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17/06/08: "The day I met my Twin Flame...

Chris's story
I’ve had many relationships in my life including a 13 year marriage all of which really never fulfilled their initial promise. I guess I’d been searching for something or someone to make the half whole and the seeds of expectation my relationships began with had unwittingly also sewn their downfall. So when my spiritual awakening happened and I discovered inner completeness, I resolved never again to subject myself to the endless cycle of broken promises. But as the saying goes, a wise man never says "never"!...
Life as a 'monk'
I may not have worn a habit, but to all intents and purposes I was living life as a bachelor monk. My marriage had ended and I’d rented a small flat on a farm in the rolling Hampshire countryside. I was exploring energy principally through meditation and my connection to Mother Nature. Countless hours were spent in the fields connecting with trees, birds, cloud formations and the miraculous weave that exists through the pure and simple beauty of life.
Each vision synchronistically so presented, stirred deep feelings of joy within. I was dissolving steadily but surely into eternal self love. It was as if everything I observed, heard, touched or tasted on the outside had a deeper meaning, the hidden code of which was now revealing itself to me. This was a heavenly language spoken in many tongues - it was the unmistakable language of divine synchronicity.
After a while in this deeply blissful experience, I noticed that from time to time the language seemed to have a particular vibration; it was coming from a heavenly source which although ever present, I couldn’t quite touch. It had a delicately serene and feminine essence to it and began appearing through visions of women all around me. I’d be drawn to an image on a billboard where something within the glint of an eye or the soft caressing smile would touch me momentarily inside, the faintest glimpse which would then suddenly vanish into the ether. She was like a "ghost in the machine".
The situation had me more than a little foxed. So after a while of this seemingly continual teasing, I took myself into a deep meditational state to ask for greater clarification. As always it didn’t take long for an answer to arrive. I was drawn to a favourite communion place where higher consciousness often seemed to speak through the weave of synchronicity - of all places "The Oracle" shopping centre in Reading (yes don’t you just love the irony and humour of higher guidance?!).
My attention was drawn to a video cover in the HMV store - it was that wonderful 80’s film "Ghost". If you’re not familiar with the plot, two loving partners are separated when one is tragically murdered. Eventually the remaining partner is made aware of a psychic connection to her loved one and the relationship continues but on the etheric plains.
I didn’t need to buy the film to get the message. In an instant, waves of realisation washed over me. It was abundantly clear that a partner (my soul mate I thought) was 'waiting in the wings' for me expressing and reflecting herself through day to day life all around me.
One evening whilst meditating to music, for the first time I felt her presence as a being of light as she guided me through movement and as my awkwardness fell away, an equisite dance unfolded between us. The dance continued through day to day life with essences of this divine being appearing everywhere - in the simple but beautiful smile of the old lady behind the counter of the local grocery store; the purring of a cat or the boundless innocence of a small child. The essence danced through the fabric of life, laughingly mocking the restrictions of solidity and form. It was a deeply profound time, sliding together in union across the crystal clear surface of reality.
Meeting in physical form
After several months of this heavenly interaction, it dawned on me that in order to fully experience my new found partner and thereby the full blown experience of divine union, there must come a time when she would take physical incarnation and we would meet in 'person' so to speak.
By now a powerful telepathic bridge had opened between us and I was caused to believe that my new found mate would manifest right before my eyes and so it was with a great deal of excitement that I was drawn one day to a 'pot-luck' buffet hosted by an acquaintance of a close friend. I just knew this would be a big day - the 'omens' were loaded in favour of it.
When our eyes met, I felt myself dissolving into them as vast oceans of timelessness. There was instant interaction between us and it was clear that our relationship had spanned the long passage of time. We had partnered together through previous incarnations. A profoundly wonderful reunion began that day which Trinity and I celebrated through marriage. It is clear she has come to help me in my life’s purpose and likewise I her.
The bubble bursts
For many a while I was caused to believe she was the partner I had come to know first on the etheric plains but eventually that illusion was exploded for me. We were such perfect mirrors for each other that every shadow of distortion each held was instantly exposed and suddenly one day the honey moon period of blissful harmony vanished in a haze of confusion, pain and acrimony.
