or afterlife contexts.
From 'discarnate' plus the noun-forming suffix '-ion'. This term emerged in 19th-century spiritualist literature to describe the separation of the soul from the flesh.
Spiritualists saw 'discarnation' as the opposite of incarnation—while incarnation is the soul entering flesh at birth, discarnation is it leaving at death, creating a spiritual bookend.
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