Could the familiar phrase “God is Love,” intimate a process for raising greater levels of intuition and truly enrich the life that we live? Could there be a literal key to this age-old passage that so many of us have obtained through spiritual teaching? And if so, are we truly harnessing the power of its message?
To begin to examine these questions let’s start with a syllogism: If God is love and we are of God, then we are love. Now, taking this a bit further: if God is love and love is the essence of All That Is, and we are of God, then we can extract from the knowledge and wisdom of God via intense feelings of love.
I think it would be fair to say that the synthesis of most religions is indeed simply, “God is Love.” Many have taken this benevolent phrase at faith value, while never fully examining what this reservoir of loving energy,that which we call “God” might truly behold for our fulfillment on earth. However, as spirituality and science have become more closely intertwined to form what is considered metaphysics or in some circles, “new age,” many of our familiar religious passages, including those which discuss God’s love, might be viewed and understood with a more objective and viable perspective.
While thumbing through a cornucopia of esoteric material during a period of spiritual study, I was afforded what I believe to be a piece of the framework from which the “God is Love” synthesis may be derived.
Your Sixth Sense – Unlocking the Power of Your Intuition by practicing psychotherapist and intuitive, Belleruth Naparstek, is a formidable and affable guide to intuition. The material, in its entirety creates an articulate picture of the nature, legitimacy and usability of intuition or “psi” as it is also called. However, I felt personally compelled to extract a specific section from the book and examine its information, closely and contemplatively.
While raised within the Christian doctrine, my familiarity with God is Love came quite early in my Christian learning. I never questioned that our Creator had to be good and therefore of love, as Christ came to the earth to personify that very quality, and to teach us to do the same.
But while perusing Your Sixth Sense and specifically the book’s chapter 5, entitled: Explaining It – The Physics of ESP, Love and Imagery, the “God is Love” premise began to surface with great buoyancy. Its information lent due credence for me, to a theme that might otherwise have been left largely undefined.
Simply stated and up front, Naparstek begins by conveying that “Feelings of love and gratitude can activate our psychic process.” Upon reading this one statement at first glance, I knew – even remotely that there had to be a connection between this hypothesis and “God is Love.”
My contemplative thoughts on the dynamic of this concept quickly brought me back to a passage I had become familiar with in the Bible. In 1st John, chapter 4 it is written:
“Dear friends, let us love one another for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God. Whoever does not love, does not know God because God is love.” (1John 4:7,8) “And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love, lives in God and God in him.” (1John 4:16)
Now before we plunge into the direct correlation between love and intuition, let us refer back to Naparstek’s chapter, which initiates a framework for our beloved passage’s deeper meaning.
DAVID BOHM’S THEORY
Naparstek articulates a hypothesis on behalf of two theoretical physicists: David Bohm and Itzhak Bentov. Bohm, a protégé of Einstein and one of the world’s most respected quantum physicists provides an initial theoretical framework view of reality. His supposition is that we are in fact “non-local” beings and “the world and everything in it is a vast sea of energy.” All things that we perceive to be separate pieces, including ourselves and everything and everyone outside of us, are in fact all part of a “seamless whole,” inseparable and always in motion, albeit on a deeper level of reality, that which Bohm calls the implicate order. This theory is indeed exciting and thought provoking when you consider the implications for our innate and literal connection to one another and to God. This interconnectedness to each other and that of the implicate may provide some insight as to how “psi” activity is possible.
Based on the above, we can entertain the following biblical reference in 1st Corinthians, where it is said:
“The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body…and we were all given the one spirit to drink.” (1st Corinthians 12:12,13) “As it is, there are many parts, but one body.” (1st Corinthians 12:20)
Further, Bohm posits that this vast sea of energy – the universe, is pulsing with infinite life, intelligence and consciousness. From these, “matter”, as we know it is formed. Clearly, I think it would be safe to say that many religious doctrines intimate much of the same, only in a different manner of speaking, as the aforementioned: “seamless whole, infinite life, intelligence and consciousness,” would define aspects of God’s loving omnipotence.
From this, we may derive another syllogism: If we are innately a part of this vast sea of energy, and it contains infinite life, intelligence and consciousness, coagulating to form matter, then we have the ability to form matter and suffice it to say we do form “matter” on our screen of physical space directly from this vast sea of energy for which we are inherently a part. Studies are currently being done to support the theory that we actually create our physical reality, our individual and mass circumstances, based on our habitual thoughts and beliefs, in that thoughts and beliefs, all having an emotional base do indeed have their own unique consciousness. And thus consciousness is the impetus for manifestation of any kind. Once we incorporate the process of intuition within this equation, it may become more clear as to how we have access to knowledge, which we assume to be “outside” of ourselves to begin with. We are all innately connected to this vast sea of energy…knowledge…and wisdom!
As daunting a concept as this may seem, this is indeed a relatively simplistic version of the paradigm, and one that is readily discussed in metaphysical circles.
As we draw closer to a direct crossing point with regard to the correlation of love and access to intuition, it would behoove us here to take an albeit brief but poignant look at where the latter mentioned theoretical physicist, Itzhak Bentov picks up where Bohm leaves off.
ITZHAK BENTOV’S THEORY
Much of what is inclusive of Bentov’s theory is in alignment with Bohm’s. But Bentov takes us a bit further into the paradigm by explaining that our bodies and even the universe have qualities similar to that of a pendulum, like the pendulum of a grandfather clock, which oscillates back and forth. The pendulum has a system that holds two points of rest. One point of rest (or still point) “happens when it has traveled in one direction as far as it can and arrives at a place where it is about to reverse direction and the other still point is the stopping of its movement on the other side, before again reversing direction.” Bentov maintains that the pendulum movement applies to everything that is, including our selves.
What makes this theory so remarkable as it applies to each of us is the process, which takes place when we are at our still points (like the pendulum). It is at the points of rest that we become truly “non-material” or spiritual entities. Or as Bohm would put it, “non-local,” thus erasing the corporeal relationship between physical time and space as we know it. This is the period of time, which would be impossible to measure – it could only be inferred. Nonetheless it does exist.
So here we can imagine that our consciousness literally leaves this dimension during these still points, and travels, if you will, to infinite others, which are all a part of God’s “space” – this vast sea of energy. While so doing, we collect a multiplicity of information that would be impossible to obtain during our periods of “movement” – our physicality or conscious focus within time and space.
In part two of this article we will examine and conclude how feelings of love may play an integral role in actualizing the intuitive process and give us greater access to this vast sea of universal energy.
Read Part Two: God Is Love Takes on a Whole New Meaning.
© 1999/2001, Alexis Brooks.
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