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Can cousins be twin flames?

6/20/2017

Yes, cousins can be twin flames. This happens sometimes and it causes disturbances in families around the world because it is usually not accepted. In some countries it is even illegal to marry a cousin. Yet people throughout history have felt the overwhelming connection that happens between twin flames. And if that twin flame happens to be your cousin, sometimes being without them is more painful than the disapproval of society.

This is why so many people have decided to marry their cousins, anyway. The energy pull of this soul, which is so much like theirs, is irresistible. Here are a few cases of well-known people who married their cousins because of this overwhelming affinity:

Edgar Allan Poe married his first cousin Virginia Eliza Clemm when he was 27 and she was 13.
Charles Darwin married his first cousin Emma Wedgwood. They had 10 children.
Albert Einstein married Elsa, his first cousin on his mother’s side and his second cousin on his father’s side. Her original last name was also Einstein.
Jesse James married his first cousin Zerelda. She was named for Jesse’s mother.

One of the greatest pairings of twin-flame cousins was John and Abigail Adams, whose rich, lifelong correspondence while he was away from home shows a deep soul connection and an eternal love that characterizes Twin Flames.

The Soul does not comprehend man-made conventions. It only knows Divine Love. If a person shares the same bloodline (with the possibility of genetic consequences in their offspring) it still may be too difficult to be without them. That is the sign of true Twin Flames. They must be together!

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Which things did Freud get right and which things were wrong?

6/13/2017

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Freud did a lot to bring awareness of our subconscious desires and urges. However, I take issue with his concept of penis envy. Until I was an adult, I had rarely even seen a penis, so how could I envy something I had hardly ever seen? If anything, a penis, because of its prominence, renders males more vulnerable to injuries. Penis envy is not based on any scientific findings and is a product of Freud’s own imagination.

Penis envy does explain, neatly, though mistakenly, why many women of his time were frustrated. They saw men had so many more opportunities for growth and self-expression in the 19th century Europe (and the rest of the world, for that matter). But to place this frustration, whose root cause was antiquated ideas of women’s roles in a paternalistic society, on wanting to have a male appendage for excretion, is far- fetched to me.

Another area of Freud’s thought that never rang true to me was the Oedipus complex, and its sister, the Electra complex. This is an explanation of the human psyche that postulates that boys fall in love with their mothers and want to kill their fathers or at least exclude them as rivals and vice versa: Girls fall in love with their fathers and want to exclude their mothers as rivals. According to Freud, this is a natural development for both males and females and they grow out of it. But if something arrests them in this stage of growth, then they get fixated on their mother or father forever and cannot form healthy sexual relationships with others.

Again, from my own personal experience, I cannot affirm this. As a child, I loved my parents equally, with a deep attachment to my mother that had nothing to do with rivalry for my father. It seems prurient and distasteful to put such motives in my childhood relationship with my parents. And it reflects more of Freud’s own hang-ups than that of the general population.

Freud dealt with a very exclusive, bourgeois element of society, mostly women, who could afford his services and had the means to sit around and be neurotic. Working women and men did not have the luxury of analysis and did not have the leisure to contemplate their psychological pain, as they were too busy surviving.

Also, what about orphans and children who never knew their mothers or fathers? Do they get excluded from the Oedipus and Electra complexes? You can see where Freud’s theories break down right there. They applied to small segment of society at a certain time in history. Yet they are valuable in their focus on levels of consciousness that go beyond the surface of the human mind.

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Can cousins be twin flames?

Which things did Freud get right and which things were wrong?

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