Lexicon

This lexicon offers a shared vocabulary for exploring the language of continuing bonds. Rather than presenting final conclusions, these definitions invite curiosity, reflection, and dialogue. They provide a conceptual guide to the ideas explored throughout Soul Braids.

BURADA
Turkish for “here.” A word that arrived through a lucid dream with Harley. It became a reminder that a beloved may be experienced as present in relationship, here and now.

CONTINUING BONDS
The established psychological understanding that maintaining an ongoing relationship with a deceased loved one can be healthy and adaptive. Soul Braids builds upon this foundation by exploring how continuing relationships may organize experience through relational coherence, synchronization, recognition, and emergent patterns.

COUPLED OSCILLATORS
A concept from systems science describing how two interacting systems can naturally synchronize over time. Within Soul Braids, coupled oscillators provide one model for understanding how continuing relationships may remain dynamically coordinated through repeated interaction, rhythm, attention, and attunement.

DREAMSPACE
A naturally occurring state of consciousness most commonly entered through sleep, where the ordinary boundaries of waking awareness become more fluid. Dreams range from ordinary processing to profoundly symbolic, healing, creative, and lucid experiences. As we integrate new understanding, recurring dream patterns often change, reflecting our ongoing growth. Within Soul Braids, dreamspace is explored as a state in which continuing relationships may become more readily experienced through recognition, symbolism,  and shared presence. Whether understood psychologically, spiritually, or as an expression of relational coherence, dreamspace invites curiosity, discernment, and wonder.

EMERGENCE
A property that arises through relationship rather than existing within any single participant. In systems theory, emergence describes how new patterns, behaviors, or capacities arise through interaction itself. In Soul Braids, emergence refers to the ongoing creative potential of a continuing relationship. A Soul Braid is not simply remembered; it continues to generate new understanding, insight, creativity, recognition, and meaning. Rather than preserving the past, the relationship continues to participate in what is becoming.

THE FIELD
Also known as: the Field of All That Is, the Zero-Point Field. Within Soul Braids, the Field refers to the underlying relational fabric from which connection, meaning, and possibility emerge. Rather than empty space, it is understood as a living context in which relationships unfold and coherent patterns arise. Modern physics has increasingly shifted our understanding of reality away from a universe composed only of isolated objects and toward one described by fields, probability, and relationship. Thinkers such as Einstein and Infeld, Max Planck, and contemporary researchers exploring quantum fields have all contributed to this evolving picture in different ways. While their work does not establish Soul Braids, it offers a scientific landscape in which relational models of reality can be meaningfully explored. Within Soul Braids, the Field is not viewed as something our loved ones “go to.” It is the ever-present context in which love, consciousness, and relationship continue to unfold.

FREQUENCY SPIRAL
Research on frequency spirals inspired the Soul Braid Hypothesis by showing that interacting systems can spontaneously organize into stable, emergent patterns that belong to the relationship itself rather than to either individual system.

LIGHT
Light is information—first received and decoded through the systems of the body that translate it into something we can perceive and understand. Within a Soul Braid, light describes information becoming experience: recognized through dreams, synchronicities, symbols, insight, bodily knowing, and moments of profound recognition.

LOVE
Love is more than a feeling. Within Soul Braids, it is understood as the underlying substratum of everything—an organizing force through which systems develop harmony, coherence, and the capacity to sustain themselves. Love becomes experiential through relationship, where trust, presence, and devotion give it form as a living relational architecture.

LIMINAL
Threshold states – such as meditation, waking, falling asleep, or profound stillness – where ordinary cognitive filters soften and experiences of continuing relationship may become more readily perceived.

PINGS
Meaningful words, symbols, sensations, or events that arrive with unusual precision and personal relevance, creating an immediate sense of recognition. Some pings are understood in the moment; others function as porchlights—symbolic breadcrumbs whose significance becomes clear only later, when subsequent experiences illuminate what they appeared to be pointing toward.

RECOGNITION
The experience of knowing a beloved’s presence through their unique relational tone rather than through physical perception alone. Recognition differs from memory in that it feels immediate, participatory, and relational rather than merely reflective.

