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Human beings are limited by the physical world, by the capacities of the body and by the earthly laws of space and time. Understandably, then, an enduring belief held by humankind is that some part of us may be capable of breaking those bonds, that a spiritual or emotional essence can travel outside the body. Underlying numerous philosophies and religions is the belief that the spirit and the body exist separately, and that the spirit or soul survives after death.