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Astrology Notes: Astrology, Healing and the Evolution of Consciousness
Love is Everything
Healing Your Life with
Unconditional Love
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Foreword by Dr. Demartini
Imagine what it would feel like to be able to open your heart and truly love anyone, anything, anywhere-no matter what the circumstances… to be able to love anyone so deeply that the only word that can describe such a loving state is the word "unconditional." This word "unconditional," though used for centuries, is about to take on a new meaning and power. The book you are about to read is full of inspiring insights, daring new perspectives, and practical methods that can dramatically transform your life. Your body, mind, and soul are about to become revitalized and healed as you journey through this profoundly new synthesis of written love and wisdom.
The term "unconditional love" or "U-Love" is not going to represent some vague, unattainable idealism or some flowery ecstatic state of bliss. No, it is going to be unveiled in such a new and balanced way that it will be attainable, reproducible, and yet profoundly mystical. A new state of mind and heart integration is about to occur-one that can enable you to unleash your immense inner power and spiritual freedom.
Whether you 'unconditionally' love just one person or many, your family, or your entire nation, the results will be evident yet hard to explain. The insights that follow will have the power to change the course of your living history. Your own life, your most intimate family members, and possibly even your nation can now be profoundly impacted.
Read carefully, reason methodically, and listen intuitively, for within the words of wisdom about to be presented are some of the most profound insights you may have ever read. May you have an inspiring journey to your heart of unconditional love and so may you change the course of your living destiny.
-Dr. John F. Demartini
October 2003
(Author of The Breakthrough Experience - A Revolutionary New Approach to Personal Transformation)
Foreword by Martin Lass
I first heard about Dr. John Demartini from a former astrology client of mine. This former client would call me every few days, wanting to bend my ear about his new mentor. In fact, he was becoming a bit of a nuisance. After the umpteenth call, the things he was saying about his mentor and about this mentor's ideas on healing, spirituality, and metaphysics began to ring a bell in me. Partly out of interest, and partly to shut up my former client, I agreed to attend one of his mentor's lectures-a lecture called, "Sacred Healing." This lecture was my introduction to Dr. John Demartini. (By the way, I've since thanked my former client many times for relentlessly badgering me until I agreed to meet Dr. Demartini.)
After my many years of research, study, and personal journeying into diverse areas of healing, spirituality, and metaphysics, everything in Dr. Demartini's lecture clicked with me. It brought together all the loose ends of my research, study, and experiences into a unified picture. By the end of the lecture, I knew that this was where my next step lay.
During the lecture, Dr. Demartini talked a lot about the importance of the state of mind of the healer. As a demonstration, he acted out a scenario where he was the doctor in attendance and one of the audience was to pretend to be the patient. I just happened to be sitting along Dr. Demartini's sightline. He set his targets on me and, before I could shrink myself to the point of invisibility, the good doctor approached me. Without losing eye contact, he held out his hand. Instinctively, I took it. He shook my hand continuously, without letting it go.
"Hi! I'm Dr. Demartini. I've been looking after your case," he play-acted. "How are you feeling today?" Dr. Demartini's eyes never left mine.
Feeling embarrassed at first, I replied nervously, "I'm feeling better today, thank you." There were a few giggles at the back of the room.
Then… silence. Dr. Demartini did not let my hand go. Nor did he take his eyes away from mine. Nor did he speak again. Amidst growing discomfort, there was something else growing as well… a certain presence, a certain depth of feeling. In the silence, I was moved almost to tears. At that moment, Dr. Demartini let my hand go, walked back to the front of the audience, and continued his lecture.
It was a moment I'll never forget. The experience resonated deep inside me. There was something familiar about it, something almost remembered, but something I couldn't yet put my finger on. In hindsight, I realized that this was a moment of pure and wordless unconditional love.
