Beyond Love

There is a form of love far deeper than emotion, affection, or connection - a love that does not rise or fall, warm or cool, give or take. Spiritual traditions have echoed this for centuries with the phrase "God is love." But what they pointed to is not the love most people know. The emotional version of love - beautiful as it may be - is only a fraction of a much greater reality.
Beyond Love: When Love Becomes God is a direct exploration of that deeper reality.

During a profound meditative moment in which personal identity fell away completely, David Berlin encountered the truth behind the spiritual use of the word love. What revealed itself was not a feeling, not bliss, and not devotion. It was pure, silent awareness - steady, neutral, and unchanging - yet unmistakably alive. And in that clear field of being, it became evident that this is the love spoken of by the sages and mystics.
The love described here is not emotional at all. It is the essence of reality itself.

Berlin draws a sharp and essential distinction:

• Emotional love is a brain-generated interpretation - influenced by memory, chemistry, and personal identity.
• True love, recognised when the self dissolves, is the underlying consciousness in which experience appears.

• the collapse of separation and distance
• the end of psychological seeking
• the stillness beneath all emotion
• the neutrality at the core of awareness
• the recognition that "God," "love," and "consciousness" are three words for the same reality