I saw something in the dark. A little piece of the puzzle.

I’m not going to try to couch this in the ‘versions’ that have been told by the new age nonsense talkers. I am not interested in justifying what I now know to a crowd of people who don’t actually know anything or put in the required discipline to find out more.

Take it or leave it.

I’ve been exploring the “infrastructure” of reality, so to speak. Looking around above and below this plane and all within it to get a better sense of our relative position as compared to everything else. Angels, Demons, God, parallel dimensions and alternate timelines... Past lives, future ones, and how we relate to each other in soul beingness outside of any human identity. It’s a lot.

Think of it like a wolf checking new territory and exploring the topography. I’m just doing what I do best in the higher planes.

Between that and what I already knew, this is what I’ve found in regards to the beloved concept of Soul Family and all of the surrounding terms.



The souls of all living being matriculate down from the Source of everything. The true origin of all that is beyond the far edges of reality into the upper planes and beyond. Call it God if you’d like. Call it whatever makes you feel better. Debating the name is an age old human past time akin to arguing whether to say the English word or the Spanish one. If that’s where you want to spend your bandwidth you’ve gotten lost and be my guest, but I won’t be there.

Back to the souls. They matriculate.

Maybe because Source God got bored and wanted to experience something that only two or more individuations could experience. Maybe because it is in It’s nature to expand and divide into all corners of potentiality. Maybe it’s all a dream in the mind of the great one. Maybe this is another distraction you should set down.

Regardless of how it happens, one becomes two, two become four. Four become eight.

Sixteen. Thirty-two. Sixty-four. One hundred and twenty eight. On it goes.

And as the individuation occurs, Source experiences even finer detail. Even deeper relationship. At the top the parts are still so grand and immense that to us it is still God. Or gods if you want to get spicy. But eventually you move down through forces, elements, aspects, and all other manner of dvisions to get down here, into the material plane of linear time and physicality. You get to where individual souls exist and we each get to have our own personality and preference.

We each get to be ourselves.

We’re still a part of the whole. And in fact each division still exists and operates as something. As the parts divide into smaller divisions its more akin to light splitting through a prism than flat worms a-sexually reproducing.

So right above where you now exist there is a fork in the beam of Source light that has shone through nearly infinite prisms to become you. A fork on which the other side is another individuated soul having their own human experiences.

This is your Anam Cara. This is the closest soul to you in a sea of souls having endless lives.

If God got tired of this individuation experiment and decided to retract his life force one layer at a time, this is the soul -dare we think of it as another person- with which you would first re-unite.

Go up another layer and you’re now at a junction where two Anam Cara pairs have come from. And if you we’re to go down each side, you’d have four individuated souls. Four entities experiencing all that reality has to offer.

This is your Soul Pod. All of the souls closest to you in the actual structure of individuation. The most recent splits in the beam of God’s light.

I don’t honestly know how far it extends, the Pod. I’m not even sure there’s any significance to that proximity yet except that they are in fact the individuations “closest” to you. I have some personal experience that suggests there’s something there. But as you’ll soon find out the difference between Soul Pod and Soul Family and Karmic Bonds creates a ven diagram of complexity. So the Pod, is it the closest eight souls? Thirty two? Is there a layer where the forks aren’t in two but in three instead in which case maybe it’s the closest 48? I haven’t been able to explore up the tracks that far. It’s like hiking up a stream bank to find the next junction and down that one to see where it ends. Then up again and past to another junction and down that one, and any forks it may have. I’ve made a lot of progress but it’s exhausting at times.

So for now what I can tell you is simply that your Soul Pod is some amount of individuated souls that are closest to you in the forks of Source individuation.

This should no be mistaken for Soul Family or Tribe, which we’ll get to in a moment.

Soul Pod may be better used to describe the most immediate souls, less than 9 I’d suspect, on what is probably better called a Soul Branch. In this case the Branch is exactly what you think it is: like a family tree drawing in grandma’s family album, it shows you where everyone’s genetics came from. Except in this case only the bottom row are human. The rest are relationships (like Anam Cara) or aspects. Go far enough up your branch and you’ll find yourself at the fork between Light and Dark, or Wind and Fire, or who knows what else, and eventually back at God.

These are structural elements of our individuation experience. Parts that divide to have different experiences and as such while we come from the same Branch our incarnations may be nothing at all alike. Like biological siblings we are often very unique from each other and have come for very different experiences. We share the bond of genetic closeness but not necessarily the bond of shared experiences and intentions. We are close in the grand weave yet each living out our own set of human incarnations. We may never cross paths in human form. We may cross paths many times.

My Anam Cara has many lifetimes in the Mediterranean Sea area and the Mayan Empire. I recall very few there but I was definitely some ancient Central American and then a LOT of Norse. That said we’ve undoubtedly been incarnated many times which we don’t currently remember so if there’s internet when I leave here I’ll put another WPS up with details.