My revelations in this lecture were matched in quantity by my questions. It seemed obvious that Dr. Demartini's view was that a state of unconditional love was a prerequisite for healing. It was more than this, though: his view was that unconditional love is the greatest healer. My burning question was how to achieve such a state of consciousness. How could I achieve unconditional love reliably and repeatedly, for my own healing and evolution of consciousness, as well as for the healing of others?
In hindsight, I realize that I already had everything I needed to do this, even before I met Dr. Demartini. However, my journey led me to Dr. Demartini so he could show me how to put all the pieces together. The culmination of my quest was Dr. Demartini's "Quantum Collapse Process®", presented later in this book. Since that first lecture, I've worked with and alongside Dr. Demartini for many years now.
This book is about the journey to unconditional love-not just for me, but for each one of us. It will take you through the steps required to achieve new and revolutionary perspectives on life and love. Such new perspectives are the essence of healing, as you'll see in what follows. Not only this, but this book will give you a cutting-edge, scientific, and repeatable process for finding unconditional love for anything or anybody you turn your attention to. This process is one of Dr. Demartini's greatest gifts to the world.
-Martin Lass
May 2004
Preface
Let me say to you, right from the start, that everything in your life is perfect as it is! Nothing needs changing, fixing, or getting rid of. Not only this, but everything in you is perfect as it is! Again, nothing needs changing, fixing, or getting rid of.
"What?!" you cry. "I thought this book was going to teach me about the healing power of love… If everything is perfect already, then what's there to heal?"
In short, healing is life and life is a healing journey. And both life and healing are about love.
Life is about finding love, about learning to love, about seeing love in you and around you, and about realizing that you are love. Mostly importantly, it's about realizing that there's nothing but love… love is everything!
The healing journey is about seeing yourself and the world around you differently. It's about moving beyond the need to change, fix, or get rid of anything. And, when the way you see yourself and see the world expands, miraculously, everything changes… this is unconditional love. In this lies the key to healing-the key to resolving your issues, wounds, problems, conflicts, and obstacles, and to revealing the deeper meaning behind it all.
Believe it or not, you're already on this path. Life is constantly taking you to the perfect place for you to awaken to unconditional love. So, from this perspective, everything's perfect as it is… nothing to fix, change, or get rid of.
"If life is already giving me everything I need, then why read this book?"
This book will help you understand the process of life-help you understand how life is love and how life teaches love. It will teach you the difference between what we ordinarily call love and unconditional love. It will help you unconditionally love yourself, others, and the world around you a little more. In this way, it will help you move through your issues, wounds, problems, conflicts, and obstacles. Most importantly, this book will allow you to do all this faster and more efficiently than the default process of life does.
To this end, this book offers a process that will allow you to heal your life and experience unconditional love whenever you're ready to take the steps. This process extracts the essential ingredients from the healing journey of life and puts these into scientific and repeatable steps that will fast-track your journey. Are you ready?
"Who is this guy?" you might ask. "And what makes him think he has all the answers?"
In short, I've spent my entire life looking for love and trying to understand what love really is. I'll share some of this story with you in the material that follows. On my quest, I've sought wisdom both ancient and modern-the wisdom of teachers, scholars, philosophers, visionaries, and spiritual leaders, both the living and the long departed. I've sought universal ideas-great truths-that have stood the test of time. I've summarized and combined the essence of these teachings and applied it to the questions "What is love?" and "Where can love be found?" After traveling far and wide, in the outer world and in my inner world, the road eventually led me to Dr. John Demartini's "Quantum Collapse Process®"-the healing process presented in the latter part of this book. This process brings together all the jigsaw pieces of our lives into a single truth:
Love is everything-everything is love.
I've not only personally experienced and verified the ideas and process presented in this book, but, as a certified practitioner, I've worked the process with innumerable people; I've personally witnessed them heal their wounds, resolve their issues, and attain unconditional love.
This isn't one of those books that promises you instant happiness, but then makes you feel bad about yourself because you can't seem to get the results promised. This book presents a real process that I guarantee will give you real results in the shortest possible time. All you have to do is follow the steps.
