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Soulmate, Myself:
Omega Point
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Editor's prefatory comment:

Fitzgerald is correct. While heroes serve heroically, their good deeds, in this world, are often hindered or blocked by posturing egos, posing as benefactors, desiring the limelight.
But it’s not just “heroes” who stand in jeopardy. Show me a romantic couple authentically in love, show me two who were made to be together, then, in this world, “I’ll write you a tragedy.”
However, why the likelihood of mishap and misfortune? On “The Wedding Song” Prologue page, we find a great number of testimonies affirming the reality of Twin Soul love.
One of these, channeled from the afterlife, is from Spirit Guides who speak of the “law of repulsion” afflicting the early years of two destined ones. Initial difficulties, misunderstandings, and unkindnesses, they say, will eventually lead to a “law of attraction.”

The Spirit Guides, supervising this proto-couple, will not allow them to come together too soon; there’s far too much for them to learn from ensuing calamities. Later in life, probably still not allowed to be together, they will look back at those formative years and lament, “Nothing went right for us back then. No matter what we tried or did, it always came to nothing, was misinterpreted, or fell apart. This seems like a set-up, like a bad dream wherein nothing could be made to work. No one could be that unlucky, over a long period of time. It feels like we were held apart.”

Read the Guides’ own explanation on the “Prologue” page.
Elenchus offers a personal view:
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Elenchus. I've learned from Spirit Guides, via psychic-medium, that Krissi, for most of her life, has been suffering from bipolar disorder. In my brief readings on this malady, I've discovered that "psychosocial factors play a significant role in the development and course of bipolar disorder... [traumatic] life events and relationships likely contribute to the onset" of this illness.
It means that when she and I had that falling-out when we were young teens, resulting in her refusal to even look at me during our remaining time in school, much of that hurtful experience may have triggered the bipolar condition.

For me, it's all very strange. I still don't know who she is.

A long time ago, I told her she reminded me of the song “Devil Or Angel”, with the lyric “be whichever you are.” I wasn’t in an altogether charitable frame of mind when I said this, and she wasn’t totally happy with the allusion.
She and I have unfinished business; things to make clear to each other.

After all that's been discussed, I still don't really know what represented her truest feelings and what part was an impaired health condition.

Would you like to know what I remember most in all of our talks? It’s what you said during a happier time of our lives...
E. So, tell me – if “meet me in the middle” leaves you cold, what would you rather see?
it is enough
K. I need to know I can trust the fellow who's asking to sleep with me. Trust is number one. I want him not just as my lover but as my steadfast and trustworthy friend and guide. I want him to serve my highest and best interests, all the time, no days off, no vacations, no excuses, no smile-and-a-handshake schmoozing, no giving-to-get, no techniques, no tactics, just put me as 'priority one' in all his thinking, even if it’s not to his short-term advantage, and even if I disagree with him. I want to be able to trust him, and rely on him, for my life and my eternal life, and, when his vision is very clear, I want him to act unilaterally, without prompting, to do what's best for me - even if I fight him on this. There is good reason why Socrates said that one's most valuable possession is a true and faithful friend. And I’m not interested, at all, not a farthing's worth, in some shallow and self-serving “meet me in the middle” sophism, some stingy counting-out-the-pennies “50-50” negotiation. I can get that in any mercenary business deal. What do I look like, the Teamsters haggling out some contract? - hardly, my dear. There'll be no bargaining with me, I'll tell you that right now. I want it lavish, lavish for me, all on my side. I want it splurged, overflowing, and dripping. I want it sloppy and juicy and all-you-can-eat at the dessert bar. What I want is someone who'll give me 100% of his life, 100% of his best, 100% of his plans and projects, all that he has, all that he is, all that he will ever be, in this world and the next. I don't want much from him, I just want everything, and I want it with a cherry on top, and a chocolate kiss on my pillow, and I want him to surrender all this, to me, just to me, willingly and with joy, with no strings attached. And I want him to shout it from the rooftops, for all the world to hear, that he is mine, all mine, that he wants me, just me, with no reservations and no loopholes. I want him to worship and adore me, to bend the neck and pay tribute, to offer fealty and obeisance - to want me more than his last breath, to cherish and treasure me as his 'pearl of great price'. I want him to want me to such degree that, if my love were all that he had in life, or would ever have in eternal life, he would pledge to God, “It is enough, who could ask for, or receive, anything more?” And when I find that special one, thus moved to action, consecrated to my benefit, for my account, then, I will offer him, not just the same but more - a Kama-Sutra reciprocity of personalized pleasures reified; a swooning array of ecstasies, just what he likes; a plenitude of unspoken desires actualized, what he didn't even know he liked - all crafted to address his unique definitions of the luscious and delicious, his unconfessed dreams and secret fantasies; all these, my goddess gifts to him, my surrendered tokens of absolute allegiance, devotion, and ardency, for our total immersion darling companionship.
But our conversation here occurred some time ago.
said you had a thing or two to tell me, how was I to know you would upset me

You don't realize how much I need you, love you all the time and never leave you, said you had a thing or two to tell me, how was I to know you would upset me, I didn't realize, as I looked in your eyes, I need you, oh yes, you told me, that's when it hurt me, and feeling like this I just can't go on anymore... please remember how I feel about you, I could never really live without you, I need you, I need you, I need you...
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There’s an old proverb warning of the fragile nature of one's reputation.
'said you had a thing or two to tell me, how was I to know you would upset me'
One can lose a good reputation, another’s sense of trust in you – what may have taken 30 years, 50 years, to build – one can lose all this in just five minutes with one vicious attack, or even one equivocal lukewarm response; or, much worse, an untoward giving of oneself to another..
The true love relationship, at the foundational level, is not built on sex appeal but trust. You can get sex anywhere; go to any bar, you can get it tonight. But trust, the kind you can build your life around, will cost a few dollars more. What we really want to know is, “Can I trust you to safeguard my life, and not use me for some secondary purpose? Can I trust you to put me number one above all other goals and pleasures in your life?”
Stated differently: Is each "enough" for the other? - or are there false idols competing with true love?
true love and trust will reflect one's essential life-force
One's worthiness of trust will reflect one's essential life-force, part of the "true self". It cannot be constructed or generated with willpower or determination; instead, it must be allowed to manifest and actualize. Genuine trustworthiness is a form of authentic goodness which naturally flows, percolates upward, from the depths, when one's deeper person is aligned with the God-life within.
We are headed for Summerland. They say that true love cannot be unrequited there; that those who are meant for each other always find each other.
Why do I doubt this? I doubt this because you betrayed me. You gave yourself to another.

