Even an atom has a living spirit. It would not exist if it didn't. A group of associated atoms have a group spirit.

Aloha nui loa Little Hawk; my brother.

Everything is a manifestation of the Great Spirit.

But, hey, I know you'll never accept that notion! (grin) I wouldn't have accepted it once either. Nor would Two Bears have accepted it before he had an experience that transformed his outlook.

Absolutely correct! For most of my life I was a convinced athiest, and seriously thought religious or spiritual people were crazy.

Then one evening in December 1996; I was meditating to direct healing energy into a badly mangled foot; I had been meditating for well over an hour, and I heard a soft pop in my chest, and I found myself near the ceiling looking down on my own body. That OBE gave me confirmation of life after death, and a spiritual awakening. and I found that my former life was the crazy one not the mystics that had experiences.

ANL - 2B