i certainly believe in the spirit or the soul. although the scientific and atheist community would beg to differ. It is a very elaborate question and i hope some would chime in on their answers.
as for me i think that there are many mysteries out there and i have certainly been privey to a couple.
here is something that took place when i was 12 years old. i was living in a very small rural town in texas called "Zorn". its about ohh 12 miles or so east of New Braunfels texas. anyway my parents moved in to an old farm house on some property that was at one time an old dairy farm. As we were moving in and i was taking my boxes back to my room the ver second i got in the room i got a weird feeling up and down my spine, the room went very cold and it felt as though something passed right through me, almost like a very soft electrical charge. well i dropped my box and ran out of the room and outside, told my parents what had happened and of course i got the "yeah yeah you were just imagining things,etc etc".
well about a week later i was roaming around out in the property around the house and i came across an old fence surrounding a large oak tree and i noticed something in the brush and briar surrounding the tree, so i pushed it back and found an old headstone marker of a grave of a 14 year old girl dated late 1700's.
i was a tad freaked but you know i always felt safe in that house.
ive had other experiences but that one was the most benevolant.
i think that in the years that i have been doing internal martial arts and qigong and getting intouch with my own energies i have become sensitive to other energies that are floating around, or energy as a whole. but it is not some grandious hollywood experience, they are very subtle things.
It makes me mad when people say I turned and ran like a scared rabbit. Maybe it was like an angry rabbit, who was going to fight in another fight, away from the first fight.