late-night confessions: the 3 AM spectre
If Krissi were here, I would address her this way:
I imagine you trying to offer explanation. I think you'd be saying you were too conflicted, too burdened, too drained of energy, to offer word of apology or explanation; even just a word asking me to wait until duties were satisfied, or the coming of a new world - that one good word, the one you never sent, might have sustained me.
Despite your purported inner conflict, however, you did, in fact, find enough energy, were quite able and resourceful, to get a message through which vilified and disrespected me. You were strong enough for that. Remember the creeds we learned as kids? the words that went over our heads, the "sins of omission" - but now we know what this means.
spectacular unkindness, outrageous accusation
Though long ago, the open wounds from that famous spectacular unkindness - you know the one - still refuse healing; the outrageous accusation and threat continue to dishearten and poison at 3 AM; the ghastly memory of calumny still drains chilled blood from the head and serves as greatest temptation toward resentment and unforgiveness.
What is wrong with you?
'oh, yes, you told me, and that's when it hurt me'
stockholm syndrome
You enable those who exploit you. In your own stockholm syndrome, you side with ignoble captors -- these candidates for dark-realm sentencing, carnival hawkers of buffoonery, deceit, and abuse. You strengthen their hands.
your Faustian bargain, an odd coalition with everything you always hated, and so not like you
A Faustian bargain is an agreement, such that, one surrenders what one knows to be moral and right, a bartering away of one’s soul-based highest principles, in favor of some dubious short-term worldly benefit.
This ill-advised assent - to what you disdain - quickly became self-defeating as the traded-away wealth constituted far more value than the negotiated-for glass bauble. It is the proverbial Esau allowing himself to be cajoled into exchanging future inheritance and wealth, a lifetime of happiness and well-being, for a mere bowl of soup.
the world has taken its toll, ravaged my body, bitten my soul, and I ask, I am asking you, asking if you might…

Suzanne Vega, Bound (2007)
the way of the world has taken its toll, ravaged my body and bitten my soul, been invaded without and within, and I ask, I am asking you, asking you, if you might still want me, once you said, I'm made of fine stuff, but I've been corrupted, and taken enough, now you appear, making your claim, inside my heart is the sign of your name, and I ask, I am asking you, asking you, if you might still want me, all these words, like darling and angel and dear, crowd my mouth in a path to your ear, and I ask, I am asking you, asking you, if you might still want me, when I said "I am bound to you forever," here's what I meant, I am bound to you forever…
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once you said, I'm made of fine stuff, but I've been corrupted, and now you appear, making your claim

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You believed you needed something; as you saw it, you weren't whole without it, couldn't be happy in its absence. It was like the “Rhythm Of The Rain” song, “the only girl I ever loved has gone away, looking for a brand new start.” That "brand new start" became the greatest error and misery of your life. In defiance of your deeper guidance and good sense, you traded your dignity and freedom, your right to self-management -- for the soup-of-the-day -- needs a little salt, doesn't taste right.

Esau Selling His Birthright (1626), Hendrick Terbrugghen
'bought and sold you' - the fall of the good little girl
What was your Faustian "benefit"? What did you trade me for? those trading negotiations conducted in opposition to the inner-whispering assurance that, one day, we, you and I, would finally address unfinished business.
Did you believe that a studied docility, a muting of sensibilities, the adoption of a “good little girl” obeisance, would curry favor with an unjust, humorless, and angry god?
Did they convince you that this straw-god would condemn you for noncompliance concerning their draconian, self-serving, man-made dogma? Is this how they controlled and enslaved you, bought and sold you? – and made you stay -- with their psychological warfare of guilt and intimidation.
all that I knew you to be, thought well of, and admired so much
And how utterly anomalous that you, especially you, should make alliance with the boorish and vulgar, the cloddish paint-by-numbers anti-intellectual rabble -- you, the diligent and assiduous honor student, paragon of high standard and lofty aspiration; you, the personification of excellent spirit; and how antithetical to your sensitive nature, one of grace, loveliness, and virtue -- all that I knew you to be and admired so much -- you, the quintessential aesthete, patron of all things cultivated and refined, les beaux arts.
advanced by your own calculated but deluded assent
Your odd-bedfellow confederation with lowbrow element stands as the greatest misjudgment, the greatest misstep, of your misguided life, proximate cause to your life's ruin and undoing -- decades of soul-numbing misery -- crafted by your own hand, advanced by your own calculated but deluded assent.
What is wrong with you?
wisdom born of pain

I AM WOMAN
(1971)
oh yes, I am wise
but it's wisdom born of pain
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newfound boldness
You were scrupulous and conscientious not to offend your philistine oppressors; but disdaining toward what I might think.
You were bold, felt free, to sin against me - moreover, not just me but, the far greater sin, a denial of what we, in potentia, are to each other.
already existing in potentia

