Be Guided by Love by John Van Auken
Most all humans love love! We don’t always understand love. We often get hurt by love, especially unrequited love. And, despite our love for others, we often hurt them. But there is no questioning how much humans love love! It is the number one topic for songs and fairytales. Trying to avoid love is near impossible because Nature has built into our bodies some of the most powerful hormones for loving. Evolution’s unswerving drive for survival of the species has developed a human body that is loaded with powerful chemicals to help ensure the success of human bonding. The “love chemical” is phenylethylamine (PEA). When this is released in the brain of any human, he or she will feel uncontrollably amorous, romantic, and “turned on” by the person who is the object of these feelings. Follow this up with a little oxytocin (often called “the cuddle chemical”), and you have the lovemaking sensations of relaxed pleasure and attachment. For the relationship to endure, however,
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endorphins must be released in the brain. If they are, then the love relationship endures. Edgar Cayce curiously correlated love with law – which is paradoxically. Here’s how he taught this: “The law of God is LOVE of God, and is not a hardship. Make your life and your love of your fellow man a living thing in your experience day by day. Smile oft. Speak gently. Be kind.” (262-109) To a 12-year-old Jewish girl Cayce taught: “The law of the Lord is perfect. Love of the law, love of the Lord is perfect. For, love is perfect if it is selfless in its reactions to associations one with another. The first and the last commandments are the whole law: Thou shalt love the Lord thy god with all thy heart, thy mind, thy soul, thy body; and thy neighbor as thyself . The rest only explains, only interprets, only manifests for the individual the
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