Trying to better grasp spirit.

[Sacred Fool]

Funny question, what is spirit?  How can one define--or begin to understand--something not apprehended by the senses?  This challenge brings to mind Ra's comment that trying to find one's way in such matters is to travel a moonlit path and to be susceptible to pitfalls at every step.

I don't understand anything about this stuff, but I can offer you some perspective on the matter from an experiential, rather than a rhetorical or a theoretical, point of view.

So, can you tell me what corporeality is?  Science tells us, although it appears to define "reality," it actually merely gives the impression of being solid and firm.  The deeper reality is vibrating particles, and beneath that lies something else, and so on.

But, one potentially useful thing we can say about it is that it offers a framework through which  consciousness may explore itself.  That is, we can have these corporeal experiences and learn about existence and survival and relationships and wisdom and love...and a few other things.  Likewise, spirit is a framework for consciousness to explore itself.  It offers experiences of light and love and grace and overflowing generosity, etc.

Within the context of a simple human life, the experience of consciousness at the level of the first three chakras is primary, while the experience of the 6th is small to non-existent.  Some of us explore it through deep faith, and that is a means I might recommend.

There's some perspective on the matter.  The specific snippet you quote appears to refer to the capacity of the adept to experience conscious, not merely on a personal level, but also that which is elementally rooted in our dear planet as well as that which is sent to us from far more advanced beings and such.  The level of consciousness that we call "spirit" has the capacity to work with such flows of energies.

Just one final thought.  The skillful experience of such things generally requires a markedly humble regard for the thing we call self.