Question about movements of the spirit

[Diana]

i read shuttle as transport. Or gateway. Channel like irrigation channel.

This is not the essence of a spirit but merely what happens when people tap into spiritual workings.

According to Ra, the spirit IS a shuttle:

80.14 Questioner: [I] didn’t intend to get too far ahead of my questioning process here. The either positively or negatively polarized adept, then, is building a potential to draw directly on the spirit for power. Is this correct?

Ra: I am Ra. It would be more proper to say that the adept is calling directly through the spirit to the universe for its power, for the spirit is a shuttle.

In addition, Ra says this:

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The Matrix of the Spirit is difficult to characterize since the nature of spirit is less motile. The energies and movements of the spirit are, by far, the most profound, yet, having more close association with time/space, do not have the characteristics of dynamic motion.

I personally think that many who are "seeking" are actually MORE aware of the spirit that they are aware of the mind and body. Perhaps more to the point, many do not see the important of mind and body, thinking that "we are spirit only." I disagree with this, for whatever we are at any given point is just as important as anything else. And as you can see, Ra spells out the importance in the OP quote:

Ra: I am Ra. This is partially correct. The healing, if it is to be effectuated, must be a funneling without significant distortion of the instreamings through the spiritual complex into the tree of mind. There are parts of this mind which block energies flowing to the body complex. In each case, in each entity, the blockage may well differ.

First, however, it is necessary to activate the sense of the spiritual channel or shuttle. Then whether the blockage is from spiritual to mental or from mental to physical, or whether it may simply be a random and purely physical trauma, healing may then be carried out.

So, it is important to work on the self—mentally, emotionally, and physically as well as seeking higher consciousness. Ingrained belief systems one may not be aware of, traumas from childhood, reactions to 3rd-density society—all may create blockages to the spirit, and therefore intelligent infinity and access to intelligent energy.

This suggests that the spirit is of less use to us while here if we are blocked in the mind and body. The workings of the spirit aspect of the M/B/S are definitely cloaked in mystery, yet accessible, but connected to the tree of mind, and so optimized when the tree of mind is clear and open. We may have certain "channels" open now (such as telepathy at times, or have precognitive intuitions, etc.), but I think when the tree of mind is clear and unblocked, much more is available as far as utilizing intelligent energy with the will.

In addition, according to Ra, the "higher self" is the not the same as the "spirit":

70.8 Questioner: What I am trying to understand here is more about the higher self and its relationship with the mind/body/spirit complex. Does the higher self have a sixth-density mind/body/spirit complex that is a separate unit from the mind/body/spirit complex that is, in this case, displaced to negative time/space?

Ra: I am Ra. This is correct. The higher self is the entity of mid-sixth density which, turning back, offers this service to its self.