Whether a divine cog is behind people’s lives is through spiritual technology in fact knowable see, Dagara, see Dogon, see Zulu, see Dine, see Hopi, etc.

The English word “spirit” comes from the Latin spiritus, meaning “breath” (compare spiritus asper), but also “soul, courage, vigor”, ultimately from a PIE root *(s)peis- (to blow).

In one sense the state in which one lives is deeply connected to the science of the breath and this technology is illustrated through the Ancient Egyptian “Book of Breathing” and in Patanjali’s “Yoga Sutras” as well as Buddhist mindfulness techniques, etc. etc.

In the Vulgate, the Latin word translates Greek (πνευμα), pneuma (Hebrew (רוח) ruah), as opposed to anima, translating psykhē. The word was loaned into Middle English via Old French The distinction between soul and spirit became current in Judeo-Christian terminology (e.g. Greek. psykhe vs. pneuma, Latin anima vs. spiritus, Hebrew ruach vs. neshama or nephesh; in Hebrew neshama from the root NSHM or breath.) (retrieved from Wikipedia, 6/07/08)

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