I said akin, similar to. I can't remember the exact term for possession of a body by some wandering spirit or whatever. I'd google but that's cheating.
In case anyone is interested I remember dying in a previous lifetime and at about the age of 7 on the way home from school one day I actually entered my current body having left the last body that died of cancer.
I make it a point to always remember my previous lifetimes unless they are too traumatic I can even recall animal lifetimes and to when I existed just as an energy form. For some reason I am able to do this which unfortunatly makes me seem like a freak of nature. Lock him up I hear them shout, well my friends do anyway!
I can only guess that one of my ambitions is to prove to myself that life goes on after death and I think I've pretty much proved that to myself.