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The spirit is experienced as your moral center, your conscience, the highest part of you that is capable of receiving the Holy Spirit. Your soul is your will, your loves and hates, likes and dislikes, your vices and preferences, the "you" of this world. The soul is intermediate between the spiritual and the physical, which would be the body acting in the world.

There is an ample amount of literature on this. If you're genuinely curious you can begin where the matter is addressed at the inspiration of God, the Bible. Here is but one example, from Hebrews 4:12:

For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

The Apostle Paul wrote more than just a bit upon the soul and the spirit as well. I've previously mentioned that the soul is clearly in the blood, according to the Old Testament Leviticus. It's a misconception that the two, soul and spirit, are synonymous. A thorough reading of the Bible will bear this out. A look at the books of the Bible in the original language(s) will even further bear this out as well.

Soul and spirit are not the same. There is a natural body and a spiritual body, according again to Paul in I Corinthians. The soul is the life you live, your personality and your memories within that natural body.

Your soul is your will, your loves and hates, likes and dislikes, your vices and preferences, the "you" of this world.

So then, your consciousness, which is basically you, either does not exist or is asleep.

It's not like I am unaware of these distinctions. My grandmother was a JW, and we had interesting discussions while she was alive Thanks for your info.