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Post by nevyn on May 24, 2006 18:07:10 GMT -5
I believe that we have more than one soulmate, and you don't have to be "partners" with yours. Many times, you aren't lovers, you just complete each other.
And, no, I don't feel that my present partner is my soul mate....we are just TOOOOOOO different! It's the case of opposites attracting!
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Post by heathenhammer on May 26, 2006 20:57:15 GMT -5
I'm not sure how to think about it. Thought I'd met mine, but we've grown apart, and basically I am ending the relationship. It went from being perfect to being completely miserable.
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Post by Der Trommler on Jun 1, 2006 0:30:08 GMT -5
ok...I do believe that soulmates can find one another. They are destined to meet up in time after each reincarnation. I believe everything happens for a reason as well. For some reason, I feel I understand the way of the universe that things are cyclical & come back eventually. Soulmates, I'm still debating whether there is only one or more. Do we meet everytime we die & get resurrected or do we find one of a few?
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Post by Der Trommler on Jan 14, 2007 23:36:37 GMT -5
I do believe in soulmates. I believe that each soul travel from lifetime to lifetime & seemingly find each other....Did you ever see someone & feel you've known them for a very long time? I feel that's why
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Post by KittyLane on Jan 25, 2007 10:47:45 GMT -5
i have came to find that soulmates are very real. i am very blessed to have gotten to experience that.
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Post by Der Trommler on Jan 29, 2007 20:59:14 GMT -5
I'm starting to think that there are more than one soulmate. I can't think more than 5 would be but it could explain a lot!
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Post by KittyLane on Jan 29, 2007 22:54:52 GMT -5
i agree! it is very possible. i feel i have lived many lives and wouldnt you want a love for each one?
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Post by Der Trommler on Jan 29, 2007 23:28:49 GMT -5
Would seem a bit weird to keep finding the same one. Besides, is it really that possible for 2 souls to find each other in every life? This could also explain on maybe someone falls deeply in love with two people & can't decide. It just might be in all weirdness they found two soulmates (now, don't everyone go out, find another person, then tell your significant other this is your OTHER soulmate....I don't think it would work....I mean it might but most would slam the door on you!) lol
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Post by KittyLane on Jan 29, 2007 23:30:50 GMT -5
exactly...! but i have experienced it myself and i know that it is possible. connections are not ended in death or by space and time.
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Post by Der Trommler on Jan 30, 2007 10:42:22 GMT -5
I agree. It's something that would be hard to explain to your significant other if that did happen! I haven't experienced another....there some that I loved but had no problems. Illistyl is definitely one of my soulmates....I also think that soulmates can grow apart for a little while (the way things nowadays, it makes a whole lot more sense!)
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Post by niamh on Jan 30, 2007 11:01:40 GMT -5
if their is such a thing as a soulmate well then i found mine love niamh*
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Post by KittyLane on Jan 30, 2007 18:09:49 GMT -5
if their is such a thing as a soulmate well then i found mine love niamh* aww! too sweet.
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Post by niamh on Jan 31, 2007 15:18:07 GMT -5
if their is such a thing as a soulmate well then i found mine love niamh* aww! too sweet. sssshhhhhhhhhh kitty,we must not let mark find out ;D,about *cough* *cough* are secret thingy abob did i say secret i meant,.........emmmm..... shhhhhhh,..... lol love niamh*
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Post by KittyLane on Jan 31, 2007 16:17:00 GMT -5
aww! too sweet. sssshhhhhhhhhh kitty,we must not let mark find out ;D,about *cough* *cough* are secret thingy abob did i say secret i meant,.........emmmm..... shhhhhhh,..... lol love niamh* oh....ya..nothing to see here people....mosey on.... ;D
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Post by wvdonovan on Apr 11, 2007 9:03:03 GMT -5
This is from the writings of Jason Kirkey.
"I have been told that life is a pilgrimage. We walk this ancient soil where our ancestors have also stepped, and we are confronted with the chance to listen deeply to the wisdom in our blood and in the bones of the earth. This wisdom speaks of our ancient bonds and connections. It tells us that although we often feel utterly lost and alone, we truly are not. We are all part of something that lies just below the surface of the waters of appearance.
