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CHAPTER
16
UNCONDITIONAL
LOVE
The
frequency of LOVE in its idyllic state for the human being represents a
state of well being and happiness. A sense of oneness with others, of
being understood and complemented, a feeling of completeness. It can be
conducive to great productivity and creativity. At its basis then
Unconditional Love represents the non separateness of All that Is, it
is a vibration of integration. In a state of integration, as a
frequency, the experience of judgement disappears, as there is a
synthesis, a oneness, a wholeness, a knowingness, and it is
limitless.
Unconditional
Love is all there is. In the state of Unconditional Love we enter into the
essence of pure light which is total love. The reason for our being on
this planet, is to learn to master Unconditional Love. This is the planet
of Love, ironically as it might seem.
Love,
according to Scott Peck, is different from romance or sexual attraction.
Love is demonstrated by the willingness to extend ourselves so as to
nurture our own as well as another's spiritual growth [1].
To be able to enter into the synthesis of Unconditional Love of ourselves
and others means achieving mental and spiritual maturation, which is a
very challenging and sometimes lonely path, that requires
determination and patience. To which Alice Bailey adds "The synthetic
power of the mind, aided by true love, will one day be the instrument of
all true healers." [2] All true healers is everyone, for
the attitude of being healing is what is at issue, not only the practice
of the healing arts.
Unconditional
Love and Light is also the essence that is transmitted from the heart
through the hands in a helping/healing process like Therapeutic
Touch. The attitude associated with Unconditional Love dominates the
helping/healing act in its transformational motion. In the case of
Therapeutic Touch, the
attitude of the practitioner is one of not being attached to the
outcome when giving a treatment. A extreme example of this attitude would
be, to transfer a client to another practitioner because the other
individual can resolve what we can't. In business it could mean letting
someone else use our ideas. In relationship, loving someone enough to be
happy for their happiness, even if it means giving them up to someone
else. It is ability to let go and watch that someone or something undergo
transformative progress through another, feeling happy at the progress
that is taking place, without feeling a sense of inadequacy or loss.
It is the ability to let the loving, creative or healing energy go and do
that which is for the greatest good. And not "willfully" pretend that we
are the only ones, that our way is the only way or to "will" a cure,
because we need to cure.
Bailey
says that the Perfect One uses the method of harmlessness. This involves
being absolutely centered, having an all inclusive point of view, and the
ability to practice divine understanding. Incorporating in the
harmlessness is the power to control the "will" and work through love,
this means the practice of harmlessness of thought, of speech and of
action. Love is all there Is according to Bailey.
When
Unconditional Love is practiced it becomes the fundamental value of
life. If lived in every
aspect of daily life, the living in time and space process becomes stress
free and filled with joy and laughter, despite the challenges that we
might create to test ourselves, which seem even momentarily like
setbacks. It is a love of
acceptance, it is a love where no
conditions reign. It is a state of love where negative feelings
have been dissolved allowing for the free unobstructed flow of the love
feeling. On a more pragmatic level it can be considered "Love without Hooks" so called by
my fellow TT practitioner Cathleen Fanslow Bujones. It is felt as a
synthesis with the divine love, with the cosmic love frequency, with
what some would call God's "Love and Light". It is associated with a sense
of co-operation, of non separateness, of peace with oneself and all others
and everything.
