“People propagating these romantic twin flame New Age myths would become instantly nauseous and squirmy if somebody told them that it is indeed the spiritual version of monozygotics. Real “sexy” huh?! It is still totally beyond me how this split soul concept got translated (or hijacked) to mean something similar to a divine partnership or divine lover. If you have difficulty understanding twin siblings and how they are so glued to each other, that should be your instant red flag that your own relationship is not a “twin soul”.”
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Someone calling themselves “JeyWel” wrote the above comment recently, in regard to one of my articles about Twin Flames. JeyWel in particular refers to the idea that souls can ‘split’, much like monozygotic embryos do, to form physical twins, but on a soul level, forming twin souls. JeyWel seems to be of the opinion that such ‘splits’ would not include romantic relationships, based on a literal interpretation of the monozygotic split soul explanation. Here, below, is my reply, which might be of help to others who also wonder about such spiritual ideas.
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Professor Gary Schwartz, in the context of his splendid research into the subject of psychic/mediumship, the Afterlife and the existence of angels wrote about the principle of the ‘White Crow’. Most crows are black. From a scientific perspective it could be easy to over-generalise and assume, since the weight of evidence indicates that crows tend to be black that ‘all crows are black’. Schwartz goes on to say that it would only require the existence of one white crow to prove the black crow over-generalisation to be wrong, when stretched to the Nth degree.
In the context of his writings he applies this principle to the subject of mediumship and the Afterlife, on the basis that a person only needs to demonstrate one good piece of evidence in support of an Afterlife, to disprove the ‘There’s no such thing as an Afterlife’ theory, which, in my opinion, his research has done, remarkably well.
One of the difficulties, from a human perspective, sometimes, is trying to translate spiritual phenomena into simple terms, as an aid to understanding, to some degree, otherwise Otherworldy circumstances that evade full comprehension. Twin flames, twin souls, split souls and parallel lives, I think are, arguably, beyond the range of our human comprehension to fully understand. As a result, some writers, myself included, apply recognised examples from ‘day to day life’, from which to try to best translate some ideas that are not fully accessible to human comprehension, into generalised terms, as a means to (try to) make sense of, as best we can, these concepts and experiences. This is a well-recognised principle. For example, the mystics have long spoken about having encounters, that can best be described as passionate, even erotic with a numinous Presence that they believe to be God. Rumi wrote about God in ways that would be apt for a suitor to write to his beloved. The Song of Solomon, in the Bible, is said by many to be an allegory for the ‘courting’ process that God seems to pursue with awakening souls. It is quite an erotic book, by Bible standards. Similarly, many Christians believe that Jesus ‘marries’ the church. The church, of course, is not a building, but rather the men, women and children who make up its number. St Teresa of Avila had visionary experiences in which she sensed the presence of an angel (if memory serves me correctly, identified as Archangel Michael), during which he ‘thrust a heavenly spear’ in and out of her body, in a manner that created painful ecstasies for her, a statue of which exists depicting such events, which reveal the saint in what could be described as the spiritual equivalent of orgasmic rapture. Writers have commented, in our post-Freud era, that she would probably have been mortified over anyone suggesting a sexual reference to her very spiritual encounter, but the parallel exists none-the-less. Rumi and other mystics, including the author of the Song of Solomon probably would not be mortified though, because they understand that Divine Union, with God, is, it seems, a feature of elevated spiritual experiences. Heiros Gamos is a term used to describe this phenomenon.
Of course, if we stretch this attempt at making sense of something that is not fully within our grasp to understand, we could balk at the concept of ‘union with God’, especially when considering that in human terms this could make God out to be a ‘philanderer’ of sorts, since He (or She) appears to enter into Heiros Gamos with many souls, if not all. It could make us squirm over the fact that God is sometimes called ‘Father’, so if we try to relate to God using both principles simultaneously, in an excessively rigid way, we could feel extreme uneasiness at the thought that a ‘Heavenly Father’, seeks erotic ecstatic union with his ‘children’. We might also be offended when considering that Jesus is said to ‘marry’ his church, which includes little children. Of course, the problem does not exist at the level of Spirit, but rather with human beings who try, clumsily, perhaps, to explain numinous concepts in earthly, human terms.
There appears to be enough available evidence to support the existence of an Afterlife and… the likelihood of reincarnation. Some psychic readers do, according to science and personal experience, seem to be able to receive and share information originating from the Spirit Realm, accurately. This collective information, in some cases seems to suggest that some souls animate more than one body at the same time. In this context, some of these ‘twinned’ souls it seems have miraculous shared experiences whilst receiving supportive ‘cross correspondence’ messages from the Spirit Realm, which identifies too that they are indeed twin souls. Despite those infatuated and self-deluding people who have ‘hijacked’ the term ‘twin flame’, to act as a ‘license’, it seems, to obsess over some other poor souls, this does not negate the fact that there does appear to exist a relatively small number of cases in which, the phenomenon of twin flames (white crows), twin souls, split souls or parallel lives occurs – and in many instances this phenomenon does involve a very passionate love-based connection between the ‘twins’.
When we take the monozygotic principle, or the ‘God the Father’ concept, or Heiros Gamos, or Jesus ‘marrying’ the church… or Rumi and the other mystics sensing that God is basically trying to ‘chat them up’ and seduce them… too literally and to the Nth degree, then they can seem like questionable ideas, but this is due, I suggest, to our limited perspective.
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Postscript: Jeywel responded to say thanks, adding that my reply was very helpful.
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