There is a metaphorical – demythologized – deconstructed – linguistic turn that can be really helpful to the way that we conceptualize and talk about ancient concepts.

Event, in philosophy, is a happening whose outcome exceeds that which one would expect if you just added up the smaller component parts.

So the ‘miracle of birth’ is not super-natural … but actually the most natural thing in the world. The same for the ‘the miracle on the Hudson’.

We can use that same permission to address the antiquated notion of ‘spirits’.