My heart seemed to stop beating, my breath caught in my throat, and a tingle shot through my body like liquid fire. I was fourteen years old at the time, and he did become the first great love of my life. All the cliches about love at first sight arise from the real experience of recognizing someone we love from a past life. The intense and immediate sense of intimacy in such a connection is powerful, and throughout the years it has become obvious through my spiritual reading work that everyone wants to have a magical soul mate experience. Physical scientists attribute it to biochemistry and hormones.
Anthropologists explain it by examining cultural myths, procreative instincts and mating behavior.
None of these are exclusive or necessarily contradictory theories. As with all experiences in the physical, beneath them lies a spiritual root or reality from which these manifestations of desire arise. Desire makes the world go around. It is desire that fuels all life and all creation. Desire leads to procreation, new life, ambition, all creativity, and every kind of union.