Counter to Soul Pod, we have Soul Family, though given the biological analogy for Soul Branch it gets a little confusing. We’ll make a list of definitions at the end.

Soul Family or Tribe are the souls you have a relationship with across lifetimes and have created a karmic bond with, or a set of karmic bonds. I am using the term somewhat loosely to represent agreements and contract formed prior to human incarnation begins or in between incarnations, when we are in the form of our highest selves that obligate us to particular experiences, roles, and efforts in collaboration with them. Agreements to explore together, play roles for each other, find each other in this weird 3d world and play the game of being real.

These are the souls we run with.

If it can be said that the Soul Branch and Pods are the literal structures at the end of Source light blasting out from the infinite center into everything else, akin to a genetic tree or a literal branch, then Soul Family are the ones we go on adventures with -our chosen allies in this experience.

If it can be said that the Soul Branch is akin to a region or neighborhood of the Great Map, then Soul Family are the folks who show up with their bags packed ready for a road trip.

You might chat with your neighbors, even do cook outs and help them with projects, but you’re in proximity because you both like the local scenery. Your soul family are the beings that you will adventure with for lifetimes.

Somewhere in there we also have the popular Twin Flame and the Soul Mate.

In reverse order, Soul Mate is similar to Soul Family in that it is a karmic bond not a structural one. You’ve met, there is deep connection, and that echoes through incarnations. Mate for lives, so to speak. It is a pair bonding and therefore almost always romantic. Often you'll remember past lives together the more intimate and familiar you get with each other in this lifetime.

Twin Flame on the other hand is a person whom has a deep, essential piece of your karma and your Path. It’s a soul you had a proverbial hand shake agreement to play particular roles for each other down here in the muck and glory of reality.

Again, we’re using karma to mean something a bit different than you might expect: “the inevitable result of your actions echoing through time to balance the energy of your beingness by way of the lessons you need to do so”.

On the other hand your Path can be seen from two vantages:

1, from the vantage of your individuated human perspective it is the route through incarnation that is unique to you and most aligned with who you are, what you came here to do, and why you are alive.

2, from the vantage of your highest self, it is the ‘list of experiences’ you decided you wanted when you began the incarnation process. It is the particularities you chose to embody throughout all of your lifetimes. And as such it shows up in each individuation as a piece of that puzzle. In each lifetime you’ll cover some portion of that Path. You retain free will choice from the vantage of the human, but you are right where you wanted to be from the vantage of the higher Soul. You can think of it as a game you decided to play. You don’t know how it will go but like any good table game there’s a theme and a framework.

The result is, if we could summarize it all into a nice little package:

You are an incarnated individual at the end of a Soul Branch that originates in Source God and extends out into reality, and the closest individual to you is your Anam Cara. The souls nearest you on your branch are your Soul Pod, but you spend most lives running with your Soul Family. You will meet your Soul Mate(s) along the way for relationship and your Twin Flame(s) for karmic process. You'll be here, wandering your Path as chosen by your higher self until you eventually individuate successfully and begin your journey back to rejoin Source.

We'll get into more details as I track and explore in Part Two.

Here are your vocab words, kids:

Soul Branch – Structural term; your complete lineage of Souls in regard to the individuation of Source as it expands out into reality.

Soul Pod – Structural term; your local group of Souls immediately in proximity at the individuated human level of the Branch.

Soul Family – Relational term; a group of Souls you have, prior to or in between incarnations, created multi-lifetime bonds with, including but not limited to karmic ties of “completing experiences”.

Soul Mate – Relational term; a particular Soul that you direct and repeating romantic pair bonding connection with across multiple lifetimes. Note: you might have more than one.

Twin Flame – Relational term; a particular Soul with whom you have a deep contract, karmic tie, or mission to carry out. It will be intense, it will be hot, you might mistake it for a Soul Mate, but you will most definitely learn something. Note: you might have more than one.

Anam Cara – Structural term; the Soul that is most immediately approximate and the closest individuated being to yourself. Don’t be mislead, Anam Cara is also a relational term as this connection is profound. It is likely that at times you were incarnated while they served as spirit guide and visa versa. If you are both incarnated together in the same age range, indications are good that you are on your last incarnations.

Source – The source of all that is, was, and will be. Otherwise known as God, Gaia, Divine light.

Karma - The inevitable result of your actions echoing through time to balance the energy of your beingness. This occurs by way of lessons, experiences, consequences, boons, and various other modulating “forces” that seemingly act outside of causality.

Path – A particular order of experiences of any given individual. Your path indicating your own route through experiences, lessons, choices and even incarnations, all ordered perfectly to get you to Individuation and back again.