African vitalogy treats death as spiritual renewal and progress in consciousness

Evidence

This world view of reality which unifies the material and the spirit, religious tension and daily life, soul and body, the world of the living and the world of the dead belongs to the spiritual and religious sphere where that which counts is not yet the “when” but the “being”. Life or the “one” which always presents itself as an absolute novelty in our minds can be seen as a “renewal” or, again, as “dying in oneself”. In fact, the rebirth supposes a certain death – at least in oneself – that can be understood as a spiritual renewal, as a progress in spiritual consciousness. — Frans Dokman, Beyond Bantu Philosophy_…, 341

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains that unity of material/spiritual is measured by ‘being’ not ‘when’, reframing death as rebirth and growth in spiritual consciousness.
• XREF: Echoes the ‘dying in oneself’ dialectic found in mystical traditions (Teresa of Avila, Meister Eckhart) and in Hegelian Aufhebung.