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The English word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus, meaning "breath", but also "spirit, soul,
courage, vigor", ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European word "peis." It is different from the
Latin word anima, "soul." In Greek, this distinction exists between pneuma, "breath, motile
air, spirit," and psykhe, "soul."
The word "spirit" came into Middle English via Old French. The distinction between soul and
spirit also developed in the Abrahamic religions: Arabic "nafs" opposite "rúh;" Hebrew
"neshama (n. šâmâh)" or "nephesh" (in Hebrew "neshama" comes from the root NŠM or
"breath") opposite ruach (rûah).
The term has many differing meanings and connotations, most of them relating to a non-
corporeal substance contrasted with the material body.
The spirit of a living thing usually refers to or explains its consciousness. The notions of a
person's "spirit" and "soul" often also overlap, as both contrast with body and both are
understood as surviving the bodily death in religion and occultism, and "spirit" can also have
the sense of "ghost", i.e. a manifestation of the spirit of a deceased person.
The term may also refer to any incorporeal or immaterial being, such as demons or deities, in
Christianity specifically the Holy Spirit experienced by the disciples at Pentecost.
Metaphysical Uses of "Spirit"
In metaphysical terms, "spirit" has acquired a number of meanings over the years:
* An incorporeal but ubiquitous, non-quantifiable substance or energy present individually in
all living things. Unlike the concept of souls (often regarded as eternal and sometimes
believed to pre-exist the body) a spirit develops and grows as an integral aspect of a living
being, it is believed. This concept of the individual spirit occurs commonly in animism. Note
the distinction between this concept of spirit and that of the pre-existing or eternal soul:
belief in souls occurs specifically and far less commonly, particularly in traditional societies.
One might more properly term this type/aspect of spirit "life" (bios in Greek) or "aether"
rather than "spirit" (pneuma in Greek).
* A daemon sprite, or especially a ghost. People usually conceive of a ghost as a wandering
spirit from a being no longer living, having survived the death of the body yet maintaining at
least vestiges of mind and of consciousness.
* In religion and spirituality, the respiration of a human has for obvious reasons become seen
as strongly linked with the very occurrence of life. A similar significance has become attached
to human blood. Spirit, in this sense, means the thing that separates a living body from a
corpse—and usually implies intelligence, consciousness, and sentience.
* Latter-day Saint prophet Joseph Smith Jr. taught that the concept of spirit as incorporeal or
without substance was incorrect: "There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is
matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes."
* In some Native American spiritual traditions, the Spirit, or 'Great Spirit', is a term for the
Creator.
* Various forms of animism, such as Japan's Shinto and African traditional religion, focus on
invisible beings that represent or connect with plants, animals (sometimes called "Animal
Fathers)", or landforms (kami): translators usually employ the English word "spirit" when
trying to express the idea of such entities.
* Individual spirits envisaged as interconnected with all other spirits and with "The Spirit"
(singular and capitalized). This concept relates to theories of a unified spirituality, to
universal consciousness and to some concepts of Deity. In this scenario all separate "spirits",
when connected, form a greater unity, the Spirit, which has an identity separate from its
elements plus a consciousness and intellect greater than its elements; an ultimate, unified,
non-dual awareness or force of life combining or transcending all individual units of
consciousness. The experience of such a connection can become a primary basis for spiritual
belief. The term spirit occurs in this sense in (to name but a few) Anthroposophy, Aurobindo,
A Course In Miracles, Hegel, Ken Wilber, and Meher Baba (though in his teachings, "spirits"
are only apparently separate from each other and from "The Spirit.") In this use, the term
seems conceptually identical to Plotinus's "The One" and Friedrich Schelling's "Absolute".
Similarly, according to the panentheistic/pantheistic view, Spirit equates to essence that can
manifest itself as mind/soul through any level in pantheistic hierarchy/holarchy, such as
through a mind/soul of a single cell (with very primitive, elemental consciousness), or
through a human or animal mind/soul (with consciousness on a level of organic synergy of an
individual human/animal), or through a (superior) mind/soul with synergetically extremely
complex/sophisticated consciousness of whole galaxies involving all sub-levels, all emanating
(since the superior mind/soul operates non-dimensionally, or trans-dimensionally) from the
one Spirit.
*Christian theology can use the term "Spirit" to describe God, or aspects of God — as in the
"Holy Spirit", referring to a Triune God (Trinity)(cf Gospel of Matthew 28:19).
* "Spirit" forms a central concept in pneumatology (note that pneumatology studies
"pneuma" (Greek for "spirit") not "psyche" (Greek for "soul") — as studied in psychology).
*Christian Science uses "Spirit" as one of the seven synonyms for God, as in: "Principle; Mind;
Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love"
Harmonism reserves the term "spirit" for those that collectively control and influence an
individual from the realm of the mind.
