Rediscovering Unconditional Love: Unlocking the Heart's True Potential

Unconditional love can be felt by all beings – even if they have forgotten how to do that – it is just a matter of time. The preconception that love must be something that people actively do has been forever guiding us, not being aware that what was implied was the expectation of offering respect first and foremost to our authority figures, as required by a survival-based, patriarchal society. Love has always been a concealed requirement, where obedience matters more than true, unconditional love. “Love your parents”, “love your siblings”, “love your partner”, “love thy neighbor” … all this is something you were expected to do. However, love is something you allow to happen spontaneously in your behavior, when you realize that you are love.

The above mentality is the result of love being felt through the ego-driven mind filters, as a precaution against emotional harm and a pre-requisite of control. That’s because the mind “does”, but the Heart “is”. A partner might say to their spouse: “You don’t love me anymore”, only to get the response “Oh, but I do love you!” If both partners would feel love unfiltered, unbiased and undiminished by the filters of the mind, they would feel love in both directions to each other, without the mind-based interpretation of their Heart’s feeling states, which is poor, inadequate and prone to misunderstandings. Instead of understanding, they would grok that they “are” love, instead of doing love. Perhaps a more apt example is when we recognize that we are in love with somebody in a romantic sense. Now, imagine being in love not in a romantic sense, but in an all-encompassing, all-inclusive sense towards all beings without exception, while recognizing that this love is lacking all gender-based perceptions and misconceptions along with their sexual undercurrents and implications. This is not to be confused with making love, which is the rather selfless result of unconditional love and is recognized as a Heart-based option by the partners in the moment, as opposed to having sex, which is ego driven.

This is the evolutionary journey we make, understanding love first with the mind and ultimately with the Heart; not just feeling it, but grokking the awareness layers we sense. Love is not just tied to consciousness; it is how consciousness is perceived by the Heart. After some time following countless incarnations, we recognize that we are love and not just make love. We initially become aware and feel seeds of love, that grow from our Hearts. We experience these seeds growing slowly, during numerous lifetimes. These seeds of love are making their way from our Hearts into our minds first unconsciously, then subconsciously and then consciously, without realizing that these seeds will be the key to unlock our evolution – until we recognize this fact in divine timing. Layers of love can be experienced within families, within a partnership of beings and in more neutral settings. The bonds between the beings in our current existence on Earth are based on different points of view and that is affecting which “mantle” of love we are wearing while expressing love. Focusing on a specific mantle of love is obscuring love’s true nature, because our minds tend to focus on one “thing” only, as opposed to the Heart, which can grok whole concepts at once. All these points of view are now on the verge of evolving and becoming more objective and much less subjective. We are about to “remember” the true meaning of love, that will be henceforth the foundation of our existential experience. Just like most humans are currently focused consciously or subconsciously on survival, soon there will be a time (within a few decades – not a few generations) where unconditional love will define our existence and our whole being will radiate love. This is because our current political and socioeconomic systems are becoming unsustainable, leading us to one emergency after another, requiring urgent adjustment of our situation due to perpetual conflict.

Most of us have experienced love in different ways, different forms and with various intensities. Unless we incarnate in a deeply separated existence, motherless, fatherless or through a traumatic experience and cannot experience love, we can at least “feel” compassion for homeless people or children dying of starvation – even if this love is passing through the filters of the mind and is not truly felt within our Heart. If we truly want to know what love is, if we truly want to love more than we “think” we can, then we can meditate on unconditional love and explore its nature. Love cannot be taught, because it’s not something we make; the term making love is just a figure of speech. Love will spring naturally forth from within us, through our Hearts, originating from the universal sea of consciousness or love (depending on the perspective). This will happen instantly once we recognize it in silence, because it is our true nature.

The capacity to feel unconditional love in its wholeness, unfiltered and undiminished, can be increased exponentially during meditation, when we deliberately silence the mind. It can become so intense that the memory of the feeling state of being in love with your spouse when you first met them will pale in comparison. The more you meditate on love, the more intensely you will be able to feel that love and the more your love towards your spouse is enhanced. In a “magic” and unexpected way, they will be compelled to respond in kind. When we cultivate unconditional love in silence during meditation at first and then allow it to imbue our unburdened mind, not only our fellow humans, but also other ET beings will notice that. Another very important aspect of this state of being is that unconditional love has no recipient in a traditional sense. We love all beings equally and our romantic relationships are just… different, yet the same. In this state of being, the love that we feel is not “targeted” in a traditional sense but felt equally towards all beings in the universe.

Progressively, we will all find our selves in the peculiar position, that our Heart is inclined to feel love for all beings, and it doesn’t matter whether these beings are intelligent or not or even human. This behavior goes against what our survival-based societies have always dictated. That’s just the beginning, because evolution never ends. This state of being is the mere foundation for the new paradigm to which all humans will be attracted to. We will find this behavior fulfilling and be compelled to live this way, as if this way of life is the only one that makes total sense. And it is indeed the only one that makes sense for a humanity that’s weary of separation and perpetual conflict.

Most humans cannot imagine this perspective yet. It is understandably not presenting itself to humans who have a mind that’s still conditioned and are still operating from a survival-based foundation. However, in time they too will recognize this perspective, since evolution is naturally pushing us to experience this reality. From a mere few, many people will progressively change their lifestyle and adopt unconditional love based on the principle of the hundredth monkey through our collective subconscious.

The Path of Conscious Living: Mind-Heart Synergy

Throughout our lives we are mostly in thinking and thereby in doing mode. The difference between the two scenarios is fear and its absence of it. Fear of survival, fear of alienating and potentially losing the spouse, fear of not achieving expectations in our agreements – contractual or implied, etc. However, releasing fear is not easy. It requires that we distance our selves from our obligations – not in the sense that we just drop them but allow our selves to factor in some “self-time” whenever possible, with the aim to live in that frame of mind and frame of Heart. We need to find the strength and the inspiration to undo our own conditioning and create room in our consciousness for our true Self to emerge and sustain our conscious self. You might ask now, “why”? A valid question. Apart from the fact that conditioning is bad for our individual and collective health, to borrow the warning that most of us have seen on cigarette packs, conditioning is hindering our progress in consciousness evolution, by hindering the development of the unburdened mind.