Lastly, a quick word about the approach taken in this book: in many healing, spiritual, and "New Age" circles, it's commonly felt that, in order to open our hearts to love, it's necessary to side-step, avoid, move away from, or get rid of the thinking side of our nature. I believe that the result of this is the antithesis-the opposite-of unconditional love. Unconditional love includes rather than excludes all and everything that we are-the physical, the emotional, the mental, and the spiritual. In fact, in this book, we're going to be using the thinking mind as a tool to open the heart. We're going to be using the thinking mind the way it was designed to be used: consciously and intentionally, to open the heart to unconditional love. The thinking mind, when used in specific and directed ways, is more powerful than laser light. When this light is focused upon the things that appear to keep us from loving ourselves, loving others, and loving our lives as they are, it has the power to open the heart. And the opening of the heart is the true meaning of enlightenment.
In short, this book will give you a tool to consciously open your heart to unconditional love. Love means not having to change, fix, or get rid of anything in your life. As you love, so you heal. As you heal, so your life changes… a miraculous paradox!
Introduction
What is love? Do I know? I thought I knew, many years ago, when I was just a child. I grew up thinking love was something warm and fuzzy, without sharp edges, caring and nurturing, comfortable, peaceful, and happy. Then, my childhood sweetheart, who'd openly professed her love for me, voluntarily joined the enemy ranks in the neighborhood 'war'; seeing how this upset me, she explained that this was "different," that this had nothing to do with her love for me. Around the same age, after a spanking, I was told by my mother that she'd spanked me because she loved me. On another occasion, I was told that my father kicked me because he loved me; that he kept a large stick hanging on the kitchen wall because he loved me. I was told that I wasn't allowed to have candy because they (my parents) loved me. I was told that I wasn't allowed to join the football team because they loved me. I was told that to love my parents in return was the mark of a good person. Was I a bad person then? I was told that some parents loved their children and some didn't. I thought my parents didn't love me and that love was something other children were given, but, for some reason, I was not.
During my life, I've been told that love is this and love is that… that love is not this and love is not that. I've been told that love can Heal the world and Heal our lives. (N.B. From this point onward, I will capitalize "Heal" when I mean it in the broadest sense-not just physical or medical, but physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. Similarly, any other word that seems unnecessarily capitalized is to be taken in its broadest sense.) I've been told that love is the opposite of hate and that if I can get rid of hate, only love will remain. And yet, after all these years, I still hate… I hate taking out the garbage, I hate traveling on airplanes, I hate frozen peas, I hate how people say they want a better world and then do nothing but criticize others while sitting in front of the television. I hate how my fingers don't always do what I tell them to when I'm typing. I hate how difficult it is to explain what I mean when I'm writing, so that everybody, no matter what race, color, or creed, can understand me. I sometimes hate that I've been born with a mind that's not satisfied with "common knowledge," that insists on questioning every popular view, every human perception, judgment, and assertion, and that doesn't let me 'sleep in peace'… and so on and so forth…
So, what is love? The New Agers tell me that "All is love," but do they really understand what living by this catch phrase would mean? It would mean that I'd have to love many of the things I still hate. It would mean giving up my judgments against people and things that society otherwise condemns-like Hitler, Osama bin Laden, Dr. Death (Kevorkian), and Charles Manson… like rape, murder, pollution, racism, smoking, abortion, and so much more. Am I ready for this? Maybe not. However, despite this, the idea that "all is love" rings a bell somewhere in me.
