Spirit? IMO, Bill, there are at least three components (essential parts) to that which I think of as spirituality. The components are body, mind and spirit--that is, soma, psyche and pneuma:

SOMA (body)
somatically speaking, spirit, for me, is as real as the very air (pneumatos) we breathe. Without taking our next breath, we would all be physically dead.

PSYCHE (mind)
Psychically and psychologically, speaking, we are who we are as the result our heredity and total social environment, of the way we have been trained and educated. In my opinion being cut off from this and condemned to live in solitary confinement would, for me and most people, be a fate worse than physical death.

PNEUMA (spirit)
Pneumatologically, or spiritually, speaking, It IS ... and there is more, much more to be said, ad infinitum.

Meanwhile, a pneumatolocial welcome to qqjones. I assume he will allow us to keep up with the Joneses.:)


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