"there is a natural (physical) body and there is a spiritual body" So states St. Paul, in his first "Epistle to the Corinthians." Psychic research, too, has long ago established the belief that within every material being is a non-material "double" a cryptic entity coiniciding, with minute exactitude, with the physical mechanism in every centre and cell."
the projection of the astral body
muldoon & carrington
spirit (n.)
mid-13c., "animating or vital principle in man and animals," from Anglo-French spirit, Old French espirit "spirit, soul" (12c., Modern French esprit) and directly from Latin spiritus "a breathing (respiration, and of the wind), breath; breath of a god," hence "inspiration; breath of life," hence "life;" also "disposition, character; high spirit, vigor, courage; pride, arrogance," related to spirare "to breathe," perhaps from PIE *(s)peis- "to blow" (source also of Old Church Slavonic pisto "to play on the flute").
Granted its more of a faith than a knowledge, but in terms of simulating phenomena, it seems to be a matter of learning where the buttons are, how to press them, and in what sequences, so to speak. Just a matter for a precise enough techne, "techne" here meaning the dyad of acumen-and-instruments.
Yesterday I had a thought that the far end of our techne was magic/poetry, the end which was most nebulous and unstable, and the grounded end was science - the zero point, the ground, being something more hardwired like instinct, something that can be inherited.