The New Agers also tell me it's possible to get rid of hate, war, conflict, judgment, and blame. They tell me it's possible to live a life that's only love-without conflict, only peaceful, only happy, only nice, only unselfish, only for the sake of others, and all for the common good. However, in the next breath, some of these same people judge, blame, and condemn anybody who doesn't agree with their viewpoints or who lives by a different set of values. Isn't this simply another form of conflict? The more I shout "peace," the more I seem to attract war, conflict, and violence. Look at the nineteen-sixties, look at John Lennon, look at Tibet, look at anti-war rallies… to name just a few examples. Such one-sided goals-peace without war, happy without sad, nice without mean, selflessness without selfishness, everyday love without everyday hate, and so on-are a nice idea. However, they're also illusions. As the great Russian/Armenian teacher, G. I. Gurdjieff, used to say, "Every stick has two ends." Science says there are no monopoles in nature-another way of saying that everything has two opposite sides. Put simply, there are two sides to every coin. Not only this, but one side can't exist without the other. And not only this, but one side defines the other… even in the case of war and peace. In everyday terms, love and hate are these kind of opposites. However, in this book, we'll be exploring a broader kind of love that includes both sides of every coin. This is the Love (capitalized to distinguish it from my everyday idea of love) that can Heal my life.
The New Agers also tell me that I need to learn to forgive-to forgive my enemies and those who've hurt me or wronged me. They tell me I need to forgive myself as well for hurting or wronging others. In this way, they say, I can free myself of judgment, blame, and hate, and in doing so learn to love again.
But, doesn't the idea that "all is love" contradict the idea of forgiveness? To forgive, there must be something to forgive-a crime, a misdemeanor, a wrongdoing, and so on. But aren't "crimes," "misdemeanors," and "wrongdoings" a matter of one person's opinion against another's? What I think is a crime, another person might think is perfectly OK. What's legal in one country is a crime in another. Either way-crime or not, right or wrong, good or bad-don't such judgments reflect a lack of love? I think it's fair to say that not many people would say they love crimes, misdemeanors, and wrongdoings.
Not only this, but if I've "forgiven" someone, doesn't it mean I still think they've done something wrong in the past? And yet, in the same breath, they tell me "all is love." If "all is love," then doesn't this mean that crimes-whether crimes against me or crimes I've committed-are also love? And that, ultimately, there's nothing to forgive? Have I missed something? Am I confused? Careful! These are dangerous thoughts!
What is love? It's been said that unconditional love is the greatest Healer of all. Would I love to be able to love in this way-unconditionally, without reservations, expectations, or conditions? Would I love to be able to Heal my life? Would I love to be able to love myself? Love my life? Love all life around me? Love the world as a whole? Is it possible?
Most importantly, would I love to be able to love the people around me? To be free of my judgments? To be free of blame? To be free of hurt and resentment? To be free of the illusion of forgiveness? To be free to love… to simply love? It is possible?
If it were possible, what would be required? What efforts would I have to make? What beliefs about myself and about the world would I have to give up? How would my picture of myself and of the world be required to change? And if I managed to find unconditional love, how would others' feel about it?
If I'm going to discover the Love that can Heal my life, then surely it begins with me. Surely, it begins with looking at how I see myself and how I see the world around me. Surely, it begins with looking carefully at my beliefs, issues, wounds, and unanswered questions. Surely, it begins with this one simple question: "What is love?" This question naturally leads me to the questions, "Where can love be found?" and "Why does love seem to be missing sometimes?" My life has been defined by these questions.
And so, I'm writing a book about these questions… I'll share the journey these questions have taken me on. Along the way, I'll cover many subjects. I'll challenge many commonly held ideas and beliefs. I'll present a new paradigm-a new way of looking at things. This new paradigm will show that love (taken in its broadest sense) is everything and everything is love, whether we believe it yet or not. I'll reveal the broader love-unconditional love-that goes beyond the everyday opposites of love and hate. This is the Love that can Heal my life.
I hope my readers will be challenged by this book… it will certainly raise some confronting questions! However, I hope they'll also be reassured… something inside each of us knows the truth of love, despite our outward doubts. Furthermore, I hope my readers will be puzzled by this book… life and love are puzzles worth thinking deeply about. However, I hope they'll also be relieved by the idea that there's nothing but love. It's time to dispel the illusion that there's anything in anybody's life that's not love.
Having said all this, now let's have a look at the steps along our journey…
In Chapter 1, I'll share a little of my personal journey in search of love-my childhood experiences, my teenage questions, and my adult ponderings.