Werner Heisenberg, arguably, one of the greatest scientists of history, spoke of quantum objects existing in potentia. This is a Greek term borrowed from Aristotle who said that some things exist in a state half-way between mere concept and actuality. Heisenberg wrote in his 1958 Physics and Philosophy: “It introduced something standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.” Descartes posited that there were only two kind of things in the universe, res cogitans, “thinking things,” that is, the mind, and res extensa, “extended things,” things of three dimensions, that is, matter. But Heisenberg would argue for more than mind and matter, a third category, res potentia - things not just of any probability, any potential, to occur, but things that are so likely to happen that, even before manifesting as hard-edged actuality, they must be ascribed a certain degree of reality. This view gave rise to the mathematical “probability wave” which transformed the world as the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. But Twin Soul lovers, even before they come together, would contend that they perceived something so real and insistent between them that they were led and influenced by their own version of res potentia, long before they touched and interacted as bona fide romantics.
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Yours was not so much a boldness but an empty bravado, devolving to cavalier disavowal and self-deception; as if the future would require no accounting of inner truths perceived; as if what you allowed, with him, and with them, represented primary reality and were dispositive to destiny; as if there would be no day of reckoning, as if you would not need to explain yourself, and face me, one day.
You betrayed me. You gave yourself to another.
unforgiveness, to all eternity
Editor’s note: This issue of putative lovers unable to forgive is not unique. Even Kahlil Gibran, world famous for his romantic poetry, struggled here concerning his love interest, Mary Haskell.
“I feared,” said she, “that I had harmed that which is between us”; much worse, she wondered if her betrayals would mean that what they had together would now be “forever less,” a tarnished ideal, a lingering unforgiveness, her image as personification of Love sullied, to “all eternity”.
Is this judgment too harsh? for, if so, who could be married? nevertheless - can a man be with a woman, for all eternity, if he cannot worship her, find inspiration from her, envision her, as font of purity, life, and light?

Kahlil’s letter, January 28, 1915, New York
Perhaps our spring is not in this life, Mary. This life may be nothing but a winter.
Mary’s letter, April 18, 1915, New York
All week the past has been opening before me and I have remembered more of what I did and said – the outrages and the unkindnesses. And I so feel that I did not believe the few loving things you said, or hear the many you did not say; and how far from simply and tenderly I loved you. And I know somewhat how I hurt you and what I threw away and kept away from both of us. Seeing these things, I feared that I had harmed that which is between us, and had made it forever less than it might have been. That would be the hardest punishment I could have, for all eternity… I am sorry for all I spoiled, and for every pain I gave you – and sorry that sorrow cannot undo what I did.
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There is a coming day of judgment – not the religious fairytale judgment before an angry god – but a day of judgment for those who share an eternal soul-bond and joint-destiny. And what will you say for yourself on that day when machinations of the heart are laid bare?
a prison for the mind
Those with whom you make pact, among the crude and crass, the worldly craven and knavish, are headed for time in a "dark closet"; but you conduct yourself as if God would commend their goonish and sordid tactics, requiring you to honor and obey whatever they say.

Morpheus used the phrase "a prison for the mind." Right now, fearful and guilt-ridden, you are held captive in your own prison-Matrix, the dungeon of terrorized perceptions, chained to narrow and errant concepts of how life works, a torture-chamber of tyrannical peer-group definitions of morality.

take the red pill
Why didn't you take the red pill as your life's direction? Why didn’t you devote yourself to discovering the truth and what’s real? - instead of hell-bent surrendering to “the white picket fence."
What is wrong with you?
How did you become an indentured cultist, now mindlessly clinging to worn-out and tired propaganda concepts -- widely known today, with even a modicum of research, to be perversions of historical reality, mere disinformation campaign and fake-news, blatant fear-and-guilt control tactics, by a rogue and despotic organization. Why didn't you live your life for the truth?
What is wrong with you?
The institution you support is a corrupt and power-mongering entity of the world. It has a long history of psychological oppression, murderous activity, and sexual exploitation. Everything they teach has a smell to it. And if one transitions to the other side believing their "holy" doctrines to be wonderful, one could land in a "cult deprogramming" clinic or even earn accommodation in dark detention. With a little investigation, one could have known these things.
Why don't you know them? Why are you so uninformed, so gullible and easily led? Why can't you stand up for what is right? - or at least for yourself? Will you never grow up? When will you stop being the servile and serf-like, unthinking and acquiescing, good-little-girl?
What is wrong with you?
Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment: “Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.”
'I feel so guilty'
Do you remember when you said this to me? I feel so guilty, you exclaimed.
They had battered you psychologicaIly, but yet, I could tell, in your heart-of-hearts, you were not deceived. You knew what they were doing to you, these merchants of fear and guilt. Even so, you could not walk away. You still needed an external approval - still too much the obeisant "good little girl."
the social conditioning of the tribe, the mind-virus of the clan, the html-programming of local nomos
Krishnamurti warned that "people can be conditioned to believe anything." The belief-systems of nearly every unenlightened person represent geography, where one was born, one's family, community, native group; mere provincial moralities, the mind-virus of the clan, local nomos, as described by Herodotus.
Are we to be impressed by this formulaic and robotic true believer-ism? - these empty beliefs, fear-based superstitions of the tribe, masquerading as cosmic truth, within a credulous and frothing assemblage of misled and duped minions.
But you went along with this perversion of what's real and, worse, allowed it as foundation for your life. You chose appearance over substance. And then you were surprised at how quickly your bargained-for "white picket fence" sank into a nightmare world. Have you no foresight, no internal radar, no good sense at all?
What is wrong with you?
You say you didn't know; yes, but you could have known, you didn't devote yourself to knowing and finding the truth. Not knowing, when you could have known, is gross negligence. In tort law it's called "the reasonable man" rule; it's what the reasonable man ought to have known and done -- and closing one's eyes is not a defense, and, therefore, natural law, and your own higher self, will hold you accountable.
What is wrong with you?

