5 sheaths or levels of Spirit:

physical food

elan vital

mind

higher mind or soul

transcendental bliss or causal spirit

Vedanta adds

turiya: transcendental ever-present Self and

turiyatita, nondual, ever-present, unqualifiable Spirit-as-such

Evolution or "un-folding" could never occur without a prior prosess of involution or "in-folding".  The lower dimensions or levels are actually sediments or deposits of the higher dimensions.  This sedimentation process is called "involution" or "emanation."  Before evolution can occur, involution or the infolding of Spirit MUST occur.

Spirit throws itself outward to create soul, which is a stepped-down and diluted reflection of Spirit; soul then steps down into mind, a paler reflection yet of Spirit's radiant glory; mind then steps down inot life, and life steps down into matter, which is the densest, lowest, least concious form of Spirit. 

Spirit-as-spirit steps down into Spirit-as-soul, which steps down into Spirit-as-mind, which steps down into Spirit-as-body, which steps down into Spirit-as-matter.  and appears as inert, insetient, lifeless matter, -- at which point something like the Big Bang occurs, whereupon matter blows into concrete existence and it appears that in the entire manifest world, there exists nothing but insetient, dead, lifeless matter.  And begins to wind itself up: "order out of chaos".....dynamic becoming. But the traditionalists were more straightforward about it: "God does not remain petrified and dead; the very stones cry out and raise themselves to Spirit," as Hegel put it.

Post modern

every individual is nestled in systems of cultural and social networks.

Quadrants

Lower-Left: cultural :  Postmodern Poststructuralism

interiors of groups or collectives, interiors that cannot be seen "out there", interiors such as group values, identities, worldviews, cultural beliefs, backgrtooung contexts, ans so on.

Lower-Right: social : Systems theory

the collective systems or collective exteriors of individual organisms, exteriors that can be seen in the exterior or sensorimotor world. eg, ecosystems, geopolitical systems, modes of techno-ecomonic production (foraging, horticultural...)

Systems theory focuses on the Lower-Right quadrant, and postmodern poststructuralism focuses on the Lower-Left quadrant- representing the exteriors and interiors of the collective.

Increasing complexity of gross form is correlated with increasingly subtlety of energies.

- the complexification of gross form is the vehicle of manifestation for both subtler energies and greater conciousness.

interior consciousness AND exterior form and mass-energy

these exterior forms span the spectrum from gross mass-energy to subtle mass-energy to causal mass-energy.

therefor: bodies with actual energies - some form or type of "matter" (gross to subtle to causal) with its corresponding energy (as with "gross body, subtle body, causal body"), and these bodies are the matter-energy support for the various states of consciousness.

matter, form, and energy are how the individual holon looks from the exteior.  All energy is some version of frequency per time interval (or space per time) - energy itself is of the "it" dinension (UR).  BUT the interior of holons are UL

Spectrums of consciousness and energy

Subtle-energy Spectrum

gorss physical E

etheric E

astral E

psychic E

causal E

Consciousness spectrum

matter/physics

life

mind

soul (subtle)

spirit (causal)

Earliest forms of evolution - quarks, electrons, protons, atoms, and molecules - are accompanied by the four, major , gross energy-forces: electromagnetic, gravitational, stron and weak nuclear.  Lowest level of matter-energy and surrond their associated material bodies in various sorts of fields; the energy intsef propagates as a wave/particle event.

emergence, during eolution, of the complex material forms that we call "life" (starting with viruses and prokaryotes" a more subtle energy - often called "etheric" - emerges. and surond the physical energy fields in a holonic fashion (i.e., as spheres of increasing expanse.)

emergence of a brain stem and paleomammalian libic system (interpret environmental stimuli) - an even subtler energy - called "astral" - begins to emerge.  powerful emotional energy field - subtler than physical and etheric - that pervades the living organism (e.g., running through the acupuncture meridians) and also extends beyond it, enveloping the phusical and astral fields in a holonic expansion.

 with the evolution of the increasingly complex gross form of a triune brain, a yet subtler energy - known as "psychic" - emerges.  Thought fields produced by sustained mental activity.

consciousness, forms, and energy fields are all holarchical.

All holons have four quadrants, which means all holons have interiors of consciousness and exteriors of form and energy (e.g., even subtle consciousness has a subtle body, and causal consciousness has a causal bocy, etc.), but consciousness is not itself energy, nor energy consciousness.

The number of levels of consciousness = the number of levels of matter-energy: they are the interior and the exterior of the same event.

QUANTUM VACUUM

Once you (mis)identify spirit with the quantum potential:

Out of the Spiritual/quantum potential  comes subatomic particles, which gather together into atoms, ...molecules....cells...organisms: the higher the level of evolution, the farther away from God you get.

Involution (emanation) or creation, radically unqualifiable Spirit decides to play a game of hide-and-seek, and hence "forgets" itself and throws itself outward to create a manifest world of manyness and otherness.

The first thing pure Spirit creats is soul, which then throws itself outward to create mind, which throws itself outward to create life (OR PRANA), which then throws itself outward to create insetient matter (quarks, atoms).  At the end of that ontological sequence, matter blows into existence as a crystallization and condensation of prana.

Spirit creats soul to create mind to create life (OR PRANA) to create insetient matter

The quantum potential is not spirit-as-spirit, not spirit-as-sout, not spirit-as-mind, but spirit-as-prana, which gives rise to spirit-as-matter.