Forgiving infidelity: A critical step in your soulmate search
Forgiving
infidelity often takes a back seat to the drama of unfaithfulness in
marriage which inspires both entertainment and tabloids.
My reason for writing about this
sensitive topic on The Soulmate Site is multi-fold.
- Because
healing from any past
heartbreak is critical as we consciously seek our
soulmates.
- Because
it may be that forgiving infidelity and re-committing launches an existing relationship
into soulmate status.
- It
may also be that infidelity
healing is an important step for you, so
that a new person can come in.
The
reincarnationist viewpoint and past life insights from the files of clairvoyant Edgar Cayce
offers a little talked about perspective, which may assist some people
in their forgiveness process. Who
is Edgar Cayce?
Celebrity
infidelity: Oh, the drama
The
infidelities of Tiger Woods, Jesse James, David Letterman, John
Edwards, David Duchovny and more dominate our media, striking fear into
the hearts of mated people everywhere.
It's easy to find
psychological experts'
take, and their ideas on
recovery from infidelity. The choice of forgiving infidelity is
personal, gut-wrenching and complex, and I highly recommend working
with professionals.
What few talk about,
however, are the spiritual and karmic aspects
of unfaithfulness and that's where my interest lies. What
is karma? Not only the behavior
of the cheating spouse... but the (unconscious) choice made by the
person who was betrayed. From a spiritual and energetic perspective, why did Elin Nordegren
choose Tiger? Why did Tea Leoni
choose David? Why did Sandra Bullock choose Jesse?
I
don't know these folks, and I will not, indeed cannot, speculate why
they (in an esoteric - not literal - sense) 'chose' their
cheating
spouse. I answer such questions only about myself, for myself.
However, for those motivated to dig deeper for their own reasons, the reincarnationist point of
view, for some, can offer a way to understand and heal. It
did for me. In fact, these ideas were what finally brought me emotional
freedom.
Yes, many years ago, I did experience the pain of infidelity. I wrote
about the experience (thematically) in my novel, Moondance,
which follows my character Althea from anger and blame to forgiveness.
With a few surprises in between of course. It is dramatic fiction after
all. :-)
I share the following today, with the folks who are sincerely interested in healing from
infidelity,
and along with other tools, philosophies and support-systems they may
choose to explore, may find this information helpful in their search.
Psychic
Edgar Cayce
These ideas are not my flights of
fancy. They were carefully excerpted from the book Many Mansions - The Edgar Cayce
Story on Reincarnation by Gina Cerminara. Who
is Edgar Cayce?
This information from the most documented American clairvoyant offers a
unique, complex view of soulmates
and reincarnation... and infidelity in marriage. If this
resonates for you in any way, I
encourage you to
read more about the man and his work which is
impossible to summarize on one web page.
Warning!
The following information isn't
for those who need easy answers. But, for those who want
an empowering way to approach forgiving infidelity, there is much here
to consider.
Reasons
for infidelity
There
are many causes of infidelity, spanning biological, psychological and
social factors. According to the Cayce readings, in some cases, infidelity has
origins from past lifetimes. In other words, 'karmic'
origins. What
is karma?
So
Mary's unfaithfulness to John today, may be due to the fact that John
'deserved' this treatment because of his unfaithfulness to his wife in
ancient Rome. A
situation not of 'punishing', but of balancing. As Cayce
says about karma: in life, we often 'meet ourselves' [i.e. we often
meet our
behaviour from past lives in the traits of others in this life].
There are three cases in the Cayce material for which karma clearly
appears to be the reason for infidelity. Food for thought, especially if
you're on the journey of forgiving
infidelity.
Three
cases of karmic infidelity
One
cannot possibly cover such a complex topic in one web page. I highly
encourage you to read
more on Edgar Cayce if you are interested in this topic.
- The
husband of a mother of two had been having
an affair for eight years. She had known about it for the
past two. When she asked Cayce why she was going through this
experience, Cayce said "because
of your own unfaithfulness in the experience before this".
- A woman who, during a lifetime in
the French court, had been shamelessly unfaithful.
She was now 'meeting' the same situation again with her unfaithful
present husband, who had been her principal paramour in the earlier
incarnation.
- A
woman whose husband drank
excessively had one
affair after another,
even bringing a woman into their home. The wife had known and remained
faithful for years, even becoming infected with STDs. Cayce said that
the situation was due to
her past life as the illigitimate Japanese daughter of
one of Commodore Perry's sailors.
Possibly
because she felt like an outcast, she had become promiscuous and was a
source of infection to the many men she was with. "And far-reaching were those
influences", Cayce said in her reading. "Even to the meeting of it in
the present experience."
How
to deal with infidelity
Now, not all cases of infidelity
are karmic. The
Cayce book suggests that the best way to determine if a situation is
karmic, is to ask if there's sufficient 'provocation' in the present.
In other words, is it a case of 'quick' karma?
Forgiving infidelity
might be one of the hardest things you or anyone ever has to do.
I highly recommend working with relationship experts
to help you sort through the complexities.
Indeed, the path to forgiveness is not always a comfortable or simple
one.
Whatever you choose, know
that there is hope, there is a light beyond just
'surviving infidelity', and that if you
continue to ask, to search, to dig deep and to grow you will heal
your heart, emerge even stronger and - if it's something you desire -
create a soulmate. What
is a soulmate
Whether it's with your current partner on a new level, or with someone
new
you haven't even imagined yet.
Thanks
for reading about forgiving infidelity.
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