I really like Plotinus' elegant arrangement of the man into threes: we have a body that exists in the material world, we have a soul that exists in the empyrean world, and we have a "life" (his term, I suppose we'd say "spirit") tying them together in the ætherial world. Making that distinction makes it a lot easier to make sense of our senses! Little wonder why I could begin to hear the divine some years into my practice: isolation clears the body, and meditation clears the spirit, and in such a state there is little to get in the way of the soul-senses that were always there but dimmed by the rest.

And once one hears the empyrean voice, how can one any longer settle for any other? One must pursue it, there is no longer any food that will satisfy either body or spirit.