Soul

== Components of the soul ==
=== Trinalism ===
There are four main approaches to the mind/body problem: physicalism, holism, panpsychism, and dualism (and then there are forms of idealism that deny the body and forms of physicalism that deny the mind). All have problems spanning the chasm between mind and body. There is a third thing, neither mind nor body, explicitly to plug the gap. This thing is what medieval Scholastics called "animal spirit." This is all very abstract and metaphysical, but it serves a purpose, because this agency (variously also called mana, prana, chi, qi, vis, numen, baraca, foyson, and more names besides) glues the will to the world, and it is the agency of both incarnation and magic. Magic, indeed, is only a diluted form of incarnation.
Category:Theology