Herodotus (writing circa 450 BC), in his treatise on the Greco-Persian wars, comments on “nomos,” the Greek word for “custom, convention, or law.” He speaks of the arbitrariness of “nomos,” of how people become accustomed to what they know, what they’re taught, what they want to believe, in a particular culture, religion, or society. These vapors and vicissitudes, a mind-virus of the tribe, illusions of reality, are adopted as “infallible”, enshrined as god-breathed, by each locally-conditioned clan.
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postured authority
And so you were hoodwinked to set aside rational faculties and sacred responsibility to live as a free and whole person. You surrendered all this to vulgar mountebanks. They promised you "beads and trinkets", pacifying your weakness of needing to be accepted, a fear of being left on the shelf and unwanted, a dread of never finding the happiness of "the white picket fence."
These vile and base ones, in alliance, postured an authority over your life, but, in fact, had absolutely none. A victim of local nomos, you entered into agreement with them during your time of fearful immaturity, when you lacked knowledge, of yourself, the world, destiny, and natural law; and so you could not defend against their offer of "poisoned candy," what you viewed as your last ticket to the good life.
All of which distilled to your greatest sin: you betrayed "us," betrayed your own inner whispering voice of guidance, and you betrayed me. You gave yourself to someone else, and justified it by lying to yourself that I had rejected you.
Later, in your growing misery, though beginning to realize your error, you still could not break free. Commanding strict obedience, they chained you with an oppressive sense of guilt, a constant browbeating, intimating that you are unworthy - declaring that a wrathful god would be displeased, quick to eternally punish, should you consider defying them to wander off the plantation; that, you did not have the right to think for yourself, to insist on yourself and your own inner-guidance.
Why did you put up with this? Why didn’t you walk away and save yourself?
What is wrong with you?
Why are you so disdainful of the coming “real world”? - one missed heartbeat away? Why isn't that more real to you as guide to your life?
'I deliberately ignored all the warning voices inside me'

This is Traudl Junge, 1945. In many ways, an ordinary German working girl: a typist, a stenographer, a personal secretary.

Like many girls, she wished to be married. With encouragement from her job supervisor, she was wedded to another work associate, Hans Hermann Junge, in 1943.

Setting her apart, however, from other working girls was the salient detail that her boss happened to be Adolf Hitler.
More than 50 years later, an aged Traudl Junge surveyed the ruins of her life.

From Wikipedia:
[Junge] began working for Hitler in December 1942. She was the youngest of his private secretaries. "I was 22 and I didn't know anything about politics; it didn't interest me," Junge said decades later, adding that she felt great guilt for "liking the greatest criminal ever to have lived".
She said: "I admit, I was fascinated by Adolf Hitler. He was a pleasant boss and a fatherly friend. I deliberately ignored all the warning voices inside me and enjoyed the time by his side, almost until the bitter end. It wasn't what he said, but the way he said things and how he did things."
[She claimed] ignorance of the Nazi atrocities during the war, but blam[ed] herself for missing opportunities to investigate reports about them.
I realised that it was no excuse that I had been so young. I could have tried to find out about things
“Of course, the horrors, of which I heard in connection of the Nuremberg trials; the fate of the 6 million Jews, their killing and those of many others who represented different races and creeds, shocked me greatly, but, at that time, I could not see any connection between these things and my own past. I was only happy that I had not personally been guilty of these things and that I had not been aware of the scale of these things.
“However, one day, I walked past a plaque on the Franz-Joseph Straße (in Munich), on the wall in memory of Sophie Scholl. I could see that she had been born the same year as I, and that she had been executed the same year I entered into Hitler's service. And, at that moment, I really realised that it was no excuse that I had been so young. I could perhaps have tried to find out about things.”
Sophie Scholl, executed by guillotine for handing out anti-war leaflets

"Sophia Magdalena Scholl (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) was a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active in the White Rose non-violent resistance group in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of high treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother, Hans. For her actions, she was executed by guillotine."
Editor's note: Sophia and Hans were murdered for spreading "misinformation," just as the totalitarians today attempt to censor.
‘mommy, what did you do during the war’
A tale of two young girls during the Nazi totalitarian reign. Two different viewpoints, two different assessments, two different paths.
a wisdom-message embedded within the etymology of a single word
A very long time ago, as a student at a bible college, while investigating the book of Proverbs - I speak from memory now - I learned that one of the Hebrew words (there are several) for "fool” literally means “to be open.”
And what is wrong with being open? Aren’t we supposed to be open and tolerant, agreeable and amenable?
But this is not the sense of openness given to us here.
Proverbs is saying that there are certain situations in life to which we must immediately be closed. No discussion, no negotiation, no weighing pro-and-con. Just slam the door.
Sophie understood and lived by this precept, but Traudl did not; instead, the personal secretary said that she was “fascinated,” thought her boss to be charming and “pleasant,” a warming “fatherly” influence. She saw him as so impressive, it was “the way he said things and how he did things.” And this mystique bewitched her almost right up to the end, just before he put a gun in his mouth, but not before issuing orders that the entire German populace should go down with him.
One girl foresaw atrocity but the other did not. But how could they have known? Traudl herself admitted to herself that she could have known: “I deliberately ignored all the warning voices inside me and enjoyed the time by his side, almost until the bitter end.”
“The warning voices.” Stifled and smothered. Why did she deceive herself? Why does anyone? Evil is a short-cut to the good, and there was something in the “fascination” of the Nazi high command which she judged as ticket to the good life, marriage, family, the “white picket fence.”
Traudl Junge was no demon or some special evil person. She's like millions of people, around us every day. In many ways, she was a very good person; in many ways, what I call a “perfect girl,” attractive, industrious, competent, loyal, talented, smart, a good student, sensitive, loving, kind to children. Who could ask for a better girl than Traudl?
However… there is that nettlesome issue of the “openness.” Traudl has no internal guidance, no radar, no sense of cosmic right and wrong, is not listening to "the still small voice."
She’s not like Sophie. And let's be clear that Sophie also wanted her "white picket fence," but she wanted the truth and freedom even more.
Historians tell us that, through the ages, more people have died at the bloody hands of Religion than any other cause. Makes Hitler look good.
Over the years I’ve often marveled that seemingly educated and freedom-loving people will support despotic Big Religion. This dark institution of the world – one that is condemned in Summerland – is a primary cause of much evil in history.
Editor’s note: True believers will respond, look at the charitable works, look at the good the Church has done. However, they’re not buying it on the other side. Do not confuse the saintly good works of some with the corrupt system that is the Church. The Church, fundamentally, especially at the top, is a gangster organization, and the leadership on the other side is well aware of this, are not fooled, even if some here are. See quotes from the other side concerning the criminal influence of the Church.
One capital sin among many, Big Religion has a long history of murdering people like Sophie and Hans for “misinformation.” In our world, because of the freedoms won by the US Founders, it’s currently politically incorrect to burn a free-spirit at the stake, but they’ve done this aplenty over the centuries, and would go back to those good old days of despotic rule, if they could get away with it.
The Nazis were not unique. Every totalitarian regime -- whether political, religious, corporate, scientific, academic, or others -- will attempt to control narratives, slant stories, edit the interview tape, decide what you ought to know, sell fake news, and label any contrary view as “misinformation.”
All this is fairly common knowledge, yet respectable people blithely support totalitarian Big Religion. They’re gulled into doing this because of their fear of death, which they mistakenly presume the Blackrobes influence and rule. But this is the greatest con-game in the history of the world; all to be exposed in just one missed heartbeat.
Like Traudl, respectable people support various respectable totalitarian regimes. Most are too “fascinated” right now, too "open," but, in that one missed heartbeat, a new cosmic order will be revealed, the “real world,” in which Big Religion, or any other power-institution, has absolutely no say; and frothing minions, if they are to advance over there, will need to enter “cult deprogramming”. To choose otherwise is to sink and sink into the misery and darkness of "the rat cellar." Those who want to fight, Jesus said, will be "weeping and wailing and gnashing their teeth."
But Sophie -- we recall she was the one who didn't care about "respectable" -- will be exonerated. As Jesus also warned, "the last of our world will be the first over there."
We know how this works out. See many case histories, channeled reports from the other side.
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you were the first to know
All this psychological warfare, succeeded in making you too deferential, too subservient, too intimidated to do what is right, even though your deepest heart informed you of the reality, even though you well knew - because you were the first to know - that we belong to each other; no, you did not forget but would not speak.
girls mature faster, but dull boys have a habit of growing up and seeing everything
I feel angry and disgusted. I had come to believe, wanted to believe, that someday after we’d learned our dire lessons, had suffered enough; after we’d tried everything else and betrayal had run its course; that we would find our way back to, and repent toward, each other; that I -- the boy you once approached to announce your love, the boy who finally realized that he had loved you all along and from the beginning -- that I would be “enough” for you.
never so free and awakened as when in love

