Our religious leaders tell us to love, but they rarely tell us how to love unconditionally.
The mistake we make with love arises from the fact that we think of love as a finite commodity. The key to truly loving is to see love as an infinite thing.
When we think of it as a finite thing, like a jar of jam we can make mistakes like giving love to others and neglecting ourselves. Or giving love to one friend and not the other. These “love mistakes” will be a large chapter in the book I’m working on.
Cultures that believe in the presence of loving ancestors have a resource that makes life much richer and more secure. That loved ones survive through their love means that we can feel loved all the time. Where a parent may want the child to, say, become a doctor, a grandparent is less invested in a future that they may not be around to see. A great grandparent is happy enough to hold the baby for a while and has no investment in mundane things. If we believe that love never leaves then we have the love from all those ancestors, including the love that came from their friends, their pets. It’s an infinite web of love.
Any experience of love gives us all the love that ever was and all the love that ever will be. How much better it is to walk through life with that assurance.
Natural State Restoration restores that infinite love that the infant feels. We only need to get out of our own way.
Many Shamanic cultures believe we have three parts, or three souls: an everyday mind, a divine or unconditionally loving, and a collective soul where we share our love with others.
When I teach natural states I ask us to meet in that loving space. Anyone can do it.