Unconditional
Love and Light has a vibratory frequency associated with it. Chris Griscom
describes the frequency of Unconditional Love and Light as ecstacy turned
into radiance. Ecstasy is an "exploding creative force" which
manifests light when that synthesis of consciousness with itself takes
place. The moment of accessing the creative force of the universe, through
integration with the activated high self, is experienced as a merging of
the states of bliss and rapture. She describes the divine
manifestation of radiance or pure light as a spontaneous explosion of
light which is caused when
the frequency of ecstacy (whose sound is hum like) interpenetrates
the Light-bodies. This convergence which allows all the Light-bodies to
merging with this divine frequency emanates radiant light. This she writes
is "The energy of radiance. Radiance is the result of the ecstatic
spark which, once ignited, spreads itself out in all directions across the
entire spectrum of manifested dimensions, out into the black void of
the formless. The energy of radiance cannot be stopped or resisted or
even engaged. When it bathes the path, all fear instantaneously
metamorphoses into light. All separation, confusion, and longing
ceases to exist. Radiance moves beyond the electrical, the magnetic laws
of the third dimension. It seeks to attract nothing, and nothing sticks to
it. It merely pervades all."[3]
The
noted Indian holy man, Gopi Krishna, describes the sensation of
radiance in a similar way when he defines his peak experience of
Kundalini: "I did not experience this alluring radiance, both outside and
within myself, as something external to me or something objective,
but something that was a part of myself, something that colored my
whole personality. In other words, it was not the objective world
that had become brighter or that appeared brighter to my eyes, but it was,
in actual fact the indwelling "I" that had become luminous. It was
the observer in my mind or soul, who was ensheathed in a halo of light.--
At all times during the day or night, my inner self appears like a
luminous void stretched far beyond the periphery of the corporeal
frame.[4]
I am a pool of consciousness always aglow with light".[5]
In
addition to his inner luminosity he states that there was, "a silvery
luster around every object that come within the field of my vision"
[6] and
he experienced "the visions of celestial beings, of divinity or God,
are always bathed in a superearthly light."[7]
In
addition he experienced "the individual ego, with its small periphery of
awareness, always perceptive of its close link with the body, begins to
grow wider and wider and the idea of the body dimmer and dimmer, until it
seems that one is floating in space."[8] Another
result of these experiences is seeing the Divine in every aspect of nature
and feeling love for all mankind. Gopi Krishna describes ecstasy
during Kundalini is as "Inexpressible, one can convey a distant
picture by describing it as the highest perfection of grace, beauty,
grandeur, harmony, peace, love, rapture, wonder and happiness, all
combined in such an intense degree that the mind may swoon at the
stupendous impact of ecstasy."[9]
Experiencing
Unconditional Love
This
experience of Unconditional Love and Light is not limited to gurus and
healers, there are others who have lived this experience and are
totally familiar with the sensations. People who have undergone the deep
personal transformational experiences known as the NDE (Near Death
Experience) are some of these. Having the experience of being one with or
being exposed to the Light and its Love as Unconditional Love is
expressed in different ways. Ring writes about Nel's encounter with
the light: "it was accepting; it was forgiving; it was completely non
judgmental; and it gave me a sense of total security the likes of
which I had never known. I loved it. It was perfection; it was total
unconditional love.." [10]
Joe speaks about the light and love,
"It's something that becomes you and you become it....I was peace, I was
love. I was brightness, it was part of me." [11]
Tom
describes his experience as follows:"You realize that you are coming to
the end of this tunnel and this light is not just brilliance from
whatever is at the end of the tunnel-it's an extremely brilliant light.
It's pure white. It's just so brilliant...And then before you...
is this most magnificent, just gorgeous, beautiful, bright, white or
blue-white light..but it doesn't hurt your eyes.... Then the light
immediately communicates with you..You have the feeling of absolute,
pure love..." He describes "The second most magnificent experience...
is you realize that you are suddenly in communication with absolute, total
knowledge...Upon entering that light...the atmosphere the energy,
it's total pure energy, it's total knowledge, it's total love, pure
love."[12]
Another
way to achieve the experience of the state of bliss is that of Lester
Levenson.[13]
Lester's major transformational
experience took place as a result of his surviving a death
threatening heart condition. Hopelessly doomed to the life of an
invalid he focused on getting in touch with all the accumulated sorrows,
fears and angers of his life. Through the "felt" experience of
"releasing" these feelings, Lester transcended spontaneously into a
state of bliss. He describes that, "It was obvious to me that I wasn't
that body and mind as I had thought I was. I just saw it-that's all... So
I let go of identifying with that body. And when I did, I saw that my
Beingness was all Beingness, that Beingness is like one great ocean. It's
not chopped up into parts called "drops of bodies" It's all one ocean.
That causes me to identify with every being, every person, and every atom
in this universe. And that's an experience so tremendous it's
incredible. First you see the universe is `in' you , then you see the
universe `as' you. Then you know the Oneness of this universe. Then
you are finished forever with separation and all the hellishness that's
caused only by separation. Then you can no longer be fooled by the
apparent limitations of the world. You see them as a dream, as an
appearance, because you `know' that your very own Beingness has no
limits!"[14] As
a result of Lester clearing his hurting feelings he healed his heart
condition. The persistent use of Feeling Dissolve can heal and
generate bliss. The particulars of this experience will become very
relevant when I explain "Feeling Dissolve"©
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