Seal Bait – Your mind body and spirit connection

''spirit'' (from Latin ''spiritus'' "breath") has many differing meanings and connotations, all of them relating to a non-corporeal substance contrasted with the material body.

The spirit of a human being is thus the animating, sensitive or vital principle in that individual, similar to the soul taken to be the seat of the mental, intellectual and emotional powers.

The notions of a person's "spirit" and "soul" often also overlap, as both contrast with body and both are imagined as surviving the bodily death in religion and occultism,

and "spirit" can also have the sense of "ghost", i.e. manifestations of the spirit of a deceased person.

The term may also refer to any being imagined as incorporeal or immaterial, such as demons or deities, in Christianity specifically the Holy Spirit experienced by the disciples at Pentecost.


Adapted from the Wikipedia article Spirit, under the G. N. U. Free Documentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki