By John | For EraofLight.com

Whenever I came across the idea of ‘twin flames’, it was often through concepts that felt very true to my heart, but held many contradictions to my head: ‘They are you but not you’, ‘You are connected but independent’, ‘You can’t meet your other half until you feel whole’, and so on.

Why would ‘Source’ do such a thing anyway? Split a single unique expression of Itself in two complementary forms? Ultimately, nothing but pain and anxiety seem to result from that. And in my own anxiety, I felt a strange urge to watch an online video explaining what ‘Balanced Cables’ are.

It led me to experience certain personal insights regarding this topic that I would like to share with fellow students who may find interest in such analogies.

HOW BALANCED CABLES WORK

Audio cables are wires that carry a converted electric signal analog to sound vibrations carried through the air. And just like sounds from different sources get mixed up in the air, electric signals in cables meet some electric interference along it’s path.

Everything constantly emits a certain level of electric interference, which is usually irrelevant for short transmissions such as through a headphone wire. But for greater lenghts, or proximity to stronger electric or magnetic fields, this interference acumulates upon the original signal and makes up for a great deal of noise when it reverts back to audio.

Ordinarily, we can minimize this by amplifying the intensity of the signal at the origin (which requires energy) and/or insulating the cable with an external thin metal grating layer that deflects some interference (which requires material).

Balanced Cables, however, rely on a much more elegant and efficient Undulatory principle to achieve it. At the origin, they split the signal in two identical waves, each with half the original intensity, and proceed to reverse one of them into it’s exact same opposite. (In case you’re wondering, a soundwave of reversed amplitudes sounds exactly like the original, because it’s frequency periods remain intact)

They travel in the same conduit – through separated, insulated wires – and receive the exact same amount of foreign interference throughout the course, simultaneously. However, since interference does not discriminate wires, it alters both wavelengths in the same direction and with the same intensity. At the endpoint of the cable, the reversed half signal is reversed again – along all intereference it carries – and then joined back with the other half.

As a result, only the acumulated interference/noise is eliminated in the reunited stream, since opposite wave amplitudes cancel each other out; and the confluent ones add back up to the original amplitude.

HOW THIS RELATES TO TWIN FLAMES

This ingenious device has the purpose of preserving the fidelity of a flowing input through a strain of uncertain external influences. It’s similarity of conditions to all I’ve ever learned about so-called ‘twin flames’ suggests to me that they may exist as part of a similar metaphysical purpose.

Imagine that you and your twin flame are this stream of the same essential idea but with reversed amplitudes:

– From the perspective of either ‘signal’, the other would be perceived as a mirror: the exact same thing (frequency-wise) but also the exact opposite (amplitude-wise).

– In order for you to attain your purpose together, you must first travel trough a field of interference that continously affects both of you, although in ultimately opposite ways.

– While you travel side by side, you can’t come into direct contact with each other at the risk of self-cancellation.

And why all of this? Apparently, to withstand the continuous interference of different signals that coexist in 3rd Density – however strong they may be – without losing the integrity of the original purpose. I know this doesn’t sound exactly like Romeo and Juliet, but at least it sheds a light on why their ‘impossible love’ archetype is so popular.

We sometimes see texts explaining how ‘twin flames’ are not necessarily involved in a romantic relationship because their bond is of a more ethereal nature, but our generally scarce/neglected affective needs tend to eagerly project upon any cooperative bonds we conceive of.

While affection is hardly ever detrimental – and can sometimes be the main purpose of a connection – different twin flame pairs are mainly about manifesting unique, specific contributions to the world. In this analogy, that would be the frequency itself, being streamed from source to destination.

Most human relationships consist of how these frequencies work together harmoniously or not (by itself, a rich area of study and development) but the twin flame relationship is about self-harmony, it precedes all others in a more existential context. Obviously this simple model doesn’t explain everything about twin flames, but it gives a hint as to the functionality of things in nature that appear to be split in twin polarities.

And that’s the aspect I wish to address the most, because ignorance – and sometimes downright revolt about it – often add up to the noise and interference, in a vicious cycle that undermines our capacity to ‘make a successful transmission’.