In the primal traditions of Ireland, there exists a custom of having an anam cara, or “soul friend”. In Celtic Christianity, this is the person who will be there to comfort a dying person and guide the passage of their soul. It is often used in a much more general sense however, as simply a co-walker in our spiritual life who’s soul touches our own. In the pain of our spiritual journeys, our pilgrimage through life, the anam cara is the one who we can unburden ourselves to. It is a relationship with a person that allows an opening and dynamic exchange of soul between friends.
The anam cara is not exclusive to human beings however. Celtic consciousness is one of animistic perception, and so all the world is imbued with a luminous divine energy, sometimes spoken of as Dana. Each tree, river, stone, and mountain has its own in-dwelling spirit and its own stories to tell. The spirit of these things can also act as anam cara. There are traditions of cranncainte and tonncainte, literally meaning, “speaking with the trees” and “speaking with the waves”, where a person is able to make contact with nature to heal wounds and gain wisdom. Whether tree, ocean, or simply the soil beneath our feet, the Earth takes our spiritual and emotional waste and transforms it, just as animal waste becomes fertilizer for new vegetation.
Beneath all of this though, is perhaps an even more important anam cara: Dana, or divinity itself. This energy is the essence of our great belonging. The Celtic view of the cosmos is highly inclusive and within it all things are perceived as sacred, just as all things are held within the sheltering spirit of divinity. There are no boundaries that state that supposed dualities are in contradiction, or that one aspect of life is more important than another. Farming, spirituality, politics, and family life are all woven into one, because fundamentally they all deal with the same underlying reality.
As a society we have largely forgotten this reality. We have forgotten our luminous bonds with one another and to the universe. With the loss of these bonds, we have experienced the loss of our ability to perceive the world as sacred. We have drawn lines between what is sacred and what is mundane, where the boundaries occur between heaven and earth, and we have placed these things in opposition to one another. These boundaries no longer meet, and are no longer as permeable as they once were.
I call this the wounded soul. It is a recognizable disorder, noted in some way or another in many of the world’s wisdom traditions, as well as in our evolving understanding of the ecopsychological relationship between human and nature. The wound is characterized through many of the ailments we find in the modern world; a feeling of alienation, despair, being spiritually and culturally disenfranchised, and bereft of any sense of belonging or home. There is a deep yearning within our hearts to reclaim some lost portion of ourselves, which often is played out in those movements that urge us to return to some primal state of well being. However, healing does not lay in the past, but rather here in our daily lives, our relationship to the universe, and to each other. It is up to us to initiate this process of healing and the befriending of the universe.
Longing, an important and powerful force in the Celtic traditions, is also a practice that we can cultivate to help facilitate this healing. Longing is what sent Celtic Christian seekers out into nature to search alone for God in what is called the Green Martyrdom. Longing and belonging are profoundly linked, and it is the belonging of God that these mystics were looking for. By allowing themselves to be absorbed into nature, they were giving themselves to the untamed wilderness of the soul, and thus transcending ego. They were accepting the universe as friend, as anam cara. The bridge between our alienation from, and friendship to the universe, is longing. Longing bridges the gap between the darkness of our suffering and loneliness with the intimacy of friendship and community. When we can befriend our world we are taking a step back into a relationship with the reality of the spirit, rather than the reality of the ego. This is a way of softening the edges of ourselves, making us vulnerable and open to the shaping powers of the universe.
In this sense friendship is perhaps one of the most important things that could be cultivated in one’s life. Finding an anam cara is a practice of healing the wounded soul. Whether this means finding a person to whom you can share your soul, engaging with nature and the spirit of place, or rekindling our ancient bonds with the Spirit of Life, it is a way of orienting ourselves to a life of sacred perception and aligning to the holy reality of the universe. By practicing the ancient tradition of befriending the universe, we can begin to heal many of the wounds that our souls have incurred. In the words of John O’Donohue, author of Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom, “When you are blessed with an anam cara, the Irish believe, you have arrived at that most sacred place: home.” The Celts have always been a wandering people, and home is not any physical location but rather the Otherworld that exists between the mists. And so the tradition of the anam cara is a doorway or threshold that helps to orient us to the Otherworld, where the boundaries between apparent opposites are dissolved. We are then plunged into the healing springs where spirit and nature meet, and we regain our sacred senses."
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