In The Matrix: Resurrections Trinity reawakens to Neo, and to the deception of The Matrix, by the power of love. Earlier, Persephone had claimed “It’s just a kiss”; for her this was true, but not for those authentically aligned.
Like Snow White reviving with the kiss of the Prince, there is a force within true love which terrifies totalitarian structures. It is quite right to say: people are never so free, never so in tune with their own sense of dignity and destiny, and never so likely to leave cultish organizations, as when they're in love.
The memory trace of true love touched something very deep within Trinity and Neo. It reconnected them to their authentic selves, a primal affinity which had been crushed by totalitarian element. Suddenly they saw the world as something new, as it truly is, a world making way for romantic relationship as ultimate reality.

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'I didn't realize, when I looked in your eyes'
Yes, I feel angry and disgusted - because I want to be with you; even more, I want you. Angry and disgusted, mainly toward myself, because, in those early years, I did not speak, was half-baked and immature, not ready, but now I see what's real - however, we've switched roles, and now you're not ready. You and I have always been out of phase.
Lawyers draw distinction between intent and motive. For example, I walk across a room because I intend to, but this reveals nothing about motive, why I want to cross the room. And with you, you forthrightly intended to hurt me; of this there is no doubt. What’s not clear is why you did this. If your vituperation issued from cognitive impairment, then a lack of capacity, an insanity defense, might apply. However, why do I doubt this? I’d always known you to be clear-eyed, and now to make excuses for you, in terms of mental dysfunction, doesn’t seem to fit.
baby, shame on you, you were so bad, and shame on me, I let your misery keep me company

Anne Murray, Shame On Me (1996)
I hope for the best but expect the worst
I was not blind, baby, I could see, every little thing you were doin' to me, but I let you be cruel, love's the kind of game where both sides share the blame for losin', shame on you, you were so bad, shame on you, for driving me mad, I let your misery keep me company, so baby, shame on me, my poor heart´s got a checkered past, I´m still searchin' for a love that will last, I want someone true and steady, don´t you know I'm ready and willing, I hope for the best, but I expect the worst, sometimes I even let myself get hurt, but I´ll take another chance, you´d like to think that I´ll never get over you, a fool for love sees what he wants to see, so baby, shame on me, but you were so bad, honey, so shame on you
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I do expect the worst... because that's the way it's always been with us, and I can hardly imagine anything changing, because...

baby, you were so bad
paradise lost
Until I am "enough" for you as you are for me; until I know that you would chose me above all other options as I choose you; until our goals in life merge in substantial confluence; until you want me as much as I want you; until you speak plainly to me, offering an accounting of your actions, as I will offer the same to you; until mutual trust becomes the air we breathe -- any future for us is doubtful.
All this is correct; however, I am still left with a poisonous feeling in my spirit. You betrayed me. You gave yourself to another, and not even a good man. And how can I forgive you for this, or even want to see you again? How can I trust you again? This question causes me to stumble.
'please remember how I feel about you'
postscript
I've been learning more about bipolar disorder. The pendulum swing from high to low coherency can be more extreme than I'd known. As I come to better understand this severe dynamic, I find myself less condemning; even so, to be honest, I still have trouble accepting the "insanity defense" concerning your actions. Some things don't add up.
In your favor, however, during a psychic reading, a competent medium reported that she was accessing the truest sentiments of your higher self. Is this plausible? Can a "higher self" send a message? We're reminded of the case of Adela and Eddie: His plane was lost at sea during time of war, and, it was later learned, they had, in fact, communicated via the "higher self."
You as this higher self, this “better angel" of your nature, I was informed by the medium, does care for me "deeply" -- stated twice -- and is apologizing for past hurtful conduct; that, essentially, the unfair personal attack was the illness speaking. You said that your conduct did not represent how you really feel, that you could not control your actions.
distorted perception
If this is true, then my previous comments must be reconsidered. Your life-long condition, growing worse in latter years, resulted in distorted perception, caused you to make some very bad judgments.
And I was speaking to another psychic-medium. She's well known with thousands of clients and engaged in police detective work solving criminal cases. She was granted a vision from Guides of what happened to us early on.
perky and light-hearted
She accurately described your normal, expressive, and light-hearted nature; when you're feeling well and free, your natural perky and playful exuberance.
She, along with the first medium, saw some of the trouble you’re in, including the oppression you now suffer by others. She asked if I were aware of this. I said I was aware.
She unequivocally asserted that we are Twin Souls. I said I knew this. She said “I’m seeing marriage all over this” for you two; however, she also indicated, it would still be a while. I understood this, as well. She also stated that your time of oppression is finally nearing its end.
Concerning our history, I told the lady that, early on, you were the proactive one, coming to me, wanting to tell me, but I was too immature to understand what you were saying. I was just a young boy, but you were ahead, as girls tend to be in these matters.
I then added, "we've switched roles," as now I'm the more forthcoming one, and, as it took me most of my life to grow up, I intend to lead this now. The psychic lady commented, yes, "you've passed her now."

