The Experience of the Spirit

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The mind, while not clearly seeing Spirit, is an indispensable tool for spiritual growth, ironically enough, because it is the mind which helps define and organize the ways in which we interact with Spirit, because what we get is most often what we seek, and seeking has a whole lot to do with mind.

The reason I got started with this post is the observation that, although the putative subject of this thread is "Experience of the Spirit," so far no one has offered up much about their experience of the Spirit; rather, it's been a largely intellectual discussion of symbolic stuff instead of experience.  I'm wondering if anyone's experience of Spirit sheds any useful light upon the symbolic stuff, or the other way around?
  

Mmm, this is an interesting question, SF. I have a small example but I am not sure it corresponds to your question, and to the initial OP so apologies in advance.

My middle child before he was 2 fell in a pool and near drowned. We were renting this house built on poles above a small patio in which there was a pool. Because when we moved in I was so worried, I had put locks on all french doors which led to the patio. But one day I probably forgot to check all doors and one stayed unlocked. Ten minutes later after I had seen my son in the house, I saw him in the pool and retrieved him doing CPR.
But the thing is that a few days before, I woke up suddenly very early one morning and saw at the bottom of our bed three long transparent figures in prayer. At the same time I could see behind them, which was sort of funny in a way, a number of transparent figures moving through the room behind them. The funny thing is I thought I wonder if my hubby sees that too, (!) so I turned to him and shook him up lightly to wake him up, as I was doing that, I saw his transparent image getting back inside his body and then he woke up.
At that point, everything disappeared and my hubby asked me what was wrong and I said, oh sorry no it was nothing.

So, I dont know if we can consider this an experience of the spirit correlated through the material body related to the quote from Qu'o. Just curious. So SF I dont know if your post was about this kind of experience, if it is then I am happy it provides one.

To me, since the accident happened about three days later, it does relate.

There is something lovely from second density to add to this. At the time in that rented house, there was a large plant with large beautiful leaves, a Fiddle Leaf Fig, and my daughter who was 3 and my son who was less than 2 used to pick tiny little bits from her. So I used to ask then not to do it as a plant is a living being who feels this, but they would at times continue in a discreet way. About three days after the accident, one morning we woke up and found she had lost all her leaves during the night..