Information in this article came, in part, from Wikipedia.com
courage, vigor", ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European word "peis." It is different from the
Latin word anima, "soul." In Greek, this distinction exists between pneuma, "breath, motile
air, spirit," and psykhe, "soul."
The word "spirit" came into Middle English via Old French. The distinction between soul and
spirit also developed in the Abrahamic religions: Arabic "nafs" opposite "rúh;" Hebrew
"neshama (n. šâmâh)" or "nephesh" (in Hebrew "neshama" comes from the root NŠM or
"breath") opposite ruach (rûah).
The term has many differing meanings and connotations, most of them relating to a non-
corporeal substance contrasted with the material body.
The spirit of a living thing usually refers to or explains its consciousness. The notions of a
person's "spirit" and "soul" often also overlap, as both contrast with body and both are
understood as surviving the bodily death in religion and occultism, and "spirit" can also have
the sense of "ghost", i.e. a manifestation of the spirit of a deceased person.
The term may also refer to any incorporeal or immaterial being, such as demons or deities, in
Christianity specifically the Holy Spirit experienced by the disciples at Pentecost.
Metaphysical Uses of "Spirit"
In metaphysical terms, "spirit" has acquired a number of meanings over the years:
* An incorporeal but ubiquitous, non-quantifiable substance or energy present individually in
all living things. Unlike the concept of souls (often regarded as eternal and sometimes
believed to pre-exist the body) a spirit develops and grows as an integral aspect of a living
being, it is believed. This concept of the individual spirit occurs commonly in animism. Note
the distinction between this concept of spirit and that of the pre-existing or eternal soul:
belief in souls occurs specifically and far less commonly, particularly in traditional societies.
One might more properly term this type/aspect of spirit "life" (bios in Greek) or "aether"
rather than "spirit" (pneuma in Greek).
* A daemon sprite, or especially a ghost. People usually conceive of a ghost as a wandering
spirit from a being no longer living, having survived the death of the body yet maintaining at
least vestiges of mind and of consciousness.
* In religion and spirituality, the respiration of a human has for obvious reasons become seen
as strongly linked with the very occurrence of life. A similar significance has become attached
to human blood. Spirit, in this sense, means the thing that separates a living body from a
corpse—and usually implies intelligence, consciousness, and sentience.
* Latter-day Saint prophet Joseph Smith Jr. taught that the concept of spirit as incorporeal or
without substance was incorrect: "There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is
matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes."
* In some Native American spiritual traditions, the Spirit, or 'Great Spirit', is a term for the
Creator.
* Various forms of animism, such as Japan's Shinto and African traditional religion, focus on
invisible beings that represent or connect with plants, animals (sometimes called "Animal
Fathers)", or landforms (kami): translators usually employ the English word "spirit" when
trying to express the idea of such entities.
* Individual spirits envisaged as interconnected with all other spirits and with "The Spirit"
(singular and capitalized). This concept relates to theories of a unified spirituality, to
universal consciousness and to some concepts of Deity. In this scenario all separate "spirits",
when connected, form a greater unity, the Spirit, which has an identity separate from its
elements plus a consciousness and intellect greater than its elements; an ultimate, unified,
non-dual awareness or force of life combining or transcending all individual units of
consciousness. The experience of such a connection can become a primary basis for spiritual
belief. The term spirit occurs in this sense in (to name but a few) Anthroposophy, Aurobindo,
A Course In Miracles, Hegel, Ken Wilber, and Meher Baba (though in his teachings, "spirits"
are only apparently separate from each other and from "The Spirit.") In this use, the term
seems conceptually identical to Plotinus's "The One" and Friedrich Schelling's "Absolute".
Similarly, according to the panentheistic/pantheistic view, Spirit equates to essence that can
manifest itself as mind/soul through any level in pantheistic hierarchy/holarchy, such as
through a mind/soul of a single cell (with very primitive, elemental consciousness), or
through a human or animal mind/soul (with consciousness on a level of organic synergy of an
individual human/animal), or through a (superior) mind/soul with synergetically extremely
complex/sophisticated consciousness of whole galaxies involving all sub-levels, all emanating
(since the superior mind/soul operates non-dimensionally, or trans-dimensionally) from the
one Spirit.
*Christian theology can use the term "Spirit" to describe God, or aspects of God — as in the
"Holy Spirit", referring to a Triune God (Trinity)(cf Gospel of Matthew 28:19).
* "Spirit" forms a central concept in pneumatology (note that pneumatology studies
"pneuma" (Greek for "spirit") not "psyche" (Greek for "soul") — as studied in psychology).
*Christian Science uses "Spirit" as one of the seven synonyms for God, as in: "Principle; Mind;
Soul; Spirit; Life; Truth; Love"
Harmonism reserves the term "spirit" for those that collectively control and influence an
individual from the realm of the mind.
Information in this article came, in part, from Wikipedia.com
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