People can get seized by the spirit, and its 'superbia', and the feeling of soaring way above the grubby and corrupt world. There is a transcendental quality to the spirit, but it can also get inflated. And its is good to get at least a foot on the ground, and some roots in the earth, and according to James Hillman it is also good to stay close to some of our inferiorities(the spirit thinks it is invincible, but the soul has its inferiorities). Its not that we don't have spiritual needs, it is just that people can get taken away by the spirit, and possessed by it, and it can have its hubris, and it can also have its craziness.
But the soul as Hillman says always loves ‘depth’'. And as Thomas Moore says drawing from Hillman’s work - ‘I have been emphasizing the soul's need for vernacular life-its relationship to a local place and culture. It has a preference for details and particulars, intimacy and involvement, attachment and rootedness. Like an animal the soul feeds on whatever life grows in its immediate environment. To the soul the ordinary is sacred and the everyday is the primary source of religion. But there is another side to this issue. The soul also needs spirituality, and as Ficino advises, a particular kind of spirituality: one that is not at odds with the everyday and the lowly’.
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