Soulmates

As a kinship to what in love, communication, intimacy, sexuality or referred to a connection between two people who feel connected by a deep, appearing as natural beings similarity spirituality can express.

A mystical and esoteric explanation of the soul kinship is the concept of dual souls, which is based on a timeless (eternal) connection between two souls, which shows itself in the earthly bond of the people concerned. According to teachings that are represented in some circles of New Age spirituality, it is, as it were, two halves of a spiritual unit. But not everyone who advocates the idea of ​​kinship accepts such explanations.

The feet of the statue of St. Guénolé in a chapel in Prigny ( Loire-Atlantique ) are pierced with needles by local girls who hope to find their soul mates.

Ancient Greece

In his Dialog Symposion, Plato has the comedy poet Aristophanes tell the myth of the spherical people . According to this myth, humans originally had four arms, four legs, and a head with two faces. As a punishment for an offense, Zeus cut the spherical people in half. These halves are today's people. They suffer from their incompleteness; everyone seeks the lost other half. The longing for the former wholeness manifests itself in the form of erotic desire, which aims at union.

Theosophy

The Theosophy According whose claims made by Edgar Cayce were changed, God created androgynous souls - both male and female. Later theories postulate that the souls are divided into separate sexes, possibly because of the karma developed around the earth while playing or the "separation from God". Over the course of a series of rebirths, each half seeks the other. When all karmic guilt is cleared, the two will merge again.

Bashert: Jewish conception of kinship

Bashert ( באַשערט) is a Yiddish word that means "fate". It is often used in connection with a divinely destined spouse or soul mate , referred to as "basherte" (female) or "basherter" (male). The word is also used to express the fate or fate of a favorable or important event, friendship or happening.

The idea of ​​soul mates can be found in classical rabbinical literature . The saying, "Marriages are made in heaven" is illustrated by a story from the Midrash : After hearing from Rabbi Jose ben Chalafta that God arranges all marriages, a Roman housemother said it was an easy thing and boasted that she did to be equally capable. So she gathered her slaves and sorted them in pairs. But the next morning they all came to her to complain. She then admitted that divine intervention was necessary for proper marriages.

( Genesis Rabba lxviii. 3-4).

But even God Himself finds the right partners to be as difficult as the division of the Red Sea.

( Genesis Rabba lxviii . 3-4; also Babylonian Talmud , tractates Soṭah 2a; Sanhedrin 22a; comp. M. Ḳhhh. 18b; "Sefer Hasidim," § 1128).

In modern parlance, Jewish singles say they are looking for their Bashert; that is, they are looking for the person who complements them perfectly and who complements them perfectly. Since it is believed that whom to marry has been predetermined by God, the spouse is considered the bashert by definition, regardless of whether the couple's married life is going well or not.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Plato, Symposium 189d-193d.
2. ↑ Krajenke, Robert W. (1972). Suddenly We Were !: a Story of Creation Based on the Edgar Cayce Readings . ARE Press.
3. ↑ “ What is a Twin Flame? ". SoulEvolution.org . Retrieved December 21, 2007.
4. ↑ Yiddish Dictionary Online entry ( Memento of the original from December 9, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved December 29, 2006