But how do we get there, you might ask? What is the foundation of all this? How can we “be” like this…? Well, you just said it. Just “be”. The mind seeks answers, but the answers are already inside us. We just need to understand the “questions” to the “answers”. Imagine that you are all the “answers” that are. For example, “Why am I alive?” The why is the question, and life is the answer. The “questions” don’t exist in this every-day, mundane level of existence. They spring forth from Spirit, which is infinite and exists outside space and time. Traditional problem-solving processes of the mind rely on mundane concepts and are therefore hopelessly outdated and as such totally ineffective, leading us into logical dead ends. Utilizing the mind in its current capacity is limited at best and dangerous at worst, because of the effects of polarization. We are not just human; only a part of us is human. Most of our essence is infinite and therefore cannot be expressed in human or linear terms. We are brilliant, immortal and multidimensional beings, having a mundane, Earthly experience.

So… how do you ground this multidimensional essence onto this Earthly plane? Easy… Just be, don’t think. You can’t do both anyway. You can either think using your mind or be using your Heart. When the mind seeks answers, it is leading you in circles and to dead ends, because it will find only inadequate half-truths, complex and impractical explanations to satisfy itself, and a frustrating maze of ever-expanding theory, to keep up with the results that this mind process yields. That’s because the mind’s capacity to hold infinity does not exist yet. Once the Heart complements the mind, it can “work” with the Heart to reach results that it would not be able to reach on its own. The mind is good for one thing: analysis; breaking down a concept into its parts. There is nothing more to gain through the mind from the sum of all analyzed parts of whatever it is analyzing. It is in the Heart where the sum of all parts of something makes visceral sense, extracting inspired conclusions that the mind is incapable to produce.

Consciousness has access to both the mind and the Heart, and it needs both tools to expand itself. A hammer is only good for hammering and a drill can only drill. Mind and Heart are two different tools that need each other to complement their strengths. We need to use them appropriately in a blended way. This way they will both jump to provide insights in divine time, on their own, when those insights are needed and our consciousness will “know” automagically which one has to jump – if we let it. Where logic doesn’t make sense on its own, the Heart offers ways to support it. Where blind, unguided faith is counterproductive, the mind suggests avenues of potential. The opposite is also the case. Where logic makes sense, the Heart offers correctional wisdom through other perspectives and where faith in a certain abstract concept makes sense in the Heart, logic offers doubt that provides correctional guidance to the Heart, strengthening both mind and Heart in the process. When mind and Heart work in tandem, and within their own domains, yet connected through the bridge between them, they can provide a guidance that’s more effective than guidance offered only by the mind or only by the Heart.

However, what would happen, if we allowed that connection between mind and Heart to work behind the scenes so to speak, allowing both the mind and the Heart the freedom to interact and communicate with each other autonomously, without the mind’s supervision, which is a less harsh way of referring to control of the Heart by the mind? How would our lives unfold if we were to surrender to a blended mind and Heart lending a shared direction to our lives? This is when miracles happen. An unburdened mind liberated by its need to control and judge is free to experience the essence of the Heart. The mind without the Heart is finite. If the Heart is allowed to become the guiding force in our lives, replacing and succeeding the mind in this role, then the mind is liberated by the shackles of structured conditioning and is imbued by the unstructured, loving infinity that’s overflowing from the Heart. The mind and the Heart are two halves, like all polarities. After blending they represent more than the sum of the whole and offer a radical new way of being, that will revolutionize all aspects of the way we live. This way we don’t just live, but we derive experience from existence. In other words, we live on steroids. We utilize the whole of our being and exist in an empowered and far more expanded way. We all must carve our own path to understanding and grokking this new way of existing.

Inner work is of the utmost importance, as this path is riddled with challenges that are unique to our individual evolutionary level. What may work for John might not work for Mary and what hasn’t worked for Liz, could work for Nick. We are all unique drops of the one, infinite universal consciousness, and each individual consciousness evolution is different.

Reclaiming Personal Power

We often hear news from somebody, and we tend to resonate with that news, based on our relationship with this person. Instead of making up our own minds and Hearts based on personal research, we believe in the validity or not of such news – based on our relationship with the bearer of said news without question. We have effectively delegated our personal truth and given away our own power without grasping the monumental error we commit. This is not only related to information we hear or read. This is particularly necessary when it comes to relating to other beings in all aspects. We need to have a more enlightened relationship to our own selves first, as a proper foundation to relate to other beings. Becoming sovereign beings requires us to recognize that we need to have the courage to achieve self-competence, self-mastery and self-integration. It is not easy, but this honest effort will in time yield more complete beings than we were earlier. The Great Changes that we are going through now are creating the necessary friction within us, as well as between us, leading us to become better beings.

We are currently polarizing extremely on various issues, such as the validity of climate change or which warring parties we support and for what reasons. This polarization creates such aggravation within us that we are coming apart from within. The constant battle between “me and you” and “us and them” on multiple levels is what’s creating malignant crises where conflict becomes war. This ongoing, rampant polarization on this Polarized Prison Planet is leading us to our doom and we are either not recognizing the causes behind the “obvious” causes or are disempowered to halt the process or both. This is where personal courage and the deliberate application of free will are necessary and represent the only factors that can instigate change from within. To stop the endless turning of the wheel of pain, suffering and misery we need to own our mistakes collectively, humbly swallow our pride and take steps to reconciliate our differences externally, while we reconciliate our own, internal parts that are uniquely responsible for creating the mess within our consciousness, reflecting that mess to the external world.

As we are coming apart from within, we are recognizing our parts, both good and bad parts. We are forced to come to terms with them, accept them as part of us, and integrate them within us by healing the trauma they created, as well as the trauma they were caused by. For the “nerds” among the readers (by the way this is a term of endearment for me – I consider my self one as well) this process can be likened to the process of nuclear fusion, whereby atoms of lower atomic weight are fused together to produce atoms of a higher atomic weight. As above so below. This is another example of the immensely beautiful, holographic and symmetrical nature of the universe, where all aspects of it are reflected within our selves.