Then, in Chapter 2, I'll jump to the end of the story and present the outcome of my quest-the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, to use an old cliché! I'll present a new view of love-love in the everyday sense (as opposed to hate) as well as love in a far broader sense (as implied by the statement "all is love"). In short, I'll present a new paradigm-a new way of looking at life and love.
In Chapter 3, I'll explore everything that seems not to be love, focusing on what conflict is and how it happens. I'll also explore how conflict actually helps me find the Love that can Heal my life.
Next, in Chapter 4, I'll explore why it is that I tend to see the world in a lopsided way-for example, when I see others receiving love and myself receiving little or none. (This is an illusion, as we'll see!) To this end, I'll explore how the senses and the central nervous system work. Note: for convenience sake, I'll refer to the senses and the central nervous system (inclusive of the brain and spine) simply as "the brain." I'll explore how the brain keeps me seeing things in a lopsided way. I'll also explore how life itself provides the balancing flipsides to my lopsided views, giving me the chance to have a more balanced perspective and to experience a broader love.
In Chapter 5, I'll present a new psychology that explains exactly what consciousness is, exactly what conditional and unconditional love are, and exactly where these all come from. I'll also show exactly how it's possible to Heal my life and to experience unconditional love.
In Chapter 6, I'll explore the idea of forms. That is, I'll explore how by labeling things and people-seeing one side of them while not seeing the other side(s)-I cut myself off from being able to love others, my life, and myself.
In Chapter 7, I'll explain what happens when I make judgments, how this contributes to my seeing the world and myself lopsidedly, and how this, too, stops me from Loving. To this end, I'll explore Voids (the things I run away from), Values (the things I chase after), morals, ethics, laws, and consensus reality (the commonly-accepted way society sees the world).
In Chapter 8, I'll share a little about Dr. Demartini and about the discovery, development, and evolution of his Healing process-The Quantum Collapse Process®. I'll present an introduction to this process-what the process is, what it isn't, what to expect, what not to expect, and so on-and I'll set out the preparations for actually doing the process.
Next, in Chapter 9, I'll present Dr. Demartini's Quantum Collapse Process®, step by step, giving each of us the opportunity to Heal our lives and to share the experience of unconditional love.
Then, in Chapter 10, I'll review my personal journey (as presented in Chapter 1), but now seeing it though new eyes-the eyes of unconditional love. I'll share my revelations, my journey, my Healing, and my experiences of unconditional love.
Lastly, in Chapter 11, I'll list the benefits-personally and for Humanity as a whole-of finding and experiencing unconditional love.
Book available at www.martinlass.com/loveiseverything.htm
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Martin Lass,
Astrologer
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Martin Lass
Professional Practising and Research Astrologer
Research Member of AFA (American Federation of Astrologers)
Member of ISAR (International Society for Astrological Research)
Certified practitioner of "The Collapse Process"(TM) of Dr. John Demartini (The Concourse of Wisdom School of Philosophy and Healing, Houston TX).
Martin Lass specializes in Chiron Astrology--the astrology of Healing--as well as actively researching the origins of astrology and astrology's wider metaphysical connections to every possible area of human endeavor and expression.
He writes for various trade journals, has authored numerous books (see below) and presents lectures/seminars/workshops worldwide on a variety of topics from astrology to healing to the connections between mythology, physics and metaphysics, to name a few.
Author of the three-volume book series, "Musings of a Rogue Comet - Chiron, Planet of Healing" and of "Love Makes the Worlds Go Around - The Living Planets Speak"
See:
www.martinlass.
com/chbk123.htm
Author of spiritually-based fiction and poetry
Professional musician (violinist), composer and entertainer
Book designer for Print-on-Demand (POD) printing process (primarily for self-publishers - e-books and trade paperbacks)
websites:
www.martinlass.
com/astrohome.htm
(astrology and healing site)
www.martinlass.
com
(music site)
www.galactic
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(PDF book design site)
email:
MartinLass7@aol.com
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