When God directed Moses in building the tent tabernacle, I believe He gave Moses a blueprint of how humankind are made, with an outer court (the body), an inner sacred place (the Holy Place, the soul of man, the behavior mechanism of will, emotions, and mind) and an innermost Sanctum snctorum (The Holy of Holies, the spirit, to which God came); God is Spirit and seeks those who will worship Him in spirit; when God said He made Man in His image, I believe God gave humankind through Adam and Eve a quality which raised them above the mere animal soul, He gave them a spirit through which His spirit resides with Man; when God breathed into Adam and he became a living soul, I believe that refers to Adam's animal soul being Graced with spirit, so that the human spirit can be alive; Jesus referred to this state of aliveness or deadness in bodily alive soul when He spoke of the young man who turned away with a pleading of going to bury his father ... 'let the dead go bury the dead'. The soul is timeless without connection to a body, yet it lacks aliveness in the sense that Jesus taught; Salvation is the coming alive, being embued with His Grace is receiving His Life into the human spirit and thus receiving Life in the spirit and thus the soul.
I think you just described being born again!