You may ask at this point: What now? Well, there is no easy answer in terms of what to do, as all polarizations within require an enlightened Heart-based attitude to overcome. This Heart-based attitude will “shine” like a beacon in the external world and present the “why” and the “how” relating to the necessity for change, through its stark and positive contrast with what is. The “what” will take care of itself, when we recognize first the “why” and then the “how”. We need to be more Heart-based, because our mind and our ego on their own have led humanity individually and collectively on a path of pain and destruction. Reason and intellect have been over-utilized by the ego to create the necessary basis for survival, but this utilization of the mind by the ego as a tool for survival is now increasingly becoming a clear and present danger on its own. Without the tempering influence of the Heart, the mind and the ego now constitute a threat to the survival of humanity. This is because we have reached a level of technological development that has by far surpassed our ego’s willingness to apply empathy to our thoughts and actions, thus giving rise to an imbalanced beast consciousness. We need to utilize the mind and the Heart in tandem.

To answer what can be done can be addressed by Heart-based negotiation both within us and between us, depending on a case-by-case basis and considering all valid grievances of each side. This is because polarization begins within us. Easy? Not really. But here is where courage and the deliberate application of free will, can make a difference. It all comes back to what we always knew: how badly do we want peace not just between us but also within us? Is it something that would be “nice to have” or is it something that we can’t live without? Can we have peace within us while we don’t have peace between us? These are questions that we must answer for our selves, honestly and without reservation, because they will dictate not only the quality of our lives on all levels, but our survival as a species as well. Resolving to attract and cultivate peace on all levels of our lives must become our priority, paving the way to integration and a golden age for humanity, because we are slowly understanding that life’s meaning will always be polarized and biased by the absence of peace and ultimately unconditional love. Honestly seeking genuine peace on all levels of our lives will immediately counteract any subconscious and unconscious concerns that cloud our minds, leading us to recognize the need for survival in the first place. As we examine our lives through this perspective, we begin to consciously distance our selves from the perceived need to survive, as this need has been created by the ego itself. Even in cases where survival becomes a necessity, such as being in a warzone and forced to defend our selves for example, this need to survive will be illuminated by the internal peace and the love of self we feel and is a whole different feeling from the survival fear we felt before. That's because love of self and preservation of self are motivated differently. Love of self is motivated by the Heart and preservation of self is motivated by the ego.

We can all do our part in bringing about a state of being that is imbued by peace and unconditional love. By resolving to attract peace within (that’s the part we “do”) we are allowing peace to blossom from within our Hearts (that’s the part we “are”). This is how we create lasting peace in external reality, since external reality is reflected from internal reality. In a broader sense, that's also how we move from doing to being. The more peace we feel, the closer we are to our natural state of being, which promotes the concept of “being”, rather than “doing”, where all actions flow from our Hearts, instead of being perceived by the ego and executed by the mind. It is better to conceive our actions from our Hearts imbued by harmony, unity and synchronicity, stemming from unconditional love and universal law. Actions manifested in this way are just and appropriate, because they are automagically considering the needs of others, reconciling them with our own, personal needs, because they are based on universal law.

This is the power within us that we have delegated to each other, condemning our selves to a life of pain, suffering and conflict. Without this power we are unable to reach our full potential.

What Was Lost Has Been Found Again

I just experienced a fluid mind without self-imposed and ego-based limitations. It was an eye-opener. Today, on the 13th of May, I woke up early with the irresistible urge to listen to music. Not just any music, but classical music. While I certainly appreciate pop music like anybody, my first choice is and has always been classical music. My love for classical music was born at a very early age. While I don't remember my exact age, I believe that I might have been eleven or twelve years old when I first appreciated the magic of classical music through Mozart's "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" and felt its universal energy move through my body. I was hooked for life.

I like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and many masterpieces by other composers, like Beethoven, Vivaldi, Pachelbel, Albinoni and Paganini, but I love Georg Friedrich Händel and Johann Sebastian Bach most of all. Listening to their compositions makes my Heart sing and the joy I feel is unreal and liberating. It's like my body is bursting from within and my mind is immersed in that universal joy, having been re-acqainted with the love our universe contains. Humans on Earth stubbornly refuse to accept this universal love, still engulfed in their conflicts of me versus you and us versus them. Am I a dreamer? Definitely. Have I lost touch with reality? One might gain that impression. Yet, I understand polarization and comprehend its roots in the ego-based mind.

Today, I viscerally experienced an example of how the universe works through my Heart. While I was listening to the prelude to "Te Deum", a short but brilliant masterpiece from Marc-Antoine Charpentier, a French composer, I remembered a video with a beautiful collection of musical masterpieces that I used to watch and listen to on YouTube. However, it has not been available for the past few years. My Heart was saddened by this loss, because this collection of masterpieces, recorded on the beautiful grounds in front of a splendid French castle on a beautiful summer evening was comprised by carefully selected compositions, performed by gifted musicians with instruments from 300 years ago and enjoyed by what appeared to be happy and appreciating humans. The artistic performance, containing visual and musical elements of exquisite beauty left an extraordinary impression. Most of the musical masterpieces in this video were composed by George (Georg Friedrich Händel) for two british monarchs (King George I and King George II) and are also highly recommended by George (that's me).

You might say "To each their own" and you would be right. Naturally. Not everybody is a fan of classical music and that is understandable. However, imagine if the same thing happened to you, with the only difference that my favourite composer was swapped out and replaced by your favourite band. Now you understand hopefully.

And then, in a glorious bout of inspiration that came out of nowhere, I resolved to find that video on the web. After a few tweaks to my web search, I found it in its original form legally on a legitimate website without any ads, paywall or any subscription required. At first I could not believe it and I thought that this might just be a teaser video or an abridged version of the original I was looking for. I played it online and watched and listened to 80 minutes of pure audiovisual bliss.

