Post by bluefedish on Jan 22, 2008 14:28:26 GMT -5
Soulmate (or soul mate) is a term sometimes used to designate someone with whom one has a feeling of deep and natural affinity, friendship, love, intimacy, sexuality, and/or compatibility. A related concept is that of the 'twin flame' or 'twin soul' - thought to be the ultimate soulmate, the one and only other half of one's soul, for which all souls are driven to find and join. However, not everyone who uses terms intends them to carry such mystical connotations.
Definitions
Soul Lovers: Someone you love, and would do anything for, and someone who loves you, and would do anything for you. In that love, nothing is required for either person, because everything is already given. You love them more than anything in the world and couldn't live without them.
Soul Sister/Brother: Someone belonging in the same soul group as you and therefore having an unusually strong bond and likeness to you.
Classical (Greek mythology): Originally humans were combined of 4 arms, 4 legs, and a single head made of 2 faces, but Zeus feared their power and split them all in half, condemning them to spending their lives searching for the other half to complete them. This theory was presented as a half-serious story by Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium, after all the participants at the Symposium "drinking party" were charged to philosophize on the topic of love.
Spiritual and Religious: Concepts of reincarnation and karma. Soulmates have spent many previous lifetimes together.
Karmic Soulmate: Someone who has a special mission or influence on one's life.
Companion Soulmate: People with whom one has made a connection.
Twin Soulmate: Very close freinds with whom on ehas strong bonds.
Twin Flame Soulmate: A popular romantic belief that there is only one true soulmate.
Scientific Soulmate: (If) a relationship can be quantified, and scored according to an internal happiness scale. A scientific soulmate is the person with whom you are the absloute happiest. You would therefore be less happy with any other person in existence.
Balance Partners and Messengers: The people you meet along the way who help you create balance in your life.
Divine Complement: A new colloquialism for a 'match made in heaven', a twin soul, who holds inborn potentials that match and complement one's own and who is linked eternally through a signature in the heart at the dimension of the spirit.
New Age Concept of Soulmate
Some followers of the New Age religion believe that souls are literally made and/or fated to be the mates of each other, or to play certian other important roles in each other's lives. Following this concept, one can have many soulmates. For example: One could see another person they have never met in this lifetime and instantly hate or love them because of previous interaction(s) with the other in one or more previous lifetimes. The most popular use of this concept is the idea that devoted lovers may reincarnate together.
Also, being conscious of the "soul mate connection" is not necessary, according to this idea.
According to theories popularized by Theosophy and in a medified form by Edgar Cayce, God created androgynous souls, equally male and female. The souls split into separate genders later, perhaps because they incurred karma while playing around on the earth, or "separation from God". Over countless reincarnations, each half seeks the other. When all karmic debt is purged, the 2 will fuse back together and return to the ultimate.
Soulmate Emotional Theory
Ultimately the consequence of this notion is the unfortunate reality that soulmates often posses the ability to inflict serious emotional injury unto their twin flame, greater than any other being could. This often results in the separation of idealized love, due to the severe emotional impact. Many soulmates are destined for an eternal search, not for lack of meeting, but rather lack of acceptance. The encounter is often analogous to the collision of matter and antimatter, a violent explosive reaction will occur, but if held through to completion only pure energy, and thus harmony, will result. A soulmate can also be a person who is not of the gender they are naturally attracted to or compatible with as a conventional romantic coulple. This can cause a lifetime of profoudn sadness and depression as there is no possibility or resolution.
Selected Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_mate
Definitions
Soul Lovers: Someone you love, and would do anything for, and someone who loves you, and would do anything for you. In that love, nothing is required for either person, because everything is already given. You love them more than anything in the world and couldn't live without them.
Soul Sister/Brother: Someone belonging in the same soul group as you and therefore having an unusually strong bond and likeness to you.
Classical (Greek mythology): Originally humans were combined of 4 arms, 4 legs, and a single head made of 2 faces, but Zeus feared their power and split them all in half, condemning them to spending their lives searching for the other half to complete them. This theory was presented as a half-serious story by Aristophanes in Plato's Symposium, after all the participants at the Symposium "drinking party" were charged to philosophize on the topic of love.
Spiritual and Religious: Concepts of reincarnation and karma. Soulmates have spent many previous lifetimes together.
Karmic Soulmate: Someone who has a special mission or influence on one's life.
Companion Soulmate: People with whom one has made a connection.
Twin Soulmate: Very close freinds with whom on ehas strong bonds.
Twin Flame Soulmate: A popular romantic belief that there is only one true soulmate.
Scientific Soulmate: (If) a relationship can be quantified, and scored according to an internal happiness scale. A scientific soulmate is the person with whom you are the absloute happiest. You would therefore be less happy with any other person in existence.
Balance Partners and Messengers: The people you meet along the way who help you create balance in your life.
Divine Complement: A new colloquialism for a 'match made in heaven', a twin soul, who holds inborn potentials that match and complement one's own and who is linked eternally through a signature in the heart at the dimension of the spirit.
New Age Concept of Soulmate
Some followers of the New Age religion believe that souls are literally made and/or fated to be the mates of each other, or to play certian other important roles in each other's lives. Following this concept, one can have many soulmates. For example: One could see another person they have never met in this lifetime and instantly hate or love them because of previous interaction(s) with the other in one or more previous lifetimes. The most popular use of this concept is the idea that devoted lovers may reincarnate together.
Also, being conscious of the "soul mate connection" is not necessary, according to this idea.
According to theories popularized by Theosophy and in a medified form by Edgar Cayce, God created androgynous souls, equally male and female. The souls split into separate genders later, perhaps because they incurred karma while playing around on the earth, or "separation from God". Over countless reincarnations, each half seeks the other. When all karmic debt is purged, the 2 will fuse back together and return to the ultimate.
Soulmate Emotional Theory
Ultimately the consequence of this notion is the unfortunate reality that soulmates often posses the ability to inflict serious emotional injury unto their twin flame, greater than any other being could. This often results in the separation of idealized love, due to the severe emotional impact. Many soulmates are destined for an eternal search, not for lack of meeting, but rather lack of acceptance. The encounter is often analogous to the collision of matter and antimatter, a violent explosive reaction will occur, but if held through to completion only pure energy, and thus harmony, will result. A soulmate can also be a person who is not of the gender they are naturally attracted to or compatible with as a conventional romantic coulple. This can cause a lifetime of profoudn sadness and depression as there is no possibility or resolution.
Selected Source:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_mate
