confused spirituality

i get weekly massages from a lovely lady who gives my muscles so much relief. she's a south african jew, culturally. she's what you'd call 'new age'. she doesn't talk to all her clients about what she believes, but we chat about it a lot.
she talks about how she believes we all have a 'source' from which comes 'light', or energy. today, she went into extra time for my time slot (by 15 minutes) to try something that she hoped would help my body. i was wary, but let her give it a go. she started to ask whether i would consider, as other cultures, that jesus is 'an enlightened being', to which i responded with a smile, 'well, He's Lord of all'. 'well, alright'. she tried to appropriate her beliefs to include mine, and so asked me to visualise jesus (my 'source') sending light down through my 'ethereal spine' - from the crown, to my 'third eye' (the spot between your eyebrows), throat, chest, tummy, then the base of the spine. my mind was going on overdrive, trying to discern what was the best way to respond. i was praying for an opportunity to tell her about how i don't have to access a brahman like source - because the Holy Spirit of God dwells in me.

and He did. she mentioned that she didn't know a lot about Christianity, and wondered what I would think about the thoughts of an author she wanted me to read, who talks about breathing. i explained that m faith was different from thinking that we are 'one' with everything, including God, but that we are separate to God, as the creation. i explained that i believed that God, as creator, was holy, distinct and separate to creation, but that He is intimately involved in the creation. i said that the significance of Jesus' death was that He cleansed us, forgiving us, enabling the Holy Spirit of God to dwell inside of us. that just as God dwelled with the Israelites in a holy temple, that because of Jesus, He can know dwell inside of us who have been made holy and blameless.

gotta head to the gym, but more conversation to report! please pray for her.

ok, back.
she asked me whether or not we had any 'chants' - with a grin i replied 'the apostles creed?' - but she meant more things that were to music to which i could forget about my body and move, hands and arms fluid and in the air etc. she started to talk about how it would be good to lose myself, forgetting the physical and dwelling in the spiritual. having just spent an intense week looking at colossians 1, paul's letter written partly to rectify the early gnostic false teaching that the physical was bad and the spiritual was good, i hesitated, and when she asked me what i thought, i said that i got what she meant, but that i didn't think the physical was bad - to which she quickly agreed.

she also said that i needed to start tapping into my 'jesus source' and look to become my 'jesus SELF' (at which point i started to go eek) to help me, because 'that's what he's there for, that's what he wants me to do'. i was silent. a little awkwardly. then proceeded to say that i believed that God wants my good, and is capable of healing me, but that maybe that's not in His will for me right now - and that as His follower, my biggest desire is for His glory, not my healing or help. that He might desire to keep me this way to teach me a lesson that will glorify Him. to which she agreed that 'everything teaches you a lesson'.

hmm. a very interesting time of my week. if you could please keep her and me in your prayers, that i would speak the right words, that i would listen to her carefully and know how best to engage her with the grace and TRUTH of Jesus (she's very pluralistic - she says that the Holy Spirit is 'an interesting interpretation' of spirituality). it's kinda hard to think clearly when you've got palm heels digging into your body and stretching your limbs at painful angles. and that He'd be preparing her heart, challenging her.

thanks :)