Spiritual beings.

Ok, so what did Melville know? He knew what many "new age" people have been saying for years: that we are really spiritual beings having a physical experience. As opposed to physical beings having spiritual experiences.

What that means, essentially, is that we are beings who exist on a different plane from this one. In that plane we are spirits. We come here to learn or to perform some other activity. What those activities are, I will discuss in later posts.

Why we take on human form is another interesting question. Some believe we do it to slow things down. In the spirit word, there is no real sense of time and space. We can travel across the galaxy in an instant. Things "happen" quickly with no sense of order.

Coming here, slows all that down. There is a sense of linear time as well as space. It takes time to go from one place to another. We feel and experience a sense of space and dimension. There is real weight here.

All of that helps us to gain insight into many things. Unfortunately, taking on these physical forms also causes to to "forget" that we are really spirits. Our minds believe that we are really physical beings. Our consciousness is clouded by our bodies. As such, most of us spend many lifetimes stuck here without realizing or remembering why we came.

It takes many lifetimes to work up the energy to remember who and what we really are. Once we do, we can then use this place to our advantage.

Fortunately, for spirits, time is not a problem. If it takes 1,000 years to remember who cares? time has no real meaning to spirits.

Interestingly, all of this is not new. While it may be called "new age", this knowledge has been around for a long long time. I will be talking about this in later posts as well......