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Technical Essay # 53 - FAF 26 June 1991

.ce Love


Scientologists have traditionally not considered love to have much to do with spiritual
development. Many would say that it has nothing whatsoever to do with 'going up the bridge'.
This is a bit of an oversight, in that just about everybody else knowing about spiritual
development would say that it has a whole lot to do with it. That might have a little bit to do
with the reason why Scientologists oftentimes are regarded as a cold, unloving bunch of
crooks. But well, that mostly goes for the church. We can do things different of course.

There are various definitions of love. For spiritual purposes, love is probably best defined as:

	The action of willingly sharing space with someone or something else.

It is basically the more active version of affinity which is the willingness to share the same
space. We could say that affinity would be the willingness to love.

Love is permeation. Permeation is a key to knowingness and to resolving unwanted aspects.
What you can truly love you couldn't possibly have a problem with.

If you are not willing to share space with someone or something, then you are to some
degree resisting it. What you are resisting you are likely to become effect of. Whatever you
can love you can't be effect of, except to the degree that you don't love it.

Love provides the space for events to occur in. At a high level it would be creating the space,
at a lower level sharing your space, and at a lower level accepting the space of others.
Different harmonics of the same thing.

Space is space. It is unconditional. It doesn't really interfere with what is going on in it, it
encompasses and permeates anything and everything. Same thing goes for love. Love is the
absence of case in a certain area or overall. If you can encompass, permeate, and love
everything, then you are free from case.

Space-Energy-Matter is a scale. It corresponds to 40-20-0 on the tone scale. Space is
condensed, there is less of it, and it is less shared as one goes down the scale. Also, more
complexity and more conditions. Going up there is expanded, shared space, more simplicity
and unconditionality. Said differently, the higher you go on the scale the more you are being
space. The lower you go, the more you are being matter.

There is no opposition possible to love, just as there is no opposition to space. If you are
willing to encompass any opposition, you can't be opposed.

The first place to start loving is with yourself of course. All the parts of you that you don't love
are the ones that you are having trouble with - your case. Anything in your space that you
can't accept, encompass, or create will be running on automatic. It is in your space but you
pretend that it is not. That goes for anything you could possible love: at some level it already
is in your space, but you aren't willing for it to be.

If you do something bad that you feel embarrassed about, then you have just created an
automatic piece of case. It will withhold, it will get missed, it will pull in motivators and so forth.
And it will keep doing that until you fully accept what you did and you grant yourself the space
to do it. You could have done that in the first place of course.

Despite what one might think, love has a lot to do with will. One has to be willing to share the
space. And when one is willing to accept anything in the space one can really do what one
want. You can do what you will only when you are perfectly willing to let anything and
everything else happen.

This is how Aleister Crowley put it:

	"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law. Love is the law, love under will."

You are only totally free to make choices if you would be willing to share your space with
anything whatsoever.

Any type of processing can be described along these lines. The object is to be able to accept
things you are resisting, to open up spaces you have forgotten, forgive events of the past,
bring back parts of you you have denied, and so forth.

It is also a good guideline to monitor the direction of processing. All processing should
increase one's ability and willingness to encompass and permeate spaces. It should
increase one's ability and willingness to have anything or anyone in those spaces. That goes
through the gradient scale of the dynamics, being willing to share space on a wider and
wider scale.

Some negative types of processing include the trap of using them to decrease the
willingness to share space. That can happen with engrams, and most particularly with
entities. If you are just trying to get rid of stuff in your space then you are moving in the wrong
direction. What we are really after is the havingness of being willing to have or not have the
stuff in your space.

Love is a key part of spiritual development. You could also describe it as ARC, it adds up in a
similar fashion. You need to be able to encompass anything and anyone, good, bad, or
indifferent, in order to be free to do what you want.

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