What is Love?

[Tenet Nosce]

(Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me.)

This is, of course, what first went through my mind when I saw the title of your post. Telling, isn't it?

Maybe its something completely different from mother-child love or romantic love.

I think the challenge with much of what we humans consider to be love, is that it has a shell of fear and insecurity built around the core. This is, ostensibly, in order to protect us and/or our loved one(s) (Baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me.)

Also, much of our conception of love actually amplifies the illusory difference between "self" and "other". So whatever Ra's conception of love is, I would venture to say it is rooted in the Law of One- which states that there is no real distinction between self and other.

Now all of this doesn't make human love "bad"... merely distorted. Here is what Ra has to say about it:

15.21 Questioner: In yesterday’s material you mentioned that the first distortion was the distortion of free will. Is there a sequence, a first, second, and third distortion of the Law of One?

Ra: I am Ra. Only up to a very short point. After this point, the many-ness of distortions are equal one to another. The first distortion, free will, finds focus. This is the second distortion known to you as Logos, the Creative Principle or Love. This intelligent energy thus creates a distortion known as Light. From these three distortions come many, many hierarchies of distortions, each having its own paradoxes to be synthesized, no one being more important than another.

15.22 Questioner: You also said that you offered the Law of One which is the balancing of love/light with light/love. Is there any difference between light/love and love/light?

Ra: I am Ra. This will be the final question of this time/space. There is the same difference between love/light and light/love as there is between teach/learning and learn/teaching. Love/light is the enabler, the power, the energy giver. Light/love is the manifestation which occurs when light has been impressed with love.

I have a feeling it could be some kind of metaphysical concept that's like a mixture of being content and in the moment and acting like your truest self would want to act.

I'm somewhat grasping here, but in the context of the Ra material, I would consider "being content and in the moment and acting like your truest self would want to act" to be a fairly accurate definition of service, which would fall under the umbrella of the third distortion.

When we love somebody, it can inspire us to put our best foot forward. To become more of our authentic self. IMO- this is the value of 3D love.

Ra says the point of 3D is to find love in the moment, but how can you find something if you don't know what it is?

I might suggest to start with what you do know about love, no matter how distorted that conception may be, and then keep looking there. Observe the feeling, then notice what arises after it. Look deeper. See if you can identify where the distortion is, then ask for clarification from your Higher Self. Then repeat.