What is a soul-mate, and how we can recognize one? It seems like it should be easy, being soul-mates and all, but with all the perceptual filters of hopes and fears we all have, and the general fuzziness of spiritual terminology, it's by no means a sure thing to get it right.
There is no single, official definition for such terms, and that's why we need to compare notes, to be sure we are on the same page.
Here's how I understand the concept of soul-mates:
In the earlier post about Past Lives, I mentioned Jane Roberts' novel, THE EDUCATION OF OVERSOUL SEVEN which describes an Oversoul that has several lesser Souls attached to it, like different fingers on one hand. Each Soul is busy living its one individual life in its own place, its own piece of time. Each soul is experiencing and learning in their classroom in the School of Earthly Reality. The Oversoul, coordinating the knowledge acquired by each Soul's set of life-experiences, grows and learns as they do.
I define 'soul-mates,' based on this model, as the different 'fingers' of the 'hand.'
In the earlier post about Past Lives, I mentioned Jane Roberts' novel, THE EDUCATION OF OVERSOUL SEVEN which describes an Oversoul that has several lesser Souls attached to it, like different fingers on one hand. Each Soul is busy living its one individual life in its own place, its own piece of time. Each soul is experiencing and learning in their classroom in the School of Earthly Reality. The Oversoul, coordinating the knowledge acquired by each Soul's set of life-experiences, grows and learns as they do.
I define 'soul-mates,' based on this model, as the different 'fingers' of the 'hand.'
We recognize each other because we are made of the same stuff, we vibrate on the same, or very close frequencies, and whether we come together as friends, lovers. parents and children, siblings, or even as adversaries, there is an ineffable bond that we know is there.
Just because we meet up with a soul mate, it doesn't mean we will continue down our lifetime's path hand in hand to the end.
Sometimes we meet because we need to check in, to give or get reassurance and encouragement, or to share information. When the need is answered, we can go on along our own paths again, focusing on our own particular lessons. Or maybe, it just happens that our paths intersect, and we share a moment of recognition over a cuppa, and then go on our ways.
Sometimes we meet because we need to check in, to give or get reassurance and encouragement, or to share information. When the need is answered, we can go on along our own paths again, focusing on our own particular lessons. Or maybe, it just happens that our paths intersect, and we share a moment of recognition over a cuppa, and then go on our ways.
Soul Mates may match with us, but they do not and cannot complete us: One of the lessons we are here to learn is that we are whole already: Incompleteness, like Loneliness, like Death, is an illusion. Convincing, but still illusion.
Simply saying this and accepting it intellectually doesn't mean I never feel overwhelmingly alone, abandoned, walking about with great gaps in my Self... But if I am paying attention when such feelings arise, it is within my realm of choices to remember what I believe is true, and to recognize that it is some fearful, lonely Part of myself that is expressing itself.
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