Saturday, June 03, 2023

Three Identical Strangers

What happens if one day you met 2 persons who look exactly like you? That was precisely what happened to Bobby Shafran when he discovered he had a twin brother on his first day of college. His brother was Eddy Galland and they quickly realized that they were twins separated at birth. But to their surprise, a few months later, they found David Kellman, who was another exact replica of themselves. They were actually triplets.


 Apparently, the triplets were deliberately given up for adoption to three couples, each of a different social class (one blue-collar, one middle-class, and one affluent). Unknown to them, they were all part of a study on genetics and human behavior, particularly under the theme of ‘nature’ versus ‘nurture’.

Despite growing up apart and unaware of each others’ existent, the three brothers displayed numerous similarities. All of them liked the same films, smoked the same cigarettes (Marlboros) and had been wrestlers at college. They also had the same mannerism (talking, walking, laughing, etc) and share the same taste for the type of girlfriends. Sadly, they also had similar struggles with mental illness growing up: all three displayed separation anxiety; all three experienced depression at times, and all three made visits to psychiatric hospitals as teenagers.

From a Vedic astrology’s perspective, all of them have the exact same Rasi chart with Aries as the Ascendant. In a way, this implies that the nature of a person is very much dictated by his natal chart, regardless how the external factors may have changed.

The triplets were born 11-16 minutes apart from each other, which mean that their Navamasha (D9) charts were different. It is said that the D9 chart tend to manifest its effects towards the later part of life and it does seem to be the case for these brothers. As they grew older, they began to look less and less like each other. After marriage, their paths in life began to separate, and they ended up having very different outcomes in life.

You can watch their story, in the documentary, Three Identical Strangers (https://tinyzonetv.to/movie/watch-three-identical-strangers-2018-free-16868) or on Netflix in some countries.