Toushilahey are all our spirit selves and personalities from every lifetime Since Always and For Always. Our task is to gain freedom from the cycles of reincarnation and resurrect into enlightenment.
In the West, we hold with the physical body with intimacy. Now, this does not mean to hold as in hold on tight. It is holding in the sense of transforming energy through stabilization and for utilization. Think of it as an electrical cord. The body is the structure through which electrical energy moves like a conduit, and provides the transformed energy to turn a fan, or work a toaster, or move the body parts.
Check out the Song of the Deer by Thunder Strikes with Jan Orsi if you would like to learn more.
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