One of the primary reasons why people have had such great difficulty placing the mind is because they believe the mind exists in the body or not at all. But it is in fact the other way around: the body exists within the mind, as the mind and body both exist within the soul, and they all exist within the 'atmosphere' of Spirit. Spirit is not a thing we see or can see, but that with which we ultimately See. 'It' is that which lives us, through us, to the extent to which we allow it; as a lens which when opened and cleansed fully, allows the Light to pass through it and shine without obstruction; a conduit whose quality and attainment of development is determined by how free it is from that which would restrict that which is meant to pass through it into emanation. Such as it is for us. In dying to self, we expand our circle of Being ever-wider until the "center is everywhere" and the "circumference is nowhere".