Soul & Spirit

What’s the difference between the two? I guess how I’m feeling it out right this second is in musical terms, but I haven’t yet wrangled them into a communicable form. I sense this relates to my next mission…

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3 Reader Responses

1. Julian Powell Says:
   June 1st, 2008 at 12:06 am

   Soul = base of bare consciousness, the ‘Seer’. What passes on from lifetime to lifetime.

   Spirit = All of consciousness + all of its contents. The whole shebang. I think the Taoist descriptions of the ‘Tao’ describe what I mean best when referring to Spirit.

   But, poetically the terms are usually used interchangeably, and there’s nothing wrong with that, because the base of soul is Spirit, so the two aren’t exactly separate.

2. Jacob Says:
   June 2nd, 2008 at 3:46 am

   Soul is stationary
   Spirit is mobile

   There is a hint in here somewhere about the difference between “religion” and “spirituality” as well, isn’t there?

3. Big Elk Says:
   June 2nd, 2008 at 10:50 am

   Last night I wrote down “Accent & Rest”