IGNORANCE AS INTERFERENCE

If you ignore what you look like, mirrors can only show you something you have little control over. At best you’ll see a guardian angel, at worst a stalker, but it’s unlikely you can use them to shave or put on make-up at this point. Similarly, if you don’t know who you are there is little use to knowing who your twin flame is.

But even worse: seeking them to the detriment of your common goal changes the frequency of your own signal and you’ll be less capable of findind or atracting them – unless they somehow become equally obsessed. (And since the frequency field of ‘people obsessively seeking twin flames’ is viciously huge, the odds become lower)

Being ‘apart’ (or insulated as a cable) acts as an effective contrast in the process of learning who you are, so when the time comes to manifest your common purpose there is no doubt about what it is.

ENANTIOMORPHISM

Predicted in this model is not only a split but a temporary reversal of amplitudes, so how would it apply? This results from the context of duality prevailing in lower densities of existence. Every quality requires an opposing constrast to be perceived, which includes our own. In the process of self-identification, however, many external circumstances compel us to be consistenly partial in our expressions, leaving no room for ambiguity.

Since we inevitably frustrate a part of ourselves, conflicts tend to build up subconsciously in the form of autonomous complexes that Jungian Psychology knows as Anima/Animus and Shadow, which embody what we perceive as complements of our gender traits and antagonists of our morality respectively.

When these conflicts erupt – and they eventually do, after continuous projection in others- people behave the exact opposite way of how they normally do or are aware of doing. Even as this brings internal relief and the person seems to improve their personality afterwards, they haven’t really changed but simply grown in awareness.

The same applies to twin flames: below a certain level of awareness, they would be perceived as either the perfect solution or the absolute root of all our problems, but ultimately no more than the reflection of an individual responsibility we are failing to assume.

EXAMPLE

Let’s suppose someone has a mission – or a part of their greater purpose – of understanding authority. This can project in the dual world as someone who must either give or receive orders – but a second person is obviously required for the situation to manifest.

No matter who their parents, teachers or life guides are, they will be drawn to the question of providing or demanding orders. If they become authoritarian, they are either breeding a submissive shadow or they have a more permissive twin flame (let’s not question causality for now).

Within the interference field, both suffer the same adverse circumstances but react in opposite ways:    Whenever things are not functioning well, the authoritarian will seek to provide instructions while the submissive will demand them. Since neither side understands the other very well, they tend to suffer from repetitive conflicts that traumatize and only reinforce their points of view: the authoritarian becomes a control-freak while the submissive becomes a careless-pushover.

At some inevitable point, the control-freak’s own obsession will drive them into a situation where they must be at the complete mercy of someone else – and the careless-pushover will find themselves wishing to respond for someone else’s actions. If they happen to be twin-flames, you can probably see how their experiences are complementing each other – even if from a Psychological perspective they are both experiencing an Enantiodromy.

Once both perspectives are reconciled in a single field of awareness , any traumatic effects that each party had to endure in the learning process cancel each other like oposing waves – and all that remains is a functional understanding of authority.

COMPLEMENTARITY, RECIPROCITY AND ANTAGONISM

Choosing apropriate dimensions to qualify opposites can be tricky, as even the simplistic example above derives from my own limited perspective of things. For instance, I used to see hate as the opposite of love, but have since reconsidered that love has no real opposite. As a way of relating to others, perhaps indifference would be a closer antagonism… anyway, hopefully this doesn’t affect the essential idea of the self-transcending potential of dualities.

The point is that most things that we learn to interact with have at least one dimension of reflection, however indirect, but we may not know which. If you ever tried using two mirrors or a camera feed to cut the hair at the back of your head, you know how difficult it is to move the scissors properly, since visual feedback of hand motion is reversed from your regular sense of direction – but it’s clearly still you there.

The same seems true about twin-flames: by definition, we are already connected with them, but working with them consciously to achieve something probably requires some consistent balancing experience. So before you seek ‘couple therapy for single people’, remember that the price might be double rather than half.