What's your definition of the words soul and spiritual?

Question

My Webster College Dictionary uses circular logic to define each term.

Answer 1

Soul is the essense of  a person, take away learnt behaviour, personality(as this is often learned as well). It is seperate from the vessel that holds it (our body and mind) and transends time, space and situation.

A spiritual person is able to see themselves as part of a larger cosmic whole. They are able to see meaning beyond the immediate. That not everything can/should be explained.  

Answer 2

I believe "spiritual" is our attempt to relate to the implications of the "soul".

I believe the "soul" is pervasive, regardless of what religion you believe, or don't believe in.

The Soul is manifest involving Quantum Entanglement, a process that occurs at the nuclear level.  Simply, it allows two atoms to be connected to one another, instantaneously, even across the Universe.  Albert Einstein called it "Spooky action at a distance".

How the Soul Works

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This process allows our minds to be connected, and the minds of animals other than human as well; connected together all during our lifetimes.  The connection between family and friends is much stronger than amongst other relationships.

Try to imagine the consequences of having thousands of atoms within your brain toggling as a result of another person's thoughts.  Your brain has many trillions of brain cells, so this influence would be largely imperceptable; except you would have influences in your subconcious thoughts.

This would potentially explain telepathy, ghosts, precognition, and those feelings between family, especially twins.

Demon's are persons who attempt to steal the space in other people's minds for a larger place for their own soul.  So anyone who attempts to be given reverence over the deciples own family and loved ones, are demons.

So spiritual is the attempt to understand, and the soul is a physical reality with which we can interact.  I think if we used quantum mechanics to investigate telepathy, we would discover how the soul works in detail.

But that is just one perspective; I haven't found one that makes more sense.

Answer 3

Soul is the metaphysical being. Spiritual is a characteristic of the metaphysical being. Spirit is the disembodied metaphysical being.

Answer 4

Wow....This is a Hard One.

<>SOUL<>

It is ones Soul that connects them to the Spiritual World.

There are two parts to every person - Body & Soul.

Body is of this Physical Universe.

Soul is of the Spiritual Unviverse.

Soul & Body Exist in Unison for the time that the body is alive.

After the Body is gone only Soul exists and it exists in the Spiritual Plane.

<>SPIRITUAL<>

Spiritual is the title given to a person who has come to relaize that they have a Soul and that person excercises their belief by praying, reading and living thier life in realization that a personal soul exists within them AND that their soul will continue to live in the Spiritual world after the physical body is gone. Spiritual people feel an emotional sensation "Felt in the Soul" or Receiving the Holy Spirit. It is usually a sensation brought on by prayer and worship then felt physically throughout the body this sensation can cause happiness & crying. It is usually after this point in their faith that people will consider themselves spiritual becasue they have felt the connection between their Soul, God & the Spiritual World..