Mind Body & Spirit

Today the concept of soul mates is an area of great interest and discussion. The term is very loosely used in everyday parlance to mean: lover; sexual partner; husband; or a person to whom there is a great attraction. In some beliefs, where people suffer from victim consciousness, suffering a life sentence with a disagreeable spouse is the purpose of this lifetime. All of these concepts are, or could be, connected. However, they are also incomplete.

Famous trance medium Edgar Cayce had these comments:

Soul mates are brought together for a reason. They have been preparing for each other all their lives. When they look back at different times in their life they will see a new purpose to actions they have taken. Their lives take on a sense of oneness equaled by no other. This oneness of purpose, ambition, and love can be a beacon to others along their spiritual paths. A soul mate is another person with whom you have a soul connection. It is very important to take away any myth that a soul has preferences, or needs, of a certain nature. It is important to understand, through past life reincarnation theory, the soul is within the body of the person. As soon as a personality is given to the soul, it has preferences and desires.

A person is born into a certain life, and through the sum total of his desires, wants, preferences and needs, a person is on a particular wavelength, or vibrational essence. Other souls are also on this wavelength due to a similarity of thought, word, action, preferences, etc. On any particular vibrational wave band, we find souls who are grappling with similar problems and have identical wants, needs, preferences, thoughts, etc.

These souls have connections into each other and need each other for work, to help each other, or love each other (or even hate!) There is an individual chord which binds these souls together for a particular cosmic purpose. This binding together is the soul connection.

If life is viewed as one whole illusory game going on for eons, then souls are connected to each other and are playmates in this fabulous cosmic game of fun. The Hindu scriptures refer to them as leela. In this play, drama, or game, there could be many acts, and since we are dealing with a continuous soap opera with each lifetime being viewed as an episode, we are bound to meet these soul mates on this playground of life. We learn, teach and grow with each other. One does not have to be profoundly spiritually elevated to acknowledge that, for this beautiful play, there is the undercurrent of the cosmic script written by destiny with its pen of finality. Yet, each player has a certain amount of free will, or maybe a great amount of free will, which we exercise to select our team in this interplay. We select lovers, family members, coworkers and friends.

One also does not have to do too much research to acknowledge that the team that we select is from the vibrational wavelength upon which we, as souls, reside. Therefore we recognize who these souls are.

Those with whom we have played in earlier acts, or lifetimes, we recognize as a known connection. In an instant, we recognize there is some unfinished business to be completed, or that we have had some good done to us in a past life, which we are forced, through choice or circumstance, to replay.

I have purposely used replay in the earlier paragraph to bring you to a comfortable zone of understanding. Perhaps you might ask: "Why would a soul’s play, within the multitude of dimensions available, be categorized on only a 2 dimensional plane in the space of good-bad, or debit-credit?"

I do not like to use the word replay where one soul has been wronged and is therefore in the guise of a person seeking revenge. Hollywood has done a good job of that idea, but spiritual inquiry goes deeper and subtler to explain the meaning of meeting repeatedly in subsequent lifetimes.

If I use the modern day concept of a page or paging, then think that, when we meet or select soul mates, we start a new page in order to resume the same soul dialogue which we left off in a past life or play. However, look at the irony -- we rewrite, but do not recall, the past!

Although the mind cannot register a past life, the soul knows the other souls with whom the contact is to be established in the present lifetime. We bump into thousands of people but out of nowhere, a face appears and some strange vibrational telepathic soul language tells both people this is the one! This connection can be experienced for a coworker, a boss, a friend, a lover, or a life partner.

Soul mates may have never met in earlier lifetimes. They may be souls who have met for the first time but feel that they are a perfect match, or tuned perfectly, for an understanding between each other. These could be best friends, or partners who take up a common project like living together, or even robbing a bank! The beauty is they are finely-tuned with each other.

When soul mates have been lovers in past lives, and are lovers again taking off from where they had left off in the previous life, the timing, understanding and match are perfect. They appear to be two incomplete halves that connect to make a whole. This is the highest, purest form and most wonderful form of love. These lives are special, and to reach this state, who knows how many past lives have been spent together to get this perfect gift. It is the happiest, most sublime life on earth. These soul mates are special - they are twin souls. The fun now lies in keeping ourselves open to recognizing that person in our lives!