Twin Souls: Eternal Feminine and Eternal Masculine

Cynthia Whissell is a psychology professor at Laurentian University.

Readers of this book would be well advised to suspend their disbelief
for the duration of their reading. They would then be likely to remain
tolerably composed when meeting God, Moses, Christ, Buddha, Mohammed,
and other representatives of the Forces of Light as they battle Lucifer,
Ahriman, and their demons (the Forces of Darkness) with the help of
psychoanalysis (Freud), theosophy, self-actualization theory (Maslow),
Héloпse and Abelard, the scientific Curies, the poetic Brownings,
Plato, and Plutarch—but not Jung. The authors believe that “the laws
of the soul [which] are beyond logic” may be explained through the
abstractions of the twinned soul, karmic destiny, and reincarnation.

The basic concept underlying this book is that the universal mind was
split into subgroups, which were themselves divided, and that this
process was repeated several times, culminating in the final split of an
individual hermaphroditic soul into masculine (yang) and feminine (yin)
halves. Destiny is fulfilled when twin souls meet and attempt to fuse,
such fusion being the beginning of the climb upward to the universal
consciousness. Sexual union (which is possible but not necessary for
twin souls in any particular incarnation) can occur on both physical and
astral planes, and it is assumed, by the authors, to be part of the
universal consciousness where individuals will still exist as
individuals while also existing in oneness. Masculine dominance and
strident feminism are described as forces of separatism (they discourage
the meeting of twins), and while homosexual relationships may be a
reflection of co-membership in a group soul, such relationships are not
the ultimate destiny of humankind.

Fans of New Age books should enjoy Twin Souls, alien though its
concepts are to most of us.