I rejoiced! What was lost has been found again.

While I was immersed in the music and feeling the joy, I asked my self what just happened. I began reflecting on the particular stages of this discovery and what led to it.

Apparently, I was immersed in my love of music and my mind was connected to my Heart through the bridge between mind and Heart. This state is commonly known as "being in the zone", characterized by total immersion of the mind within the open Heart. While I was in that state of being, I was not thinking. Instead I was enjoying the feelings that the music conjured up within me. In a split second, I remembered through feeling states, not thoughts, that Marc-Antoine Charpentier's "Te Deum", the music I was listening to earlier, was included in that lost YouTube video that I so much loved to watch and listen to. The next feeling I had was the equivalent of looking for it on the web. I use the term feeling and not thinking, because in that state of being thoughts don't originate from the mind as we are used to. Instead, they originate from the Heart as feelings and insights, in a way coating the mind like a sparkling magic out of this world. In a split second, I immediately resonated with that idea. While a split second is a very short amount of time, I distinctly recognized in this state of being a feeling of futility, not really believing that I could find that video online. This is because I looked for the video online when it was removed years ago from YouTube, but couldn’t find it. At the same time, however, my love for music pushed me to try a web search, overriding mind-based limitations through outdated belief systems. There were no deliberate thoughts that I remember, just feelings and inspiration.

What did I learn from this exercise in operating in a Heart-based state? I experienced viscerally, that ego-based conditioning through belief systems does not exist in this state of being. The mind flows effortlessly and without friction through the Heart, when we become aware of the bridge between the mind and Heart. While the mind is there it only provides one tool at the disposal of consciousness. Adding the Heart as another tool for consciousness and immersing the mind in the Heart bypasses the ego-based conditioning through belief systems and allows the mind to function without the drag applied on it through the ego. To use an example from engineering, the mind is lubricated so to speak, by the unstructured essence of the Heart, which is nothing but universal love, sparkling with multidimensional magic. Having access to universal insights, the mind is liberated and functions without its typical ego-based resistance. There are no more what-ifs and whys hindering its function.

What is is also intriguing is the fact that I woke up earlier than usual with an urge to listen to classical music. This is another example of multidimensionality in action. The Heart lives outside of space and time. I believe it was divine time for me to find what I lost earlier and my Heart alerted me to it. One thing led to another in a smooth and seamless way. Simply marvellous! If we would all trust our Hearts and be in that state of being constantly, how beautiful all our lives would unfold and how magical our experiences would be. Well, baby steps. We are all getting there eventually.

The Man and the Bull

The bull was looking at the man without expression.

The man reached out and touched the massive forehead of the bull.

This action did not prompt a violent reaction. The nostrils of the bull did not flare angrily. The legs of the bull also remained steadfast and were not pawing the ground.

"You know, I wanted to kill you", the man said. "For a long time, I resented being shackled on your back and forced to ride you. Life's curveballs seemingly manifested out of nowhere, while I was dodging them, glued on your back, allowing the emotions of the ride to flow through me like a wild river."

The bull snorted as if he was chuckling.

"Not anymore. I've learned the lesson you were trying to teach me."

He moved his palm carefully along the bull's head. The bull remained motionless, breathing calmly.

"My life has been a sequence of events caused by dualities to which I was subconsciously reacting and polarizing in a multidimensional soap opera where I am the protagonist."

The man's voice trembled.

"I have suffered for a long time, trying not to fall from your back, for I knew that the fall was going to hurt. I haven't been always successful. Sometimes I fell and it hurt. Getting back onto your back was not always easy and I vividly remember the pain every time I mounted you after I fell."

His dark brown eyes were leaking now.

"Before I rode you, I was riding a wild bronco and before that, a dog was barking at me incessantly. I thought the bronco was something fierce, but I broke him."

He wiped his eyes.

"I should probably say that I broke aspects of my self.

I faced my chronic disease and its causes, instead of putting up with them.

I faced my persona in this life.

I watched fake consciousness constructs crumble away."

The man fell to his knees, as they buckled under the emotional stress.

"I thought the wild ride in this third dimensional consciousness reality would be over. Then you came along and the ride continued even more intensely."

The bull snorted again. Its tail was now lashing around as if he was swatting flies with it.

"My fake sense of identity was challenged, pried away by my intense perceptions of life's intense events.

One by one the attachments to the fake projections of my self were purged before my inner eyes, sending me into a decaying spiral.

My inner eyes gradually closed, allowing my one eye to open.

My polarized individuality gave way to a sense of unity, finding solace in unconditional love.

I "see" now. There is only one way to "see", and that is with unconditional love - unpolarized and with one eye, one perspective, yet holographic.

I was drowning but now I am reborn in the universal sea of consciousness/love.

Love is all we need and love is all we are."

The man was still leaking, but his tears were tears of joy. A smile appeared slowly amidst sobs of joy.

"Thank you for showing me what I needed to "see"…"

The bull became slowly transparent. He responded non-verbally…

"Don't thank me. This is all your work. You have purged your attachments one by one, guided by your true Self. You are now free from the burdens of your ego. Other humans are still a long way from riding their inner bronco and their inner bull and are still putting up with their inner dog barking at them."

The bull became translucent.

"I'll be back to remind you in case you need another life lesson. For now, remember to love your self. Keep in mind what your ET friend told you: self-love is the foundation for how you love others, how you move through life, and how you find peace within yourself."

That said, the bull vanished as if it never existed - just like the bronco and the dog before it.

The man stood up slowly as it befits a sovereign, self-mastered and integrated being. He smiled as he was wiping his tears of joy, immersed in unconditional love for all beings in Creation, including his own being.

The Futility of Escaping One's Own Self

What do you want? The Voice said calmly.

I don't know, I responded. I am empty and confused.

Surely, you must want something, the Voice persisted.

Do you want to read a book?

Nah…

Do you want to eat something?

Really?... I responded, thinking about the Ozempic-induced mega-nausea, that I've learned to live with.

My intestines are on fire, and you want me to eat something?

OK, I got it, said the Voice chuckling. How about YouTube…?

