Article May 13, 2013 Issue

Love, the basis of everything

Mark Swinney

Originally published as a Web Original on November 28, 2012.

In his best-selling book, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey into the Afterlife, Dr. Eben Alexander, author and academic neurosurgeon who served at Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, and Boston Children’s Hospital, makes this observation:

“Love is, without a doubt, the basis of everything. Not some abstract, hard-to-fathom kind of love but the day-to-day kind that everyone knows—the kind of love we feel when we look at our spouse and children, or even our animals. In its purest and most powerful form, this love is not jealous or selfish, but unconditional. This is the reality of realities, the incomprehensibly glorious truth of truths that lives and breathes at the core of everything that exists or that ever will exist, and no remotely accurate understanding of who and what we are can be achieved by anyone who does not know it, and embody it in all of their actions.”

Dr. Alexander’s experience, like many other people’s similar near-death experiences, revealed an order of things with God as Love itself. This divine Love is the center, foundation, and structure of everything.

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About the author

Mark Swinney is a Christian Science practitioner and teacher, and serves on the Christian Science Board of Lectureship. He teaches his classes in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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