Spirit, soul, illusions, stars - and Eros?

The process by which experience arises is the same whether we are dreaming or awake. The world is a dream, the teacher and the teaching are a dream, the result of our practice is a dream; there is no place where the dream breaks until we are liberated into pure rigpa. Until then, we continue to dream ourselves and our lives in both the dream and the physical dimension. Wangyal, Tenzin.

In the Tibetan view, the body is full of channels (tsa), and mind (tigle) rides on air-currents (lhung) all through the body. So how one sits, one's posture, matters. Exercises such as prostrations stretch out the channels making it easier for mind to flow through the body.

In Tibetan theory, during sleep there is little or no input from the body, therefore to observe dreaming is to observe - in Jungian terms - one's spirit unaffected by the external, physical world. Dream yoga is the practice of lucid dreaming - being awake inside your own dream. A way to observe soul through Spirit.

The term Rigpa seems to refer to spirit unruffled by any input; it is radiant, vibrant, beyond the structures and concepts thinking creates and uses.

In Tibetan Buddhism, to rest in this radiance is freedom. Freedom is achieved through thought and experience as tools with the aim of understanding that everything we perceive, including our conventional sense of self, is a projection and reflection of mind. 

Or put another way, freedom is to live without grasping, without fearing loss, without fighting to hold on.

Freedom from attachment and aversion.

Stepping out of Tibetan Buddhism and back to Couliano.  In Ficino's writing spirit is described as a veil made from pure star light:

Souls descend into the bodies of the Milky Way through the constellation of Cancer, enveloping themselves in a celestial and luminous veil which they put on to enter terrestrial bodies. For nature demands that the very pure soul be united with the very impure body only through the intermediary of a pure veil, which, being less pure than the soul, and purer than the body, is considered by the Platonists to be a very convenient means of uniting the soul with the terrestrial body. (Ficino - Amore, V1,4)

And falling in love is due to the stars.

Those born under the same star are so disposed that the image of the most beautiful among them, entering through the eyes into the soul of the other, conforms absolutely to a certain image, impressed at the beginning of procreation onto the celestial veil of the soul, as well as on the soul itself. (Amore V1, 6)

Ficino describes Eros, as a completely unconscious process, a selection made by the soul, as it recognises the beloved. 

Meanwhile, in the language game of psychotherapy, Eros occurring between client and therapist is termed erotic transfer and positioned as arising from the unconscious attachment needs, unmet during childhood. Thereby creating a compelling explanation that blocks the desire for movement and change in the present.  

To create stasis, the reason and cause of attraction will be positioned as pathological and anchored elsewhere, in the past. All I can say is, playing with ideas, instead of looking for reasons to invalidate each other is a valid and preferable alternative to fantasizing about problems and blocks!