Islam And The American Experiment
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I doubt we have a soul as in the Abrahamic religions. I think we have a spirit. I have traveled at night when my body was asleep. Once I saw unexpected events that happened several miles away and found out the next day exactly what I saw was what happened in reality. Usually the spirit fades after death. Where it goes I don't know.
I have seen something I think was a ghost. Someone in the same apartment later saw a vivid apparition of a little girl looking at him sleep right in the same room I saw the dark figure. It gives me goosebumps to think about it. They were servants I presume as the apartment was the servants quarters in the 19th century.
How do you define soul and how do you think it differs from spirit? Just curious, people seem to use those terms interchangeably.
The soul in the three religions is eternal and belongs with god in the afterlife. The spirit is associated with life in the world we live in. It follows us around most of the time but it can get loose. It's a high part of the human organism where the full power of the psyche and biology is expressed. Sometimes the psychic component is so strong the spirit can linger whether it is from a traumatic death or an exceptional individual or just...that's what happened for whatever reason.
Um, that’s not what I was taught as a Christian. The soul is our emotional connection to our world. The spirit is our deeper connection to God - aka the Holy Spirit - the Comforter. Body - outer circle Soul - circle inside the body Spirit - innermost circle, the very core of a person
In my faith, the spirit doesn’t just linger.
Consider a shaman in meditation who sends his spirit to scout the area for game and directs his people to go get it. Or how spirits are invisible essences in distillation. Or how when your spirits are high that essential self is pumped up in ecstasy. That's how I see it.
Thanks for letting me know that though. I wasn't up on how those terms are differentiated in the bible but thought I was.