Good morning! - and a question about love

[rva_jeremy]

I was hoping for a good entry way in the Ra material to understanding what love actually is?

I think actually a lot of the conscious channeling is more descriptive.  Pre-1980 channeling tend to revolve around this.

Your curiosity is fully understandable: Confederation sources have often reminded us that the word "love" is inadequate for what they are often trying to describe. It's bigger than the feeling, that's for sure. 

I keep coming back to the force in Star Wars as analogy, except I think it's not as discrete as they describe the force being.  And it doesn't have a "dark" side so much as a "distorted" side -- things like anger and hate and fear are part of love, just twisted realizations of it. But for that matter, even our positive feelings of love tend to be distorted as well, to the extent that they map to illusion.

It also is mysterious that the thing we feel so universally in our experience is on the same continuum as the force that led to the Creation -- not metaphorically, but in a thoroughly physical way (let us call this "cosmic love"):

Awareness led to the focus of infinity into infinite energy. You have called this by various vibrational sound complexes, the most common to your ears being “Logos” or “Love.”

13.7

So I think what we feel as love is really the projection of cosmic love into human consciousness (recall that "projection" is when you take a higher dimensional thing and realize it in a lower dimensional thing, like a 2-dimensional shadow representing a 3-dimensional body in 2d). What the broader cosmic love is has more to do with fundamental metaphysical questions about how reality is truly constituted.

Building on my previous posts on similar topics, I think the concept of "focus" helps explain what separation actually means within the Creation: that it is not truly a rending of one part from another so much as a narrowing of the attention, the perception. Along these lines, perhaps love is merely the tendency of the Creation to return to its state of unity, and we only call it "love" rather than "reality" because our attachment to the illusion forces us to distort it into something comprehensible within the illusion of separation.