In the instant I contemplated leaving, the unmistakable vibration of my twin flame miraculously reappeared to help me restore inner harmony. Once more I was tasting the eternal inner flow of joy and bliss. Our telepathic bridge was reconnected..."If your relationship doesn’t serve you Chris, then of course it would be the right thing to leave. The question is, does it continue to serve?"
In those moments of uncertainty, she floated the lyrics of a favourite song into my awareness...
- "So take me as I am,
this may mean you’ll have to be a stronger man,
rest assured that when I start to make you nervous
and I’m going to extremes,
tomorrow I will change and today won’t mean a thing."
It was instantly clear to me. Yes I could live the rest of my life as a monk on the heavenly plains continually connecting with my twin flame, or I could engage in a deeply challenging, opening and expanding relationship with someone I knew had come to take me to the very limit of myself and beyond. Never one for the quiet life, I surrendered to the latter!
What has followed is a deeply fulfilling experience; I have been invited to live with profound self honesty. Tired excuses, or if I dare to give a lesser truth, are no longer an option. I’m simply not allowed to pass a single moment by without being fully present, totally engaged through multiple dimensions of reality and yet simultaneously totally unattached within every exchange. Neither am I allowed to blame my partner for my own difficulties - my reflection continually reminds me that I am the creator of my own reality and no one else. I am solely responsible for how I feel and what I do.
Walking individual paths together
As soul mates we walk individual and yet parallel paths reflecting back to each other exactly who and what we are being. If I'm being grumpy, thats exactly what I create on the outside and if I'm being understanding, compassionate and loving, I get that too. We are continually providing the greatest gift anyone can give to another - the perfect reflection and the perfect, ever expanding connection with the other half of ourselves - our twin flame.
That is not to say neither of us could not connect with our ultimate partner directly - everyone can do this with or without a soul mate. Indeed in many ways I’ve found it much easier to connect directly to my twin flame rather than through the vehicle of a soul mate. It's just that the soul mate challenges us to open up a rounder, fuller and more complete connection.
So if you don’t believe you’ve yet tasted divine union with your twin flame, perhaps my sharing will encourage you to watch patiently and trustingly for them? Can you dare to believe that your perfect partner is there waiting for you, hanging on the wind, speaking softly through every single moment of your life? That every song lyric which touches you today was a divine message of love sent just for you? Can you dare to imagine that the passing smile of a stranger was no stranger at all? or the images leaping from a glossy magazine were the divine reflections rippling through the pages of your life?
Go on, give it a try. I dare you!
Chris
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Returning soul mates
Hi Chris,
I am a little con fused about one point in your great account about soul mates and twin flames. You said in your experience soul mates don't incarnate until together until they are both ready to move on to higher planes, but both you and Trin also refer to having spent many incarnations together. That seemed a little contradictory when I read it, unless you mean you've moved on many times, then chosen to come back, or is there another way you would explain it please?
Thanks,
Lesley
Soul mates acting through the field
Its a great question Lesley - I just knew someone was going to ask that!
In my account what I actually said was...
"We had partnered together through previous incarnations."
and in her account Trinity said...
"We’d met countless times through the 'field' and spent endless lifetimes helping to propel one another forwards in evolutionary terms."
From my direct experience we have a soul family that vibrates on a very similar frequency to our own - the soul mate is the closest of the family to that vibration. In other words the best mirror.
I believe the soul family and our soul mate came into being at the same time our soul came into being and we undertook a "sacred contract" to help one another through our evolution and journey of Ascension.
However that does not mean that our soul mate must incarnate every time we do - far from it. It is my experience that for countless lifetimes soul mates take turns incarnating - one in embodiment and the other acting on the astral plains. This is what Trinity meant when she said "we’d met countless times through the 'field'".
The two are so close in vibration and such good mirrors to each other, that there is the risk both will spiral into terminal decline unless either or both are sufficiently evolved to hold their centre. Hence they tend not to incarnate together until one or the other are ready.
