Impoverished by the weather of cold rain all meaning of soul came to represent only a dim metaphor of the brain and the possibility of spirit remained apart and in shambles. What can mean an essence of both memory and substance and which outlives the body in an era with a sure assessment of a perishing mind. Yet spirit itself can be studied scientifically as a being and beings which interact with body, brain and interior life and possesses it’s own qualities of transformation and activity.

Consider the way in which spirits without body live and flow. The manifest in sure perception and move quickly between localities which physical matter could only transport over hours. They are connected with reality or aspects of reality and recall and transmit information as well as they access information at will. Spirit can enter into spirit and change it and in certain instances it can also change matter and material things.

Spirit always coexists with embodied human life. How else can we explain the capacity of the mind to leave it’s confines in an apparatus of sensory perception and make immediate assessments of the surrounding symbolic field in dreaming or waking spaces? How else can we explain the transmigration of experience into animal existence or the visitation of the dead? The testament of many cultures that we can pass into spiritual abodes in afterlife or return as reincarnations in new conceptions reminds us of knowledge forgotten.

To exercise our awareness and the capabilities of spirit is the practice of spirituality. At base this is our daily engaging with the content of nature and creations through immediate perception ; it is also ascent into a life of spiritual travel, alchemical transformation, diverse communications and deepened remembrance.