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In November if 2000, the coordinator of a spiritual pen pal program, deluged with pen pal requests and in desperation, asked if I would please help her by taking one contact. Though I had a full plate, I did enjoy spiritual discussion, and figured, how much time could it take to write a letter or two a month? (I had no clue what I was headed for.) Could I help my friend out?

“Sure I can do that,” I heard the words come out of my mouth, and before I closed it, I had an address in hand.

This started a chain of events that are too complicated to relate in detail in this short article, but I will give a brief overview. Mel, my assigned pen pal—the choice made by the coordinator—was, and still is, a happily married man. I am also married to a wonderful man, my husband of more years that I care to say. I soon learned that my pen pal was six months younger then I, and we discovered that we were both novelists. That was the first of the synchronicities we began to discover through our correspondence.

Five months later, my new friend nearly died from a serious health complication. As he lay near death on the operating table, though we were half the country’s distance apart, I felt him pulling away from this world. We have all heard people say “my heart ached,” but for me that was no metaphor. I felt a pressure in my chest like a tugging of my life force being literally ripped out of me. Tears rolled down my cheeks and for several hours, I was in terrible emotional distress. I felt him leaving me, and I wouldn't let him go. I held him here in the physical by the sheer force of my will--at least that was my perception at the time. I wasn’t about to let him go, but other than losing a friend, I didn’t know why I felt so strongly for a person I had never met face to face or heard his voice. We were to discover the answer to this mystery over a year later.

Then suddenly, eight hours after his surgery began, this dark cloud lifted, and I knew he was all right. About an hour later, his wife called confirming what I already knew. I didn’t learn until weeks later that he had actually died on the table and that he had been brought back--we know now--by divine intervention.

As you might have guessed, my pen pal, Mel, is my Twin Soul. At the time we began our correspondence, neither of us had ever heard of Twin Souls. But we could feel each other’s emotions over the distance that separated us. We got sick at the same time, felt pain at the same time in the same places. Synchronicities of our childhood began to mount that were too numerous to ignore.

One day in a letter--I can’t remember which one of us said it--we decided that what we were experiencing was similar to what some separated identical twins experience. But we knew we had no biological family connection. So one of us said innocently, “Well we must be Soul Twins!” From that day on, less than a year after we started writing each other, and a year before we learned that there was such a thing as a Twin Souls, we began signing our letters, Your Soul Twin, Me,1 and Me, 2. I was born into physicality first, so I am Me,1. To this day, we still sign our notes to each other the same way.

The more I thought about this, a growing sense of inner knowing made me realize that this ‘Soul Twin thing’ was more than just a silly term of endearment we used in our letters. I began to search through our favorite spiritual books but found nothing that explained what we were experiencing. Months later my daughter called, and knowing of the connection with my pen pal, read me something she had tripped upon about Twin Souls.

I was floored! “Twin Souls! You mean there really is such a thing?” That was the beginning of another spiritual awakening and an assignment of a spiritual mission that included our spouses as part of a Quadrant. But it would be sometime before we actually understood this.

In the Summer of 2002, both Mel and I began trying to make connection with our spirit guides. Why? Because we believed we could. And because many times I was sure I had been guided to do a certain thing—like help my friend out by being a pen pal! As an artist, I had learned to rely on my intuition.

Mel, during meditation one afternoon, telepathically connected with a being. The communication was distinct, and Mel asked if this being was his spirit guide. The being insisted that he was not his spirit guide, but claimed to be Zebadiah, his guardian. It is a comical story that I know one day he will delight in telling, but this is an introduction to the Zeb and Zarna Articles, so I will keep it short.

In the following months, we learned that Zeb--as he called himself--was a Creator God, the Oversoul of our soul group as well as the Over, Oversoul of all soul groups—a multidimensional androgynous being who is merged with his Twin Soul, Zarna. Of course, there is much more to Zeb & Zarna than this, but I am relating early communications. Zeb told us that we, Mel and I, had a spiritual mission, that we were indeed Twin Souls, and that telling others about Twin Souls would be the first assignment of our mission.

I was amused and intrigued, but frankly, this scared Mel out if his wits. He didn’t want a mission! He didn’t want to hear telepathic voices. He just wanted a spirit guide to help direct his life.

Well, that wasn’t to be.

Zeb indicated that I would also begin to channel, and just after the first of the year, 2003, I was also able to detect telepathic communication and began first to connect with Zarna, and soon after with Zeb.

Since then, Zeb and Zarna have been communicating with us regularly, preparing us through what we call the ZZ Messages, which are channeled instructions and clarified spiritual information. The articles on this site are sometimes channeled, sometimes compiled from what ZZ has taught us in the channeled messages. (ZZ is our nickname for them, created so that we did not have to write out their names. They love it, but argue over which Z comes first! )

Melvyn Caryl is the pseudonym chosen by ZZ that my Twin Soul and I use for writing all of our spiritual articles. Much of what Zeb and Zarna have to say has been said before in other spiritual writings. Much of it expands, some is new, and some contradicts other spiritual teachings. With love and devotion, we invite you to explore the ZZ view.

Please take what you can and leave the rest.

With our love and many blessings.

Melvyn Caryl 4/18/04

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