Neither should we expect that soul mates will appear in the classic 'boy/girl' partnership. Our soul mate could also appear as a close friend of the same sex, maybe a brother or sister or could even be our child.
I trust that answers your question.
And I have one for you...."do you feel as if you've met your twin flame yet?"
Love and best wishes
Chris
So just what kind of bliss is this?
Chris,
How you make me laugh out loud sometimes!!!
Well, when I logged in yesterday and was reading your twin flame account, two things were arising for me.
The question I posted was one of them, and the other was, "Oh, so that twin flame experience must be what's been going on for me for perhaps the last 6 weeks."
I was contemplating which to comment on, or whether to comment on both, and decided to just ask the question because the "twin flame knowing" seemed such a kind of subtle (but still noticeable) change in my awareness that I didn't really know how to describe it and decided not to bother to try! I was content with the recognition in what you had written.
I should have known I wouldn't get away with a bit of laziness!
So maybe I'll have a go as I think we all experience things in different ways and it's good to share.
As you know I made a real commitment some 18 months ago to step onto my path as a full time occupation, in other words, to live every moment looking for the truth in it and being totally accepting of whatever happened along the way as my life no longer followed any of my previous expectations.
So, since that time I have felt utterly and totally connected to "All that is" and have been in a deeply calm and reassured state no matter what arose. That doesn't mean it has all been easy. Sometimes I have had to checkout that the connection, the knowing, the ultimate reassurance that came with that knowing was still there, especially when the going was tough, but it always was, and it formed the solid foundation that allowed me to stay with my journey through all the twists and turns, and of course in the easier times it seems to flow through me 100%.
So this lovely flowing, knowing, connection feeling has become very familiar and I feel very "Whole" and it is a truly wonderful, blessed place to be where I know I need for nothing, and should it be appropriate for me to have the use or experience of something it appears for me. One could describe it as living in a blissful state perhaps.
So this has become the "normality" of my life, the canvas maybe, on which different pictures appear as I carry on my learning processes which in themselve could be judged as pleasant or unpleasant or exciting or interesting or painful or whatever, but they are but fleeting landscapes that appear and disappear as the time for my next learning happens.
So then over the past, maybe six weeks or so, I noticed a different quality to the canvas. I still felt whole, I still felt deeply peaceful and connected to the"All that is" how could there be anything more than that? But there was, like everything had taken on a new sparkle, like there was a layer of bliss on top of the original layer of bliss that gave such an incredible level of happiness and shine to being alive that I was wondering what was going on! I guess the difference is like, there's a level of bliss that is the calm, peaceful, everythings OK in my world, chilled out kind of bliss which had become the norm, and now there's a kind of bubbly, effervescent, deleriously happy bliss that's laying over the top of the peaceful one.
So I had sort of been loosely contemplating this change (which I earlier described as subtle, but now I've put words to it, seems incredibly in your face, obvious!), and I was just enjoying it, with a vague sense of enquiry as to what was going on, when I read your twin flame article and I felt like it had given me the answer. I'm now dancing through life with my twin flame! AND IT"S FANTASTIC!!
Thanks for the question, actually making myself put words to it has definitely enhanced my understanding of it!
With love,
Lesley
Eternal flames...
That's so beautiful Lesley - and of course it was your twin flame that asked the question! :angel:
I think what you describe so eloquently is so important - that you committed yourself first to the path 100% and as a result found inner completeness; yes I recognise it just as you have - a kind of blissfulness of completeness but here and now, not dissolving off into some mythical lala land.
When we find this pure and simple joy, just as you say...
"the "normality" of my life, the canvas maybe, on which different pictures appear as I carry on my learning processes which in themselves could be judged as pleasant or unpleasant or exciting or interesting or painful or whatever, but they are but fleeting landscapes that appear and disappear as the time for my next learning happens."
I just love the way you describe this - its so liberated and liberating. I hope that anyone who reads it who is still fighting with the self identification of perceived wants, needs, desires and fears will feel suitably inspired.
And yes, it's exactly from this state that the twin flame can appear. Where there is no efforting or struggle, we open and open internally thereby constantly raising our vibration. It can be intensely hard work for our twin flame sometimes to speak through the density therefore if we can 'raise ourselves to meet them', we'll first begin to perceive just as you have described and then the feeling will strengthen and strengthen.
