Gerald Sze - The Sacred Path of the Soulmate: Embracing True Romantic Love

PRAISE FOR

The Sacred Path of the Soulmate

An illuminating, eloquent, soul-spanning treatise

on love. Gerald Szes immaculate storytelling

opens our hearts and minds by tying up the

loose ends to the age-old questions of why we

love who we love when we love.

ZHENA MUZYKA, author of Life by the Cup

Gerald Sze elegantly gives romantic love its

rightful place in spirituality. This book has the

power to transform the reader and the readers

relationships. Altogether beautiful.

SYNTHIA ANDREWS, ND, author of The Path of Energy

The consumerist approach to love focuses

on attracting the right person to fulfill ones

shopping list of desires. Gerald Sze counters

this with the refreshing view that love is a lifelong

opportunity to better ourselves. This book

has the potential to become a platform

for a renewal of true love.

FRANK RA, author of Exstatica

Copyright 2017 by Gerald Sze

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ISBN 978-1-928055-26-6 (paperback)

ISBN 978-1-928055-27-3 (EPUB)

ISBN 978-1-928055-28-0 (PDF)

Editing by Maggie Langrick and Lynne Melcombe

Copyediting by Gillian Burnett

Cover design by Peter Cocking

Interior design by Naomi MacDougall

Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West

EDITORS NOTE: The lack of a singular gender-neutral pronoun in the English language has stymied the clear and inclusive written expression of many progressive thinkers. In this book, you will see the use of they and them to refer to singular subjects whose gender is unknown or inconsequential, as is often the case in English spoken aloud. This is an intentional editorial decision driven by the desire to be inclusive toward readers of all genders and orientations. Where the author uses gendered pronouns, it is because he is referring to specific individuals whose gender identity aligns with the pronoun used.

This book is dedicated to my

two sisters, and to all the romantic

lovers who have the courage

to seek true love.

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I WOULD LIKE to thank my publisher and lead editor, Maggie Langrick, for believing in this project and in me. Maggies vision, compassion and thoughtful care have steered the direction of this book, bringing new life to the manuscript and the books title. I am privileged to be in her world, and to be part of the LifeTree family.

I also thank my editor, Lynne Melcombe, for being the midwife of this book, shepherding me through the process every step of the way. She has enlivened this book with her personal life experiences and intellectual insights, and it would not be the same without her dedication and creativity.

I am also grateful to copyeditor Gillian Burnett for stepping in when the manuscript needed an objective mind to further strengthen and clarify the text.

Thank you to the LifeTree Media publishing team for seeing this book through to its final form. Specific thanks to Paris Spence-Lang for his super organizing skill and patience. Without him, the process would not have been so seamless or as much fun.

Great thanks also go out to my family and friends. Ryan Aceman edited the original version of the manuscript front to back, to make the raw manuscript more readable. Thank you to Vikki Mackay for her support and review of the original manuscript and many friends who have given me their objective opinions and constructive criticisms.

I extend my most sincere gratitude to all the individuals who participated in my research. Many interviewees have spent countless hours sharing their life and love story with me, to help me to unravel the mystery of life and love.

Last, but not least, I am thankful to all the soulmates with whom I have a strong emotional connection in this lifetime. The heart of this book is the imprint of the life and love wisdom Ive learned from you. My life would not have been complete without you. Walking this path with you has taught me what love is, and continues to make me a better person.

Introduction

NOT SURPRISINGLY, GIVEN that romance and love are important interests in my life, my favourite movies are romantic comedies and dramas. And since Im also interested in spirituality, I loved the 1990 movie Ghost, in which a grieving girlfriend has an ongoing romantic relationship with her boyfriends spirit after his death.

This movie is of course a Hollywood fairy-tale romance. Everyone knows that neither fairy tales nor Hollywood romances are grounded in truth, right? Well, Im a person who believes the opposite. I believe that the depictions of romance we see in popular movies reflect our ideals about love, and that with intention and self-awareness its possible to actualize those ideals in our real lives.

The way each of us perceives love, especially romantic love, is shaped by our personal worldview. Under the modern Western worldview, which is ruled by logic and scientific evidence, many moviegoers and film critics would view the premise of Ghost as pure fantasy, rejecting the idea that true love between two individuals can live on beyond the death of the body. But as a person whose worldview includes the concept of reincarnation, I have seen evidence that romance beyond the bounds of a human lifespan is indeed possible.

Many years ago, a man I knew died. Everyone who knew him was mourning the loss, but his stepdaughter was particularly affected by it. About a week after his death, the mans spirit returned to the earthly realm because his beloved stepdaughters consciousness had been taken over by a hostile presence, and he wished to free her from it. I was in the room the night he stepped into her body to drive out the intruding spirit. After his stepdaughters consciousness was restored, his spirit remained in her body long enough to tell his wife he still loved her. This man was my stepfather; his stepdaughter was my sister; and his wife was my mother.

If you greet this story with skepticism, I can understand why. I would probably have been skeptical about it, too, except that nine other people were in the room that night, and they all witnessed the same heartfelt romantic moment. That leaves me with no doubt that what I saw actually happened. With family members present, my mother and stepfather discussed personal matters that were only known between them. The specific things they said to each other have since faded from my memory, but what has remained crystal clear in my mind is the authenticity of the exchange between them.