Ultimately, we all came here to learn and to experience what love is, because the whole of Creation was formed out of the Power of God’s Love.
The problem is that most of us never experience true love, because our understanding of it remains trapped in the emotional consciousness and never rises to the spiritual consciousness.
Let’s unpack that.
Before sexual maturity — the age at which the spirit breaks through — a child experiences the world on the emotional level alone.
Therefore, when a child does not receive love from his parents, which sadly happens often, because the parents themselves do not know what true love is, he starts developing strategies to obtain it. That is because for a small child, his father and mother are the source of all the love in the world.
In general, children use two strategies to get love:
Pleasing: the child who never causes trouble and does what is asked of him before he is even asked. Or aggression: the child who creates problems at home and at school to draw attention.
The problem is that this emotional pattern, which hardens into a personality that only wants to receive, and at any cost, stays with many people well into adult life.
They go on believing that someone else is the source of their love; that someone else is the battery that can recharge them. And so they keep using the old tactics of childhood to obtain the energy of love, without which no one can exist.
But living as an adult who pleases and appeases others and becomes a “beggar for love,” or who turns aggressive and demands it, leads in the end only to frustration.
That is because we cannot replace our parents with a partner or any other adult and expect to draw energy from them like a vampire!
On the other hand, for anyone who embarks on the path of developing spiritual consciousness, the concept of love means something else entirely.
Why?
Because a mature spirit learns to receive the Power of Love first and foremost from God.
This is why the first of the Ten Commandments both instructs and warns us:
“You shall have no other gods before Me.”
Or, as the Bible puts it elsewhere:
“And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.”
Does God need our love? No!
Is there some competition here between God and our family? No!
The meaning of the most important commandment of the Ten is to place God first, as the source of Power.
It means not falling into idolatry — which is not only bowing to statues and idols, but wanting to draw our power from status, from money, and of course from other people. That turns us, automatically, into energy drainers.
Therefore, only when the spirit learns to receive God’s Power, to be nourished by it, and to change and develop for the better through it, can it bestow true love upon others and fulfill the second great instruction: “And you shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
This movement — receiving the Power from above, undergoing the inner transformation ourselves, and then passing that Power on to those around us — is also the right way to receive love back, including from those closest to us.
Because under the Laws of Creation, which apply to every mature spirit, only selfless giving makes receiving possible.
So how do we learn to connect to the Power of Love, and become people who give true love, the kind of people others are naturally drawn to?
All of this is taught in depth in the LET MY SPIRIT GO course.
