well rudenski, your story is pretty interesting. i think you weren't shown the part about how god loves our bodies - cuz you were gone out of yours. you were looking at souls, not bodies. i think you interpreted to mean that god isn't in our bodies, based on your human feelings.

i agree with you that we 'leave' the spirit world to come into body in order to learn and experience. i thought you said that very well. the body is the vessel that does that learning and experiencing. without it there is no 'life' as we know it. so obviously the body is sacred and is designed to be the perfect place for our soul to inhabit. the more i've changed or grown through my 'sick' experience, the more i appreciate that humans are just a part of the scheme of things- just like animals, plants, etc. we have bodies or form so that we can experience through that form. therefore that form is sacred and so is everything we do with it. one thing i've learned is that our bodies are innocent, in the same way that animals are innocent. our bodies have no judgement.

i learned alot from the healer i work with - she's so grounded, she's taught me alot about appreciating the role of the body. it wasn't an awareness that i had before getting sick (am recovering now). one thing that i learned is that the body takes some of its cues from the soul, it has a soul blueprint, which isn't static and is changeable. and it also takes its cues from earth, but that's usually hidden and i don't think many are in touch with that. energy comes up from the earth and feet up through the crown and to heaven. and it comes down from heaven, becomes part of our bodies, and passes into the earth. we are - that perfect place - where spirit meets form.

funny you should bring up grounding. i have done much grounding work, in a physical way, with energy healers. i've listened to grounding tapes, and they've been so powerful that my body really had a tough time getting used to being more grounded. now that i've seen where i've gone from there, i can see that the grounding is crucial. grounding is tough. its not easy but i think its worth it. i do know of a woman who created a grounding CD, email me if you're interested, and i'll send you the link. but i would never do it without having energic support from a healer. (that's just me). grounding is about connecting the root chakra into the ground. at first grounding is a very strange feeling, because its almost like opening up a leg inbetween your legs. almost feels sexual at first, until you get used to it. i am so amazed at how attuned to my grounding i am now. i've been clearing a huge amount of emotional crud in the last few months and one of my favorite things to do is - flush - the emotions (fear & rage are 2 biggies) down the root chakra, or grounding. but... grounding, or learning a new way to ground, pushes the sh** that doesn't belong in you, doesn't resonate to you, out. and that can be a painful experience.

your story reminded me of when our cat, kitkat, died. he was hit by a car, and he went into the bushes. all of a sudden i felt my body lift very quickly from the ground and go into the air, with him. at about 15 feet above the ground i dropped really hard onto the ground. my cat, however, kept climbing and passed on. well, i really wanted to go with him, and i didn't know if i could stand living on earth without him. i didn't want to separate from him. this reminds me of you - you didn't want to separate from god.

let me know if you want the grounding cd info. i almost hesitate to mention this cd, because it was so powerful, and it really should only be done with support. i did a search on grounding cd's on the internet, there are some out there.

after i wrote my note i went out walking and was thinking... why did you see souls that had no bodies? perhaps because they weren't incarnated! when someone incarnates, their soul comes into their body. it doesn't stand separately. so... i wonder - were you shown souls that weren't presently incarnated?