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About||the alcoholic beverage or "spirits"|Distilled beverage|other uses|Spirit (disambiguation)Refimprove|date=June 2009WiktionaryThe English word spirit (from Latin spiritus " breath ") has many differing meanings and connotations, most of them relating to a non-corporeal substance mind-body dualism|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,OED "spirit 2.a.: The soul of a person, as commended to God, or passing out of the body, in the moment of death." 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 demon s or deity|deities , in Christianity specifically the Holy Spirit experienced by the disciples at Pentecost.
Etymology
Unreferenced section|date=November 2010The English word spirit comes from the Latin spiritus , meaning " breath ", but also "spirit, soul, courage, vigor", ultimately from a Proto-Indo-European language|Proto-Indo-European *(s)peis . It is distinguished from Latin anima , " soul ." In Greek, this distinction exists between pneuma (p?e?µa), "breath, motile air, spirit," and Psyche (psychology)|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 ).
In reality spirit mean memories , were memory can't see or touch but they are present. The living being are alive under the instruction of memory. Memories being build every second and add new instruction. The instruction is process and performed into action. ( it is like a computer software ). So for some people around the world who think they are hunted by ghost should know that there is no ghost in real it is just a bad memory or fault instruction which maybe be program to self destruction, see thing(which is not there), fault sensation, controlling internal organs, deleting other important memory, modifying memory, etc. It is like a computer virus . It is also use by black magician. And it is powerful.
As far as i know memory can be recover went it is lost(deleted). Example if you write a story using pencil and erase it after you have done but there is mark of written story on the paper which can be read and re-write it back. Just like that spirit can be recover from a mark where it was present before. If the place or container of the memory is destroy but the mark of memories are present on other object, location or on other form of energy.
Metaphysical and metaphorical uses
English-speakers use the word "spirit" in two related contexts, one metaphysics|metaphysical and the other metaphorical .
Metaphysical contexts
In metaphysical terms, "spirit" has acquired a number of meanings:
An incorporeal but ubiquitous, non-quantifiable substance or Energy (spirituality)|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.Citation needed|date=March 2009 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 (classical element)|aether " rather than "spirit" ( pneuma in Greek).
A Daemon (mythology)|daemon sprite (creature)|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 (physiology)|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& mdash;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." Doctrine and Covenants http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/131? lang=eng 131:7
In some Native Americans in the United States|Native American spiritual traditions, the Spirit, or 'Great Spirit', is a term for the Creator deity|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 spirit|Animal Fathers )", or landform s ( kami )Citation needed|date=July 2011: 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 capitalization|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- dualism|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 supernatural|spiritual belief . The term spirit occurs in this sense in (to name but a few) Anthroposophy , Aurobindo , A Course In Miracles , Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel|Hegel , Ken Wilber , and Meher Baba (though in his teachings, "spirits" are only apparently separate from each other and from "The Spirit.")Kalchuri, Bhau: http://www.lordmeher.org Meher Prabhu: Lord Meher , Volume Eighteen, Manifestation, Inc., 1986, p. 5937. In this use, the term seems conceptually identical to Plotinus|Plotinus's " Absolute (philosophy)|The One " and Friedrich Schelling|Friedrich Schelling's " Absolute (philosophy)|Absolute ". Similarly, according to the panentheism|panentheistic / pantheism|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"cite book
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Harmony Society|Harmonism reserves the term "spirit" for those that collectively control and influence an individual from the realm of the mind .
Metaphorical usage
The metaphorical use of the term likewise groups several related meanings:
The loyalty and feeling of inclusion in the social history or collective essence of an institution or group, such as in school spirit or esprit de corps .
A closely related meaning refers to the worldview of a person, place, or time, as in "The United States Declaration of Independence|Declaration of Independence was written in the spirit of John Locke and his notions of liberty", or the term zeitgeist , meaning "spirit of the age".
As a synonym for "vivacity" as in "She performed the piece with spirit" or "She put up a spirited defense".
The underlying intention of a writing|text as distinguished from its literal translation|literal meaning, especially in law ; see Letter and spirit of the law
As a term for alcoholic beverages .
In mysticism : existence in unity with God head. Soul may also equate with spirit, but the soul involves certain individual human consciousness, while spirit comes from beyond that. Compare the psychological teaching of Al-Ghazali#Psychology|Al-Ghazali .
See soul and ghost and spirituality|spiritual for related discussions .
Related concepts in other languages
Similar concepts in other languages include Greek pneumatology|pneuma and Sanskrit akasha / Atman (Hinduism)|atman , see also Prana .
Some languages use a word for "spirit" often closely related (if not synonymous) to " mind ". Examples include the German, Geist (related to the English word "ghost") or the French, 'l'esprit'. English versions of the Judaeo-Christian Bible most commonly translate the Hebrew word "ruach" (???; "wind") as "the spirit", whose essence is divine http://www.biblicalheritage.org/Bible%20Studies/ruach.htm RUACH: Spirit or Wind or ? ? ? at Biblical Heritage Center (see Holy Spirit and Ruach HaKodesh| ruach hakodesh ). Alternatively, Hebrew texts commonly use the word nephesh . Kabbalah|Kabbalists regard nephesh as one of the five parts of the Jewish soul , where nephesh (animal) refers to the physical being and its animal instincts. Similarly, Scandinavian languages , Baltic languages, Slavic languages and the Chinese language ( qi ) use the words for "breath" to express concepts similar to "the spirit".