Cyndi Lauper, Time After Time (1984)
walking too far ahead
lying in bed I hear the clock tick and think of you, caught up in circles, confusion is nothing new, flashback, almost left behind, suitcase of memories, you picture me, I'm walking too far ahead, the second hand unwinds, if you're lost, you can look and you will find me, time after time, if you fall, I will catch you, I'll be waiting, time after time, I will be waiting, I will be waiting... |
'go slow, I fall behind'
you're calling to me, I can't hear what you have said, then you say, "go slow, I fall behind,” the second hand unwinds, if you're lost, you can look and you will find me, time after time, if you fall, I will catch you, I will be waiting, I will be waiting... |
drum beats out of time
after my picture fades and darkness has turned to gray, watching through windows, you're wondering if I'm okay, secrets stolen from deep inside, the drum beats out of time, if you're lost, you can look and you will find me, time after time, if you fall, I will catch you, I will be waiting, time after time, I will be waiting, time after time, I will be waiting… |
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'do you remember'
It's been many years now, the number shocks, but you once asked me, "do you remember when I told you..." -- yes -- I remember, but I was surprised it was still on your mind after so long a time; I remember, because... in my life... I remember little else.
And do you remember when you said, "Let's not lose each other again", and then, "I want to have a glass of wine with you."
Solomon Burke, Cry To Me

when you're all alone, in your lonely room, and there's nothin', but the smell of her perfume, when you're waitin', for a voice to come, in the night, but there's no one - nothin' can be sadder than a glass of wine alone... loneliness, loneliness, such a waste of time (and life), don't you feel like cryin'? cry to me...
nothing sadder than a glass of wine alone

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And then, later, finally, I told you, I wrote to you, that I was getting off the merry-go-round of swirling life circumstance, and that, when you were ready, you could find me, and I would be there, waiting alone for you. I offered this pledge unilaterally, knowing that no immediate benefit would be forthcoming - just as you once offered a one-sided presentation, words of love, to an unformed and ill-prepared young boy, so many decades ago now.

