ABSTRACT
The human being is a complex integration of four unique components, namely the physical being, the psychological being, the social being, and the spiritual being. For heuristic purposes, it is separated personhood into four elements in order to envision the nature of each. They are intricately linked, each integrated with and influencing the others, and they are indivisible. It is not difficult to see the physical aspects of an individual – their body – and we can observe the behaviors that we attribute to the psychological and social beings. However, although we often attempt to relate certain qualities of an individual to the spiritual being, this entity tends to remain quite obscure. This chapter focuses on the spiritual aspect in order to understand better how our spiritual being influences our personhood.
