I see spirit as a universal means of connecting to everyone around you, whether you/they know it or not. Not so much a vessel, but an entity. I living "being". Living and being inside. We each have our own spirit. None are alike. Not every spirit is compatible with the person it resides in. I don't know if we can change spirits. I don't know if the spirit i have inside is actually mine, or has another taken over, covering the one i was born with. Just like one can choose to do good or bad. One can also choose what spirit resides with in. The spirit can manipulate but can not take control. We can give control and free will dictates that we can take back control...
Then there are spirits that are less personal and more, just everywhere. Possibly multiple spirits. Outside ourselves. Roaming openly in the world. All around us. All the time. We can not physically see them yet, we can physically feel them. Our own spirit can feel them.
SPIRIT --- SPIR·IT \ ˈSPIR-ƏT
SPIRITUAL --- SPIR·I·TU·AL \ ˈSPIR-I-CHƏ-WƏL , -I-CHƏL , -ICH-WƏL
spirituality --- spir·i·tu·al·i·ty \ ˌspir-i-chə-ˈwa-lə-tē
spiritualism --- spir·i·tu·al·ism \ ˈspir-i-chə-wə-ˌli-zəm
What is a soul --- JW publication
(This is a JW publication)
WHAT REALLY HAPPENS AT DEATH?
What does the Bible teach about the condition of the dead?
What happens at death is no mystery to Jehovah, the Creator of the brain. He knows the truth, and in his Word, the Bible, he explains the condition of the dead. Its clear teaching is this: When a person dies, he ceases to exist. Death is the opposite of life. The dead do not see or hear or think. Not even one part of us survives the death of the body. We do not possess an immortal soul or spirit. *
Where did the flame go?
After Solomon observed that the living know that they will die, he wrote: “But the dead know nothing at all.” He then enlarged on that basic truth by saying that the dead can neither love nor hate and that “there is no work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the Grave.” (Read Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6, 10.) Similarly, Psalm 146:4 says that when a man dies, “his thoughts perish.” We are mortal and do not survive the death of our body. The life we enjoy is like the flame of a candle. When the flame is put out, it does not go anywhere. It is simply gone.