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What's a Spirit When It's at Home?

The Lord of Spirits

CHAPTER

Exploring the Orthodox Apophatic Approach to Spirits

The chapter discusses the Orthodox apophatic approach to explaining spiritual entities, highlighting misconceptions people often have about spirits and comparing them to Force ghosts from Star Wars. The conversation references spirit photography, depictions in modern media like movies, and the ancient concept of spirits as distinct entities from humans. It delves into the composition of spirits, the concept of ectoplasm in spiritism, and the challenge in defining spirits in non-human terms, ultimately aiming to understand spirits from a different perspective by starting from elements below humans.

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