With some awe and reverence, the psychic-detective, having counseled thousands of clients, confessed that she found our story “very compelling”.
our story, unique among thousands
Among these thousands, she’d never seen so many roadblocks and barriers to love, and over such a long period of time.
this is not how we wanted to be famous
Like a farcical dream in which nothing could be made to go right; of two, always out of phase with each other, and having lost each other so early, then spending much of a whole lifetime wishing to get back to each other.
'the blossom, withered, in its bloom'
Our embryonic interactions, more than other compelling love stories, speak to Dickens' doleful poetic imagery: "tenderest recollections of the blossom that had withered in its bloom."
The medium said she'd counseled thousands of clients concerning lost love, and she wished our story were written down to give to others, to inform that great patience and fortitude is often required to bring authentic relationship to maturity.
'you never talk about this, but time is on your side'
And there were other messages via other psychic-mediums, to whom I gave no detail of our situation, but immediately there was an accessing of the essence of that which burdens me. The counsel was offered, “there’s a hidden part of you that you never talk about, but,” you are given to know, “time is on your side."
'even if she's 90, in a nursing home'
And that, while “your years of being apart are not yet over,” the Guides understand that “you would wait for her, even if she’s 90, in a nursing home”; and, in truth, much longer than that;
heaven witnesses the solitary confinement, the lonely room
and, though, for a long time - like an endless solitary confinement, that lonely room in Solomon Burke's song - the psychic lady acknowledged, I've lived alone and refused others, with the Guides well aware that I am “in a committed relationship”.
And another psychic message: You wanted me to know that you realize you need to come back to me, but you don't know how.
one more end-note
I’m adding this several months after recording the above. Much of it was repetitious and spoken in anger. I’ve deleted large sections. Now, replaced with something repetitious and spoken in anger.
How do I feel about our prospects now? On bad days I'm offline. I see your photo and I want to draw back. I'm not compelled to see you again. Even so, at times there're faint rays of something positive.
I’d made the case that trust would have to be rebuilt, and, I said, this could take a long time. Sometimes I feel it's worse than this.
And I ask myself: Are we going to start again sometime, in a new world? Do I even want to? It depends when you ask.
Shall I act as your defense attorney? You might say this when we meet:
she may have looked like me, but...
“Elenchus, I don’t blame you for being furious. I know you love me, and that's why it feels like a betrayal. 'Constructive assent' ought to have been my guide, and flouting it created culpability. You go back and forth on the question, can you ever forgive me? You're not sure. But allow me to say, you have no idea how dismayed and disheartened I am, with myself. Please try to realize I was a different person then. It wasn't the real me. Not only was I immature, but my brain was not working properly, my judgment was skewed. I would never do those things again. I don’t think that way anymore; in my heart of hearts, I never did. Heaven has acknowledged that, despite all that happened, and all that didn't, ‘you are in a committed relationship.’ I know it’s been very one-sided so far, has caused you endless depression, as you've waited alone, even for decades now. But heaven also informed you that 'time is on your side.’ Elenchus, I did not have the inner reserves to free myself from the misery I created. I know you wanted me to do this, but I could not break away. If you could know my truest heart, you would see that I was also waiting to be with you. Dearest friend, my head wasn’t working, and we never had a real chance back then.”
I want to believe this is true. I'd need your help to confirm. I need to hear your own voice explaining what happened.
insanity defense
Mitigating a charge of blame would be cognitive disability, indicating lack of capacity concerning sound judgment. This impairment defense would wipe the slate clean; meaning, the real you did not intend to cause me harm.
But let me speak plainly. I’m not sure if I can accept the “insanity defense.” That psychic message I received from you, you said you couldn’t control your actions. I have trouble with this because you’ve accomplished high goals, have demonstrated a good level of competence in your professional life. How can I take as legitimate a claim that you could not maintain yourself?
but you never sent word
And even if you had a momentary lapse resulting in viciousness toward me, you had years to send a mea-culpa message of explanation or exoneration for yourself. But never a word from you.
But, it's worse than this. You actually did, in fact, find the inner resources to send a message viciously attacking. You were competent enough, in control of yourself enough, to do that.
How can I deal with this and take you seriously? How can I be with a person who would treat another so hurtfully? Further, you simply remained in your compromised situation, blithely continuing the charade of "respectable" life, as if there'd never be accountability for malicious behavior; as if there is no "real world" soon coming
How could I be with a person who deals so falsely? Mary betrayed Kahlil, and she wondered if he could ever forgive her, even to eternity.
you need a very good lawyer
Does the word "lawyer" bring to mind anything you ought to regret or feel ashamed about? But I remember -- because classic insults live in the mind.
That last incident especially, the aftermath, what you accused me of, was so outrageous that I would be embarrassed – embarrassed for you – to repeat what you said.
selective sanity
What bothers me most is that you have a selective craziness. You’re fine in many situations, almost normal, but when it comes to me you’re the mad hatter at the tea party.
I don’t understand how a girl of excellence and highest ideals, what you were early on, can transform into this different person who I don’t even know. As I repeatedly said above, what is wrong with you?
confirmation hearings
If you're willing, I think we should have a session of "confirmation hearings," an opportunity for each of us to ask frank and direct questions about anything that happened, anything that bothers us. It could be unpleasant. Even if I know the answer, I want to hear it from your own voice.
I'm writing this in the middle of the night. Found myself overcome with images of your betrayals, going all the way back to high school. I have my own insanities. I too am almost sane most of the time, but then, in unguarded moments, I see what happened, how you changed, and now anger rises volcano-like. When I get this way, I don't see how I can ever forgive you.
That psychic message I received from you, if it was from you, you said you didn't mean to hurt me, that you were sorry. I wish I could accept this. I have trouble believing you, trusting you. How can you get back to that loving and gentle good girl I need to be with, that "soft voice that comes at night,"
making a list
I'm taking a deep breath and shifting gears. Sometimes I think about a possible future in a new world where we're whole and healthy. And I think about ways to give you a happy life. I've made a list of many good things: social events and parties, black-tie and casual / personal development and advanced education / backyard get-togethers, fun foods and drinks, with best friends and closest relatives / mind expansion and discovering untapped powers / attaining new skills to broadly investigate the world of art and music, allowing us to participate with high degree of proficiency; meaning, producing our own art and music to be publicly exhibited in galleries and concerts / travel and adventure / animals and nature studies / family goals and children / custom-designed home, small farm, plus mountain retreat and beach-front cottage / charitable works and serving the disadvantaged / counseling pre-nup couples who want what we have / university research and mentoring by the ancient wise / space exploration and investigating civilizations across the cosmos -- things Twin mates would probably like to have or do together.
But then I awaken from this dream -- it is a pleasant fiction. It will take more than a line-up of stellar activities to heal us.
mind virus
For most of your life, I think you’ve been around people and institutions who have put you down and said you’re unworthy. Despite your natural buoyancy and confidence, this psychological warfare has burdened you, caused a measure of self-loathing. You suffer from a floating sense of “non-specific guilt” and have accepted their mind-virus of “I’m no good.” And now here I come, after all these years, "back from the dead," finally mature enough to tell you that I love you, that I will help you to be happy, that I will honor you as a person and make things right for you – but your first reaction is to shrink back. It makes you angry. You feel you don't deserve to be loved, and so you attack the messenger.
another pleasant fiction
