Exactly.. What I try to say when I propose the donkey and the spirit.. metaphor.. What we see in the mirror as ourselves our bodies is in one paradigm and what is looking back at us from the mirror the eyes of our spirits is rightfully from another paradigm..
Could explain what a human body dieing is all about.. A separating of the material from the spiritual.. Which is not really death at all.. but a metamorphosis.. And we have just proved what our spirit Is or Isn't.. The human body being a chrysalis.. for the production of many kinds of spirits.. with a thousand different butterflys being an example..
Oh, you know how I love that metaphor, dear 'pipe! It is just so astute: the donkey is the time aspect of the human person, the spirit is his extension in eternity (timelessness).
Now you've come up with another brilliant analogy, that of the physical body as the "chrysalis" of the soul/spirit. The body is finite, yet the soul/spirit is not; it "emerges" in time (i.e., at death), but it does not belong to time (in which things must perish); for it transcends time (and so is imperishable)....
Wonderful, dear 'pipe!