Many New Agers (and others) see no difference between soul and spirit treating them as the same thing

       Others accept the Bible’s use of the terms. When taken as a whole, the Bible makes clear that “spirit” and “soul” refer to two different things. Bible writers used the Hebrew word nephesh or the Greek word psyche when they spoke of the soul.

“The soul of man (psychos anthropos) does not accept the things of the Spirit, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritual. — I Corinthian  2:14

        According to this, the soul feels pleasure or perceives hurts from others. The soul and the astral body are essentially the same thing. Ghosts and apparitions are souls or astral manifestations

        The St. Germain teachings report: “The 'soul' is a consciousness apart from the full Purity of God. The first thought a man had that was imperfect and impure created an effect which created a shadow between the I AM Presence and the human consciousness. And Endeavoring to contact the Presence, the individual would find these  feelings flowing until, finally, those centers got completely away from the control of the ego and acted independently.

        Referring to the soul, the LDS prophet Joseph Smith said, "There is no such thing as immaterial matter. The soul is matter, but it is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes."

       The following 3500-year-old quotation from Genesis is key to an understanding of the body, soul and spirit..

       “And the Lord God formed man out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became of living soul.”  — Genesis 2:7

       Here we are told that, after God created the physical body out of the elements of matter (aphar adamah), he put into the body nephesh chaiyim literally the life of life. This phrase does not make much sense unless you change it to another valid tranlation: the energy of life.

       If we use this process elsewhere, it becomes clear that the word soul refers to energy. Those who distinguish between soul and body, describe the soul as our conscious mind, our feelings and emotions. The physical world is what primarily occupies  our consciousness after conception.

       It is our astral conciousness