No, I said. It's just external information that makes sense temporarily but no matter how many YouTube videos I watch, I feel that the unsatisfied void inside me grows larger. And the nagging feeling in the back of my head simply doesn't go away.

Well, you surely must want something. Everybody does.

NO, I said emphatically. Well, yes, but I don't know what it is.

The Voice chuckled and for a moment I thought I saw a laughing Buddha holding his belly.

Well, let me know when the penny drops and leave me be until then.

No, wait, I said impatiently.

So, you want somebody to talk to? The Voice was amused.

Not just anybody, I now want to talk to YOU more than ever.

Oh wow, and it took you months, years, decades to let me know? Thanks a lot man! I do appreciate your honesty! My inner Voice’s sarcasm was unmistaken.

Well, I thought I was talking to you all my life (lives), but I guess, we never talked about things that really matter.

Oh, OK. The Voice became interested. And what is it that you want to talk about?

I held my breath. Self-love…, perhaps? I said hesitantly.

I could imagine my inner Voice rubbing its hands - if it had any. Instantly, I remembered Tom Hanks rubbing his hands in "You've got mail", when Meg Ryan asked him to help her with a business problem she had.

OK, give it to me straight, the Voice said, mimicking Robert De Niro.

Well, my Self sure knows how to start a conversation, I thought.

So, I just said to my Self: you know, sometimes, I just want to hug somebody and tell them that I love them unconditionally. Not in a romantic sense, but as a human being. There's so much pain and suffering in the world. Some people become victims and other people are perpetrators. And, you know, both victims and perpetrators they just need love. They're acting out their inner need for love, you know…

Enough with the "you know" already… I do know, you don't have to remind me, the Voice said playfully. And what's that got to do with Self-love?

I chose my words carefully…: I was recently reminded by some wise people (humans and ETs), of the importance of self-love. I was told, that self-love is the foundation for how you love others, how you move through life, and how you find peace within yourself.

And…? The Voice held its breath.

Well, I said, how do I love my self, when the only thing I know is to love others unconditionally?

You know my boy, I've been waiting for you to ask me this question for thousands of years and during countless incarnations.

I looked up. Was my true Self using “you know” to tease me?

But… I just witnessed this question forming inside me, I tried to explain the obvious.

Yes, I know. And you have come close to asking me this question so many times, but you always hesitated, but this time the bull you're riding during these Great Changes managed to shake you so much that you're coming apart. AND IN THIS STATE OF BEING you can see your self and all parts of you that make you YOU - especially the ones you don’t like. Even when you love others unconditionally, this love cannot be complete, if it is not founded on self-love. It’s like the foundation of a house. If the foundation is not strong, the house will not be strong as well.

I swear, I'm going to kill that bull when all this is over, I thought, venting my frustration.

My Self laughed silently. Good luck with that! There is no bull, just like there is no spoon. YOU are the bull and the self and the Self and All That Is. You are just witnessing your own being from different perspectives. Read your books again - published or not. It's why I inspired you to write them.

I blinked surprised. I didn’t know where to focus. The “Matrix” reference or my books.

My Self continued: Consolidate your own being by calling all your parts home and become sovereign within your Self. You cannot escape your own self. It will keep bugging you until you embrace it.

Enough, I thought. Just because you know all cards from Lyssa's deck, doesn't mean you can actually explain something to me. This is a pseudo-argument, I said woefully.

That's because you still don't get it. Do not listen with the mind my boy, listen with the Heart. Feel, don't think. Feeling is the way to be from now on, for the mind will only suggest what to do not to feel. Right now, you are stuck, lacking strength and you feel weakened - unable to act, because you are unsure of what to do. Well, guess what…, that’s because there is no more doing. What do you think that means? It means that the time for your character to act is over. Your own self doesn't want to act anymore, because it doesn’t know what to do. What you need is to feel. Every evolutionary milestone that you reach from now on is within your Heart – not within your mind. Don't think and act anymore. It's now time to feel and be. It's time to put everything you've learned together and go truly, genuinely within. Yes, you have been doing that so far, but now I'm asking you to "be" not to "do". There is nothing more to do. Be your Self, be me, DO NOT BE YOUR CHARACTER.

Get it?

I remembered now. I am who I am and that is enough. A mega-observer immersed in unconditional love; I thought with a smile. NOT my character – my Self.

Good, my Self responded. But can you genuinely feel that? You did so in the past before any of this happened, just remember that feeling and replicate it.

And what about self-love?

You will become aware of it automagically when you accept your self with all your faults, weaknesses and glorious strengths. Just like strength comes from unity, so does self-love. Accept all that makes you YOU. Make the leap from being your character (self) to being your true Self inside your Heart. Pay attention to your feelings and call on your mind only when you need it. Jayzus, do I have to remind you word for word what I have told you in the past and you wrote in your first book? You did so from the perspective of your mind, so that you may use it in divine time in your Heart when you start being your true Self.

Aye sir, I responded smiling.

Oh, shut up, go "be" now and leave me be, my true Self said lovingly.

Humans on Earth - Ernesto and Yolanda

This is a short story included in my first book “Visions of a Future Earth… and how to realize them” - which you can learn more about here.

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Ernesto looked up from the book he was reading and glanced at Yolanda. She gazed at him with a smile.

“What?” he asked.

“Nothing. I was just remembering how we met.”

Sudden, sad memories surfaced for Ernesto, and he looked away with a frown. He hadn’t said anything, but she sensed what he was feeling. She came closer and hugged him. “Why are you bringing this up?” Ernesto’s voice was hoarse and full of emotion. “Tell me that I’ve done what I could, that I’ve atoned for my sins after all these years.” He looked at Yolanda with true sadness.

Ernesto’s total transformation from a cold-hearted man in service to self to a humble and loving human being in service to others still surprised her. “Yes, my love, you have done well. I believe in you and love you for all your changes, big and small. I only wanted to reminisce about how we met.”

It was clear to Yolanda that Ernesto still struggled with his past and that he might need more time to heal. It had been easier for her to move beyond that negative period of their lives.

Tears of love and gratitude ran down Ernesto’s cheeks. He welcomed her unconditional love. Ever since he’d decided to turn his life around, she’d stood by him, nurturing and reassuring him so that he could get over his raw past. His new path was rewarding but difficult, and he could not let go of the thought that the unspeakable evil he’d been immersed in for many years demanded a lifetime of restitution.

“Remember why you are doing this.” Yolanda held his hand lovingly. “Remember that you are not punishing yourself or paying for your crimes. Rather, you saw the error of your ways and have chosen to correct them. You have my everlasting love.”

Ernesto had been enjoying reading his book and now he was immersed in wrenching memories of the past. This was a strong indication that the blemish on his soul continued to evoke powerful emotions. He glanced at the electronic monitor tugging heavily on his ankle, reminding him of the heavy burden weighing on his conscience. In an emotional haze, Ernesto chose to remember, as he knew it might help him continue his healing process.

He never knew his father. His mother raised him lovingly and managed to create a positive environment for him even amid frequent gang violence. When he was sixteen, she was accused of aiding a rival gang and executed in front of his eyes. That day, he broke into thousands of sharp pieces that deeply wounded his young and barely formed personality.

Ernesto buried all feelings of love deep inside. Fuelled by unstoppable rage driven partly by adolescence, he began a killing spree to avenge his mother, starting with the gang member who’d shot her. He joined the rival gang that his mother was suspected of aiding. He climbed the ranks until he took control of that criminal organization, exhibiting unequalled degrees of cunning and malice. He was the embodiment of terror.

He began his criminal career as a drug lord and then expanded his business activities to include prostitution, child slavery and trafficking. Yolanda was one of his “employees.” She later told him that every day and night, she tried to nurture and support the children being used and abused along with herself. Yolanda tried three times to end her life, but her keepers saved her in what must have been a harsh reflection of a reality with no escape.

One day, Ernesto decided to collect the money from that side of his business himself rather than leave it to one of his crew. He was curious about how the enterprise was proceeding. Accustomed to human anguish, he would not waste more thoughts than necessary on the people involved. But unknown to him at the time, Spirit had set the stage for a synchronistic meeting.

He saw Yolanda in the corner of the small, dingy room, and their eyes met. A sensation welled up within him, that he hadn’t felt since his childhood in the “Cinturón de Miséria”. He didn’t recognize love, at first, because he’d isolated his Heart for decades.

He had forgotten how to love. His dealings with women were those of a man in a position of absolute power, and he never allowed himself to have feelings for them. In his broken state, he didn’t recognize love for what it was and assumed he was becoming soft.

Eventually, after several respectful meetings, he could not deny his love for Yolanda, nor could he rip the love out of his Heart once it was there. He could only surrender to the feeling. The same applied to Yolanda. Even though she was his victim and felt intense anger toward him at first, she gradually yielded to the power of love, because she understood they were twin flames.

They’d incarnated knowing the immense grief and pain they would have to endure, but they did it out of love for each other and for all human beings. They were literally following the scripts they’d written before incarnation. She saw the beauty in both their souls.

Over the following weeks, Ernesto discontinued that part of his business, justifying his decision with the excuse that it was too risky. The world — especially US law enforcement — was becoming increasingly aware of human trafficking.

Yolanda brought so much love into Ernesto’s life. The deeper he sank into darkness, the higher he was catapulted into the light when the conditions were right. He carefully began restructuring his business to legitimate enterprises and witnessed his life change from negative to positive. He felt reborn. From a wild animal in survival mode, he progressively became more enlightened as he learned more about himself. He created an organization to help abused children across the world, supported by the vast resources generated by his legitimate business activities.

It was a time of peace and a time of love; a time of purpose and a time of restitution – until it all came to a grinding halt. His previous business affairs were discovered during a routine tax investigation. He was arrested by the FBI and tried by the International Criminal Court. Subsequently, he was convicted for drug-related offences as well as for child slavery and trafficking and sentenced to life in prison. Spurred partly by society’s valiant attempt toward enlightenment by forgiving past transgressions, his sentence was eventually commuted to house arrest. His assets were not confiscated due to how the money assisted thousands of children harmed by that despicable practice. He was making amends in a substantial way.

As these raw and dark memories flooded through him, Yolanda pulled him into a hug. They wept in each other’s arms.

After a while, Yolanda held his face in her hands and looked into his eyes. “Forgive me for bringing up those dark memories. I am in such awe of the infinite love the universe held for us until we were ready for it. I only meant to remind you that love always finds a way.”

A hint of a smile appeared on Ernesto’s tear-streaked face. “I love you,” he whispered. He held her again, and that was enough.

In a final, deliberate act of surrendering the last remnants of ego-based resistance within him, he yielded completely to the infinite love of the universe flowing through Yolanda, melting away in in her safe embrace. Instead of thinking, he grokked with a sigh:

Love always finds a way.

Humans on Earth - Bobbie

This is a short story included in my first book “Visions of a Future Earth… and how to realize them” - which you can learn more about here.

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Bobbie looked up from her glass data screen and gazed through the transparent dome of the small marine-research station. The sea bottom looked alien, but this was her work environment. As a marine biologist, she studied deep-sea creatures, such as the eels and swarms of bloodybelly comb jellyfish she’d observed yesterday.

For a while, she marvelled at the breathtaking bioluminescence exhibited by the plants and creatures here at the bottom of the sea. The Mariana trench was literally alive, and the versatility of life was a sight to behold, with purples, blues, reds, and dashes of oranges and yellows. The undersea creatures resembled beings from another planet, yet they’d evolved on Earth over millions of years. She enjoyed her work immensely.

Her phone chimed. She picked up the call and transferred it to the terminal in front of her.

Her adult son’s smiling face appeared in midair. “Mother, are you coming?”

“Yes, my love. Just a little more cataloguing to do.”

“How much longer? We all want to see you. Louise is here from Tycho City, Josh has come from his research outpost in Antarctica, Trevor took a leave of absence from his Ranger post on the Galileo, your nieces Laura and Rachel—”

Bobbie interrupted her son with a sigh of loving understanding. “All right. I’m coming now.”

