Soulmates

Soulmates is a topic I have pondered often. The human lives a short life, has relationships that have very little substance in them and then vanishes, or so it seems.

Even otherwise, it is very difficult for even a genuine relationship to survive the madness of this world.

I believe it is all due to the immature emotional worlds that humans have. Immature and overtaken by negative feelings and selfishness.

I believe eternal soulmates exist. I believe multiple eternal soulmates also exist...but I feel soulmates will come into a human's life (to stay, once and for all) only after his/her emotional world matures.

Immature (and often selfish and negative) human beings cannot fall into long lasting relationships. So, even if one meets an eternal-soulmate-to-be, the relationship will not last.

But I believe they will meet again, in some other lifetime, when both are ready...and this time it will be eternal**.

By "ready" I mean people who are serious, unselfish, patient, and comfortable with their dark side.

Unselfish at least with the person they claim they love.

I believe that the presence of REAL romantic love can defeat death and turn people into eternal beings.

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**I have approached the subject of 'eternal life' in one of my blog entries, 'The Journey'.
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Update:

At the beginning of this blog entry, I wrote that most humans have relationships that have very little substance in them. I'd like to elaborate on that here...i.e the *substance*.

In her blog 'The Art Of Intimacy', Jennifer Jones writes "Love is what we do". The complete text of this post can be found here: Love is something that we do.

This makes sense. Because talk is easy...it's the actions that matter. I always found the phrase 'I love you' very corny, and people who use it at the drop of a hat, odd.

Feeling love and allowing it to translate into actions are two different things....real love ALWAYS brings with it real action. Or at least the pure, genuine intention of real action.

Without effort/action, or without the genuine intention of real action, it is not love.

Question:What about goddess worship? Should I not worship the goddess, who is prior to everything, including my soulmate?

Ans: Your soulmate is nothing but the infinite reaching out to you, in a form that melts you...and makes you FEEL life to its proper depths...instilling in you all the qualities that make you a human she can admire.

Your soulmate is your personal goddess. Make no mistake - She IS a real goddess by virtue of her influence over you. She is the infinite one, the one prior to all else, prior even to manifestation.

She is your cosmic mother. And when you are with her, you find yourself saying "I am home!".

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Some songs to let your imagination drift...

Beliefs

Someone I came across said, "without a personal experience of a given thing, just HOW can you say that it exists.."

This statement takes us into the realm of 'beliefs and testimony'-a realm that must be stepped into VERY carefully.

Beliefs can be looked upon in different ways. Everyone would know what the popular definitions of 'belief' are..'irrational' and all that.

But a belief is no longer irrational if one knows how to dance with uncertainty.

Rational 'Belief' can be looked upon as the result of inductive reasoning applied to personal experiences AND/OR pointers provided by credible sources.

Inductive reasoning allows for uncertainty in the conclusion.

Wikipedia: Inductive Reasoning:
Inductive reasoning, also known as induction or inductive logic, is a kind of reasoning that allows for the possibility that the conclusion is false even where all of the premises are true. The premises of an inductive logical argument indicate some degree of support (inductive probability) for the conclusion but do not entail it; i.e. they do not ensure its truth.

The following is a perspective on 'inductive reasoning applied to PERSONAL experiences'.

Everyone has had experiences that are odd. One can start from there.

A 'belief/hypothesis' does not necessarily have the same degree of certainty as the initial premise---that is the nature of conclusions arrived at through inductive reasoning--- but induction is 100% ok, as long as the uncertainty involved is understood.

Sometimes it is necessary to construct beliefs, but constructing too many such 'beliefs' should be avoided unless one has developed some kind of tools that are well equipped to deal with the uncertainty that will increase exponentially as beliefs increase--dealing with such complex uncertainties is a very difficult task, it is more or less impossible.

But once induction has been applied properly and the uncertainty understood, your beliefs become a pointer to reality--You can then look around and see if there are other people around who have reached more or less the same point-----if yes, great! If induction has been applied properly, convergence WILL happen. And once you experience convergence, your beliefs turn into something more solid--you have extrapolated successfully--you now have strong pointers to the existence of 'it' without having experienced 'it' directly.

Life experiences=>apply induction=>beliefs are generated=>if convergence with another happens=>pointers to reality.

Note: Convergence with another should be looked at carefully. This 'other', with whom convergence is happening should be analysed thoroughly. This 'other' could be a person or a group.

There is no substitute for a direct experience with reality of course. All of us have direct experiences but most of us dismiss them as vague feelings or temporary mental dysfunction.....but there are some who don't, and then there are some who display the ability to understand even other people's experiences---such people are remarkable and very rare.

What I am saying is not all 'alleged hallucinations' are mental dysfunction. Some may be visions. Satori.

All said and done, total convergence with another will most probably never occur, and constructing beliefs is best avoided unless absolutely necessary---pointers to reality are not reality.

What I am talking about is different from what religion does---religion generally builds down from accepted general principles using deduction...like building down from the principle of spiritual penalty for example.