>given our language constraints.
Yes. English ‘soul’ comes from older English equivalents and potentially back to a bunch of Germanic roots overlapping; a faint connection to a Germanic base as ‘sea’ with (very speculative) idea that souls come from and return to the sea; personally I think this is an attempt by 20th century people to force a bridge to this Eastern concept.
People often almost use ‘spirit’ interchangeably although ‘spirit’ means ‘breath’ as does the Hebrew ‘naphesh’ which gets translated ‘soul’ in most Bibles.
Either way you’re right; languages have a bunch of terms which inadequately capture one or another version of meaning that people are not just their mechanical bodies. (Contrarily the WEF globalist types absolutely *insist* that people are just machines and that this is why and how they must and will control everyone. They are of course wrong on both counts but they seek to gaslight enough people into believing them).
Excellent fleshing out of the issue, thanks.