FOREWORD TO
Twin Souls Merging
George Reeves and Jean Cline
A Psychological and Spiritual Journeyby
Victor Paruta
Plato, in his discourse on love, wrote of a time when there was a third sex, which was the union of male and female in one body. But Zeus chose to diminish these androgynous beings by splitting them into individual male and female souls.
Plato further explains that when one meets his other half, the pair are “lost in an amazement of love, friendship, and intimacy…yet they cannot explain what they desire of one another. For their mutual yearning does not appear to be the desire of lovers’ intercourse, but of something else…”
Edgar Cayce, the Sleeping Prophet, also spoke of twin souls, revealing that Jesus and his mother Mary were, indeed, twin souls. He also said that in the beginning the “male and female were as in one,” but eventually became separated into two genders.
We are born with a desire for wholeness—a yearning to unite with something or someone that will complete us. This desire is reflected in the cosmologies and myths of cultures throughout history. It is the search for the Holy Grail. We attempt to find it through love and relationships, and yet these often leave us wanting. This yearning leads many to the spiritual path and, hopefully, a return to wholeness—long since lost in mythic time.
Twin Souls Merging is a journey of self-discovery taken by psychotherapist Gary Duncan and his client, Jean Cline, who came to Gary about her ongoing inner dialogue and intimate relationship with the spirit of a dead man. His presence had existed inside her as an inner voice since his mysterious and infamous death when she was 13 years old.
What is a highly educated and experienced therapist to do when a client makes such an admission? Gary’s initial judgment: Jean was delusional and possibly psychotic; George, a fragment of her own personality.
The line between mental illness and mystic experience is at times a very thin one. Both experiences are very personal. To describe one’s mystic experience to someone else is to take the risk of being misunderstood, ridiculed or even condemned. But to those who experience them, these are unforgettable peak experiences which forever stretch their concept of reality, their paradigm. Many have had such peak experiences spontaneously, through spiritual practices such as chanting, meditating, praying and through transpersonal approaches such as shamanic journeying, past life regression, and holotropic breath work. The American Heritage Dictionary defines paradigm as, “A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline.” When current paradigms are challenged by anomalies such as the one presented in this book, then they must change in order to explain the problem which the old paradigm can not. This is called a paradigm shift. Little did Gary Duncan realize in their early sessions, that his experience with Jean Cline and her “friend” would catalyze in him a paradigm shift so profound that he would leave the field of psychotherapy altogether.
Clients often draw their psychotherapists into uncharted territory to reveal a vast realm previously unknown. This happened to psychiatrist Brian Weiss when his clients started to contact their spirit guides and spontaneously regress to past lives during hypnosis sessions. His bestselling book Many Lives, Many Masters presented his discovery to the world at large, forever changing the mass consciousness. This also happened to the late John Mack, M.D., Pulitzer Prize-winning author and professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He became convinced that the alien abduction encounters of his patients actually happened and wrote the books Abduction and Passport to the Cosmos. Perhaps this book will do the same for the concept of twin souls.
I found my feelings toward Jean and Gary shift dramatically as I read this book. I questioned Jean’s sanity and Gary’s methodology all the way to the exciting climax of their journey—their visit to the Super Museum in Metropolis, IL where Gary finally sees proof that the spirit of George Reeves is, indeed, real and present.
Reading Jean’s diary and Gary’s confidential case notes provides the thrill of peeping into a world not meant to be seen. I applaud their courage in opening their personal papers—and, above all, their hearts—to share their very powerful experience with us.
Ultimately, Jean’s experience with her twin soul, George Reeves, is as enigmatic as the circumstances around his death. Is this really a case of twin souls merging? The evidence points in that direction. What will you conclude?
—Victor Paruta
Cincinnati, January, 2007Publisher’s Note
Victor Paruta is one of Cincinnati's most trusted clairvoyant mediums. He appears regularly on radio, television, and in print, and was featured on ABC’s The View with Barbara Walters as an expert on ghosts and hauntings. Cincinnati Magazine featured him in their Best of Cincinnati issue. Victor is founder of the Victory of Light Expo, Southern Ohio’s largest metaphysical convention. He is on the faculty of Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center in Covington, KY where he teaches psychic development and directs the metaphysical education program. He has post-graduate training from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA.
Victor met Gary Duncan and Daryl Coston in 1998 when they approached him for his psychic impressions about Jean Cline’s relationship with George Reeves. Gary, Daryl, and Jean first introduced these experiences to the general public at the Victory of Light Expo in 1998. You can find more information about his expo at:
