Twins

Greetings beautiful people!

You know, I love your questions and comments and when you share your own stories with me and I recently was asked if I might be willing to make a video about twins. This is the physical biology of two or more babies born together and I think this is a fascinating topic. This girl herself is a twin and she had a couple of really good questions, like why did we incarnate together and will we incarnate together next time and I will address both of those questions in this video.

So let’s talk about twins! We’ll kinda start here with the basics. So, fraternal twins are formed from two separate eggs fertilized by two separate sperm. Identical twins form when one fertilized egg splits in half creating two separate embryos. Fraternal twins are just like other siblings born at separate times and can be the same sex or not and may look very different from each other and may even have different blood types. Where identical twins will be the same gender and express identical physical traits and will have the same blood type and the same DNA, although the DNA may change somewhat over time and this is due to the differing environmental factors, home environment, nutrition, whether they’re cherished or abused, pollution, and so on, as each child develops into a unique individual. And something I found interesting is that some researchers have found a third type of twin, where the egg splits in half and each half is fertilized by a different sperm and this is why some fraternal twins can look identical. Fascinating!

There are also conjoined twins, where the two babies are born connected to each other, This happens when the embryo only partially separates and although it develops into two babies, they remain connected, sometimes at the chest or abdomen, or even at the head or brain, so they usually end up sharing internal organs, most often making the job of surgically separating them impossible. The survival rate of conjoined twins is less than 10% and even if the surgery of separating the two is successful, only about 60% of those children survive. Yet, there are those success stories we’ve all heard about.

And speaking of twins, what about the woman who was discovered to be her own twin? With my background in biology, I find this sort of anomaly fascinating. The case where the woman was her own twin, is a very rare condition called a chimerism. The definition of a chimera is a phantom or an illusion. You may have heard the word referred to as a monster, which of course is totally not fair, because in human biology a chimera is simply a person with at least two genetically distinct types of cells. In this situation cells that are meant to become twins, but where the two fertilized eggs fuse - each egg holding two distinct genetic codes that become one fetus which carries two separate strands of DNA. The twin is invisible, as a chimera, living microscopically inside the body as DNA. In the case of the woman who was her own twin, it existed in the DNA of her thyroid! Isn’t that wild?

Then there’s even a more unusual condition, where a person can live normally for many years only to later discover they have a twin growing inside their body! Like the 17 year old girl in India who found a lump in her stomach and when the doctors performed surgery to remove the tumor, found it to be a mass that contained bones, hair and teeth. When the doctors removed it, the mass was about two-thirds the size of a full-term baby! It was her own twin growing inside her, which was the result of a rare condition called fetus-in-fetu. There have been numerous cases of this same condition, like the Columbian woman who gave birth to a baby who had in her abdomen the tiny, still growing, body of her twin sister. The twin was removed and the baby is now fine. But, I should add here that these fetal masses that are extracted are not babies, there’s no soul within the mass that would feel pain or suffering, this is simply embryonic tissue which initially began forming as a fetus, but for whatever unique reason, within each individual circumstance, the chemistry … the chemical signal coming to that group of cells was altered, changing the growth of that developing structure and the fate of that birth.

Or the case of a baby who began as triplets, but at about 10 weeks or so, the dominant, or host baby, as it’s called, absorbed the other two fetuses. At the baby’s birth, it was discovered that between the liver and kidney of the baby, were two tiny structures, each holding a partially formed fetus, including spine, rib cage, umbilical cords, intestines, and even a very primitive brain. At some point during the pregnancy there was a change in the biological designation of cell growth within the womb of the mother and the placental nutrition, oxygen, hormones, etc, is transferred from the three fetuses to the one.

But as far as I’m concerned, the most amazing of all these cases is of a 36 year old farmer in India who had always been teased because of his big belly. His stomach, over time, became so swollen that he looked 9 months pregnant and eventually he could hardly breathe. Finally, the doctor had to perform emergency surgery to remove what he thought was a very large tumor that was now pressing dangerously on his diaphragm. When the surgeon cut into the man’s stomach gallons of fluid spilled out. It was almost like the man was giving birth. The surgeon was shocked to see that inside this man’s stomach was a half-formed body that had hair, jaws, feet and even hands with long fingernails. This was another rare case of parasitic twins, where a fetus gets trapped inside its twin. The dominant fetus grows and its twin continues to live and can even survive past birth by feeding off the host baby, like a parasite, until it grows large enough to begin to endanger the body of the host baby and then would usually need to be removed. For this man, directly after the surgery all of his pain and inability to breathe disappeared and he immediately recovered. But what makes this case so bizarre is that this man had no idea he had a twin inside him for 36 years!

Okay, enough of the strange and unusual. Those of course are extremely rare representations of twins, but deserve to be in the discussion. So back to the more conventional side of the twin conversation.

As I said, the concept of twins is an intriguing one. My mother-in-law and her sister were fraternal twins and as different as day and night. Both girls, but very different facial features and bodies. One with dark hair, one with light hair, one very domineering, one very submissive, one easy going, the other more uptight, and so on.

Now, my grandmother was an identical twin, but her sister died shortly after the birth, so her mother decided to give the living baby both names, her own and her sister’s. I thought that was a great idea. I once asked my grandmother how she felt about being an identical twin and she said, “Like a part of me is missing”. I really think that this missing part of herself may have entered into her deep spiritual yearning to fill an emptiness she couldn’t seem to satisfy. She felt that this constant craving was for God, but maybe some of that hollowness was her missing sister, with whom she had spent nine months in the same womb. I’m sure the intensity of loneliness the surviving twin can feel must be overwhelming and difficult for others to understand.

What makes this topic so interesting from a spiritual perspective, is that in the case of identical twins, they are actually the same person, the same soul, two bodies with a single consciousness. This is why they incarnated together, because it couldn’t happen in any other way, since they are one soul, one being, split in two for the purpose of an accelerated soul expansion. Two lives in one, so to speak! And, as an aside, this is a very similar loneliness that one feels as a starseed walk-in, where the person is on a ship or distant planet, lying in an immersion pod that directs the conscious soul-signal into another body. That body will always feel like a part of them is missing - like they’re not quite whole as they are. And of course this is true. They are only partially here on earth as a human being and most walk-ins will have a sort of an echo of that other person. A slight remembrance that may only show up in dreams or during rest or mediation.

Identical twins will always have a strong connection to each other and how intense this bond remains will depend a lot on life circumstances, like whether, or how long, they remain together, because once the babies are born they immediately start having their own unique experiences and will begin developing into two different people. However, even if these babies are separated at birth, they will most often retain the same tastes, even in hairstyles or fashion for clothes. They even are prone to pursue similar careers and tend to, as an example, gain weight or age at the same rate or time in their lives.

We could also here get a little deeper into the spiritual concept of twins and how much of the soul’s desire to encounter this particular experience comes from the spirit side of life and how the soul developed from within this sort of in-between space, teetering between the integration of what we call past lives and the lives lived between incarnations. When souls fragment from the potential energy of the ether, they have the same past lives. Where in-between lives, a soul may find itself within a collective of similar frequency souls, or beings, and through this merging of information, discovers more of its own tendencies and disposition and this inclination can bring about an attraction, while contemplating the next incarnation, an attraction toward a more communal dive into the physical, where it might feel a stronger connection to further fragmenting itself to gather more information …like-drawing-like, therefore, more expansion of self.

And to answer the other part of this girl’s question, about whether she and her twin will incarnate together in the next life, this will be up to them both, both halves of one soul, whether they decide to continue as two fractions of a whole in the next life or at death, to integrate into a single aspect of soul once again.

So, why would a soul want to experience incarnating as a twin? Many reasons. One may be that the soul is impatient to experience more than is usually possible in one lifetime and decides to split into two people, yet within the same family, so the support and love of the other will always be available. It’s an amazing opportunity to observe yourself in a different role and different body, to watch this part of yourself react to every circumstance. And one of the reasons we come into a human life is to discover who we are. Imagine how cool that would be …the chance to know yourself better by having a constant mirror of your own consciousness right in front of you every day and night. What better way to glimpse into your own psyche?

Another reason might be to place within the pre-birth plan different events and encounters for each so the lives will be similar but very diverse in many ways, so when the soul returns home will have had a very contrasting and divergent set of circumstances, events, and relationships and by multiplying the experience, gains more wisdom to take back home.

Well, I hope this is helpful in some way and if nothing else gives a glimpse into the unique methods available to approach the diverse opportunities of learning and growing here on planet earth!

Thanks guys. See you next time. Bye Bye.