There is quite a bit on the net about this relatively modern phenomenon and it seems to be quite fashionable within spiritual circles but alike most things spiritual what it means at a lower level of implementation is really quite different than a higher implementation... not that I want to go all this is high and this is low but it serves the purpose of highlighting, in a sense, the reality of ego based yearning and soul based acceptance and possibly that the whole reason for the Twin flame phenomenon is to highlight the gulf worth traversing between the two poles.
The basic premise of Twin flames is that two individuals share the same soul and journey through lives helping each other to their eventual joining again in enlightenment with a side order that such is required within our own times to create a gestalt of sorts whereby the twins as individual bodies share the soul within life and are then doing work within life to advance the awakening of all individuals still within an ego based life.
There is also some argument out there about the true nature of Twin flames/Twin souls (which is another name for them) and the Soulmate, which may or may not be the same thing, but is basically in the same ballpark and that ballpark is definitely pre-enlightenment.
I read one thing a while back and it resonated deeply within me as I was almost on the verge of voicing such, or had even done so, but without the clarity of the statement I read. Basically the fellow said that just as we achieve enlightenment our soul does a little trick where a small part goes back into time and space to aid it's own coming to that point and that, in essence, this is our higher self.
This then made total sense because it was what I had seemed to experience within meditation, helped along by prodigious readings of Eckhart Tolle's "The Power of Now". It felt and seemed that within meditation the ego fell away and as ones consciousness passed through silence and into stillness that the consciousness became the higher self, and going even further and becoming everything at once within all time and space how could it be otherwise?
So between the paragraph above and now, on this fine Autumnal Sunday morning, I've been out chopping down the Privet trees along one side of the property as the fine roots of these trees have been encroaching on the drains, it's happened twice in about two years and it's gotta stop. And there's a wonderful metaphor going on as the weedy trees of our existence both reach into the sky and dig deep into the soil in search of nourishment’s. The root's would, of course, find the sewers, the deep sub-conscious parts of us tunnelling under the ground unseen carrying our wastes away and a blockage may very well be something we seek to let go of but the trees, growing to the sun, see another use for them.
In this respect the nature of Twin Flames must include past lives, in itself a metaphor chosen by our higher selves to illustrate the edges of our existence and it matter's not that past lives are real or not only that they are the canvas upon which is painted the knowledge we might benefit from unearthing.
So it's seems to me that while the person I might regard as a Twin for myself it is that she too is more metaphorical, maybe the prime metaphor, for the unearthing and bringing to light the unseen and yet to be understood aspects of self which need cleansing, purifying... a good scrub basically, in the journey to source.
And this is what gets me with the concept of the Twin flame. That the person who may or may not be ones Twin flame is still a complete and whole person seeking their own salvation or not and that we, or oneself, cannot see their physicality and corporeality as the source of our salvation... that being with them will not make us whole.
For if one has ever experienced source, or God, or enlightenment or whatever, even for the briefest of moments it is obvious there are no divisions at all between anything, everything and all time and this is, or hints at, the essential paradox within the Twin flame concept.
Myself, I learn by experience. I experience then if I need to seek some knowledge about what may have happened. I find it silly to try and learn something and then experience it as it just feels backwards to me so the Twin Flame thing arrived as a source of knowledge after a whole bunch of previously un-experienced stuff happened and slowly but surely I was led to the ideas of Twin flames and while the Ego driven and earthly delighted parts of me still much alive on the earth embraced such as the fulfilment of all my heart has yearned for I've had enough experience within meditative states and the unfolding of higher self led motivations to understand that the physicality of the thing is as fleeting as all other physicalities.
That as real and existence as all existence is it's still just fun in the little house and sensible detachment is a pre-requisite to overall health; spiritual, mental, physical and all else that might have a bearing, and balance.
The reason I even write this is some vague hope that her which may or may not be might read this and that if she too has had some of that weird and intangible stuff happening to her... that I'm doing all I can to minimise such from my end and that I hope it doesn't hurt.
And that I better get back to chopping down trees and making firewood as what's the old saying... before enlightenment chop wood and carry water, after enlightenment, chop wood and carry water.
Heres a little more reading if you're not already exhausted.
