The enchanted vision. An invitation to read about love

The essay emerged and gratitude emanated💞

What a wonderful essay Mark. Thank you! A figure whose thought comes remarkably close to the basic theme of your essay is the phenomenologist Max Scheler. Love is fundamentally a matter of spiritual sight for Scheler since through it we are opened unto vast regions of value. As the movement of love 'opens' ever greater horizons of value to us it supplies the necessary foundation for ethics or epistemology (that is, an axiological foundation). Scheler reckons that we have an intuitive capacity for value-insight sometimes translated into English as 'value-ception' and that this is afforded to us by the movement of love which arcs from lower to higher value. Once more thank you for the brilliant essay.

Really looking forward to reading the essay. Thank you Mark🙏

The essence of love is the desire for all living beings to find true happiness. When we want the best for ALL creatures, then we can honestly say that we love everybody equally. One who appears to love one person more than another, in fact, loves nobody. True, unconditional love revolves around sacrificing one’s selfish desires for those of his or her SUPERIORS, whether that be one's parents, husband, employer, or spiritual master, even if they are imperfect. Should a child disobey its mother just because the mother is flawed? Of course not! This paradigm is applicable to EVERYONE, without exception. Even World Teachers and Avatars Themselves regularly worship their Masters and PAST Masters!

Thank you, I am looking forward to reading this, your articulate so much of my own fuzzy insights. I do hope that you think (or sense) thos love as more than a thing (however divine) and more of a verb, a process, and intimately relational. Just discovered your channel, and excited to learn more. Loved Rupert Sheldrake too. As a lapsed Anglican, have needed ritual very badly as such cruelty and violence is enacted in Gaza. Definitely need more love in the world, and less tribal consciousness. Thank you.

Wonderfully clear and concise essay. I hope it reaches a wide audience. Thanks

Thank you.

Thank you for your timely and artfully crafted essay, and also for this gentle overview without which I would not have managed to find it. All continued good on you. :)

Thank you. I've read your essay and I think it is an important text. To me, Murdoch's The Sea, The Sea is one of the most amazing novels about absolute love. As to Weil, twenty years ago I went to the UK to visit two places: Rye (Henry James's Lamb House) and Ashford where Simone Weil died. Vivid memories. Thanks, again. Greetings from Opole, Poland.

are u the musician mark vernon?!