silver cord
Spirit-body connection
Silver cord refers to the bond between a mother and her child, especially one that persists into adulthood.
The phrase comes from Ecclesiastes, where it represents the thread of life.
In occult and spiritualist traditions, the silver cord is an ethereal connection between the soul and the physical body, believed to sever at death.
The expression suggests an attachment that is precious but perhaps meant to be eventually broken: He never cut the silver cord with his mother.
- astralRelating to stars
- astral travelMind journeying outside body
- out of bodySensation of leaving flesh
- soulInnermost animating essence
- spiritSoul, mood, or liquor
life force · tether · umbilical · ethereal · body · near death experience · projection · severed · luminous · thread · connection · eternal bond · lifeline · afterlife · floating · departure · spiritual · binding
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- astral projectionastral projection, astral travel, astral plane, astral body, out-of-body experience
- mizuhikipine knot, double loop
silver cordseverance
Termination pay or disconnection
death · disembodiment · final breath · passing · dissolution
silver cordindependence
Freedom from external control
autonomy · individuation · separation · emancipation · detachment
silver cordrupture
Violent tearing apart
severance · disconnection · broken link · dissolution · untethering
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