Sister Wives star Robyn Brown talked about spirit babies a few seasons back on the TLC series, which suggested becoming pregnant entails much more than finding a DNA donor.
You need to have one of these ghostly children hanging around first. Plus, her use of the word “soulmate” is under scrutiny, as it sounds like it means something different in their church.
Sister Wives: Robyn Brown’s Ghostly Children
Ghostly children, better known as spirit babies, hang around, or at least that’s how it worked for Robyn. She said she met her future children before she became pregnant. But at the time, fans thought this was odd. Some viewers saw Robyn as suggesting she became haunted by the spirits of her yet-to-be-born kids.
For Robyn, they are spirit babies and when one starts hanging around, you soon find yourself pregnant. So, when Sister Wives Season 19 rolls out, and if it looks like she’s talking to herself, that could be a clue.
Robyn’s Spirit Babies – Where Do They Come From?
Many Sister Wives viewers thought that Robyn Brown’s talk about spirit babies sounded like a fairy tale she made up. But, according to Kody Brown’s nephew, Ben Brown, Robyn followed the church’s teachings.
Robyn Brown’s talk about spirit babies prompted him to give a lesson to his followers. Kind of like Spirit Baby 101. From what Ben was taught, this spirit baby thing is at the root of polygamy.
It comes from Mosiah Hancock, who lived in the 1800s. This man said it came to him in a dream or a vision, and the church rolled with it. This caught the Sister Wives fans’ attention.
Sister Wives: Too Many Females, So Polygamy Was Born?
Ben’s lessons from the church say that before birth, people preexist as spirit babies. And a long time ago there were an equal number of boy and girl babies.
So, this is what the term soulmate means in the polygamous sector of this religion. It also seems to explain Robyn’s thoughts about birth in the Sister Wives series. These ghostly kids, well here is the theory supporting Robyn’s belief.
Ben said that each spirit baby had a soulmate. This theory paired a boy baby and a girl baby together. But not anymore, a “war in heaven” removed one-third of the boy spirit babies. In this war, the spirit babies either supported Jesus or Satan.
He explained how one-third of these little ghostly beings were cast down to Earth for following Satan, all of whom were boys. And Ben said they still roam the Earth today, according to this theory.
Ben doesn’t seem to buy this, but seems happy to explain the theory after Robyn Brown brought it up on Sister Wives.
So, this “war in heaven” left a shortage of boy partners for the girls, in ghostly form. Because of this, polygamy was born. Without enough males, the females had to share, so, each spirit boy baby got a couple of girl partners.
That said, each shared husband was meant to accommodate the ladies left without a partner when they were a spirit baby in heaven.
Misuse of Soulmate?
Robyn Brown calling Kody her “soulmate” would suggest she was the original paring of one male spirit baby and one female spirit baby, according to the theory that Ben shares.
This nephew gives Robyn an out for this, saying that maybe the word soulmate means something different to her.
Sister Wives fans found his story interesting, it gave them more insight into Robyn’s thoughts about her place with Kody. If she believes the theory of soulmate that Ben learned from the church, then this suggests that Robyn considered herself number one the day she entered the family.
Plus, the theorized lack of male spirit babies being at the root of polygamy also sparked Sister Wives fans’ interest. After all, the last we heard from Robyn Brown on the TLC series was that she was waiting for one of these baby spirits to hang out with her if it was in the cards for more kids.