Finally I was asked to provide this little video clip for you. It might seem a touch cheesy but then this 3rd dimension is so imperfect that's sometimes how the 'transmissions' come through. I'm sure you'll enjoy it nevertheless...
Much love
Chris
Breathtaking Bliss
Lesley!
That's simply breathtaking!
In Love and Light
Trin
TWIN SOULS
Hi, i have just come across thiss website, and feel pleased i did.
Chris, when i read what you wrote, it made me feel better and it is nice to know i am not the only one who has a connection with their twin soul. all i know is i am not very knowledgable about the terms used to describe whether its twin soul or soul mate, but i know he loves me, very much!
i searched for him in other people, until a point in my life i felt i could not go on, and i had always known i would meet him, and came to realise it just wasnt happening. i became very down and depressed about it, because i had been SO SURE with capitals, how could i be so wrong??
i went to bed one night feeling broken and very angry, hurt, and pained and frustrated. i cried myself to sleep. I kind of woke, between sleep and awake, and saw 'just a glimpse' of my grandmother (who had passed to the spirit world some years before (she is the only person i would lay my trust in too), anyway, i was actually shouting at her! i was shouting where is he where is he?? and she said, in the words of the song, i then realised there were many people there, and they were singing!!! i caught the words 'in heaven'. well my god, i felt the walls of soul come crashing down, the devestation was crippling, a crippling feeling i have never, even imagined could exist and certainly no words could ever explain, not ever. i woke properly so crushed and crying so desperatly i thought i would die!!
after a minute, i felt like a presence of love to the right, about 3 feet/four feet in the air, this presence then sung the chorous of a chris de berg song, and it sung
'when you need a light, in the lonely night, carry me like a fire in your heart'. i was so crushed at the time, i knew it was him, the power of the love was not of this earth, nothing ever could be that strong, unfortunatley, at the time being so crippled i couldnt appreciate it, as i was still coming to terms, and so i almost pushed him away saying no no, as i didnt want it to be true, and he was making it better but worse, if you can understand!!!!
about a month later it was valentines day, and i felt crippling agony emotionally, i had no reason too, none at all. i realised it was not my pain i was feeling, and i tried to connect to him, and said to him, if this you and you are here, show me a sign, i know electrical is easier, but i said not a light bulb! as that could be explained away as nothing.
anyhow, i went on and the next day my current partner went out to the garage, where we have a huge freezer, and came back, and said, the freezer has blown up!! i smiled, obviously i didnt say anything, my partner doesnt beieve in anything like this!
since then i know it is strange, but i saw a golden bird fly above my head. and ever since i have a connection to birds!!!!
my very strange question is do you think a soul mate/twin soul can incarnate as a bird, a particular type of bird??
i know what im writing looks insane, but there is such a strong connection it very odd. this type of bird has saved me from car crashes, and particularly gives me the most unexplainable relief and love whenever i see it, it talks to me in bird talk obviously, usually to say im here look up im here, chases one magpie away, and brings 2! and so muchmuch much more which i wont bore you with.
i still feel upset to this day, that i cant be with him. and i feel him at particular points of songs, showers of love at those moments, chills right down my body, and a feeling i am not alone.
i do though feel cheated somehow, as i feel very strongly that (yet again a strange one) that he was here, and died, and i dont think he was supposed to. i know we planned to be here together.
infact about a week after the meeting with him, i was feeling very upset about the whole thing, and i had a dream, a very vivid dream, that he came to me, i was in bed, being all weak and crying, and he stepped to my bedside, as i looked at him, i said thank god, thank god, (he was a site for sore eyes i can tell you) but he didnt speak to me, just looked at me for the longest time, and then 'tended' to me. he pulled pink curtains around my bed!!! (i dont have curtains around my bed) and he sat at my bedside, but never spoke, and almost seemed dissapointed somehow in my weakness!
would love to know your thoughts, as this happened around 5 years ago and i have never been able to speak about it!!