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Soul-mates

ArnoldVinette

ArnoldVinette

Arnold Vinette
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I read your posting with interest and those of the other people who responded with regards to your Soul Mate or theirs.

People who intuitively know someone although they do not know why. Or someone they just can't get out of their lives.

I found it interesting the whole "Soul Mate" concept because for a while I visited the popular dating sites after being divorced in 2006 and every woman seemed to be looking for their Soul Mate.

I found this so odd because I have never had a compulsion to find a "Soul Mate". Rather someone to share company and experiences with.

Maybe perhaps I already knew that my "Soul Mate" is not living on the Earth.

Since a very young age I have felt a very strong presence of a female spirit that is always looking out for me. I sense her presence and enjoy the occasional small comment here and there with her. It is like talking to yourself, only someone talks back into your mind.

I can hear her brief replies in my mind including the sensation of a smile and or a giggle.

At no times do I ever feel alone, as she always seems to be present.

By nature I am a loner. This is a pretty common trait for men and so I do not think anything of it.

Women by and large are not a part of my life in any romantic sort of way. I think this is because the female spirit who looks after me is a little territorial and has a jealous streak. (As I write this I can hear her laughing in my mind and smiling with acknowledgement.)

Strange but true.

And my “Spirit Girl” may even be able to do small miracles.

The story is below. It is a little bit long but full of detail.

This past October 2011 after returning to Burlington, Vermont after a trip to the San Francisco Bay area I got stranded in Vermont unable to return to Canada.

I had driven my car over to Burlington, Vermont and the Canadian border patrol would not let me drive back into Quebec despite being a Canadian citizen.

So I was trapped in Vermont for a month and slept in my car to save money. I rarely rent a hotel room while on vacation as car camping has turned out to be very flexible, fun and affordable.

Car camping I quickly discovered is only good when the temperature is above 30F / 0C. Within 3 weeks I suddenly lost 50% to 60% of my lung capacity. It was very scary.
 
Soul Mates - Part 2 of 4


Part 2 of 4


After 4 weeks of being denied entry into Canada, on November 11, 2011, I was able to successfully cross back into Canada after my”Spirit Girl” intervened.


Safely back home and in a warm house, my lung situation did not improve.


Simple activities like climbing the stairs left me breathless and panting. Hiking in the hills turned out to be impossible.


In December 2011 with the temperatures around -11C I had changed my exercise habits to simple flat walks by the Ottawa Rideau Canal. Lung capacity was still down about 50% to 60% based on previous athletic abilities.


On December 18, 2011 I took my normal 4km walk by the Ottawa Rideau Canal walking down to the National Arts Center. It was cold -12C. Upon reaching the National Arts Center I realized it was a good time to go in and warm up. I struggled up a flight of 12 stairs to the main entrance gasping for breath when I arrived at the top.


In October 2011, just two months prior I had been in San Francisco completing 12 hour bike rides on the San Francisco hills and biking over the golden Gate Bridge. Normal for me is 40km rollerblades and 40km bike rides, 2 km open lake swims etc. I am a very active and athletic outdoor kind of guy.


So not being able to walk up 12 simple stairs without gasping for breath is a little scary for me.


Struggling into the National Arts Center, I sat down on a bench just inside the front doors to catch my breath. My heart was racing.


90 seconds later a very pretty woman with shoulder length brown hair walked in, spotted me, walked over, and handed me a ticket to a Christmas performance that began in 5 minutes time.


"Merry Christmas" she said, "Enjoy the show."


She disappeared into the NAC and I would not see her again.


I sat there for another 2 minutes trying to figure out what has just happened.


Then I got up and went in to see the CBC Radio Vinyl Christmas show.


The Christmas Show was in the main hall of the NAC that seats 2,323 people. The show was completely sold out. I walked to my seat in the Orchestra H18 and took my seat between 4 women. None of them were the woman who had given me the ticket.


The ticket I assumed was reasonably priced to be just given away. The price I initially saw was $9.95. The true price in better light was $61.00, $9.95 was the service charge. I felt fortunate and lucky.


It was a wonderful Christmas concert and a wonderful Christmas present! It felt odd to be at such a popular social event that thousands of people were aware of and that I had been completely unaware of.
 
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To have taken that walk, been at that spot inside the NAC doors on that date seems to be beyond luck.


"Thank you" I whispered to my Spirit Girl, “Thank you for the Christmas Concert.”


"Your welcome," she replied in my mind with a smile. "Merry Christmas."


On Christmas Day December 25, 2011 my lung capacity returned to normal. I suddenly found myself being able to climb a normal set of stairs without gasping for breath.


It was WONDERFUL! This past weekend January 8, I went for a hike in Gatineau Park and energetically hiked to the top of the hill a distance of 4km and several hundred vertical feet.


Everything was working at a 100%.


On Christmas Day, December 25, I had a surprise email from a teenage girl in Yoshkar-Ola, Russia. She had done some translation work for me on a project that I had done in 2010 for President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The last time we had talked was a year ago.


