Way back in the 1990s, when I was living in the Jackson Hole yurt with my now deceased husband Jeff Joel, This Vast Being who “carried both a computer and an encyclopedia in his head,” I asked him: “What is the difference between ‘soul’ and ‘spirit’? I figured that if anybody did know the difference, it would be him, But he said he wondered, too; and that some writers use these terms interchangeably.
Ever since then I’ve had that question on my radar. And I wonder what Jeff would say now that he’s been “in spirit” for nearly 17 years. Here’s Albert Einstein’s perspective on this matter.
2 thoughts on “What is the difference between “soul” and “spirit”?”
Soul is spirit made conscious I was taught. Most of the time spirit is unconscious either love or hate which then is interpreted labeled and the lover hater marginalized. Society hates spirit.
Interesting. From which tradition does this teaching come?