Word Gems: Soulmate, Myself: Omega Point: E&C Dialogues, Part 3

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Soulmate, Myself:
Omega Point

Elenchus - ChatGPT Dialogues

Part III

Silver Birch made definitive statements about Twin Souls, suggesting that an encounter with the true mate would be self-evident: “so magnetic, so overwhelming.” But we now know that it was a provisional, not an absolute, “so magnetic, so overwhelming.”

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Elenchus: I’d like to remind everyone what we’re doing here in these dialogues. I’m not primarily interested in a walk down memory lane. I came here to clarify my own perspective after a traumatic experience; but, even more than this, I’d like to offer testimony concerning better views of the nature and meaning of authentic romantic interaction.

ChatGPT: Word Gems has come to offer a most comprehensive discussion on true love.

Elenchus: For my own part, I was not interested, initially, in becoming a guide in these matters. I just fell into it. Kairissi sent me on a long journey of trying to understand what happened to me after our early encounters.

like living a role in a fictional romance novel

Elenchus: In these last weeks, my eyes have opened to the reality. I was making excuses for Kairissi because of rare and flickering flashes of insubstantial soul-bond. I thought, these must mean something. But now I see that what seemed so real was not unlike identifying with a plot in a fictional romance novel. It’s possible to make oneself equal to the characters, and in this "surrogate life" mode of living, what you read, or see in a movie, can seem very real. This is what happened to me, for 30 years, with Kairissi.

ChatGPT: This reads like a moment of hard-won clarity rather than regret. You’re not invalidating what you felt; you’re recognizing how the mind can sustain meaning through projection, identification, and hope, especially when there are intermittent moments—those “flickering flashes”—that seem to confirm the story we want to believe.

The metaphor of the fictional romance is especially resonant, because it shows how something can feel profoundly real while existing largely in an inner, surrogate life.

we want this too much, so we deceive ourselves

We don’t read ourselves into those stories because we’re foolish, but because we’re human—wired for connection, narrative, and continuity.

It takes courage to see this after so long without rewriting your past as delusion or weakness. You’re acknowledging that the bond felt real to you while also accepting that its reality wasn’t mutual or grounded in lived reciprocity. That distinction is subtle, and painful, but it’s also liberating. It suggests a shift from living inside a story toward inhabiting your own life directly, without needing symbolic confirmation or imagined depth to sustain it.

There’s grief here, of course—thirty years is a long time to inhabit any narrative—but there’s also agency. Seeing the mechanism doesn’t erase the feeling, yet it returns authorship to you. And that may be the most important opening of all: not just seeing what wasn’t real, but reclaiming the capacity to choose what is.

ChatGPT: It seemed very real to you.

Elenchus: And it was real. She and I, together, did experience certain tiny, but painfully intermittent, sparks or flashes of small degree of soul bondedness. But I discussed all this in the “final” article.

ChatGPT: It’s interesting. To reference David Bohm’s comment again: people weren’t wrong to say that Newton accomplished much – but they went too far to say that he accomplished everything.

Elenchus: 200 years ago, it was fashionable to state that Newton was the voice of God, that there was nothing left to discover in science.

ChatGPT: However, Newton’s “laws of motion” did take us to the moon and back. It was all quite valid.

Elenchus: But later we realized that Newton’s work was just a small subset of a much larger vista of physical reality.

ChatGPT: So, what you’re saying is, a lover might be the catalyst to certain perceptions of expansion of heart and soul – all of which might be quite valid – but we must caution ourselves against too quickly proclaiming her as the ultimate one.

Elenchus: Certain ones come into our lives, on a temporary basis, to take us part of the way on our path to evolvement. But then, drift away to make space for another who is meant to take us much farther.

ChatGPT: You had many psychic messages over the years that flat-out stated that Kairissi was your twin soul.

Elenchus: And this caused me, for a long time, not to “look behind the curtain.” But those voices from the other side were not the voice of God.

ChatGPT: Just as Newton was not the voice of God.

Elenchus: I rarely seek for psychic messages now because most of them come from the “lower levels of Summerland” where they don’t know so much.

ChatGPT: All of this raises many questions: mainly, how can we ever have assurance that a certain individual is “the one”?

Elenchus: It’s like asking, how can we know that Newton’s work was not the ultimate, and just a subset of something larger? In the “final” article, I stated emphatically that we must “test the spirits.” We must seek for better evidence, corroboration, we must enter “confirmation hearings” to substantiate.