Her message this time was simple and brief, “Merry Christmas Arnie. What are you doing?”


The timing of her "Merry Christmas" email was perfect. I actually had something that I could send to her from my October 2011 trip to the San Francisco Bay area.


In October 2011 before heading off on my San Francisco adventure, I had promised a local Ottawa girl that I would buy her a special souvenir t-shirt from the San Francisco Bay area. We had gotten to know each other over time as casual acquaintances, when I visited the Gloucester Library to use the internet.


While on my California holiday, I had gone a little bit overboard purchasing several items for her.


Upon my return to Ottawa I decided that I would probably unsettle her if I gave her everything. We were just very casual acquaintances. So I just gave her the pink San Francisco top that I had promised and a fun pink San Francisco baseball cap. Good thing I was cautious, she never even said “Thank you”.


So the other items went into a large bag and into my closet and there they sat until December 25, Christmas Day.


The whole time I wondered “What am I going to do with all of these pink clothes for a teenage girl?”


As luck would have it the teenage girl from Yoshkar-Ola, Russia is infatuated with America and can't wait to come over to be a Hollywood actress. Here I thought was the perfect opportunity to send these items to someone who would be thrilled to get them. “Right age. Right size. Enthusiastic about California. Perfect!”


I had been given two wonderful Christmas presents from my “Spirit Girl”. 1) The Christmas concert ticket to the sold out NAC show worth $60. = ten movie tickets for me. 2) The complete repair of my lungs on Christmas Day December 25, 2011.


Now it was my turn to give something back and share the Christmas Spirit with someone else.
 
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I emailed my teenage friend back in Yoshkar-Ola and said I had some items from California that she might LOVE, if she liked the color pink. Can you say EXCITED and THRILLED!


My Christmas present was offered and accepted with very happy enthusiasm.


On Boxing Day (December 26, 2011) I purchased everything that I would need to wrap up her New Year's gifts, place everything in a large box, and then wrap the large box up. It was a fun day of wrapping her New Year's gift package


Russian society does not celebrate North American Christmas that is held every year on December 25, rather they celebrate New Year's Eve, which is a combination of Christmas, Halloween and New Year's Eve all rolled into one, on December 31.


Once my Yoshkar-Ola friend's parcel was all prepared I headed down to the Ottawa Post Office to mail it on December 28. The price was $100 and time to arrive in Yoshkar-Ola was 60 days.


"Uggg" I thought, "60 days! The US Postal system is much faster at 20 days".


I hesitated and did not mail the package, keeping it in the back seat of my car.


"What would be nice," I thought to myself "Is if the girl in Yoshkar-Ola would send me a nice New Year's message and some recent photos."


I have dealt with Russian women in the past and everything is not always as it appears to be. Before spending $100 on postage I wanted to see what would happen.


No request was made for an email or photos, but my “Spirit Girl” must have heard my request.


After a week of no communication from Russia, on New Year's Day an email arrived from my friend in Yoshkar-Ola. "Happy New Year Arnie! Guess what here are some recent photos."


I have never received any photos from this person, ever.


Is it coincidence?


I thanked my "Spirit Girl" for the evidence that I needed to confirm that the person I was indeed communicating with in Yoshkar-Ola was my old friend.


In my mind I felt my "Spirit Girl" smiling with satisfaction and approval. She knew what I had needed to complete the transaction and had arranged it.


Everything in the package had been carefully wrapped in Christmas paper and then photographed prior to being placed into the large box and wrapped up in brown paper.


I had taken 60 photographs without realizing how long the package would be in the mail. Time to arrive in Yoshkar-Ola is 60 days.


One photo a day of the gift package and its contents is now being sent to my friend in Yoshkar-Ola, as she patiently awaits for her New Year's gift to arrive.


Although I do not have a "Soul Mate" on Earth, I do have some very unusual and interesting experiences with my "Spirit Girl".


My "Spirit Girl" is not territorial towards this younger teenage girl in Yoshkar-Ola and so perhaps there is an older relationship here that I am not immediately aware of.


A fun story of my Christmas holidays that I hope follows the general theme of this thread of “Soul Mates”.


The father of the girl I know in Yoshkar-Ola is a policeman and we have worked together in the past on Russian scammer cases. It was through this relationship that his daughter and I got to know each other and then worked together on some translation work for President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.


Sorry for the long story. What takes normal people four sentences to write, usually takes me four pages.


