The English word spirit has many differing meanings and
connotations, most of them relating to a non-corporeal substance contrasted
with the material body. The word spirit is often used metaphysically to refer
to the consciousness or personality.
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, 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 demons or deities, in Christianity
specifically the Holy Spirit experienced by the disciples at Pentecost.
