Twin Flames: One Soul Two Hearts or One Heart Two Souls?

There has something that has been bothering me about the generic Twin Flame literature that is commonly spread throughout the community, and it is this aspect of the one soul split into two. Something did not sit right with me when I first read it, which has sometimes gotten me to question if I was a Twin Flame as I so believe to be. According to the main Twin Flame lore, these beings are part of the same soul which were then split into two to live out various incarnations on the earthly plane for experiential purposes and start to re-emerge back as one as they are near ascension. Many have interpreted this to mean many different things, but in the end, the idea is pretty much the same: both souls were once one, now they are two, and they will inevitably merge back to one. Some would suggest that this means that both souls are half a soul, and they need to merge to become whole. As this explanation can be understood as co-dependency in 3D terms, other spiritualists were quick to point out that twins must be complete and whole on their own before they can merge with one another. This, to me, is still quite confusing – all because the spiritualists that claim that each must be whole still confirms that back in time, both twins were one soul split into two. I believe the whole confusion stems from the choice of the word “split”, as it still suggests a division or halving in a 3D sense.

Then there are those who say that your twin flame is “YOU”, and then the confusion meter just skyrockets at this point. Setting aside poetics for a moment, what does that actually mean? Some would suggest that your twin flame is another part of your soul, and that your soul needs both counterparts in order to be “whole” (but then that goes into the concept of halving again). Others would say that as we ascend upwards into higher dimensions, we merge into one higher soul, which is currently our over soul, and the higher up we ascend in dimensions we keep merging with members of our soul family until we become one with the universe (but with that logic, my Twin Flame is me just as much as the guy that passes by me in the street is me, and in the end we are all one – so somewhat irrelevant with Twins specifically). The Osho folk would actually suggest that your Twin Flame is you meaning that the energy is inside you, and has nothing to do with the partner which you have called your twin; you just projected this Twin Flame energy towards the other person, but in reality, it is all within you (I find this type of thinking to be quite lonely – and I feel that it has been conjured up by the broken hearted people that are trying to justify their sadness … which may be the truth that I am blind towards, but it just doesn’t resonate with me. So called runner twins may choose to hold onto this particular belief system as it frees them from the responsibility of accepting their Twin Flame nature, but that’s neither here or there).

This notion of me and my twin being one at some point back in time really bothers me, as I do not feel it to be true, just yet. Of course, none of us humans remember what it was like prior to our incarnation on this plane, so it may be possible and I just simply do not remember … but still, something is bothering me about this particular line – not on an intellectual level (where my logical brain has pretty much given up trying to format everything according to the earthly plane) nor on an emotional level, but in a spiritual sense – I just feel that something has been lost in translation. Then it hit me, the issue – for me – lies in the past tense: twin flames were “once” one soul, split into two. Excuse me if I am wrong, but doesn’t time only exist on the third dimensional plane? If that is true, then how were we ever once anything? In the higher dimensions, my twin and I should already be one and there is no moment of actual split between both souls. Actually, come to think about it, on the higher dimensions we are both one and separate independent souls at the same time. I am sure that many spiritualists would probably respond by saying “that is true, but the moment you have entered this earthly plane, you have become two individual souls” … but that means we were never one on this earthly plane to begin with, and in fact, the whole journey is to become one, and not to return to being one. So, we never actually split, we are slowly merging into what is often called “the third energy”. I don’t like the word “merging” either, as it may be taken a bit too literally, so lets just say that by our reunion as two separate souls we create this third energy, entity, or perhaps creating a unified consciousness that vibrates at a higher frequency than individuals can do on their own.

Why is this distinction important? I personally believe that this notion of the two split into one as opposed to the two becoming one leads to a lot of confusion and doubt within twins here on the earthly plane (I know it has for me). It suggests that your twin flame counterpart must be experiencing the same things you are experiencing (albeit in a “different” way) just because they are essentially “you”. I would have to take a step back and offer a slightly different interpretation and say: No, your twin is not you; he or she is a completely unique individual that may experience life totally different than you are, in an ultimate divine plan that was designed to bring out the best in both of you (by sometimes destroying you and bringing out the worst) and push each other on the road to divine evolution. They are not you, you are not them, you are both divine counterparts that share perfect duality, which the interaction of which creates the magical sparks of life. Think about it as two opposing colors, both rich on their own yet combine to create a third color with balanced properties. Red and Blue create Purple; Blue and Yellow create Green; and Yellow and Red create Orange. In order to be able to merge or recreate this third elevated consciousness with your energies, you must continue to push each other’s buttons until you are both strong enough to truly allow your energy grown beyond your bodily cages and merge into this higher over soul – which you already are merged into in the higher dimensions.

Let me offer another perspective. In the beginning, the universe created both the male and female duality – identified in the Abrahamic faiths as Adam & Eve. These were the original two twin flames, as they were divine counterparts that were created from one another (I dislike the idea that Eve was created from Adam, or vice versa, and prefer the mindboggling version of them creating each other simultaneously). As they procreated / co-created, they give birth to many sets of twins and started the first soul family. While a twin couple were divine counterparts, their brothers and sisters in other twin sets become their soul mates, and so it goes with their children, and their children’s children. But take note that I am talking about the birth of souls here, not human beings … and these souls can decide to incarnate into different families and what not – meaning that your actual brother or sister might be our cousin twice removed in your soul family, and your child my actually be your soul parent … etc (which is sometimes why you find that you may be close to a cousin than a sibling, or end up caring for a sibling like a parent). This soul family concept is widely accepted in the spiritual community, but we must recognize that it is actually a hierarchical organization (there is always an Adam and Eve figure) and based on a 3D family system.

What if we are to reinterpret the co-creation of Adam & Eve as cloning as opposed to giving birth. When both the Female and Male energies combine, they split off to form their copies again, and again, and again, so we are essentially walking around with souls that were basically part of the main original duality as opposed to offspring from them. Sure, these different clones may evolve through time, but in the end the organization is more horizontal and less hierarchical. In this way, you could always see that there are always two true divine counterparts of one another, and the universe is made up of billions of these dualities. Whenever you are in a relationship with someone, you are in a relationship with a version of your true divine counterpart, and the intensity / chemistry of the relationship depends on how far the current clone you are with is to your true divine counterpart. Now, I think this interpretations represents or explains this notion of duality (at least to me) much clearer that the previous “one soul split into two”, because it is clearer in asserting the existence of such a duality.

Now, the purpose of such divine counterparts, as mentioned before and in many of my previous blog posts, is to challenge each other to the extreme to help us become Gods. We are incarnated as Twins on the same earthly plane to access our God status, which is activated by the third energy that is born during our brief union on the earthly plane. Twins come in and light up a flame inside us that very slowly starts to burn both us (in our own times) with desire to expand our spiritual body outside the earthly plane and into the Godly higher dimension. On this 3D world, this is a very slow process that takes time and commitment, and can be identified by an increase of wisdom, thirst of metaphysical knowledge, or a desire to spread loving healing energy towards the world and its creations. Whether or not we are in a romantic 3D relationship or not does not matter, as our souls don’t give much of a damn (our 3D egos do). Remember, our souls transcend to another dimension after we depart this world, where we are already connected with our twin in the yin/yang duality, our egos are the one that is left behind. Our egos are the one that needs to feel this love and it is the one that needs the validation, our souls are wiser and know the truth.