Arnold Vinette


Ottawa, Canada
 
Very interesting sequence of events Arnold. We've seen that these synchronous details are most always present in reincarnation scenarios. I would suggest you do some reading on the concept of soul mates and soul groups, I think you'll find it all very interesting. I personally believe we have many soul mates, kindred souls we incarnate with through time. But I'm also one of those hardcore believers in the twin-soul theory. It, very briefly, says that we as a soul were separated and cast into the creation in search of each other. I see this "other" half as the yin, so to speak. I cannot begin to do the concept justice in this short space, but instead will post a quote from a previous thread where I wrote:

I will weigh in on a subject dear to my heart. I have been studying this very subject for a number of years. I might preface this with the premise that we can never really KNOW for sure any of this... so what we "learn" is really subjective. After reading countless books, years of meditation, consultation with other seekers and reading here on this forum, I've come to a few conclusions (very malleable conclusions!) of my own. I believe we have many soul mates. I think we travel through our life times with these kindred souls for purposes of learning. Any given life time can involve any number of these fellow soul entities. BUT, and here comes my understanding of it, I believe we each have a Twin Soul.
Twin soul theory comes from many ancient creation concepts. I am not by any means an expert. But my understanding is that when the Great Creator (whatever you believe that to be) issued forth these souls into their human journey, He/She divided them from their perfection, and cast them into the world in search of each other. I know that sounds simplistic and their must be a lot more to it, but if I think of nature as a model, there is always a positive and a negative charge to everything. The ancient Yin-Yang teachings relate, in my opinion. As we progress through the ages searching for the perfection we once were, we do so in soul groups... the soul mates you refer to. Is our twin soul, the other half of our sacred entity there too? I think so... but again this is all intuition and faith.


There are many good books on this subject, and one I recommend is Twin Souls: Finding Your True Spiritual Partner by Maurie Pressman MD and Patricia Joudry. This book offered the most sensible suppositions and hypothesis. They described the qualities and characteristics that they felt identified Twin Souls and went so far as to name Twin Soul couples in history. Part of their theory is that we seek this "other half" in order to learn. And when we encounter them it is not always destined to be beautiful, with showers of flower petals and harp music. No they say we will have very rough, very sad, and very complicated encounters... and once in a while we will spend a life of bliss. Twin Souls ignite each other when they come into contact. The passion is unmistakeable and powerful, and, according to Pressman and Joudry, this is a factor in the identification process. BUT, they go on to say that we will spend life times where we do not encounter our Twin. Why? Well, they say it is all part of the growing process.


There is much, much more to all this. And it is a deep journey in understanding it. I once had an indignant fellow tell me on this forum that this "Duality" idea was a cop out for individuals. From his vantage point it was, but then again that was his journey... something he needed to learn.


SO, in conclusion is our spouse our soul mate? In my opinion no, not always. The people we encounter, and have strong bonds to, could all be soul mates.(IMO). I personally believe in the Twin Soul theory. I know mine is out there, I've met her and in this life we are a complicated jumble of emotions and relationships. But as I go deeper into this life time I realize the beauty in these challenges. As I witnessed my past lives with her in regression, I could see how we each are always teaching the other... even in the great sadness and tragedies. Sometimes the only salvation is stepping back and seeing the "big picture" of many lives, and knowing that some life time, some eventuality, will once again be perfect in a deep, sacred and eternal way.


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I have read much of soul-mates in many places as well as on this Forum, and I must say that much of the attraction to this idea seems to be motivated by our natural present life infatuation with finding the sexual partner of our dreams. Although I believe in the concept of soul-mates, I often think that we confuse material and sexual values with the more meaningful purpose of the concept; and we therefore often equate soul-mate with that one and only "hottie" who will make our hearts flutter and our minds quicken.


To my way of thinking, however, I would suggest that soul-mates are any number of people who impact our lives in some pivotal manner, and with results that cause our spiritual development to take some positive direction. This can be a friend, a relative, a stranger or even an enemy. Of course a spouse or a lover can be the greatest influence of our lives. However, we can also be strongly influenced by a parent or a child.


In my mind, therefore, a soul-mate can be anyone; and the concept, itself, becomes a non-sequitur, or a turn of plot which is upstaged by the more important idea that we are all connected, and that any and everyone can change the course of our spiritual direction as well as our carnal existence.
 
Thank you for sharing, it is a fascinating read. I have a similar connection, the only difference is that I know it is my Dad. He is not always with me, but is there in a moment when I need him. It truly has made my life as a single mother easier knowing there is someone who will lead me in the right direction.


I would love to hear more of your connection. I love it! :thumbsup:
 
Although finding it fasinating I have experienced nothing like Arnold. My beliefs are similar to Nightrains.


I believe that soulmates incarnate over and over in groups that include many of the same souls. Some souls enter or leave the group and we may not have contact with everyone in the group, but can be influenced by their influences on members that we do have contact with. Our connection with each individual soul may be close, similar to a spouse or best friend,


casual as a co-worker, or brief as a simple greeting with a stranger. There are lessons to be learned from each and every encounter if we are aware of this possibility and remain open minded. My beliefs are based on my interest in reincarnation, karma and evolution dating back about 25 years.
 
For shipping have you tried International First Class Mail or Flat Rate Priority Mail? It should be cheaper, unless your items are really heavy and cannot fit into the flat rate boxes.
 
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