Tranquil Spirit, Northwich, Cheshire, UK - Spirit Communications: Soul Mates

Spirit Communications:

Soul Mates

Soul Mates

Jeanie from Indiana in the USA asked the following question:

Q: What is a soul mate and what does it mean when you feel at home with another person?

Hai makes a joke and tells us that Davia is saying that we are all mates with each other. He then continues:

Hai: But this soul mate idea which people are often asking us about, because they seek a soul mate, they seek someone who is of like mind, of like heart, of like energies together. They seek someone with a view that they are destined for them; they are destined for each other. Now this idea is correct in some ways for as you enter upon your physical life in this world you may have arranged to work with some people while you are here. You may have arranged to make a connection with certain special people while you are here, people who are willing to work with you, people who are of like mind and heart with you, who have similar beliefs, similar wishes. And one of these people may indeed be a life-time partner whom you feel particularly close to, whom you feel a bond of intimate love and affection with, whom you feel like you are one half and they are the other, of one identity, of one soul.

But you must know as we have said often before, that you have all had many lives and you can multiply the relationships which you have in this present life many times over. Some of these relationships you have on this plane at this time, in this life of yours, you have known before. You have shared relationships with the people before, though the relationships may have been different relationships. So the brother of today may have been the mother of yesterday, the sister of today may have been the husband of the day before. You follow me? So relationships may change many times over, through many life times. And sometimes you may feel closer, may be drawn closer in a relationship to a person. Yet in another lifetime it may not be so close.

But we take a long view of this, eternity, yes. And there is much change, much changing as you go through life, existence to existence. But all things come around, all things grow and develop, all things are on the eternal path of love. Therefore, in a sense, you have many soul mates, but the soul mate who may work with you in this life may not be the soul mate that has worked with you in a previous life. But this does not devalue any of your relationships, this does not devalue them in the slightest way, for all relationships have the potential to be divine unison, a beautiful thing, a loving thing, this closeness, this intimacy of relationship. Therefore, we understand this search for a soul mate in your present life; we understand it well. And it is a beautiful thing is it not, to share your life with someone or people who are of like mind, who are of like nature, where you feel you truly do complement each other, where you feel you enrich each other's existence; this is a beautiful thing. But you should not have the view that this soul mate of today is perhaps a soul mate that has been fulfilling this same role throughout many lifetimes. This may be so or it may not be so, but you must remember that all your relationships are evolving just like everything evolves. All your relationships grow just like everything else grows and as we walk the eternal path everything grows, everything evolves towards fulfilment, its ultimate unfoldment.

Q: I've read something recently about the concept of a group soul. Can you comment on that?

Hai: What I would say about this is that we are only a group soul, yet we are also individual souls. We are all sparks of the One Mind. We all come out of the One Mind, are from the One Mind, yet even as we are individual sparks of the One Mind we are yet of the One Mind, we are not separate from It. There is no division between It and us. I have often compared this, when people have asked me, to the vastness of the ocean. If you look at the vastness of the Ocean, especially when the wind does blow, yes, you see the individual crests of the wave, the mighty waves of the ocean. And it is like, if I give you a parallel, I would say the mighty sea is the One Mind, the vastness of the One Mind. And the individual crests of the waves are like we, individual. And so, though there are individual crests, yet they are only part of the mighty sea; therefore, though we are individuals, yet we are only part of the One Mind. Do you understand this parallel? The problem comes when the individual 'crest' thinks it can cut itself loose, it can direct and dictate what should happen, what the mighty sea should do. This is when we have the ego trying to take control and there is trouble (laughs and repeats) there is trouble. And the harmony that is within the sea becomes disharmonious. But of course it is not just one little crest of one wave that becomes like this, (laughs) many of the crests of the waves become like this, all fighting and vying with each other causing difficulty, causing disharmony. Yet we would say, it is only because of their lack of understanding, their lack of awareness that they are part of the same sea, that trouble comes. If they could only turn in on themselves and see that they are truly part of each other, of one identity, one Common Identity, of one Common Heart, of one Common Mind. Who then would want to cause trouble with their brother and sister? They would understand their oneness, their unity. They would feel a love that flows through the mighty sea for all. And the sea rejects no one, rejects no thing. The sea cannot reject us for we are part of it. We belong in it, we are of it, and we are of its nature. It would be like; if we could for a minute imagine all these crests of waves as arms coming up from the sea. Would the sea want to cut its own arms? No, no, no. Therefore, your religions which talk of hell, which talk of a casting out are in error, for the Mighty Mind, the Oneness of the Mind, the Loving Heart, embraces all, is within all, loves all, accepts all. And though it beckons us on to our eternal destiny, to our evolvement in love, yet it would never cast out; (voice reduced to a whisper) it cannot cast out; has no wish or will or willingness to cast out. It is Love; it is Loving Embracing-ness, Loving Embracing-ness.

Q: So when you say it cannot cast out, is it possible for the waves to leave the sea and go on their own way?

Hai: No. They delude themselves that they can cut their own path, that they can cut themselves loose, that they can lord it over others. But they do not understand that their fundamental identity is 'of the sea', is of the One Mind. And yet there is a paradox here, my friends. For though we are of the sea, the One Mind, yet we can bring our own unfoldment, our own evolvement, expressing the One Mind though our individuality, through our own peculiarity. And therefore, we have this paradox whereby our identity is within the ground of the One Mind but yet we may express it in our own way, to particularise it in our own way. And therefore, it is at one and the same time a vast embracing-ness but yet it also spurs us on to individual unfoldment, development, an individual spark, an individual flavour which, though having its flavour, is its own unique flavour also. And so I come back to your question, John, though I think you know where I have been leading you in my thinking, that to think of a group soul, I would say to you; there is no other than a group soul, for we are all encompassed by the One Mind. We are expressions of it, yet we have our hearts, our souls, and our identities within it. It is also true though that, souls may come together for a particular purpose, souls may gather together for a particular purpose and some of you may think this is similar to this concept of a group soul. And to a point I would say that we are of a group soul that work with this group here for we are five spirits in the main that work together, though there are others who support us as well, but we are five main spirits who work with this group and we are of one mind, of one heart, of one identity but yet we are individuals.