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Okay, this is truly important, and I would really appreciate /x/'s help. I can't really find applicable information about it on the Internet no matter which search terms I use, probably because I don't have a specific name for this phenomenon to compare it within major religious and philosophical traditions. 

Obviously, we all know the classic examples of what I'm alluding to, like Goethe's Faust or the general recurring folklore idea of selling one's soul to a devil at a crossroads. But this is only one manifestation, not the whole of what I'm concerned with. It would be really great to find a single treatise, academic or spiritual, that deals particularly with this concept and comparatively studies different examples of it as can be found in many traditions, but I would be glad to take any information or recommendation, you guys might be able to offer, no matter how trivial.

Basically, I need to investigate the phenomenon of the soul being stolen / traded, lost, broken, wandering, or leaving the body prematurely, and for an indefinite or permanent / semi-permanent time frame (so not like astral travel), before the event of corporeal death. That's it. I can't seem to find a succinct term for this that would allow me to find more information. But if you guys know anything about this, whether through ethnographic knowledge in any tradition or even a personal interpretation, please share any resource.

I've obviously looked at some of the more obvious examples, like Doktor Faustus, and there is a relevant bit in Liber Juratus about 'one's soul accidentally remaining in heaven while the body is on earth' during the beatific divine vision, the culmination of the first working in that grimoire, ending with the body being in a torpor / catatonic-like state of madness because of the 'great risk' the vision of God poses to the integrity of a soul who has not properly prepared.

Other than that, I don't know. Like I said, this is deeply important, personally.
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