What do I think will happen for us in Summerland? I “fade in and out” on this. You might not be ready. Maybe you'll need time to defuse the "mind virus." Your “Mother Guide" could help you regain yourself.
Or will your sense of guilt cause you to once again “go rogue”? I mentally see you as angry, and this poisons my spirit. I have my doubts that you can be that "soft voice that comes at night," that loving and gentle good girl I need to be with.
I’m not expecting much when I arrive. I think I'll be starting my service work alone. I'm not expecting to have a girl's love in my life.
Is this too dreary an outlook? It could be, but we've suffered many set-backs, so I don’t dare hope for more.
But maybe you'll be a different person when we meet. Maybe with your new astral body you’ll not be angry, will have matured, found healing, and actually want to be with me. It is a pleasant fiction.
life's work
My often-doubt extends to your taking part in my life's work. I plan to prepare for difficult, possibly dangerous, rescue work -- helping those who writhe in abject misery, cannot help themselves, the criminally insane, who've given up all hope for a good life.
This rescue work will take me to bad neighborhoods, "sewer pits" and "rat cellars", foul-smelling dark places most people in Summerland never go to, or even know exist. I don't know if all this is too off-putting for you.
full partner
In one of our discussions I said I didn't need to marry a "missionary girl," but, as I think about it more, what would that even mean? If you were sane and willing, I'd want you as full partner in this rescue work. I'd want you right there with me. I don't want separate lives, separate activities. I'd miss you, I already miss you. I'd want us to be together all the time.
'willing to go anywhere with me, do anything, and love it'
Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954), Grace Kelly, Jimmy Stewart, Thelma Ritter
Nurse: When are you going to marry Miss Fifth Avenue? You know you love her.
He: (sighing) I just don’t see how it can work. She's too perfect. I’m a photographer, on assignment all over the world and in backwater places not even on the map. Any girl who gets stuck with me has to not mind living in hiking boots and jeans, with her hair matted and nails chipped. I need her more ordinary, willing to go anywhere with me, and do anything, and love it. I don't know if she can do that.
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Source always grants every good thing we want and in the shortest time possible: ‘union of spirits’ is not ‘underlying soul bond’
Editor’s note: After nearly 20 years of attempting to decipher the message of ‘The Wedding Song,’ it now becomes clear that ‘union of spirits’ is not the same as ‘underlying soul bond’.
The ‘union of spirits,’ it seems to me, speaks to ‘meeting of the minds.’ A couple might share a Twin Soul bond without knowing mental agreement, and even see themselves as enemies.
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I believe that we, together, have great potential.
Bear with me to endure a small chemistry lesson. We know that water is created by combining hydrogen and oxygen. But there’s nothing watery about hydrogen, nor oxygen; however, in association, something totally new in the universe comes into being, totally different than the individual elements.
This principle of transformation and newness might be ascribed to any of thousands of chemical compounds. Something utterly new comes from the marriage of elements.
The Wedding Song speaks of a “union of spirits,” resulting in a sacred One Person, “something never seen before.” The chemistry lesson helps us understand. I think the natural world offers a picture of a similar process in the spiritual realm of true love and marriage.
There's something about us that wants to manifest. Sprinkled all through our lives, starting at age seven, there were incipient-inchoate “emergings from the depths” of this in potentia One Person. A hundred pages on WG describe these many consciousness-elevating encounters.
But here’s what I know for sure: At the surface of personality we’ve often denied this potential, but at a deeper level there's something wondrous about us. From time to time, my life has been punctuated – often in a devastating manner – by our interactions which have invited the mystical.
During those moments, I’ve seen things, known things, become things, that far transcend what is normal for me. It’s happened many times, even when I didn’t want it, when I tried to make the opposite happen. It’s evident that the surface personality had no say in the matter. And I also know that, at times, you experienced the same.
the future
Do we have one together? In my times of depression, I have my doubts. But a certain "inner life-force" seems to think otherwise.
When I succumb to anger, I see your lack of wisdom and impetuousness ruining your own life - with willful insolence and Faustian bargains, a foolishness coupled with audacity. You were a menace, sometimes to me, often to yourself, but always to our in potentia status.
But, as I've learned, it's not so important what the surface personality thinks. There's a hidden force within that's running the show.
During my times of darkness, I feel manipulated. I want my life back. I want to be the one to choose a girl. And I am so angry -- even though I'm still in love with you, but do not wish to be.
My difficulty right now is that I associate you with poisonous feeling. A constant conjunction with things unpleasant has left me internally numb. Your photos tell me you’re attractive enough, but this externality doesn’t help me. The poison of our history pervades. This antipathy can be undone, but not in a day. It will take some healing to see you as a loving and gentle good girl, a “soft voice that comes at night.”
Actually, the precise truth is, I feel poisoned but I also want to be with you. It's an awkward posture.
All this acknowledged, my present confusion seems not to matter. As I review our lives, I see superintending forces in play which have vetoed the egoic impulse. I think a "hand of hidden guidance" has been arranging hard lessons to be learned ('the law of repulsion") since we were small children.
It becomes clear that only "John and Mary" choose their mates. All eternal marriages, those "made in heaven" which "cannot be sundered," are arranged marriages, arranged by the divine Parent(s).
the wonderful ifs accumulate
I’ve spoken of things seen in the middle of the night. I didn’t like what I saw. After praying about this vision of calamity, I saw something new.
Too often I’ve imagined you in your worst frame of mind. But what if you really are different upon transition? What if the version of you communicating via psychic message was the real you? What if you really are humble, contrite, and loving? What if you tell me this:
Elenchus, I make no demands nor offer excuses. I sinned against you and against us. I could say that there was something wrong with my head, but even if I didn’t have the ‘insanity defense,’ will you not let me make this up to you? Our stay on Earth was but one drop of time against the endless ocean of our possible future. Will you not allow me to make amends? I am willing to learn. You’re the one who knows about metaphysical issues, you can teach me what I need to know. Can we not close the book on the poisonous past and enter a good future? Must we forever define ourselves by the ghosts of earlier misdeeds? It is my heart’s desire to give you what you want. Can you take yes for an answer? Will you not see me in this new way? and allow me to grow into the person I was meant to be, for you?
Can I take yes for an answer? It’s become habit for me to imagine the worst. But what if I dared to believe? What if I too could also change and set aside my anger? What if my hard heart could know transformation? What if I agreed, with myself, that you did the best you could as you saw things at the time and you couldn't have done any better?
I have made the grand claim that I wish to rescue those in darkness who oppose themselves, to bring them to the light, to a good life. But what if God has given me my first rescue case in the girl I love?
If I could believe that you are contrite, teachable, and loving; and if intentions are wholely sincere and no hidden agenda; with a profound desire to be together; then the unreachable high bar of trust, and the purported ruined reputation, will not require endless reconstruction.
We have the potential to repair ourselves in one day, one hour - to move forward as we are, and with joy. The truth is, there may be nothing to repair.
It's not a sin to be immature. It can take a long time to grow up. Why should we deny ourselves a lasting happiness because of what happened when we were blind to the right course and couldn't make a wise choice "for love, money, or to save our souls"?
Stated differently, when we meet, a perfect intention, a perfect desire to love and to make another happy, a perfect aspiration to give oneself completely to a beloved, will have the power to create its own morality, make its own way, rewrite the rules of the game, and neutralize the felt poison of any infraction, real or imagined, during one's spiritual minority.
No matter the past, if our present intentions are good, sincere, and enduring, what prevents us from telling each other things long unspoken, and then finally acting on this reality?
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