Talk:Spirit

Spiritual experience

hello i have had a outer body experiance and i never understood spirit world but a spirit was talking to me if anybody can help me and you can ask questions then email me on missbec@hotmail.co.uk

Spiritual grammar in native american military worship

I am wondering if someone would know how this would be interpreted [1]:

• All living things and objects have a spirit.
• When taking the life of a plant or animal of the Earth, a person must pay respect to the spirit of that plant or animal.

I am uncertain if the native american viewpoint of spirit (which would also apply to non-living things such as rocks and water) is represented here, and how it could be interpreted. Tyciol 17:20, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Why Not Say Real

Ghoasts are real. So lets note it. GhoastUser 03:37, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

You spelt ghosts wrong. --Majo(rly?) 00:22, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

Yes I did spell it right. In Lu we spell it ghoast. GhoastUser 01:40, 9 December 2006 (UTC)They are so real b couse i own one,from syco

"Ghosts" have not been proven to be real. Theirs no way we can note your opinion. Randy6767 21:18, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

the spirit's relation to the body and soul

I have removed this article, perhaps temporarily. It may return with some changes. Randy6767 20:58, 19 January 2007

Hebrew etymology reference

I think 'ruah' (said to be Hebrew 'spirit' in the article) is mind, not spirit. See:

the 7 consciousnesses (or 'spirits before the throne' of God--in the 7 lamps)
English: Hebrew

divinity: Hashem
holy spirit/oversoul: chhaya
spirit: jeshida
soul: neschamah
mind: ruach
emotions: nefesh
life: coach ha guf

Could anyone get the autiots for jeshida?--Dchmelik (talk) 23:46, 7 June 2008 (UTC) Ruach is very often translated as "spirit". See already Genesis 1:2. Gesenius gives the following range of meanings:

• 1) wind, breath, mind, spirit
  • a) breath
  • b) wind 1) of heaven 2) quarter (of wind), side 3) breath of air 4) air, gas 5) vain, empty thing
  • c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation) 1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour 2) courage 3) temper, anger 4) impatience, patience 5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented) 6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse 7) prophetic spirit
  • d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals) 1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being
  • e) spirit (as seat of emotion) 1) desire 2) sorrow, trouble
  • f) spirit 1) as seat or organ of mental acts 2) rarely of the will 3) as seat especially of moral character
  • g) Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son 1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy 2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning 3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power 4) as endowing men with various gifts 5) as energy of life 6) as manifest in the Shekinah glory 7) never referred to as a depersonalised force

Your "seven lamps" are apparently a reference to Revelation 4, but I don't know how you get the list of Hebrew words to go with it, let alone the English translations. --dab (𒁳) 10:25, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

Terminology is very confused. I've come across in different sources the 3 components of human identity described as

1. body, mind & soul
2. body, mind & spirit
3. body, soul & spirit

Peter jackson (talk) 15:26, 6 April 2010 (UTC)

It's interesting to note that in common Christian speech the word "soul" is usually used to mean a disembodied spirit of the dead. There are Christian denominations which do not believe in the unconditional immortality of the soul, but believe that when you die you are dead, IOW, as Jesus put it, one "sleeps" until the resurrection of the dead at the Second Coming of Christ. To them immortality was an original human attribute at creation, it was lost because of sin, and is only restored after the resurrection when the saved will then live forever with God. The Hebrew use of the word often clearly implies that they are simply using the word to mean living individual or being. They even use it in reference to living animals, calling them souls. At the time of Christ there was division regarding belief in the afterlife and the state of the dead. The Pharisees were very conservative and believed in miracles and the resurrection, while the liberal Sadducees didn't. The Sadducees were the skeptics of their day. -- Brangifer (talk)

Animas

Animas

The life force spirit found in all substance. A G(g)od. The binding force of all matter that is pro-active in all life forms. Gnostics (talk) 21:06, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

Spirit as unconscious force

Could somebody please review the following article of mine to see if it qualifies in an 'external links' section, and please insert it there. http://home7.swipnet.se/~w-73784/spiritfish.htm Matswin (talk) 07:58, 21 August 2010 (UTC)