I'm an artist and thinker, interested in the mind and the soul. I used to find it difficult to use words like soul and spirit – strange that I thought in order to be taken seriously about my inner experience I needed to cloak myself in more ‘intellectual’ language. Soul and spirit are good words to use when talking about the depths and wonders of inner life. We need a shared language, or we need to attempt to create and share new ways of exploring inner realms, if we are to be ‘sane’ or ‘whole’ within ourselves, within our communities, and collectively as a species. Various religious traditions, the arts, psychological thinkers, and other disciplines have come to similar conclusions on the matter, though seeing it through different lenses, from different perspectives, and using different sorts of language and communication.