Is It a Bridge or a River of No Spiritual Power?

Baracca is an arabic word, and it means the spirit of god. It cauld be in people, and it can be and even in things objects,. But it's this idea, this its likeike, you think of it as a bridge or a river of no spiritual power - connecting all the way to god. And i believe that's what santiago's doing in this part of the story. Heis learning how to find the spiritual power in the regular world, the desert. I mean, the desert is, if we just look at the desert, it's just sand, right? But there's something deeper there. There's a spiritual power there. Ultimately