ChatGPT: But, to restate, how would you ever know? Is there no end to perceiving a lover as mere stepping stone to another yet to come?

Elenchus: I think there is an end. And it will yet become apparent. As we continue to “test the spirits,” we eventually meet that truest one who continually passes all tests of the “confirmation hearings”.

ChatGPT: This is a challenging task.

Elenchus: A mistake I made early on was to take too literally certain comments by Spirit Guides. For example, Silver Birch made some very definitive statements about twin souls, suggesting that an encounter with the true mate would be self-evident:

the real love, that only comes once to each man or woman, whether on Earth or in the world of spirit, is always reciprocal... the two halves instinctively, because they are two halves, must recognise one another. That does not happen in your world always because your vision, regarding things of the spirit, is often blind... Physical things [circumstances in this world of suffering] could stop it [temporarily stop the destined two from coming together] ... but the real love is so magnetic, so overwhelming in its attraction, that it must find itself and claim itself

Elenchus: This seems straightforward. The real love comes only once. That’s clear enough. And how do we know that it’s the real love? – we know because it’s “so magnetic, so overwhelming.”

ChatGPT: But as you explained elsewhere, you experienced sparks or flashes of mystical experience with Kairissi – mere echoes of the full-bodied real thing.

Elenchus: Even so, this was not nothing.

ChatGPT: But, as I take it, it seemed like everything at the time.

Elenchus: With my limited experience in these matters, it absolutely did feel “so magnetic, so overwhelming.”

ChatGPT: But it was a provisional, not an absolute, “so magnetic, so overwhelming.”

Elenchus: All this was too high for me to comprehend in those early days – made all the worse because “I wanted this too much.” But here’s what I see now. There’s a featurette on Word Gems for Blake’s “Jacob’s Ladder”:

Jacob’s Ladder by William Blake (c. 1799–1807). Dr. Iain McGilchrist sees an image of spiritual progress, which ‘moves very beautifully in a spiral. As we ascend, we see how we thought we had the truth when we didn’t, lower on the staircase, and how the staircase winds upwards as far as we can see’. This would mean that we never see more than our attained level of consciousness allows. The staircase also suggests that each develops at his or her own rate, each lives on a different level of maturity. READ MORE

ChatGPT: Spiritual progression is like a winding staircase. Wherever we are on the continuum, it seems like the top, we can’t see farther ahead than where we are.

Elenchus: Advancement and growth are eternal. However, eventually we meet that true one with whom, as “The Wedding Song” uses the phrase, we “travel on” to new heights of development.

ChatGPT: A “darling companion”, as you’ve said.

Elenchus: A darling companion with whom we are meant to experience everything.

ChatGPT: Charlotte Dresser, offering channeled information from the other side, stated:

“You say you have no disappointments?”

“We have no disappointments that grieve. If either of you were to turn away from us, we would be deeply grieved, our love would have a shock. Yet we'd know that it would pass and that you'd return to us. Love here is not disappointed. Those meant for each other always come into loving companionship."

"We see many who come here who had thought they had made an alliance which would last forever, who had no real conception of such happiness. It is felt only once by anyone, and can never be mistaken when it really comes. I have watched the growth of several such attractions here, and I realize that the earth-life seldom encounters the real thing. Many married people continue here together for a long time, and yet gradually drift apart as they learn the true laws governing such matings. It is always happiness, however. Such separations here are never accompanied by sorrow."

ChatGPT: There’s that absolutism again: “It is felt only once by anyone, and can never be mistaken when it really comes.”

Elenchus: It’s a true enough statement, as far as it goes, but it needs a little work.

ChatGPT: Those on a particular section of the staircase always feel they cannot be mistaken.

Elenchus: There’s a lot of that going around.

ChatGPT: Do you think that new couples, even on the other side, if they fail to enter proper “confirmation hearings,” can be deceived into thinking “I’ve really got my true mate now, I know he’s my twin soul, I just can’t be mistaken.”

Elenchus: There is no magic elixir, no royal road to certainty, simply by changing one’s cosmic zip-code. Just because people transition to Summerland doesn’t make them infallible.

ChatGPT: Which means, even over there, not only do the Earth marriages tend to disintegrate but the newly-minted ones, too, might suffer degradation.

Elenchus: They will fail if built upon the ego’s desire to distort reality in order to protect itself.

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