Life is full of surprises.
I have been working methodically on a manuscript about early Christianity. It’s a slog in order to have all of the right sources. My project presents the thesis that in earliest Christianity there was a very different understanding concerning some foundational concepts that would inform the religion for centuries. It’s a story of one group that pitted itself against another and sought to wipe away its influence for all time. But like the sun, moon, and the truth, what was hidden was later revealed when documents began to surface from early on in the movement that told a very different story. It is one of the greatest stories never told about a religion that exerted tremendous influence for centuries.
It’s here that someone from the distant past emerged, a seeker herself, and artist like me, who was keen to collaborate with me. What has emerged has been a new project on a facet of awakening most commonly known as twin souls or twin flames. This is an aspect of awakenings today that link people who have karma in common.
I have been critical of the concept, though, and it was a surprise finding myself considering a project like this. The result has been a flood of information that provides a new perspective on the phenomenon that I have been bringing through. Because of my familiarity with the subject already and the history of awakening, I found I have been able to bring what I think may be a new perspective on the phenomenon.
The agreement was that the project had to be small. I didn’t have the time to devote to a 200 page manuscript. As a result, a book of 120 pages emerged very quickly. The collaboration begins with me writing and my coauthor providing illustrations and proofreading the manuscript.
The illustrations in some cases reveals the artist’s own discoveries of her brush with a new energy in consciousness, which shows up in her work, which I think helps to bring added meaning and comprehension to the project. Being able to have the work illustrated is a plus, something that makes the project unique, I think. There will be some intersections with the book I am working on related to early Christianity, which is awakening and how kundalini was actually being taught. Other cultures and traditions that have teachings or writings on awakening also tends to include the phenomenon of union both on the individual level as well as between two people, which is a second wrinkle in the awakening phenomenon. The book shows that the history on twins as they are called today is scant in the way some would like them represented, but a more abundant field of understanding awaits when you can shift your focus. To this end, I show instances through time when high vibrational relationships emerge. The phenomenon has been hiding in plain sight, but is not obvious to anyone unfamiliar with the subject. It helps if you know how and where to look. A little sleuthing can make for interesting reading.
A lot has been done in a short time, and with our moving into the Fall, I am facing the busiest time of the year for my studio business in glassmaking, so work on the book will go into a less intense phase now which will be a refinement period where I will have friends help review the work for editing. It managed to get slipped in just in the nick of time!
In the meantime, I will be publishing excerpts from the book as the editing work proceeds. This has moved along so quickly we don’t even have a title yet! I am including preliminary illustrations from the artist, which will help give you a sense of the character of the artwork and the flavor of one important aspect of our story telling.
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Waking The Infinite 
How exciting! Fascinating because a few of my healing sessions (one more recent) brought through downloads about the concept of twin flames specific to my life. Not a relationship with a lover, but an abusive family member. At some point I’ll blog about it.
True story: when I posted this, my mind clicked over to you, which made zero sense at the time. Maybe your comment explains it, don’t know! Is it perchance about the role karma has in relationships sometimes?
Giggling about how you clicked over to me. What I experienced was seeing an aspect of my abusive brother who showed up as a little boy. He was sitting feeling very ugly and ashamed and deep down knew he wasn’t bad, but was stuck. In the moment I knew he’d “forgotten” his beauty and knew he needed to be reminded (essentially of his divinity). I also knew that I wouldn’t be completely free until he was, so I hugged the little boy and gave him love. With that he changed and became happy and free, thus also setting me free. Around that time I heard “twin flame” and was downloaded with the knowledge that he and I share a greater soul, a bit like how I’m energetically connected with my soul family. One of the greatest challenges we can take on is to learn to love all aspects of ourselves – and it’s especially difficult when that aspect of ourself is represented as a person who is “separate” from you who does things that society deems especially heinous, and they’re in your earthly family (the entity that’s supposed to be loving and protective). I’ve already seen that in spirit we have great love for each other, and that he took on the role of bad guy this time around FOR me. For my evolution. Of course, as a human being he has zero clue about any of this, and we don’t really have a relationship these days. I lost all attachment to him a few years ago and feel like our soul agreement for this lifetime and possibly all others is wrapped up and completed. Seems like I’m finishing up a bunch of karmic things in my family with various members, as I believe many of us are these days.
I have a friend who introduced me to the idea of how here, all is duality, and thus polarity. In spirit, outside of time/space all is one, but also lacking something (which I presume we gain some of it here). Thus, those things in us, expressed in duality, can become the levers with which to move ourselves against those things which shroud our view here of the heaven within?
What you describe is one important aspect of our creaturehood, I think, that’s the hardest for us to grasp, so kuddos to you.
When I first encountered this, it was during a therapy session with an energy worker. The fact I knew I would agree to step into a life fraught with so much tragedy made no sense to me at the time. I suspected its the work our personalities wouldn’t choose but that our souls must.
Absolutely!