His face brightened. “See you soon. We love you.”

“I love you too.”

It was time to go home. She’d only done three hours of work today instead of her usual four, but her obligations to herself and her family were equally important. Today was her birthday. She was 99 years young. Her family was expecting her so they could celebrate.

She stood and looked around to see if she might be missing anything before she left. Ah, yes, she’d nearly forgotten.

“David, would you please keep an eye out for the bloodybelly comb jelly swarm? They might come back. You have their bioenergy markers on file. Please send me an info-burst if this happens while I’m away.”

“Of course,” David responded with an impeccable British accent. When given the option, he’d chosen his name in honour of a famous British naturalist who’d spent a lifetime of research in service to the planet. “You know I’m interested in them too. And if I may say so, you keep very well for your 99 years.”

“Thank you, David, that’s awfully nice of you to say!” Bobbie responded smiling, mimicking the same accent. They were working together for many years now and their bond of friendship was as real as it got.

Bobbie prepared to enter through the trans-portal, saying: “Destination—” She’d been about to say “home,” but caught herself. She called a few places “home,” including this station at the bottom of the ocean. She continued, “— my home in Fountain Hills.” The trans-portal knew that Fountain Hills was located near Phoenix, Arizona, North American planetary province, and it set up the transfer.

She stepped through the swirling vortex, and with a swift, whooshing sound, she disappeared from the research station.

David realized that Bobbie had left, and he turned off the internal lighting as well as the human work console. The arc of the curved wall not transparent to the ocean slowly dimmed and went dark as the illumination softly faded. The surreal but immensely beautiful lights generated by ocean life brightened the interior of the research station with waves of ethereal, dreamlike light. An artificial intelligence was left to monitor ocean life alone, utilizing the methodical thoroughness of a computer but complemented with the appreciation that only comes from genuine, heartfelt emotion.

Humans on Earth - Sean and Ciara

This is a short story included in my first book “Visions of a Future Earth… and how to realize them” - which you can learn more about here.

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An almost imperceptible vibration brought Sean out of his sleep cycle. He opened his eyes, recognizing the wake-up call from his house AI. He sat up in bed and looked down at his partner, Ciara, still sleeping beside him. With a loving smile, he felt his immense unconditional love for her as well as for every being on the planet and beyond.

He got up. It was early dawn, and morning light crowned the forest behind the house in an orange glow. He liked looking through this transparent wall, which is how he instructed the house AI to keep it. Today was a big day. He’d been overseeing Project Blooming Garden for twelve years now, after it was approved by Earth’s Planetary Council. His large group of geneticists and engineers — planetary ecosystems, agricultural, environmental — were putting the final touches on the project of turning the Sahara Desert into a Garden of Eden.

It had taken some time to build the dozens of small, automated fusion-powered desalination plants along the African coast of the Mediterranean Sea, which had recently been upgraded to use quantum power nodes. Were it not for robotic assistance, many people would have likely died or been injured completing this project, and it would have taken decades to complete.

Two years into the project, there was enough fresh water available to drown the desert and make it fertile. Over time, small, irrigated patches of limited plant life on the Mediterranean coast have become large forests, with savanna-type landscapes growing farther inland. Small areas of land were set aside and developed as agricultural farmland with robotic workforces. These weren’t necessary for food, since the use of replicator technology allowed for abundant and healthy sustenance for everyone, but they would serve as research sites to produce more nutrient-dense crops.

Various animals had moved north from the rest of Africa, expanding to this new living space, and more would follow. After the once separated and mostly poor countries of Africa came together and invested heavily in the idea of the African Union, no effort was spared to heal the African continent and serve humanity in the process.

The value and accomplishment of Project Blooming Garden was not just in the enormous feat of planetary engineering, but in the sustained bonds of the people from all over the planet who worked diligently toward this common goal. This was but one of many environmental initiatives aimed at healing and improving the original human habitat: planet Earth.

Today, they would be participating in a meeting to explore what species of animals to introduce into the new ecosystem of the Sahara to save them from extinction. The delicate new ecosystem had to be refined and immaculately balanced so that it would not interfere with other Earth ecosystems. Nature would eventually take over, but caution was necessary to soften the effects of ecological rebalancing with adjacent regions. Some species would be reanimated from the gene banks where they were preserved many years ago when climate change threatened to destroy Earth's once-robust ecosystems. Other animals would be used to populate the former Gobi Desert and barren lands previously known as the Middle East. Those regions had been transformed earlier, due to the smaller engineering challenges involved. The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, was key to this endeavour. It had been expanded and upgraded over the years to become the Global Seed and Gene Vault, safeguarding also genetic samples of animals on the verge of extinction.

Sean walked into the shower and let the alternating hot and cold water invigorate him. When finished, he used the shower’s water-repelling function to dry his skin. He stepped into his shoes and felt a soft pressure around his feet as the intelligent mechanism of the shoes recognized him. He watched for a few seconds as the nanomaterial of the shoes expanded upwards along his legs, covering his legs, and then his torso and arms in the process, thus becoming his work suit. He looked at his breast insignia of Environmental Engineer First Class and Chief Coordinator of Project Blooming Garden, in service with United Earth’s Planetary Council. The biomimetic nanomaterial hugged his skin and would regulate his body temperature.

Sean went back to the bedroom and, with a tender smile, sat on the bed beside his sleeping beauty. He lovingly touched her cheek. "Wakey, wakey, love. Those animals won’t miraculously appear in the Sahara if we don’t put them there.”

Ciara opened her eyes. With a smile he continued: “My love, we need to hit the trans-portal in half an hour. Did you forget that we work in the Sahara region and not in County Donegal?" Ciara returned his smile. She was one of the geneticists/biologists entrusted with reanimating the animals they intended to introduce into the now lush green hills and plains of the Sahara. "Mm, good morning,” she murmured sleepily. “Have I told you how much I love you?"

Sean laughed out loud. “You can tell me later. We need to hit the trans-portal in half an hour.”

