Before there were ghosts in sheets, spirit meant breath: something invisible that moves, and gives life.
UNBOUND follows the word spirit from ruach, pneuma and spiritus through the wind of Genesis, Elijah's still small voice and Pentecost, the Egyptian ka and ba, Rome's genius of a place, Tylor's animism and Mumler's faked spirit photographs. Rev Benton's answer: a spirit is intelligence, an expression of the one Light beyond what physical perception registers, and "spirit" names the whole category of angel, demon, ancestor and god.
Up next: What Are Angels?
The answer
What the investigation concludes
Members read the film’s conclusion here, with every source it rests on.
