As/when/if the spirit moves you British clause
Someone does something when they feel it is the right time.
I love home-made food, but I'll eat out if the spirit moves me.
He travels abroad when the spirit moves him.
I have no idea what he will do, he usually acts as the spirit moves him.
It is unclear information about the origin of the expression, but a source says that it came from the work 'The Quaker Doctrine of the Holy Spirit' in 1959.
The inexplicable or concealed place or state indicates the afterlife.
I'm very sorry for your dad. He's beyond the veil.