Adam’s Peace

Before I get to the meat of this post, I’d like to make a couple of announcements.

First, I would like to point out that I have an addictive personality. That is, I become obsessed with certain activities to the point where they interfere with other areas of my life. Namely, the time that I spend on blog related tasks has been hurting my relationship with my wife and has cost me some financial opportunities. Since I’m currently earning an average of $0.50 per month with this blog, I can’t justify the amount of time that I have been spending, so I’m cutting back the time that I’ll spend writing and responding to the people in this community.

For a little while, don’t expect more than one post per week, unless I can fit several posts into one writing session and schedule them to appear throughout the week.

Don’t worry, the blog is not disappearing any time soon. It is spring in the northern hemisphere, a time of indulgence and rapid growth. I am, however, very much under the influence of the Taurus ways, fixed and lasting, despite my Gemini ascendant which gives me my gift with words and the incessant need to have multiple projects. Because of my Taurean sun, I like to do certain tasks differently than seems prudent in the interests of setting up a firm foundation before seeking to reach for the sky. This season of growth seems to me to be a better time for strengthening my foundation, to set down roots, as it were, rather than to stretch out my limbs to the sky. The sun will be here again when this season comes again, so as I’m living in the now, my actions now are to plan for the future and ensure that I’m healthy enough to meet it. In the interest of helping more people in the future, I am seeking inner peace more fully now. I will still be posting regularly, but rather than posting ideas as they come to me, I’ll be working on the ideas throughout the week. For those who enjoy reading shorter posts, I am sorry, but this means that I’ll be writing some very long essays. Fortunately, these essays will be more thought out than what I’ve written in the past, and none will contain paragraphs as complex and ungainly as this one.

Now, on to the subject at hand.

Vera Nadine has asked me a very subjective question. There is simply no way that I can answer this objectively/scientifically. I wouldn’t even be presumptuous enough to say that my answer is in any way definitive, except that it is what I personally believe, based on my own observations.

Vera asked:

Is there such a thing as a soul MATE?

Aren’t we just solitary expressions of the ALL?

Do we manifest in soul pairs or soul groups or is this spiritual “other” just a way of distracting ourselves from the real work at hand?

If there is such a thing as a soul mate will we DEFINITELY meet them in each lifetime? Do we HAVE to meet them in order to fill our life’s goals?

What if we don’t meet them?

I’m going to re-organize the questions just a little bit… The first question that I’d like to address, which will answer the first two, is, “do we manifest in soul pairs or soul groups or is this spiritual ‘other’ just a way of distracting ourselves from the real work at hand?”

Well, thinking along the lines of the Law of Attraction, taken to its logical extreme with the Subjective Reality model, I would say that, yes, we do manifest in soul groups. This seems like a real contradiction, because the Subjective Reality model says that you are the only consciousness. It isn’t, though, because the “I” which we usually use and the “I” of Subjective Reality are two different things. What we experience from a singular point of view is seen through the lens of the ego, which likes to call itself “I,” just as the Super-Consciousness of Subjective Reality is called the “I.” Because the Super-Consciousness can create anything, it stands to reason that there are many different egos, each calling themselves “I,” and being just as justified in calling themselves “I” as any other ego.

Is this a distraction from the work at hand? Well, it depends entirely on what that work is. I believe that the purpose of the universe is to learn of itself. In that case, there is very little that can be distracting, except to remain in ignorance. Even that ignorance helps other egos to learn, though, which makes it very difficult to be truly distracted.

Now, why do I believe that the Super-Consciousness would choose to use reincarnation, which allows for soul groups? Well, part of why I believe this is the ego’s fear of annihilation. The other part is that an eternal paradise or torture for souls would serve absolutely no purpose for a singular consciousness. If both annihilation and a single eternal afterlife are out of the question, then that leaves reincarnation. Each ego comes back freshly washed of its memories ready to learn more about the universe than it learned before. Since I enjoy my relationship with my wife, family, and friends, and each ego has the same creative powers of the Super-Consciousness, I choose to return with the same group time and time again.

The second set of questions is,

• If there is such a thing as a soul mate will we DEFINITELY meet them in each lifetime?
• Do we HAVE to meet them in order to fill our life’s goals?
• What if we don’t meet them?

Will we definitely meet them? No… Perhaps our main ‘lesson’ for this lifetime is how to deal with life without a built-in support system. This means that we don’t have to meet them either… The last question, though, leaves an interesting answer…

Assuming that our lessons for our lifetime includes meeting our life mate(s), what happens if we don’t meet them?

Well, some lessons will be missed. The good news, though, is that there are many, many more lessons to be learned. If one person or another isn’t ready, then there will be plenty of time for them to be ready. Just as friendships drift apart within mortal lifetimes, it is possible for a soul friendship to drift apart as well. Fortunately, we’re also able to create new friendships. New romances form and old ones fizzle. The way of life is through change. That’s how we learn.

And, to the unasked question (or perhaps just my own rant from personal experience), you have met old friends and made new ones this lifetime. If you don’t feel like you have met your soul mate yet, well, perhaps you’re looking too hard. Many times, what you’re really looking for is in plain sight and can only be found when you’re not trying to look.

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