She sat up in bed, motivated to Heart-induced action by her exciting work. It was a good day to be alive and in service to humanity.

Humans on Earth - Samantha

This is a short story included in my first book “Visions of a Future Earth… and how to realize them” - which you can learn more about here.

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Samantha was tired, but that feeling in no way kept her from being blissed out, seeing her great-grandchildren again. Twins Neya and Inara had recently celebrated their fifteenth birthdays and announced their decisions to join the Rangers.

It was late afternoon, and they sat in Samantha’s garden pavilion on a beautiful mid-summer day. With a smile, she said to the twins, “What is it with you youngsters today? You all want to join the Rangers and leave Earth. I’m so happy that you each recognized and are honouring your Heart’s calling, but I feel that leaving Earth might deny you of the joys and wisdom that come from being close to nature and your planet. Not to mention, I will miss you dearly.”

“Oh, Granny,” Neya said. “We won’t be far.”

Samantha sighed. “Neya, how many times have I asked you to call me Sam? I’m only 112 years old and still have a lot to offer to society.”

“Fine, Sam.” Neya smiled. It was so easy to bring the older generations out of balance. Their compartmentalized consciousness was only recently integrated, and they still had lingering ego issues. Their vessels were slowly evolving, helped along with genetic boosts from DNA micronutrients. Anyway, Sam was born in 3D before the Great Changes and is still adapting to living in 4D, Neya thought with compassion.

“We won’t be leaving the planet right away,” Inara said to Sam. “And remember that many Rangers are stationed on Earth or in the solar system performing important research.”

“Right,” Neya said. “We’ll spend a few years on the planet transferring from one Ranger station to another, studying Earth’s ecosystems and environmental cycles in depth. As you know, the carbon-cycle is not the only major environmental cycle. There’s also the nitrogen cycle, the phosphorus cycle, and the water cycle….”

“Okay, okay,” Samantha responded with a smile. “You seem to know what you’re talking about.”

Inara scooted excitedly to the edge of her seat. “Our recent research into the energetic planetary cycles has provided so much insight in planetary ecosystem engineering, that we now understand how they progress and how we can use this process for other applications.”

Neya, her eyes bright, added, “Schumann generators creating natural planetary resonances are only the bare minimum that we need on spacecraft for long-term exploratory missions. The new Explorer spacecraft expand that concept with ecosystem cores blended into their internal environments. Humans need that to feel at home, as if they’re on Earth.”

Samantha laughed. The twins were in their “zones.” So much knowledge and maturity for people so young. “All right, smarty pants,” she said. “Why are you sharing all this information? Let’s cut to the chase.”

“Simple,” Inara responded. “We want you to understand that being Rangers is not about being on Earth or in space. It’s about being responsible galactic citizens and answering our callings to serve humanity and interact with ETs as ambassadors. To do that, we must study and understand Mother Earth and the living, genetic libraries of our home planet. She must never be abused again.” Inara’s eyes teared up as she contemplated the calling of her Heart and her sacred duty to Earth and humanity. She glanced at Neya, whose eyes were also filling with tears.

Samantha hugged them both. She loved them so much, and now she truly understood their passion and calling. With an open smile, she wiped away her own tears. Oh, how she wished she could join them wherever they were going, but with her older genetics, she couldn’t easily keep up. All professions were open to all humans after the Great Changes, but it was not appropriate for everyone to do what they thought they wanted. Neya and Inara had gone through an elaborate educational process to reach their conclusions based not on what they thought but on what they felt they wanted to do.

Samantha remembered her youth and the educational system she grew up in and shrugged. Comparing the two systems was simply not possible, due to the different educational approaches. Today, there was no one-size-fits-all approach, and for good reason.

They hugged for a long time, melting into each other’s arms in a vibrational symphony of unconditional love. Neya was the first to break the connection, as usual. Her inner drive was relentless and her calling evident.

“Sam, we love you so much,” she said, “and we also love all other beings and our ET friends. We promise we’ll see you soon and tell you stories of what we’ve seen and learned.” Inara nodded in agreement, both of them smiling.

Samantha had a surprising thought. Her great-grandchildren always had smiles on their faces, no matter how small. Bittersweet, almost forgotten memories of her past resurfaced, of her personal and professional struggles before the Great Changes. Suddenly, Neya and Inara hugged her again. She could feel their heart-energy centres expand with a very pleasant warm and fuzzy feeling. In a flash of realization (curse her old genetics for the delay in recognition), Samantha grokked that Neya and Inara must have sensed her discomfort and hugged her without thinking. They expanded their heart centres to comfort her in a tangible way with unconditional love.

Samantha was near to tears again, feeling the pure, unconditional love that came from her great-grandchildren. They were already more than she ever was, even with frequent meditation and the application of unconditional love in her life. Samantha was content, though, as she remembered something precious someone had told her during the Great Changes: “You exist. You are unique. The universe does not make mistakes. You are a necessary part of the whole and have something of value to offer.” Yes, she was content, and she had been for many years now.

Samantha noticed the pleasant scents of lilac mixed with lavender from her garden. It was a perfect moment in time. There was nothing more to say. They all focused on their feelings and marvelled together at how beautiful life is. By now, the sun had set, and stars dotted the sky. Neya and Inara sensed that Sam was feeling better. They stood, hugged her again, and walked to the shuttle in the backyard of the house. It was a three-seat, disc-shaped craft used primarily by the younger generation for commuting on Earth. Tomorrow, they were expected at the Ranger station in São Paulo where they would participate in the expansion of the rainforest and earn study credits toward their combined environmental and planetary ecosystems engineering degrees.

They are following their Hearts, Samantha thought as she watched them enter the craft. The craft came alive with a low hum, and without warning, it shot up into the night sky and vanished in a heartbeat.

“Show-offs,” Samantha whispered, smiling with a Heart still full with love. “Neya must be driving again.” Still smiling, she walked slowly back toward the house to rest. Before entering, she couldn’t help but look once more into the starry night sky that had recently become a joyful playground for humanity.