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Here is the paradigm I apply. It is hard for me to articulate and I apologize if it makes no sense.
The outer world is an illusion created by mind through its sensory functions.
The mind is derived from an individual self (the awareness that one is, and is distinct from others) that could be called a soul -- but it has no transcendent function -- it has no life after death and does not enter into another body or plane of existence. It could also be considered one's unconscious.
All individual selves are illusions formed by some sort of transcendent, timeless, singular, fundamental consciousness. It alone transcends the physical world.
What is "soul" and what is "spirit" is an issue of semantics. If I were to use the terms I would say that "soul" is individual and illusory whereas "spirit" is collective and limitless.
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