body & spirit

I've been stewing about the idea that we are not individuals, puzzling it in my head, trying to figure out how that fits with what I think I know about the world.  millie helped me out with it today.  she showed me a turtle.


"humans are like turtles.  you tend to withdraw into your body.  that's okay, it's normal, but you can't escape spirit.  it is everywhere, inside and outside of us.  we are living the dichotomy of spirit in body.  spirit and body are two very different things.  your mind is a product of your body, which is why the body feels so real compared to spirit.  all the learning from each lifetime, each body, goes to educate all."

millie shows me light passing through a dragonfly's wings.


"bodies are like prisms.  we make sense of the light, we really experience it, we define it."

she shows me an amorphous blob, I can't really describe it, but she says it represents all of the spirit not currently in body.  it has distinct parts within that seem to hang together.  most are light, but some are dark.


"we all share a vibration with other beings and spirits in our group.  each group has a different vibration.  when you meet someone for the first time and you feel like you have known them all your life, that's because you share a similar vibration."

why are some of them dark?


"they share a preference for power and fear and violence."

what happens if we shift this planet toward the light?


"they will become uncomfortable and will go somewhere else."

are we close?


"teetering on the edge."

what can I do?


"embrace the light and love within you.  live it."

why are the bodies so important?


"we learn more from the struggle to exist as both, much more than without the body."

so there is no struggle when we are not in body?


"we are more like observers then."

I feel like I've got it, but millie hasn't left my chest yet.

can I type now?


"almost."

what am I missing?


"it is the *interaction* between bodies, between different energies and vibrations and spirits, that is so important, so educational.  focus on your interactions.  that is how to share the love."

anything else?


"this is easy.  let go and feel the flow."

she has me zoom in on an issue in my life, then zoom out to see the issue in the full context of my life, then we zoom out even further to see my life in the context of everything.

wow.  thanks, millie.