All my life, since i was a young child i have been searching for completeness, for that other part of me that seems to be missing. I knew from a young age that my life long task would be to find my soul twin, that one true person who connects with me, not only on a physical level but a psychic level as well. In my life to date I have truly fallen for 3 women, but only 1 of them has had such a profound connection with me that i cannot truly put into words how the connection is formed. I don’t know if people in this world believe in psychic power, if you can read or feel another person, but i can tell you, i have felt it. I fell for a girl a few years ago, I didn’t even need to be near her and i could feel her feelings, see her in my dreams and know exactly what she was thinking before anyone else. All I knew is that if this girl and I had joined together, we would have been complete. Sadly that never happened, and for various reasons she hated me. But even with her hate for me still strong, i can still see her life as it progresses in my mind. I could tell the day she fell for another and started to wear a ring to keep her love for him pure, I even knew the day when i would never see her again. Since that experience I have grown weary of now finding love of my own. Knowing that I had a connection with someone on a level i have never experienced before, does this mean that because she is now gone from my life that my only chance of true happiness with my true soul twin is now over? I don’t know. My quest to find that one special person continues on, and I know in the future I will once again find love, but even if i did find love again, could i have been wrong about who my soul twin was? Perhaps i will love another but inside my soul will always belong to another. Its a tricky and scary prospect. Perhaps she wasn’t my soul twin after all and I will one day find my true soul twin and with any luck be happier than I have ever been before. But in my mind, I suspect I won’t find my true soul twin again in this life time and will be forced to come back to this world once again in a new form, a new person and once again search until death. I believe that when we die and if we haven’t found our soul twin that our soul wonders aimlessly from life to life until we do one day find each other and then ascend to heaven together.
Plato
In his dialogue The Symposium, Plato has Aristophanes present a story about soul mates. Aristophanes states that humans originally had four arms, four legs, and a single head made of two faces. He continues that there were three genders: man, woman and the "Androgynous". Each with two sets of genitalia with the Androgynous having both male and female genitalia. The men were children of the sun, the women were children of the earth and the Androgynous were children of the moon, which was born of the sun and earth. It is said that humans had great strength at the time and threatened to conquer the gods. The gods were then faced with the prospect of destroying the humans with lightning as they had done with the Titans but then they would lose the tributes given to the gods by humans. Zeus developed a creative solution by splitting humans in half as punishment for humanity’s pride and doubling the number of humans who would give tribute to the gods. These split humans were in utter misery to the point where they would not eat and would perish so Apollo had sewn them up and reconstituted their bodies with the navel being the only remnant harkening back to their original form. Each human would then only have one set of genitalia and would forever long for his/her other half; the other half of his/her soul. It is said that when the two find each other, there is an unspoken understanding of one another, that they feel unified and would lay with each other in unity and would know no greater joy than that.