RESONANCE
When two things share a compatible frequency, they naturally begin to respond to one another. In physics, this phenomenon is known as resonance. Within Soul Braids, resonance offers one way of understanding how continuing relationships may become more perceptible through attunement rather than effort. When relational tones align, recognition, synchronicity, creativity, and meaning often become more
readily experienced. Resonance does not create the relationship – it reveals it.

SOUL BRAID
A Soul Braid is the living architecture created between two beings through sustained trust, presence, devotion, and love. It is the continuing record and wiring of the relationship they have built together. When physical form changes, the relationship may continue to be experienced through its own unique language of recognition, meaning, creativity, and growth.

SOURCE

The Source of All That Is—the vast creative intelligence underlying and permeating existence. Source is understood as simultaneously generative and participatory: present within and aware through the innumerable expressions of life, while exceeding any single form, religion, belief system, or human understanding of it. Everything reflects Source in some way, yet no single expression can contain its totality.

Within Soul Braids, Source is the infinite ground of love, consciousness, relationship, and becoming—an intelligence so vast, intimate, and loving that it can be experienced, but never fully explained. Everything explored through Jasmine & Harley stems from recognizing love as both an extension and a creation of Source. Relationship serves as a way to recognize the reflection of Source as love in form.

SOVEREIGNTY
The recognition that each person holds complete authority over their own experience—and that the same sovereignty belongs to others. It means trusting your own knowing without surrendering that authority to another person, belief system, interpretation, or external source. The Soul Braid framework is grounded in curiosity, discernment, humility, and respect for the sovereignty of every individual experience.

THE SPIRAL
One of nature’s most persistent patterns of organization, growth, and transformation. Across the physical world, spiral structures appear wherever energy is organized, distributed, and renewed – from galaxies and hurricanes to seashells, sunflowers, DNA, and vortices. Rather than simply repeating itself, a spiral returns while simultaneously moving forward, preserving what came before while allowing something new to emerge.
Within human experience, the Spiral reflects the rhythm of growth. We revisit familiar places, relationships, and questions, yet each return carries the possibility of deeper understanding, greater coherence, and expanded awareness. Healing rarely unfolds in a straight line; it moves in spirals. Within Soul Braids, the Spiral describes the living movement of continuing relationships. Love does not remain fixed in memory but continues to deepen through cycles of recognition, emergence, and renewed becoming. Every return offers the opportunity for new meaning, allowing the relationship itself to continue participating in who we are becoming.

SYNCHRONICITIES (FIELD WINKS)
Meaningful coincidences in which two or more events appear connected through significance rather than obvious cause and effect. The term synchronicity was introduced by Carl Jung to describe acausal events whose timing and symbolism carry profound personal meaning. For some, these experiences feel like gentle invitations to pay attention. For others, they arrive with such precision, repetition, and timely orchestration that they become nearly impossible to ignore. What distinguishes a synchronicity is often not the improbability of a single event, but the coherence of many events arriving together in ways that create unmistakable meaning. Within Soul Braids, synchronicities are understood as moments of relational coherence – times when inner experience and outer events appear to align in ways that invite recognition rather than explanation. Some
experience them as life itself participating in a conversation through symbols, timing, and meaningful convergence. Others understand them psychologically as the mind’s remarkable capacity to perceive meaningful patterns. Soul Braids welcomes both perspectives while encouraging curiosity, discernment, and wonder. Like resonance, synchronicities do not create the relationship – they reveal patterns that may already be present.

TONE
The unique relational signature through which a beloved is recognized across time, form, and changing circumstances.

TRUST • PRESENCE • DEVOTION
The three foundational elements of love’s architecture. Trust establishes relational stability. Presence maintains coherent connection. Devotion sustains focused attention over time until a living relational architecture emerges.

Available online at:
https://www.academia.edu/169045588/Soul_Braid_Hypothesis_A_Relational_Field_Model_of_Continuing_Bonds
and
JasmineAndHarley.com