A New Take on What Love Is and Isn't
A new book by Martin Lass and Dr. John Demartini, “Love is Everything,” presents a radical and confronting view of love. According to the authors, everything in the world—even wars, conflict, terrorism, crises, pain, and other difficult challenges—is love. Moreover, they assert that their views have a scientific basis.
(PRWEB) July 30, 2005 -- The age-old question about what love is and what
love is not takes a new twist in this controversial book. Bucking against the
common notion that the world is comprised of both love and hate, good and bad,
right and wrong, and a multitude of other dualities, the authors set out in what
amounts to a treatise on love (disguised as a self-help book) to show us how our
very notions of love and hate are all a matter of perception—a result of certain
illusions and misperceptions we have all had from birth to the present day—and
that these very misperceptions are the real basis of all conflict, whether
personally or globally.
Certainly, there is nothing new about the idea
“all is love.” The New Agers have proclaimed this as far back as the free-love
hippie generation of the nineteen-sixties. However, the authors point out that
such previous assertions were flawed inasmuch as, in the one breath, such people
proclaimed “all is love,” but, in the next breath, they condemned anybody who
disagreed with them. The violence erupting at so-called peace rallies was a
glaring example of this.
Where the authors and the New Agers part ways
lies in the assertion that even wars, conflict, terrorism, crises, pain, and
other difficult challenges are love inasmuch as these all mirror our own inner
contradictions, conflicts, issues, and wounds and, as such, offer a window into
the healing of these same things, personally and globally.
The
psychological basis of the authors’ argument lies in their view of perception—in
their view of how we each perceive the world. They assert that every time we
have an experience—from our first breath at birth to the present moment—the mind
“splits” the experience into two sides: a good, right, positive, pleasureful
side and a bad, wrong, negative, painful side. The trouble begins when the mind
“chooses” one side in favor of the other, i.e. it expresses one side while
repressing the other; an event or experience is judged either good or bad, right
or wrong, positive or negative, and/or pleasureful or painful. Such judgments
are the basis of all subsequent conflict, so say the authors.
The
preceding is, of course, the way the world works. It has been said that a person
without an opinion—a judgment, a viewpoint, a perspective, a belief, a bias, a
“take”—has no solidity and is going nowhere. The authors disagree, though. They
hold that the answer to healing the world’s ills—whether personally or
globally—lies in upturning just such one-sided viewpoints, perspectives,
beliefs, and judgments. The healing journey of the world, they assert, lies in
seeking out the balancing sides to our polarized perspectives—seeing the “good”
in the “bad”, the “right” in the “wrong”, the “positives” in the “negative,” and
vice versa. These are the two sides of the real world, they say, but we each
tend to see one side at the expense of the other. However, when the two sides of
any given event or experience are seen equally and as equally valuable and
important, a larger perspective can be attained; a larger “plan” becomes
apparent; and, most importantly, say the authors, here is where real love can be
born.
The book defines real love as “unconditional,” as opposed to
“conditional” love, the latter being but polarized parts of the greater
unconditional love and consisting of all the aforementioned polarized
perspectives taken each on their own. Conversely, unconditional love subsumes,
includes, synthesizes, and dissolves all previous polarities. The authors
compare the resultant experience of unconditional love with the ancient idea of
enlightenment, which, ironically, brings us to the scientific basis upon which
the book is based, according to the authors…
The authors draw upon the
physics of light—light taken in its broadest scientific sense to mean all energy
(“liquid” light) and all matter (“frozen” light) in the universe—to explain
consciousness and to explain our resultant psychology. They also draw upon
twenty years of research and practical trials of a healing process developed by
Dr. Demartini—The Quantum Collapse Process ®—designed to take advantage of their
theories. The authors assert that this healing process and the people they claim
it has helped heal over the years proves their point: that unconditional is not
only possible, but is scientifically attainable as well as repeatable. The
result of the process, they say, is the resolution of conflict, personally and
potentially globally, the wiping away of differences between people, the healing
of mind, body, and soul, and the prospect of a more evolved humanity.
All
this sounds promising, of course. However, the authors do not stop here. They
further assert that there is a larger “plan” behind the whole shebang—that our
lopsided perspectives and all that these engender in the forms of conflict,
wars, terrorism, pain, suffering, and so forth “serve” a larger purpose and that
this larger purpose is the true meaning of unconditional love. Such a larger
purpose contains within it all the mechanisms of life and experience by which
each one of us will eventually come to the realization of the truth of love. In
short, the authors assert that every life experience, whether pleasureful or
painful, is pointing us toward the realization of love—that all things serve
this ultimate aim.
Such claims are bold and fly in the face of
conventional notions that suggest that peace is the only answer to the world’s
ills. In the authors’ view, wars, too, are an answer inasmuch as they illuminate
each of our remaining biases, judgments, blames, misperceptions, issues, and so
forth. The real battle, they say, is not one side against the other and who wins
in the end, but it is each person against his own divided and contradictory
inner nature. As we heal ourselves, so this is reflected in the healing of the
world at large. With this last thought, we come back into the realm of what is
more generally accepted in the popular view: it all begins with you. To this
end, the authors offer Dr. Demartini’s step-by-step healing process—The Quantum
Collapse Process ®—to anyone who wants to tackle it, promising that by
faithfully and persistently following the prescribed steps, unconditional love
will be born in them.
Time will tell if the authors have got the equation
right. Apparently, clinical trials of The Quantum Collapse Process ® are under
way. We eagerly await the outcome. If nothing else, this book is a refreshing,
if a little confronting, contribution to an old and somewhat jaded subject—the
subject of love.
“Love is Everything – Healing Your Life with
Unconditional Love” by Martin Lass with Dr. John Demartini, Galactic
Publications, Nyack, NY, ISBN 1-59457-487-1. The web link is to Martin Lass’s
website.
Contact:
Martin Lass
845-353-5525
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